An artist born in Pamplona in 1985, Leire is currently completing a PhD in contemporary art at the University of the Basque Country (UPV\/EHU). She studied Creative Illustration and Visual Communication Techniques at Escola Eina, attached to the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and obtained a master\u2019s degree in Illustrated Children\u2019s Album at Casa del Lector in Matadero-Madrid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
She has been artist in residence at the Seoul Museum of Art, CC El Paso del Norte in Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez, the Manga Art Studio in Beijing and at Fundaci\u00f3n Bilbaoarte. She won first prize in the Encuentros de Arte Joven de Navarra and has benefited from the Government of Navarre\u2019s Creation Grants and the Fundaci\u00f3n BBVA\u2019s Leonardo Scholarship for researchers and cultural creators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She has held solo exhibitions in El Paso (Texas, USA), Bilbao, Vitoria and Pamplona, and has taken part in group exhibitions in Seoul, Barcelona, Madrid, Bilbao, C\u00e1ceres, Bradford and Beijing. She has also been a member of the Department of Artistic Education at Centro Huarte. She currently combines her artistic research with her work as illustrator, muralist, associate professor at the Public University of Navarre and coordinator of Pamplona City Council\u2019s En Mudanza<\/em> (Moving) programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Image \u00a9 Gorka Beunza<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3145,"template":"","categoria-participante":[104],"class_list":["post-3147","participante","type-participante","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria-participante-creating-looking-listening-to-the-world"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n