Idoia Montón was born in Donostia (San Sebastián) in 1969 and has lived in Barcelona since 2007.
Her beginnings are linked to the Artistic Association of Gipuzkoa and after that, in the late 80s and early 90s, to the Arteleku ateliers with Bonifacio Alonso Ángel Bados, and the Fine Arts faculty of the University of the Basque Country. She soon started to exhibit in some important galleries of the time, such as Juana de Aizpuru (1991) or Buades (1992).
After feeling disenchanted with this scene, in the mid 90s she embarked upon a long personal path that would lead to intense and committed pictorial research. She reappears with Javier Peñafiel and Rosa Queralt in Half-House (Barcelona, 2012), with the solo show Un reflejo tangible [A Tangible Reflection]. During her years of estrangement and following her return, she produced a prolific amount of work which was gathered together in the publication Idoia Montón (Donostia, 2014). She subsequently featured another part of her output in the book La guerra (La Caníbal, Barcelona, 2019).
Her foremost recent exhibitions are: Tallers conpartits, Fundación Miró (2021); El Fuego Galería Ana Mas Proyects, (Barcelona, 2020); Zeru bat, hamaika bide. Prácticas artísticas en el País Vasco entre 1977 y 2002, Artium, (Vitoria, 2019), organised by David Bestué, Halfhouse, (Barcelona, 2019) and Después del 68, Fine Arts Museum of Bilbao, (2018-19).
Prior to these, her numerous exhibition outings include: Markak, Okela, (Bilbao) and Aquellos, Galería Sis, (Sabadel) both in 2017; La guerra, La Escocesa, (Barcelona, 2017); Arenzana Imaz Intxausti Montón Peral, Tabakalera, (Donostia, 2016); Lila, Carreras Múgica, (Bilbao, 2015) and La kasa del carpintero insurgente, Galería Alegría, (Madrid, 2014) among many other exhibitions).
Idoia Montón Gorostegui
Links:
[1] http://www.idoiamonton.com