Alicia Jiménez
Born in Gijón, 1977. Lives and works in Gijón
Alicia Jiménez
Alicia Jiménez is a plastic and visual artist working with installations and interventions, didactics and strategies to foster creativity and dialogue. A graduate in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, she went on to take a doctorate at the University of Granada, where she is currently completely her doctoral thesis on the Creative Process. She also specialises in Video and Digital Art at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Jiménez has studied issues revolving around the social integration of art practices, and taken specialised courses in the image and new artistic languages, audiovisual production and new technologies and creation in real time. She has also studied art criticism and the construction of the gaze. Since 1998 she has had several solo and group shows in museums and exhibition venues. Throughout this time, her work has been seen in public spaces and in independent art circuits, and she has taken part in various editorial projects. Jiménez has organised freelance curatorial projects such as Micasa’05 in Barcelona, C21 in Gijón, (2002) and Radiografías (2009), this last-mentioned project as a member of the 2clavos collective. She is currently coordinating the programme for the El Hervidero, cultural association in Gijón, with actions such as Zig-bee, an encounter for artist-run spaces.