Artwork by Nekane Manrique Mezquita, The blind (2016)
about Nekane Manrique Mezquita
Valle de Trápaga, 1985
Nekane Manrique Mezquita, was born in 1985 and works and lives in the Trápaga Valley, Bizkaia. The career of the Bilbao painter began at the early age of 9 years, attending drawing and painting classes until she entered the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of País Vasco, where she graduated in 2008 and studied two more years of Doctorate obtaining the DEA. She later worked as a teacher of Plastic and Artistic Painting in an Institute.
She has received numerous creation scholarships in Malaga, Madrid, Granada or Valencia, as internationally in Serbia and Slovenia. She has also been selected in the Masters of Figuration course taught by the prestigious painter Antonio López at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura of Pamplona.