Alán Carrasco Spain, b. 1986

Alán Carrasco is a visual artist and holds a PhD with international distinction in History and Theory of the Arts. His artistic production is conceptually linked to his theoretical research. His work focuses on the mechanisms involved in the construction of official narratives, paying particular attention to narrative strategies such as the selective induction of memory and forgetting, and the function of iconoclasm. He is especially interested in the margins of historical narratives and in analyzing the reasons why certain aspects and actors have been systematically excluded from them. In recent projects, he has also worked with what he calls the “possibilities of history,” that is, events whose verisimilitude is uncertain but which are, in any case, plausible.

His work has been exhibited at MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona; S.M.A.K., Ghent; San Telmo Museoa, Donostia–San Sebastián; CAB Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Burgos; Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia; MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León; Sala Amós Salvador, Logroño; Maus Contemporary, Birmingham; Whitebox Harlem, New York; Lo Pati Centre d’Art Terres de l’Ebre; Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna; Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Santiago de Chile; Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart; CCE Centro Cultural de España, Montevideo; Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona; and the Real Academia de España en Roma, among others.

He has received various grants and awards, including the Research Residency Grant from the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (2025); the Pilar Juncosa Prize from Fundació Miró Mallorca for residencies in other centers (2024); the Ciutat de Manacor Prize for Visual Arts (2023); the Social Commitment in the Visual Arts Award at the Bienal de Mislata Miquel Navarro (shared with Irene de Andrés, 2023); the MAEC-AECID grant for artistic residencies at the Real Academia de España en Roma (2021); the MANGO Award for Best Emerging Artist at Swab Barcelona Art Fair (2020); the exchange residency between Casa de Velázquez and Hangar (2019); the Art Nou Prize for Best Solo Exhibition (2019); the SAC - FiC Residency Program (2018); the Agata Baum de Bernis Grant from the Goethe Institut (2016); and the Baden-Württemberg–Catalunya Grant (2016), among others.