Biography
Born in 1962 in Figueras in Spain, Cristina Nuñez lives and works in Barcelona. Up to the early 2000s, she produced photography books in which she addressed social questions through the portrait: Body and Soul (1994), To Hell and Back (1995), Heaven on Earth (1998), Io sono/I am (2000). On the margins of this public body of work, she made self-portraits as a form of therapy; since 2005, this has been the focus of her photographic and video work, as well as of The Self-Portrait Experience workshops that she has been conducting in prisons, companies, museums, universities around the world.
In 2012 Nuñez started her ongoing project La Vie en Rose, on video, performance and web platform.
Her works have been presented at the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence (1997), Palazzo Reale in Milan (1997), the Rencontres d’Arles (1998), the Centre National de l’Audiovisuel in Luxembourg (2008), the Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan (2008), Festival FotoGrafia in Rome (2009), the Private Space Gallery in Barcelona (2010), the Mois de la Photo in Montreal 2011, Turku European Capital of Culture 2011, Luova gallery in Helsinki (2012), H2O gallery in Barcelona (2012), Effearte Gallery in Milan (2013), Sponge Arte Contemporanea (2013) and MUSAC (2013). In 2011, she was showing her works in “Second Lives. Jeux masqués et autres Je” at Casino Luxembourg, as part of the Mois Européen de la Photographie.
Her work has been published in numerous monographic and collective books, and is part of several public and private collections such as the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Photography of Cinisello Balsamo (Milan), The Private Space Gallery in Barcelona, the Centre Nationale de l’Audiovisuel in Luxemburg and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Switzerland.
In 1996 her project Heaven on Earth won the award Mosaique of the Ministry of Culture of Luxemburg. In 2012 her video Someone to Love obtained the Celeste Prize and her project But Beautiful got the Prix de la Critique 2013 at the Voies Off Festival in Arles. Her video La Vie en Rose#2 has been selected for the Ciutat de Palma Visual Arts Award.
