Xoán Anleo (Marín, 1960) lives and works in Vigo. He holds a Ph.D. in Fine Arts from UCLM and is a professor at the University of Vigo. He works in fields such as video, photography, writing, installation, sound art, contemporary dance, editing multiple artist books, and various publications. His work addresses processes related to representation politics, the production of subjectivity, and the processes of signification understood as modalities of subjectivation and deconstruction of identities. He carries out a subtle and clever critique of identity politics that govern hegemonic discourses and a deep concern for the relationship between the subject and the space they occupy, focusing on themes such as fiction, irony, decision, simulacrum, parody, comedy, repetition, and miscommunication.
He has held solo exhibitions at the Centre d’Art la Panera in Lleida (2012), Sub Urban Video Lounge, Rotterdam, Netherlands (2012, 2010), Provincial Museum of Lugo (2011), Duende, Rotterdam, Netherlands (2010), Adhoc Gallery, Vigo (2009, 2007, 2001), Magda Bellotti Gallery, Madrid (2012, 2008, 2005), Moriarty Gallery, Madrid (2004, 2000), T20 Gallery, Murcia (2003), CGAC, Santiago de Compostela (2002), Stiftung DKM, Duisburg, Germany (2003), Espacio Mínimo Gallery, Murcia (1995), MACUF, A Coruña (1998), Trinta Gallery, Santiago de Compostela (1999, 1994), Nicanor Piñole Hall, Gijón (1991), Sabadell Art Museum, Barcelona (1989), among others.
He has participated in group exhibitions such as Genealogías Feministas en el Arte Español, 1960-2010 at MUSAC in León (2012), Jokes and nightmares. Spanish video art from Dalí to the present day at Na Solyanke Art Gallery, Moscow, Campo magnético, Centre d'Art la Panera, Lleida (2011), El silencio de los objetos, TEA, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife (2010), Spain on the edge. Limits of a narrative conflict, Instituto Cervantes, Chicago (2010), El tiempo que venga, ARTIUM, Basque Center-Museum of Contemporary Art, Vitoria (2009), En todas las partes. Políticas de la diversidad sexual en el arte, CGAC, Santiago de Compostela (2009), VISIÓN:A. La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, Cervantes Institutes in Stockholm, Sweden, Tokyo and Japan, Los Galpones Art Center, Caracas, Venezuela (2008), Panel de control. Interruptores críticos para una sociedad vigilada. Rodríguez + Zemos98 Foundation, caS, Seville (2007), Objetos de deseo, objetos de seducción. 6 Contemporary Spanish Photographers. CCEBA, Cultural Center of Spain, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Montevideo, Uruguay, and El Salvador, Costa Rica (2005), THE GENDERED CITY. Urban Space and Gender Construction, Unit2 Gallery, London Metropolitan University Central House, London, UK (2004).
He is represented in museums and important collections such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, ARTIUM, Basque Center-Museum of Contemporary Art in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art in Seville, Dos de Mayo Art Center in Móstoles, Centre d'Art La Panera in Lleida, Extremaduran and Ibero-American Museum of Contemporary Art in Badajoz, MUSAC, Contemporary Art Museum of Castile and León, and CGAC, Galician Center of Contemporary Art in Santiago de Compostela.
