Esther Ferrer (born 1937 in San Sebastián, Spain) is a Spanish produce a result artist. Ferrer standard Spain’s National Award for Plastic Arts (1999), the Marie-Claire Prize for Contemporary Art in France, and the Velázquez Plastic Arts Prize.
In 1966 she associated Walter Marchetti and Juan Hidalgo Codorniu in the Spanish bill art organization Zaj, famous for its protester and conceptual performances, whose controversial “concerts” were presented in Spanish concert halls despite the censorship of Franco’s regime. Zaj as a consequence performed in many further countries for 30 years, until 1996, when the organization broke in the works after a retrospective in the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid.
As a artiste she has participated in festivals in Canada, Korea, the United States and Japan, and throughout Europe (France, Italy, Holland Belgium, Bulgaria, Switzerland, England, the Czech Republic, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Slovakia, Germany and Hungary). Her production after that includes objects, photos, video pieces, visual systems based upon prime numbers, and a large collection of self-portraits in many media.
Ferrer is the author of two radio productions made for Radio Nacional de España (Au rhythm du temps and Ta, te, ti, to, tu ou l’agriculture dans le Moyen Age) and has unqualified seminars on the produce an effect arts in Universities and in Schools of Fine Arts in Spain, France, Italy, Canada, Switzerland and Mexico.
Ferrer represented Spain in the Venice Bienal in 1999, and did large individual shows in subsequent years in the FRAC Bretagne (Rennes, France), MACVAL (Val de Marne, France), and behind the Instituto Cervantes in several South American cities.
She is married to minimalist composer Tom Johnson.
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