José Luis Viñas (Born in Madrid 1972, lives in Palencia, Spain)

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  He lives in Palencia (Spain).

In 1995, he graduated with a degree in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid. Since 1998, he has been teaching drawing in secondary schools in Castile and León; since 2021, he has also been teaching the University of León's summer course “Biologic-art” on the intersections between art and biology.

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Based on a residency of almost a decade in the town of Guardo in Palencia, his artistic practice focuses on the processes of extinction, combining anthropology, ecology, and biology.

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In 2016, he received a production grant from MUSAC's Laboratorio 987 and in 2021, he was awarded an artistic creation grant from the Castilla y León Foundation.

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His work has been exhibited in art galleries such as Luis Adelantado (Valencia), independent venues such as CRUCE. Arte y Pensamiento (Madrid), and Espacio Tangente (Burgos), and museums such as MUSAC (León), the Díaz-Caneja Foundation, the Barcelona Science Museum, and the Spanish Academy in Rome, among other places.

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He has also collaborated in programs, workshops, and forums such as Cultura y Ciudadanía (Culture and Citizenship) and Cultura y Ruralidades (Culture and Ruralities), both organized by the Ministry of Culture, the Cerezales Antonino y Cinia Foundation (León), and the MACBA independent studies program (Barcelona).

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 His work has been studied by Raquel Gonzalez Rodelgo in her Doctoral Thesis at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, UAM about “Ruins in Contemporary Spanish Art”, together with other artist´s works. In 2024, a first specific publication -When insects resurrect- is released by Fundación Díaz Caneja.