Teaching staff

AINHOA AKUTAIN ZIARRUSTA

Dr. Ainhoa ​​Akutain combines her artistic practice with teaching at the Faculty of Fine Arts and with contemporary aesthetic research, being a member of the consolidated research group KREAREak_Creation in Art and Applied Aesthetics for City, Landscape and Community (IT1096-16-21. Category A by ANEP Evaluation/National Evaluation and Foresight Agency). Awarded with the Ph.D. Research Fellowship and the Production Grant for Art, both from the Basque Government, Akutain also received the Foral Deputation of Biscay Production Grant, Etxepare Art Promotion Grant and prizes like Grand Prix de la Découvert, EAC Uruguay, Arte Laguna Prize, Stockholm Fringe Festival, International IPA or Premis ArtsFad, among others. Akutain has exhibited at internationally recognized art museums and exhibition centers, including the Arsenale in Venice, Contemporary Art Space of Montevideo, Angel Orensanz Foundation of New York, Asia House of London, Art Basel Miami, Peckham International Art Fair, Montehermoso Cultural Center of Vitoria-Gasteiz, BilbaoArte, Disseny Hub of Barcelona or Kulturhuset of Stockholm. She has participated in congresses, seminars and prestigious publications, highlighting Estúdio, artistas sobre outras obras, AusArt, or ANIAV-Deforma magazines, as well as in publishers such as Gedisa, UNED, Brumaria, University of Extremadura or Sociedad Latina de Comunicación Social.