Bio

Juan Oyarbide is an architect and artist, currently based in London.

Graduated from San Sebastian School of Architecture ( 2007) and The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL (2010), Juan has worked since with renowned architects including Joaquin Montero Basqueseaux in San Sebastian, Tetsuo Furuichi in Tokyo, Thomas Heatherwick in London and recently with Prior+Partners and Boom Studio.

He seamlessly combines his professional pursuits in architecture and urban design with a passion for art. His artistic influences stem from the Basque, Spanish and European art traditions such as the Italian and Greek painting scenes.

For the past twelve years, Juan has been working on a single art project entitled URBO Urban Bodies. URBO unravels as a composition of art pieces whose scale ranges from small scale pencil drawings to murals. Focusing on the theme of distortions within human nature, the project negotiates the distance between the anatomical identity of the human body and how it registers in the city as the new natural environment.

Following a selective production of key pieces to complete the URBO Urban Bodies project that include oil, ink, acrylic, digital production on canvas, timber, and paper, 2018 Oyarbide completed on of his most ambitious painting projects to date, executing an URBO composition with acrylics on a large scale 6 x 7.2m canvas. The piece of work was  completed in an old derelict building in North London and hung for display inside an industrial pavilion.

Currenty Juan is working on the exhibition of URBO in London, Athens and San Sebastian.