José Quintanar

Selected Exhibitions

• This and That / Ceci et cela. Solo exhibition. Fotokino, Marseille, France. 29.08.2026–26.09.2026

• Dutch Landscape 30. Solo exhibition. Information Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. 16.05.2026–26.05.2026

• Dutch Landscape 26, 27. Solo exhibition. ESAM Caen-Cherbourg, Caen, France. 06.11.2025–28.11.2025

• Dutch Landscape. Books as Public Space, Public Space as Books. Solo exhibition. Transtage Gallery, Hangzhou, China. 19.05.2025–27.07.2025

• Dutch Landscape 21, 22 & 23. Solo exhibition. Florence Loewy, Paris, France. 24.04.2025–28.06.2025

• Dutch Landscape. Solo exhibition. Florence Loewy, Paris, France. 18.11.2023–13.01.2024

• 5.738/2.316. Solo exhibition. LUCA School of Arts, Ghent, Belgium. November 2023

• From 1 to 14. Solo exhibition. 019, Ghent, Belgium. July–October 2022

• Smoothing (Lines into Circles). Group exhibition. A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. July 2022

• Dutch Landscape 8. Solo exhibition. Terranova, Barcelona, Spain. October 2021

• Un paysage hollandais. Solo exhibition. My Monkey, Nancy, France. April 2021

• A Dutch Landscape #11. Solo exhibition. Is A Gallery, Shanghai, China. March–April 2021

• Un paisaje holandés. Solo exhibition. Galería Araña, Madrid, Spain. October–November 2020

• Cotoplacism. Group exhibition, curated by Grip Face. Cerquone Gallery, Madrid, Spain. July 2020

• A Dutch Landscape of 26 Days. Solo exhibition. Shower Project Space, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. May 2020

• Draw the Line. Group exhibition. Kunstpodium T, Tilburg, The Netherlands. [año]

• Playing with Tradition. Group exhibition. Gur at Gallery 3F, Tokyo, Japan. April 2019

• Plaatjes & Praatjes. Group exhibition. Kunstruimte Willem Twee, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. March 2019

• La Pachanga. Group exhibition. Aires de Jeux, Jungle Festival, Centre Culturel Les Chiroux, Liège, Belgium. April 2018

• The Reading Room. Group exhibition. Bard Graduate Center Gallery, New York, USA. February 2018

• Realm II. Group exhibition. Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada. January 2018

• MAD Libro Show 1. Group exhibition. MAD IS MAD, Madrid, Spain. October 2017

• Clubhouse 6. Group exhibition. ACUD Gallery, Berlin, Germany. August 2017

• INK #2. Group exhibition. Fotokino, Marseille, France. July 2017

• José Ja Ja Ja. Solo exhibition. Rotopol, Kassel, Germany. June 2017

• Mazipos. Touring group exhibition, curated by Kuš! Komiks. Riga, Latvia. 2017

• Just Mad Art Fair. With Mincho Mag. COAM, Madrid, Spain. 2016, 2017

• Grundfunken. Solo exhibition. Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. November 2016

• Cheap Is Cheap. Group exhibition. Kevit Galleri, Copenhagen, Denmark. July 2016

• Fun Fun Fun. Fanzines Festival 2015. Group exhibition. Médiathèque Marguerite Duras, Paris, France. October 2015

• Just Mad Art Fair. With Studio 119, Roberto Vidal. COAM, Madrid, Spain. 2015

• Bomba Gitana. Solo installation. Matadero, Madrid, Spain. August 2015

• La ciudad en viñetas. Solo exhibition. CentroCentro, Madrid, Spain. October 2014

• Silent Manifest. Solo urban installation. Zarajos Deluxe, Cuenca, Spain. September 2014

• Ningún día sin una línea. Group exhibition. MAD IS MAD, Madrid, Spain. September 2014

• Culto Charles. Solo exhibition. Dama Aflita, Porto, Portugal. June 2014

Education

• PhD cum laude. The Book as Public Space. School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. 2026

• Erasmus exchange. The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL), London. 2006–2007

• BA + MA in Architecture. School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. 2002–2010

Awards

• The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2025. Awarded for Dutch Landscape (Rollo Press). Zurich, 2025

• Prix Bob Calle du Livre d’Artiste 2025. Nominated for the Dutch Landscape series of publications. Paris, 2025

• Prix Unique du Livre. International Biennial of Graphic Design, Chaumont, France. 2024

Selected Contributions

• Torrent. Lagon. May 2021

• š! #38: Imperfect Shapes. Kuš! Komiks. April 2020

• NOW #6. Fantagraphics. 2019

• NOW #5. Fantagraphics. 2018

• NOW #3. Fantagraphics. 2018

• Smoke Signal #28. Desert Island, Brooklyn. 2018

• Realm II. Jon Vaughn. January 2018

• RAFI. VICE (US). 2017

• Clubhouse 6. Colorama and Aisha Franz. August 2017

• š! #26: Dada. Kuš! Komiks. October 2016

• š! #19: Mathematics. Kuš! Komiks. December 2014

Press and Interviews

• The Steidz Magazine, issue 8. 2022–2023

• It’s Nice That, A Dutch Landscape. April 2020

• It’s Nice That, Grundfunken. February 2019

• It’s Nice That. November 2016

• It’s Nice That, Fartlek. July 2016

• The Watcher Blog. June 2016

• El País. February 2015

• Fading Paper. November 2014

• It’s Nice That. 2014

• RTVE, Página Dos, interview

• VICE, RAFI

• Instituto Cervantes Brussels, El cómic y la arquitectura

• Metal Magazine, interview

• Revista Cactus, interview

• Yorokobu, Culto Charles

• Número Cero

• Madriz

• People of Print

• El Hype, Culto Charles

• 13 millones de naves, Conociendo a Jari

• Lupa y Sombrero, interview

Books

• Drawings Before Going to Sleep. Terry Bleu and Handshake, 2026

• Good Luck. Terry Bleu, 2025

• Dutch Landscape 23. Florence Loewy, 2025

• Dutch Landscape. Rollo Press, 2024

• Dutch Landscape 17. Florence Loewy, 2023

• From 1 to 16. Anoche Press, 2023

• A Hundred and Some Boats. Terry Bleu, 2022

• It’s a Ship. Nieves, 2021

• Good Morning. Terry Bleu, 2021

• Un paysage hollandais. My Monkey, 2021

• A Dutch Landscape of 26 Pages. Ruja Press, 2021

• Palmeras salvajes. Ruja Press, 2020

• A Dutch Landscape III. Ruja Press, 2020

• A Dutch Landscape of 24 Pages. Ruja Press, 2020

• The Smoke Signal Library. Ruja Press, 2019

• Una silla plegada. Ruja Press, 2019

• Un paisaje holandés. Ruja Press, 2019

• A Book with Sixteen Drawings of Sixteen Lines. Nieves, 2019

• A Book of Twenty Pages with Twenty Drawings of Twenty Lines. Ruja Press, 2019

• Grundfunken. Fosfatina, 2018

• Gran premio. Ruja Press, 2018

• 33. Ten Shots, Five Assists and One Number. Ruja Press, 2018

• Conociendo a Jari. Fulgencio Pimentel, 2017

• The Shortest Distance Between Two Ideas. Ruja Press, 2017

• Grundfunken I. Ruja Press, 2017

• Grundfunken II. Ruja Press, 2017

• The Drawing Could Never Have Happened. Ruja Press, 2017

• 1997. Hot Summer. Fosfatina, 2017

• Fartlek. Fulgencio Pimentel, 2016

• Diamond Gym. Ruja Press, 2016

• Magic Box. Ruja Press, 2016

• Pum!. Ruja Press, 2016

• Culto Charles. Fulgencio Pimentel, 2015

• Landscapes. Ruja Press, 2015

• God Box. Ruja Press, 2015

• Small Stories. Ruja Press, 2015

  Teaching / Lectures

• The Book as Public Space. PhD defence. School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. February 2026

• Making Landscape. HfG Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany. January 2026

• Dutch Landscape. ESAM Caen-Cherbourg, Caen, France. November 2025

• Dutch Landscape. Books as Public Space. China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China. May 2025

• This Was a Project but We Have Forgotten What It Was. China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China. May 2025

• Construir paisaje. Cuadernos Bla Bla Bla, Valencia, Spain. May 2024

• Dutch Landscape. Fanfare, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. March 2024

• Devenir paisaje. TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain. November 2023

• Dutch Landscape. LUCA School of Arts, Ghent, Belgium. November 2023

• Making Books. ISIA Urbino, Urbino, Italy. May 2023

• Making Zines. Grafixx, Antwerp, Belgium. November 2022

• Dutch Landscapes. Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. September 2022

• Making Zines. Zine Camp, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. November 2021

• A Dutch Landscape. École nationale supérieure d’art et de design de Nancy, Nancy, France. March 2021

• Making Books. Is A Gallery, Shanghai, China. March 2021

• A Book Is a Book Is a Book. Recreo, Valencia Art Book Fair, Valencia, Spain. October 2020

• Making Things. IED Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. June 2020

• Making Things. IED Madrid, Madrid, Spain. May 2020

• Amiga infinita. FLIC Festival, CA2M, Móstoles (Madrid), Spain. November 2019

• Sampling Ideas Around Books as Public Space. Faculty of Architecture, KU Leuven, Ghent, Belgium. October 2019

• Making Books Just for Fun. MICA, Baltimore, USA. September 2019

• Telling Stories from Pieces of Memory. Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, Latvia. April 2019

• Making Things. Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, Latvia. April 2019

• Telling Stories from Pieces of Memory. LUCA School of Arts, Ghent, Belgium. March 2019

• And Johnny Got His Gun. LUCA School of Arts, Ghent, Belgium. March 2019

• Sampling Ideas. School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM), Madrid, Spain. February 2019

• No hay ideas sino en las cosas. IED Madrid, Madrid, Spain. February 2019

• Grundfunken. No Tengo Mamá, Vigo, Spain. September 2018

• Ruja Press. Bananafish Books, Shanghai, China. February 2018

• GRAF Madrid 2017. Matadero Madrid, Madrid, Spain. November 2017

• Making Things. Ilustres 2016, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain. September 2016

• Safari City. School of Architecture, Universidad Europea, Madrid, Spain. May 2016

• José Ja Ja Ja. Festival NAM!, Palencia, Spain. November 2014

• Your Building Is a Fucking Killer. Architectural Association, London, UK. October 2012

• Wacky Tricycle Race. Architectural Association, London, UK. November 2011

Collaborations

• Scarves and towels for Hermès

• Illustrations for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg Businessweek and The Baffler, among others

• Book covers for Fulgencio Pimentel

• Record covers for the label Balmat

Curatorial

• Ilustres 2016. Curator. La Casa Encendida and IED Madrid, Madrid, Spain. 2016

Art Book Fairs

• Miss Read, Berlin: 2016, 2017, 2023

• Offprint, Paris: 2019, 2021, 2023

• Ghent Art Book Fair, Ghent: 2022

• Grafixx, Antwerp: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022

• Libros Mutantes, Madrid: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2022

• New York Art Book Fair, New York: 2021

• Zine Camp, Rotterdam: 2016, 2021

• Recreo, Valencia Art Book Fair, Valencia: 2020

• Taipei Art Book Fair, Taipei: 2020

• Vancouver Art Book Fair, Vancouver: 2020

• Central Vapeur, Strasbourg: 2019

• Dublin Art Book Fair, Dublin: 2017, 2018, 2019

• Bologna Art Book Fair, Bologna: 2018

• Culture Maison, Brussels: 2018

• ELCAF, London: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018

• Fanzines!, Paris: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018

• Magical Art Book Fair, Maastricht: 2018

• LA Art Book Fair, Los Angeles: 2016

• Tokyo Art Book Fair, Tokyo: 2016