1959
Studies at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de San Jorge in Barcelona. MA in Art History.

1961
Sculptures based on the opera Atlántida, at the Gran Teatro del Liceo, Barcelona

1965
Studies at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris

1966
Salon de Mai (medal), Paris. Biennale de Paris.

1967
Everituve Award of Sculpture, Paris.

1968
International Exhibition of Sculpture, Barcelona.

1969
Sculptures in glass and enamel, London.

1970
III Exposición Internacional del pequeño Bronce, Madrid.

1972
Sculpture installed in Plaza Joanich, Barcelona.
Exhibition Metro Saint Augustin, Paris.


1973
“Environmental Sculpture”, installation of 215 steel, wood and fiber pieces in Holland Park, London, organized by the Greater London Council.

Sculptural environmental in Sarriá, Barcelona.

Exhibitions in Barcelona and New York.

British film documentary on his works shown at MOMA, New York.

Aluminum sculptures installed at the France -Barcelona international motorway.

Two monumental steel sculptures installed at Barcelona International Airport.


1975
Iron environment piece, Madrid.

Sculpture installed at the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona.Film documentary on his work at Venice Biennale.Exhibition in Paris.

Bienal de Sao Paolo, Brazil.Exhibitions in Barcelona, Madrid and New York. Film documentary.


1976
Inauguration of Museo Angel Orensanz y Artes de Serrablo, Sabiñánigo (Spain).Sculpture “Iron Screen”, Zaragoza.Film lecture at Alternative Center for International Arts, New York.


1979
Film lectures at Rice University, Houston; California State University, UCLA,Santa Barbara, and Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City.

Environment, Martin Gelber collection, Bel Air, Los Angeles.Film lectures at Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles and at the CentralSchool of Design, London.

Warspell, Sculpture installation and performance art at Central Park, New York.Madrid International Airport. “Steel Forest”, Zaragoza.Exhibitions in Boston and Los Angeles.

Exhibitions in New York, Paris and Zaragoza.Restrospective video screening at Downtown TV Center, New York.

Exhibition at the Vejle Museum, Vejle, Denmark.“Furrow Sculpture”, landscape art over a six acre tract in Pyrenees mountains, Spain.

“May Pole” and “Spirit of the Valley”, landscape sculpture installations in Sallent deGállego, Spain. “Sun Screen”, a permanent installation of one thousand fiber pieces andsteel cables, Sea Island, Georgia. Exhibitions in New York and Zaragoza, Spain.

“Spirit of the Village”, temporary installation at Sixth Avenue and Bleecker St.,NY.III International Orensanz Sculpture Award, Serrablo Spain.

Exhibitions at Neue Berliner Galerie in Altem Museum, Berlin; France: Musee de Luxembourg, Paris; Lyon and Marseilles.



1988
Inauguration of the Angel Orensanz Foundation, Center for the Arts, Norfolk St.New York;Exhibitions in Amsterdam, Utrecht, Saint Nazaire-Paris, St.Germain en Laye-Toulouse,Lisbon, Casablanca and Morocco.

“Sunrise”, Sculpture in steel and performance art at Bunka Gakuin University, Tokyo.1990-1998 “Musicalia”, a one year environmental exhibition in Ropongi Park, Tokyo.

Retrospective at Tallin Arts Center, Tallin (Estonia) organized by the Ministry of Cultureof Estonia. Exhibitions in Panevezys (Lithuania). and Red Square Moscow.

Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo. Installation, Miasaky Airport, Japan.“Wall Sculpture”, Barcelona International Airport. “Banderillas del Guadalquivir” an open air installation in Sapporo (Japan), New York and Seville (Spain).

Exhibitions: Sculptor’s Society of Canada, Toronto; Wroclaw Academy of Fine Arts,Wroclaw, Poland; retrospective exhibition at Charles Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, and at Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, (Argentina).


1998
Retrospective exhibitions in Rome (Ca d’Oro Gallery) and Dusseldorf (Blau Art Gallery).
“The Shattered Tent”, a traveling installation in Strasbourg, Geneva, Brussels and the UN building, New York, to protest the war in Kosovo.The Peace Bus, Florence; Citta de Firenze Award at the II Biennale de Arte Contemporanea, Florence.

2000
“Una Foresta”, bronze exhibition at Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza, Rome, organized by the Ministry for Cultural Affairs of Italy.Residency at the Jewish Museum in Rendsburg, Kiel,Germany; A 60 steel and wood sculpture installation in Montreal (Canada); sculpture commemorative of Luís Bunuel Calanda, Spain). Wendezeiten, (November 2000 to April 2001) an exhibition of eight international sculptors in Bendorf, Austria.


2001
Sculpture commemorative of surrealist filmmaker Luis Bunuel for Calanda (Teruel), shown in Madrid and Paris.

Scavare il futuro, installation in Caserta, Naples (Italy).

Wendezeiten I and II (Bendorf (Austria), an exhibition with Eduardo Chillida, Bernard Venet, Urs Jaeggi and other international sculptors (November 2000 to September 2001).

Official participation at the Biennale of Venice with a large canvas within the Markers Project of The Artists’ Museum Tel Aviv; and with an installation at the Arsenale (June to November 2001).

Exhibition in Beirut.

January: “Il progetto Miglio”, Caserta (Napoles). Work in progress within the symposium “Scavare il futuro”.

February: Luis Bunuel, steel sculpture, 3 mets high, Parque de las Naciones (Madrid).

March: Wendezeiten.75 steel pieces, Berndorf/Vienna (Austria).

June: Disegni/Drawings, 1990-2000. Retrospective of drawings at the Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea. Palazzo Ducale de Pavullo (Modena). Ninenty works on paper. Touring exhibition through Italy.

July: 49th Biennale of Venice with project Markers (Via Garibaldi) and Chesed Rock.

The Tate Gallery of London acquires books on Orensanz.

June through November.“Peace Walk” in front of Senso-ji temple , in central Tokyo.

August: Drawings of Orensanz are purchased by the Bilioteca Nacional de Espana (Madrid) for the collection of masters of drawing and prints.

September: Books on Orensanz are acquired by the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. and several museums in the USA

Orensanz carries a sculpture intervention in New York’s Fifth Avenue as a reflection on the attacks on the WTC. October.

Sculpture intervention in Berlin under the Brandenburg Gate.

Sculpture pieces for the national TV program Life 360.

November: Video and digital images projects in Paris.

December: 3rd. Biennale of Florence. Special section on Orensanz’s photography and video
2002
Dessegni/Drawings“, Accademia delle Belli Arti, Reggio Calabria, February 14 - May 1st. “Angel Orensanz: Italian Installations and Interventions”, March 5 - April 17 at the Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York, curated by Thomas McEvelly. The City of New York makes April 10 “Angel Orensanz Day”. “Sculpture-City textures in Venice, Berlin, Florence”, April 27 May 27 at Kultur Im Spannwerk, Berlin.” Power Post”, June, Kassel (Germany); Intervention at Ground Zero, New York; One Man Show at Galerie Souflot, Paris (October 1st- 30); Invited to the 1st Austria, Biennale, September 1 - 6; October 7 through November 30, “Sculpture Signs/Skultur Anseichen” at Kunstfabrik, Dusseldorf.

2003
“Burning Universe”, a six month retrospective at Palazzo Malipiero, concurrent with the 40th Biennale of Venice, visited by over 70,000 people. Partricipates in OPEN International exhibition of sculpture and installation in Lido-Venice with his work “Bunuel”. Performance/Installation in St. Petersburg , Russia, invited by the Presidential Committee of the 300 years of the founding of the city.

2004
Filming of video series “In Nasa’s Lab” . Participates in ARCO (Madrid). Filmig of the series “European Diaries” in Brussels. Group show at Remy Toledo Gallery, New York. Retrospective at Bugno Gallery Venice., “Angel Orensanz: Recent Video Works”, premiere at the Pioneer Theater, New York.

PUBLICATIONS:

Angel Orensanz. “Disegni: 1991-2000. Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea de Pavullo., 66 paginas; ilustraciones a color, introduccion de John T. Spike.Junio 2001.

Angel Orensanz.Cahiers d’ Art International Monographs, n. 10. 168 paginas. Textos de Derek Bentley. Ilustraciones a color. Roma, Septiembre 2001.

Spheroid Memories, a 25” video documentary of two years on the sites and times of Orensanz interventions around the world. Produced by NY Film and Video.

Angel Orensanz. Orbiting Sphere. A visual diary of Orensanz. Produced by Casper Stracke. 15”.