Concha Jerez
Concha Jerez (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1941) is an Intermedia artist. She studied piano at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música of Madrid and earned a degree in political science at university, also in Madrid. Since 1991 she has served as Associate Lecturer at the Facultad de Bellas Artes of Salamanca University. From 1973, and uninterruptedly until the present time, she has produced different solo works in Spain, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, etc. Since 1976 she has centred her work on the development of the concept of installation often as intermedia, as site-specific works in a wide range of spaces, extending her activity to performance at the beginning of the 1980s. The compositional activity of Concha Jerez since the end of the 1980s has been associated with radio, producing radiophonic art works for such radio stations as the RAI, ORF, Radio France, YLE, ABC of Australia, RNE and the WDR of Cologne.
Noteworthy among her solo works are fifty large-format installations (many of them intermedia installations including video and sound among others), 23 exhibitions, numerous actions, 56 performances, 35 ofthem in partnership with composer and intermedia artist José Iges, with whom she has worked since 1989. She has also produced some works for the Internet,17 intermedia concerts, and 32 sound and sight intermedia installations with this artist.