ANTONIO PÉREZ RÍO (Madrid, 1972) graduated in Law and earned a diploma in Social Education. He is also instructed in literary creation and photography. His work deals with areas of friction: spaces in which different paradigms collide highlighting the contradictions inherent in human beings and rendering tools.
He is the founder of LENS School of Visual Arts and the founder and director of the Master in Fine Art Photography and Professional Projects.
In 2006, he created the blog Otra forma de mirar (“Another way of seeing”), which specializes in thought-provoking literature related to photography. The blog receives more than 80,000 visitors a year.
ANTONIO PÉREZ RÍO was selected by Descubrimientos PHotoEspaña’16, as well as by the I Encuentro de Artistas de Castilla y León with his project Art for Cyborgs. This work has been exhibited for the first time in Photo Jaipur (India, 2017).
He was a finalist for the 20th Fotopres Fellowship with his photo series Mapping Kigali (2014).
His photographic project The Inevitable was selected by Descubrimientos PhotoEspaña 2013 (Madrid), PhotoIreland Portfolio’13 (Dublin), Emergentes DST (Braga, Portugal), and he has been published in OjodePez, the British Journal of Photography, and El País. This project formed the focus of an individual exhibition in January 2015 in the CEART Tomás y Valiente (Fuenlabrada), and was also exhibited as part of The New Fair (2nd edition) in the New Gallery (Madrid, 2015). Since then, he has published The Inevitable: Do-Your-Own-Exhibition Toolkit, a limited edition book formed of a map, 23 texts, and 12 photographs inviting readers to set up an exhibition in his/her own house.
