MURDO ORTIZ
Murdo Ortiz (Osuna, Seville, 1985) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work has traveled the world, with exhibitions in Spain, Slovenia, Germany, Italy, the United States, Korea, and Japan. Trained as a Senior Technician in Applied Arts in Sculpture and Stone at the School of Arts of Seville, he holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Granada (2014), a Master’s in Art, Idea and Production from the University of Seville (2015), and a PhD in History and Arts from the University of Granada (2020).
His artistic practice revolves around the representation of the human figure and the dialogue between ancestral cultures that, without ever meeting, shared ways of depicting both the divine and the everyday. Ortiz combines the primitive with the contemporary, the symbolic with the emotional, always exploring the strange, the beautiful, and the unspoken: a constant search for a beauty not already announced by reality.
His creative process resembles a journey back to the origin: a return to the instinctive and the innate, to a form of creation free of pretension, unfiltered—like that of a child drawing. His works, imbued with mystery, function as enigmas that resist closed answers and instead invite us to inhabit doubt. In them, freedom is perceived as a thicket of question marks; an urgent beauty that obeys nothing, yet transforms everything.
During his residency at La Casa Cuadrada A.I.R., Ortiz developed the project La persona, la grieta y el monstruo, bajo el crí crí de las margaritas, engaging actively with the local community. He collaborated with the school of El Coronil through a series of artistic workshops and created a large-scale mural that today forms part of the town’s visual heritage, leaving a permanent mark that links contemporary art with the collective memory of the place.
