Aitor González
Dad as a house, in the night.
202555 × 25 × 15 cm
pencil on notebook paper
Unique
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About the artist
Aitor González is a Quechua-Spanish visual artist living and working in London. His practice explores identity, memory, and family through painting and drawing, focusing on diasporic understandings of queer identity. These themes are shaped by storytelling, myth, and dreams rooted in his mixed Andean and European heritage.
Since 2016, Aitor has been building an evolving archive of thousands of small drawings and paintings that investigate the social and cultural history of his family. His work frequently features recurring visual motifs: characters transforming into plants, animals, houses and religious symbols drawn from Andean folklore, creating dreamlike narrative spaces.
Aitor’s recent projects include Barbarella’s Kiss (2023), his first major co-curatorial project with Auto Italia Gallery, created in collaboration with Bolivian archivist David Aruquipa Perez. The exhibition was the first archival survey in Europe documenting feminine performance characters central to Andean street carnivals from the 1960s to the 1980s.
Over the past eight years, Aitor has exhibited in group shows across project spaces, artist-led initiatives, and cultural institutions in the UK, Europe, and Latin America. Recent exhibitions include Shoot the Lobster, Glasgow (2025), General Assembly, London (2025), Llano, Mexico City (2023); robert’s, Glasgow (2022); Ridley Road Project Space, London (2022); PINK, Manchester (2021); Cafe OTO, London (2021); Yorkshire Sculpture International, Leeds (2021); and Mr Pink Gallery, Valencia (2018).
In 2023, Aitor was awarded a DYCP grant from Arts Council England, supporting his artistic and professional development. His practice seeks to bridge cultural memory and contemporary artistic discourse, challenging colonial frameworks and embracing narrative multiplicity.
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