Jaume Plensa is a Spanish visual artist, sculptor and engraver. He began his artistic training at the Llotja School of Art and Design and at the Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts. In 1980 he had the opportunity to hold his first exhibition in Barcelona, where he currently lives. Despite this, he has lived and worked in different capitals such as Berlin, England, Germany, the United States and Brussels, being an artist with a continuous training. He became a professor at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, has collaborated as a guest professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has given lectures at all kinds of museums and cultural institutions both nationally and internationally.
Jaume Plensa has received numerous national and international awards, including the Medaille de Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres awarded by the French Ministry of Culture, the National Fine Arts Prize of the Generalitat de Catalunya and the 2013 National Graphic Art Prize, awarded by the Calcografía Nacional. A very significant part of Plensa's work is in the field of sculpture, exhibited in public spaces in different cities in Spain, France, Japan, England and the United States, cities which have also seen his work thanks to numerous exhibitions held there.