XAVIER ACHURRA

Teaching Assistant & Community Relations Specialist

Xavier graduated with a degree in Audiovisual Communication from UPV/EHU in 2021, and completed his Master’s in Contemporary, Technological, and Performative Art at the same University in 2023. His work is characterized by the use of various techniques to create abstract and figurative images, working with video and photography. He often engages in digital and analog post-production processes, drawing from auto-biographical content related to immigration, identity, and the sociocultural situations that individuals undergo during a constant process of adaptation. He has exhibited his work in galleries, exhibitions, and festivals in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Bilbao, Spain. He is also the 2022 recipient of the Gondra-Barandiaran Foundation Grant at the Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao, and has won multiple awards for his short films.