Selected works

Grandad picking vegetables, Oil stick on canvas


A good boy. Oil stick and acrylic on canvas. 120 x 140 cm 


A box of stars. Oil Stick on canvas. 120 x 160 cm 


Hole in the Sky and My Name Pouring Through It. Oil stick on canvas ,85 x 125 cm. Courtesy of General Assembly


Me and mum as potatoes, and dad as a house in the back. Watercolour and pen on notebook paper. 19 x 25 cm. Courtesy of General Assembly


Dad as a house Oil Stick on jute fabric. 180x 210 cm. Courtesy of Llano Mexico


Installation view of A bark in the night woke me up to a bed wiht no sheets. Robert’s 

nstallation view of A bark in the night woke me up to a bed wiht no sheets. Robert’s 


Aitor, all things are born and attain but only as they desire. Oil stick on cardboard 32x 22 cm 


Flor rara. Pen and watercolour on notebook paper. 17 x 23.5 cm. Courtesy of FORMA Editions


Untitled. Pen, crayon and watercolour on notebook paper. 17 x 23.5 cm. Courtesy of FORMA Editions


Bird bowing, with a flower growing in their back. Pen and watercolour on notebook paper. 17 x 23.5 cm.  Courtesy of FORMA Editions


Margarita con tres piernas. Watercolour on notebook paper. 17 x 23.5 cm. Courtesy of FORMA Editions


Cena familiar, con mama as a condor, papa y yo protegiendonos del sol. Pen and watercolour on notebook paper. 17 x 23.5 cm. 
Courtesy of FORMA Editions

Aitor González
holaitor@gmail.com
‘The visual world of Aitor González exists between memory and self-creation. Here plants morph into animals and into curvy typography in bold, striking colours, narrating fragile links between generations and the transformation of self in the new, unfamiliar terrain. González grew up in Valencia and moved to London in 2019 – his studio in east London always holds an ever-evolving set of paintings and drawings corresponding to a growing archive of his family’s social and cultural history he’s been working on since 2016.


González’s Quechua-Spanish descent is crucial to his practice, with deep familial and cultural ties to the Quechua people, an Indigenous nation of the Andes. His works draw from dreams, childhood memories, religious symbolism, family anecdotes, as well as his experiences of trying to understand his identity and the queer and creative becoming in the metropolitan city far removed from the gravitational points of his origins. His works are vivid and emotionally evocative, playful and vulnerable, tapping into rich visual and cultural iconography and most importantly, all contributing to the process of narration and reinterpretation, which flows like the river through generations past and future’ Anastasiia Fedorova




Solo Exhibitions

2022 A bark in the night woke me up to a bed with no sheets. Robert’s, Glasgow

2017 Lo que le susurra Bob a Charlotte, Galería A del Arte, Zaragoza

2016 Siempre es un buen momento, STCFTHOTS, Leeds




Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 Vital, General Assembly, London

2023 Naturaleza, Cuerpo y Construcción, Llano, CDMX

2021 GREY AREA (curated by Kevin Hunt), PINK, Manchester

2021 Preparations (curated by LateWorks), Cafe OTO, London

2019  Club Editions, Yorkshire Sculpture International, Leeds

2018 Georgette (curated by Love Unlimited), Suede, Edinburgh

2017 As soon as I get there (curated by Andreu Porcar), Greasy Senate, Valencia

2017 Panorama, Galleria Fran Reus, Mallorca

2016 On to the next, The Royal Standard, Liverpool

2015 Intitution/Outstitution, International 3, Manchester

2015 Twice as nice, Seize Projects at Enjoy Art Space, Leeds




Awards & Residencies

2025 Develop Your Own Practice, Arts Council England

2018 EOP Thinker, EastSide Projects, Birmingham

2017 Residency at Celine Bureau, Montreal

2017 Artist in residency at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh

2017 Clíniques d’Es Baluard, Mallorca




Selected Publications/ Press

Frieze Magazine - ‘Barbarella’s Kiss’ Is a World of Jubilant Dissent

Corridor 8- Interview Aitor Gonzalez and Noel Clueit: Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop

Floorr Magazine - Interview with Aitor Gonzalez

Growing inwards and outwards without a clear pattern - FORMA Editions




Education

Faculty of Fine Arts San Carlos, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia

School of Fine Arts, University of Leeds