Cádiz, 1982

Miguel Ángel Benjumea earned a PhD (cum laude) with his thesis on “Dissident Cartographies: Urban Phenomenologies, Maps and Artistic Transgression”, an MA in Visual Arts and Intermedia and a BFA from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. His work has gradually drifted towards and focused on the convergence of elements drawn from various cultural production strategies, such as the archive, maps and sound. His visual oeuvre reviews the historical tensions that still pervade the definition of territory. He also investigates the problem of the new geographical world disorder. Benjumea is interested in the intersections between microhistories, popular culture and world history, relationships he explores by appropriating existing cultural formats and devices that serve as a pretext for questioning certain social realities.

He has given courses and workshops on the need to rewrite geography through artistic practice and pursued his theoretical research in cities like New York, where he was a resident at the Carriage House Center for the Arts. His artwork has appeared in various publications. Benjumea has received several distinctions in competitions and has exhibited at numerous galleries and art centres across Spain.