255CANAL is pleased to present “Mi tio de America,” a solo exhibition of video installations and picture-drawings by Spanish artist Antonio Ortuño.

Antonio Ortuño (born in Alicante in 1970) has lived in New York for four years. His career started out in 2002 at the Festival de Arte Contemporáneo “Conmutaciones-02” of Zaragoza, where he showed the video installation “Por Amor/Deshechos”, that was also shown at the gallery Local Project in New York in 2006. His video installations were shown at the II Biennale de Valencia, at the “Nabi Center” de Seúl (South Korea) and at the Festival Internacional de VideoArte de Valencia. Recently he also participated at the “The Most Curatorial Biennial of the Universe”, and at “Framing AIDS” in the Queens Museum of Art in New York.