Alejandro Cabeza (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, 1971) started taking lessons in drawing and painting at age twelve. In 1993 he received his degree in Fine Arts at the San Carlos Faculty of the Polytechnic University of Valencia. He obtained his first painting award when he was just seventeen. He has participated in several local, national and international painting competitions, in which he has been awarded or selected as finalist. Among his most important honors: “Alex Alemany” City Council Award (Valencia, 1994 and 1995), Army Cultural Center Award (Valencia, 1995), First Biennial of Painting and Sculpture “DIMENS ARTS” (Valencia, 2003). His first individual exhibition (1993) was held at the Fine Arts Circle of Valencia, of which he was member for over ten years. He has had about twenty solo and group exhibitions since 1988. These include some individual exhibitions at the Fine Arts Circle of Valencia, a solo exhibition at the Army Cultural Center (Old Military Government) of Valencia (1997) and a solo exhibition at Vicente Blasco Ibáñez House Museum (Valencia, 2004). Among his collective exhibitions: Maritime Athenaeum of Valencia (1990), City Museum (Valencia, 1994), Valencia Opera House (Palau de la Música, 2005).
Some of his paintings are on permanent exhibition in official buildings or make part of the holdings of several State bodies or institutions, such as the Fine Arts Circle of Valencia, the Military Government of Valencia, Provincial Council of Valencia (Portrait of Fernando Giner, President of the Provincial Council of Valencia), Barcelona City Hall, Valencia City Hall and the College of Notaries of Valencia (Portrait of Joaquin Borrell), among others. One of his paintings is part of the Collection of the City Museum of Valencia, other two belong to the Vicente Blasco Ibáñez House Museum Collection (one of them, his famous portrait of the renowned writer). Other of his artworks have been acquired abroad and have become part of private collections in Spain, other countries in Europe, South America and North America. Some of his paintings have been chosen as cover for several publications. Among them, the anthology of Vicente Blasco Ibáñez short stories published by Akal in 2009 and Orthographic struggle: Valencian language, Catalan or Occitan? (Carles Recio, Confluencia Valencia, 1999). Several articles about his paintings have been published in local and regional newspapers. Art critic Francisco Agramunt included him in his Dictionary of Valencian artists of the twentieth century (Albatros, 1999) and in his work Valencian artists of the twentieth century (Council of Valencia, 2000) too. Art critic Lorenzo Berenguer also included him in Valencian Contemporary Artists, Volume II (Archival, 1997) and in Artists that leave a trace (Archival, 2000).
In 2001 the City Council of Valencia published his book Valencian Light, in which was collected one hundred landscapes painted up to that moment. In 2013 is published his book-interview “Painting is human memory and fruit” / Collection Contemporary of the World 29, Series Research on Memory and Judgment, Madrid / Mexico DF, 2013).
His portraits are integrated into the permanent collections of: National Theater Museum, National Museum of Natural Sciences, National Museum of Roman Art of Mérida, National Museum and Research Center of Altamira, Geominero Museum of Madrid, Provincial Museum of Cáceres, Provincial Museum of Fine Arts of Badajoz, National Museum of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Museum of Contemporary Art of Madrid, Museum of History of Madrid, Archaeological and History Museum of Elche, Army Museum (Alcázar de Toledo), Maritime Museum of Asturias, Blasco Museum Ibáñez de Valencia, Museum of the University of Helsinki (Finland), Luis González Robles Museum (University of Alcalá de Henares), National Union of Writers of Havana in Cuba, Royal Academy of Language in Madrid, Museum of the Birthplace of Cervantes de Alcalá de Henares, Museum-House of Cervantes de Esquivias, House-Mill Ángel Ganivet of Granada (Provincial Documentation Center), House Museum Miguel de Unamuno (University of Salam anca), Gabriel y Galán de Guijo de Granadilla House Museum, Antonio Machado House Museum (Real Academia de San Quirce de Segovia), Miguel Hernández House-Museum (Orihuela), University of Burgos, International University of Andalusia, Complutense University of Madrid, University of Seville, University of Extremadura, University of Santiago de Compostela, University of Oviedo, University of Zaragoza, Academy of Good Letters of Granada, Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences, Royal Academy of Medicine, Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid.