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Ester Partegàs

Ester Partegàs - Artists - Garth Greenan Gallery

Photograph by Laurie Lambrecht

Ester Partegàs is a Catalan-born, New York–based sculptor. For nearly three decades, the artist has devoted herself to investigating the overlooked, “infra-ordinary” objects and commodities that populate the environments of global capitalism. Using a range of media and techniques, Partegàs creates replicas of everyday items like plastic shopping bags, potted plants, and fast food, then subjects these objects to various transformations—shifting their scale, smoothing out their edges into polygonal forms, or reconfiguring their volumes as precarious architectural fragments. Through acts of defamiliarization, Partegàs sheds light on the invisible substrates of contemporary life, inviting us to see anew the hidden ideological forces and philosophical undercurrents that shape our world.

Born in La Garriga, Barcelona, Partegàs enrolled in Hochschule der Künste in Berlin before relocating to New York City in 1999. A key figure in the Williamsburg scene of the early 2000s, the artist at this time immersed herself in the writings of Michel de Certeau, whose essays on agency, power, and public space had a profound influence on her. Some of Partegàs’s earliest major artworks were room-scale environments: airport lounges, waiting rooms, and corporate atriums that she meticulously reproduced with matte board, creating eerily dreamlike sites of transit and dislocation. At around this time, she also created paper flyers with cryptic verse, affixing them to electric poles and shop windows. Through these guerilla interventions, she allowed for unexpected, poetic encounters in public space.

More recently, Partegàs has turned her focus toward the domestic. A leitmotif for this new phase is the plastic laundry basket—an object as ubiquitous as it is mundane. Working in papier-mâché, fabric, and wood, Partegàs remakes fragments of this household item in a range of scales and configurations, adorning it with found objects, wrapping it around furniture, and painting it unexpected colors. Utterly unremarkable in its blandness, the laundry basket—a “black hole of the everyday,” as the artist calls it—reveals a multitude of contradictory associations and functions. It is simultaneously an avatar of female body and domestic labor, a space of comfort and confinement, and an uncanny “minor architecture” that is at once familiar, threatening, and strange.

Solo exhibitions of Paregas’s work have been held at Rice University Art Gallery (2002, Houston); Hallwalls (2003, Buffalo, NY); Virginia Commonwealth University (2006, Richmond); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (2007, Madrid); NoguerasBlanchard (2004, 2007, 2009, 2017, 2022, Madrid/Barcelona); Foxy Production (2006, 2010, 2015, New York); and Christopher Grimes Gallery (2006, 2007, 2010, Santa Monica). Recently, STEADY, a two-person exhibition with Michelle Lopez, opened at Ballroom Marfa (2024) and the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art (2025, San Francisco). In January 2026, a major mid-career survey of Partegàs’s work will open at Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo, Móstoles and Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma, Mallorca.  

Ester Partegàs’s work is featured in the collections of many museums, including: the Museum of Modern Art, New York; MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Museu de Granollers, Spain; La Panera, Centre d’Art Contemporani, Lleida, Spain; Museo Patio Herreriano de Arte Contemporáneo Español, Valladolid; and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain. Additionally, she is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (2005), the Rome Prize Fellowship (2022–23), and the Guggenheim Fellowship (2025).

Garth Greenan Gallery is pleased to represent Ester Partegàs. Ester Partegàs is represented in Spain by Prats Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid/Barcelona.

Ester Partegàs

1972
Born in Barcelona, Spain

Lives and works in New York, New York; Marfa, Texas; and Barcelona, Spain

 

EDUCATION

1998      
Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin, Germany

1996
Universitat de Belles Arts, Barcelona, Spain

1990-1992
EINA Centre Universitaria de Disseny i Art de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022
Refugio de Fachada Solar, NoguerasBlanchard, Madrid, Spain

2020
Hampers. No Retention, Pure Joy, Marfa Texas, June 19–August 1

2017
The Passerby, NoguerasBlanchard, Madrid, Spain, March 25–May 20

2015
The Passerby, Foxy Production, New York, New York, June 4–July 10

2014
You Are Here, The Anderson Gallery, VCU, Richmond, Virgina, January 17–March 9
You Are Here, Marfa Book Company Gallery, Marfa, Texas, June 27–August 10

2013   
Samesation, DA2 Domus Artium, Salamanca, Spain, March 1–May 26

2012
Tale of Two Gardens, The Chinati Foundation Artist-in-Residence, Marfa, Texas, June–August

2010
Less World, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California, September 11–October 30
More World, Foxy Production, New York, New York, October 21–December 18

2009
Ooze, NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona, Spain, April 2–May 16

2008
Colapso Cotidiano, Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain

2007–2008
what you are, the world is, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, December 1, 2007–January 12, 2008
Invasores, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, December 18, 2007–February 18, 2008

2007
Saturated Fat, NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona, Spain, January 11–March 10

2006
Las cosas más importantes,16 Proyectos de Arte Español, ARCO, Madrid, Spain, February 9–13
Les coses més importants, Cercle Cultural CajaMadrid, Barcelona, Spain
Fixed and Hazardous Objects, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, March 9–April 6
We the People, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California, July 8–September 2 
Saturated Fat, Foxy Production, New York, New York, September 7–October 13
Less World, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2005
Barricades, Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain

2004
Civilization is overrated, Foxy Production, New York
, March 6–April 10
Civilization is overrated, Project Space at the Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, Illinois
Barricades, NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona, Spain, September 25–November 20

2003-2004
Dreams are more powerful than nightmares and vice versa, Centre d’ Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain, December 19, 2003–March 7, 2004

2003
Hollowmess, Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York, June 7–July 19
Every day feels like Sunday, Casas Riegner Gallery, Miami, Florida

2002
Samesation, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, Texas, September 20–October 27

2001
to from from at across to in from. The centerless feeling, De Chiara/Stewart Gallery, New York
, New York, 
to from from at across to in from. The centerless feeling, Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain

2000
from one fleeting wish to another, De Chiara/Stewart Gallery, New York, New York

1998
So lost…, Kunstruimte Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Why do I feel sometimes so lost?, DFN Gallery, New York, New York

1995
Fissures, La Capella, Barcelona, Spain, January 13–February 19


SELECTED TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2025
STEADY: Michelle Lopez and Ester Partegàs, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California, January 21–April 12

2024
STEADY: Michelle Lopez and Ester Partegàs, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas, April 17–September 8

2021
Guardian: Claire Watson and Ester Partegàs, Essex Flowers, New York, New York, September 10–October 2

2014
Simultaneous Affinities: ffiXXed and Ester Partegàs, Neon Parc, Melbourne, Australia, March 12–March 28

2011
Gos Sa Mer: Santiago Cucullu and Ester Partegàs, Lynden Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 20–July 29

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024
Plàstic, Museu Terra/Fundació Carulla, Barcelona, Spain

2023–2024
Insolación, TEA Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife, Spain, September 29, 2023–April 21, 2024

2023
Roma, A Portrait, Palazzo Esposizione, Rome, Italy, May 10–July 3
Meridiano Espíritu Fantástico, NoguerasBlanchard/Joan Prats/Bombon Projects, Corçà, Spain June 24–August 27
Conduit House, April in Paris, Aerdenhout, Netherlands, September 17–December 17

2022
Sleep Spaces, Visual Arts Center at UT Austin, Texas, January 28–March 12
Aquello/THAT, Instituto Cervantes, New York, New York, February 17–April 2
You met me at a very strange time in my life, L21 Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, October 21–December 9

2021
Territorio Contemporáneo: Diversos Lenguajes en la Colección Enaire, Fundación Enaire, Santander, Spain, July 2–October 31 
El Sentit de l’Escultura, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain, October 15–March 6

2020–2021
Bajo la Superfície, Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain, December 11, 2020–April 11, 2021

2019
Distance, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Program, Long Island City, New York, February 17–April 7
Social Photography VII, Carriage Trade, New York, New York, July 9–September 22
What’s love got to do with it?, The Drawing Center, New York, New York, August 16–September 15
DM, Mercy Pictures, Auckland, Australia
Plàstic, Museu Vida Rural, Espluga de Francolí, Barcelona, Spain

2018–2019
Towards a New Archaeology, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York, September 13, 2018–January 6, 2019

2018
Transborder Biennial / Bienal Transfronteriza, El Paso Museum of Art & Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez, El Paso, Texas, June 1–September 16
Open Sessions 12: a… is alter(ed), The Drawing Center, New York, New York, October 12–December 2
Marginal Editions: 10 Marginal Years, Foxy Production, New York, New York, December 14–December 21

2017–2018
Matèria Primera, Centre d’Art Contemporari de Barcelona Fabra i Coats, Barcelona, Spain, November 8, 2017–April 1, 2018
Art in the Open: Fifty Years of Public Art in New York, Museum of the City of New York, New York, New York, November 10, 2017–September 23, 2018

2017 
Gut Feelings, Zuckerman Museum of Art Galleries, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia, January 28–May 7, 2017
Discursos Premeditados: Colección Fundación Caja Mediterráneo, Centro del Carmen de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, February 17–April 23, 2017

2016    
Watchdog-Lapdog-Playdog, Galeria NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona, Spain, April 2–May 7, 2016
Una Mirada abierta, Colección Coca-Cola, La Conservera, Murcia, Spain, April 22–July 17, 2016
Las cosas que hace uno y las cosas que lo hacen a uno, Galería Curro, Guadalajara, Mexico, July 9–September 30, 2016

2015–2016
Espècies d’Espais, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, July 16, 2015–January 31, 2016

2015
reservoir, La Capella, Barcelona, Spain, April 1–May 17, 2015

2014–2015
In __ We Trust: Art and Money, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, October 3, 2014–March 1, 2015
Black Hologram, CoSTUME NATIONAL LAB, Tokyo, Japan, October 15, 2014–January 10, 2015
Disorder: The Curious Case of Disheveled Art, ARTIUM Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, October 10, 2014–August 30, 2015
Branched: Trees in Contemporary Art, Museum Sinclair Haus / ALTANA Kulturstiftung, Bad Homburg, Germany, November 30, 2014–February 22, 2015

2014    
Tiempos Abiertos, Domus Artium (DA2), Salamanca, Spain, February 7–May 4, 2014
Double Sens, FRAC Corse, Haute-Corse, France, February 15–May 15, 2014
Social Photography IV, Carriage Trade, New York, New York, November 12–November 22, 2014

2013–2014
Sobre papel, Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain, June 8, 2013–March 30, 2014

2013
Neo Povera, L & M Arts, Los Angeles, California, May 23–July 6, 2013
El arte del presente: Colección Helga de Alvear, CentroCentro, Madrid, Spain, May 24–November 3, 2013
New Prints/New Narratives: Summer 2013, International Print Center New York (IPCNY), New York, New York, June 13–August 9, 2013
Principios Activos, Domus Artium (DA2), Salamanca, Spain, June 19–September 29, 2013
4th Athens Biennale (AB4): AGORA, Athens, Greece, September 29–December 1, 2013

2012–2013
Juegos de language, Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain, October 26, 2012–May 5, 2013

2012
Keeping it Real, An Exhibition in Four Acts, Act 4: Material Intelligence, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, March 18–May 22, 2011
VideoStorias, ARTIUM, Basque Museum-Center for Contemporary Arts, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, April 15, 2012–2012
I Glove U, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, May 4–June 15, 2012
Risk Zone, Contemporary Art Collection of “La Caixa”, Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg, Sweden
Transactions, Guadalupe Arts Center, San Antonio, Texas

2011–2012
Aproximaciones I: Arte Español Contemporáneo en la Colección Helga de Alvear, Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain, November 5, 2011–September 30, 2012
Figuras de la Exclusión, Patio Herreriano, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Español, Valladolid, Spain, November 9, 2011–January 22, 2012

2011
Loved Ones Who Go Away: Colección Antonio Fernández Villalba, Fundación Pedro Cano, Murcia, Spain, January 10–August 12, 2011
Everything Must Go, Casey Kaplan, New York, New York, June 30–July 29, 2011

2010
Veu Entre Línees, Center d’Art La Panera, Lleida, Spain, January 26–April 25, 2010
Revolviendo en la Basura, Centro de Arte y Naturaleza (CDAN), Huesca, Spain, February 5–May 9, 2010
American Spirit, Galerie Crone, Berlin, Germany   
Brand X, Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne, Germany
Close Encounters 2: Acts of Social Imagination, Denison Museum, Granville, Ohio   

2009
New York Minute, MACRO Future Museum/DEPART Foundation, Rome, Italy, September 19–November 1, 2009
Next Wave Art, BAM Brooklyn, New York
The Global Land: Identity and Oblivion, Espacio Enter, Canary Islands
Close Encounters II, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, New York
Zonas de Riesgo: Colección de Arte Contemporáneo Fundación ”la Caixa”, CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain
Lecturas Transversales: Colección de la Fundación Marcelino Botín", Villa Iris, Santander, Spain
Problem Solving (Express Yourself), Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2008
Order. Desire. Light. An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawings, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
El Papel del artista/ Colección Fotocopia, Doméstico'08, Madrid, Spain
Close Encounters: Facing the Future, American University Museum, Washington D.C.
Parangolé: Fragments from the 90’s: Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain
Levantamiento Libertad y Ciudadanía, Centro de Arte Móstoles, Madrid, Spain

2007
Experiencias 2, Museo de Bellas Artes de Santander, Santander, Spain
Thermal Comfort, Artnews Projects, Berlin, Germany
Cart [ajena], Cartagena de Indias, Cartagena, Colombia
2nd Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Cuestión Xeneracional, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela,
Spain
Consumption Junction, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio

2006
Papel, Galería Casas Riegner, Bogotá, Colombia
Adquisiciones Recientes, ARTIUM, Basque Museum of Contemporary Art, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Tale of Two Cities, Busan Bienal of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Busan, South Korea
Six Degrees of Separation, Stux Gallery, New York, New York
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina
Please Love Me, Walkers Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Iª Bienal de Arte, Arquitectura y Paisaje de las Islas Canarias, Gran Canaria, Spain

2005
OverAwe, Foxy Production, New York, New York
Make it now:Sculpture in New York, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York
Mira cómo se mueven, Telefónica, Madrid, Spain

2004
Some Exhaust, Lehman Maupin Gallery, New York, New York
Mediascapes, Centre Cultural de La Caixa, Lleida
Long Term Installations, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
Dibujos Hoy, CAC Málaga, Málaga, Spain
A Level of Trust: After Kurt Cobain, Galleria More Fools in Town, Torino, Italy

2003
The Paper Sculpture Show, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York
World Speak Less Dumb, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Harlem Postcards, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Proyectos Especiales, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York
Tekhne: Ancestral Techniques and Contemporary Practices in the SURO workshop of Tlaquepaque, The Buena Vista Bldg, Miami Design District, Miami, Florida
TransEat, FoodCultureMuseum, Miami, Florida
ReLAX, DCKT Contemporary, New York, New york
Yours Truly, Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Street Level, The Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Not to scale, Dorsky Curatorial Program, Long Island City, New York
Stand By: Listos para actuar, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, Mexico

2002
40 Jahre: Fluxus und die Folgen, Kunstsommer Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
Americas Remixed, Fabrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy
View Finder, Arnolfini, Bristol, England
The passions of good citizens, apexart curatorial program, New York, New York
Art for living again, Galeria Estrany-de la Mota, Barcelona, Spain
Narrando espacios, Tiempos, Historias: XXVII Bienal de Arte de Pontevedra, Pontevedra, Spain

2001
Brooklyn!, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida
Surplus, Centro Cultural de España en Lima, Lima, Peru
Paper, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
The good, the bad and the ugly: a Spaghetti Western, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Colorado
Hospitality, a Constructed World Project, Foxy Production, Brooklyn, New York
Twisted, Aaron America, Brooklyn, New York
Formas del Exilio, Galería Claramunt, Barcelona, Spain
Counter II, AVCO, London, England
Ads, Logos and Videotapes, Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
Ester Partegàs/Laura Torrado, Galería Trinta, Santiago, Spain

2000
Anywhere But Here, Artists’ Space, New York
Puntos de Encuentro, Cruce, Madrid, Spain
Figured Out, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York
Escenarios, Instituto de la Juventud, Madrid, Spain
Inter/Zona, Arts Visuals i Creació a Barcelona, La Virreina, Barcelona, Spain 
Generación 2000, Real Jardin Botánico, Madrid, Spain
Itinerarios 99-00, Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander, Spain

1999
Keep Fit/Be Happy, De Chiara/Stewart Gallery, New York, New York
Club, Arts & Lounge, Museu de Granollers, Barcelona, Spain
Happy Holidays, Star 67, Brooklyn, New York
Babel, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, New York
And on a lighter note…, Venetia Kapernekas Fine Arts, New York, New York

1998
Arte Joven 98, MEAC, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Spain
Siesta Over: Spanish Art in the late 90’s, Sideshow 195 Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
La Capella at Transmission, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Lento, Galería Gingko, Madrid, Spain
Biennial of European and Mediterranean Young Artists, Balmes 21, Galeria de la Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain


 

Selected Collections

ARTIUM Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
CA2M Museo Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
CajaMadrid, Madrid, Spain
Colección Enaire, Madrid, Spain
Daskalopoulos Collection, Athens, Greece
The Dikeou Collection, Denver, Colorado
Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
Fundación Caja Mediterráneo, Valencia, Spain
Fundación Coca-Cola, Madrid, Spain
Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona and Madrid, Spain
Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander, Spain
Fundación Montenmedio Contemporánea, Cádiz, Spain
La Panera, Centre d’Art Contemporani, Lleida, Spain
MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, California
Museo Helga de Alvear, Cáceres and Madrid, Spain
Museu de Granollers, Granollers, Spain
Museo Patio Herreriano de Arte Contemporáneo Español, Valladolid, Spain
SONS Museum Kruishoutem, Kruishoutem, Belgium
TEA Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife, Spain

 

Books and Catalogues
Badia, Montse and Kaufman, Andreas. Paissatges Mediátics. Barcelona, Spain: Fundació La Caixa. 2004.

Bestué, David and Millà, Martina. El Sentit de l’Escultura. Barcelona, Spain: Fundació Joan Miró. 2021.

Busan Biennale. A Tale of Two Cities: Busan-Seoul/Seoul-Busan. Busan, South Korea: Busan Biennale. 2006.

CaixaForum, Barcelona and CaixaForum, Madrid. Zonas de Riesgo: Colección de Arte Contemporáneo Fundación "la Caixa.” Barcelona, Spain: CaixaForum, Barcelona. 2009.

Canziani, Cecilia. Roma. A Portrait. Rome, Italy: Palazzo delle Esposizioni. 2023.

Centre d'Art Santa Mònica. CASM Vol.1. Barcelona, Spain: Centre d'Art Santa Mònica. 2005.

Centro Galego de Arte Contemporaneo. Cuestión Xeneracional. Santiago, Spain: Xunta de Galicia. 2007.

Civin, Marcus, Partegàs, Ester, and Martabel Wasserman. Victoria Fu and Matt Rich, Monster A. Boston, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts, Boston. 2019.

Colombo, Paolo. Order. Desire. Light. Contemporary Drawing. Irish Museum of Modern Art. Dublin
, Ireland: Irish Museum of Modern Art. 2008.

Copelin, Laura, Morton, Timothy, and Gadner, Peyton. Hyperobjects for Artists: A Reader. Marfa, Texas: Ballroom Marfa. 2018.

CRU 38 and Figueres. Ester Partegàs: You Are Here. Madrid, Spain: CRU 38 and Figueres, Barcelona. 2013.

Fernandez-Mallo, Agustín. Ester Partegàs: Invasores. Madrid, Spain: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. 2008.

Hough, Jessica. Paper. Ridgefield, Connecticut: The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. 2001.

La Capella. Ester Partegàs: Fissures. Barcelona, Spain: La Capella. 1996.

Martínez-Jiménez, Javier. Bajo la Superfície. Madrid, Spain: Centro Cultural Conde Duque. 2020.

Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Footnotes on Geopolitics, Market and Amnesia. Moscow, Russia: Moscow Biennale. 2007.

Museum of Modern Art. The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection: Catalogue Raisonné. New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art. 2009.

Norandi, Elina. 102 Dones Artistes. Barcelona, Spain: Enciclopèdia Catalana. 2022.

Rice University Art Gallery. Ester Partegàs: Samesation. Houston, Texas: Rice University. 2002.

Roncero, Rafael. Arte Español Contemporáneo. Madrid, Spain: La Fabrica. 2013.

Sculpture Center. Make It Now. Long Island City, New York: Sculpture Center. 2005.

Slave Magazine #4. Calories (Slave #4): Ester Partegàs. Melbourne, Australia: Slave Magazine. 2006.

Spanish Ministry of Culture. 100 artistas españoles/spanish artists. Madrid
, Spain: Exit Publicaciones. 2008.

 

Periodicals

Abaroa, Eduardo. “Artists on artists: Ester Partegàs.” BOMB Magazine #133 (Fall 2015).

A.H.P. “Ester Partegàs." El Mundo/El Cultural Madrid, February 24–March 2, 2005, 32.

Alvarez-Reyes, José Antonio. "Ester Partegàs." Flash Art International, January-February  2004, 105.

Ammirati, Domenick. "Make It Now." Artforum International, October 2005, 278.

“Artist Dictionary: Focus New York." Flash Art, Vol. XLII, No. 264 (January – February 2009): 79.

Baird, Daniel. "Make It Now." Brooklyn Rail, July–August 2005, 12.

Baudoin, Tanja. “Ester Partegàs, Chinati Foundation, Marfa.”…mightbegood #196, September 14, 2012.

Ballou, Chris. "Been Here Before ... Been Here Forever: Ester Partegàs's Samesation." Artlies, Fall 2002, 92.

Ben-Haim, Sipi. “Art Basel Miami Beach 2004.” SCULPTURE, November 1, 2004.

Bosco, Roberta. “Ester Partegàs: Artista.” El País: 3, no. 202 (April 2009): 6.

Boucher, Brian. “Ester Partegàs.” Art in America, February 28, 2011.

Brockett, Kim. “Ester Partegàs. Refractions of the Real.” VAULT, September 2016, 26–27.

Castro Flores, Fdo. "La soledad de los no-lugares.” ABC Cultural Madrid #509, October 27, 2002, 34.

Cotter, Holland. "Rain or Shine, Residing Outdoors: Public Sculpture." The New York Times, August 9, 2002, B27-29.


Davis, Ben. “Transcendent Trash.” Artnet. October 27, 2010.

Elliott, Carrie. "Spotlight on an Artist from the Collection: An interview with Ester Partegàs." MoMA: Friends of Contemporary Drawing: Spring Bulletin, 2008, 5-8.

Fateman, Johanna. “What’s Love Got to Do with It.” The New Yorker, Sept 16, 2019, 5 & 8.

Hunt, David. "Ester Partegàs at De Chiara/Stewart Gallery." Artext, January 2002, 84-85.


Ingram-Allen, Jane. “The Paper Sculpture Show.” SCULPTURE, July 1, 2004.

Laster, Paul. “Ester Partegàs’ More World.” Time Out New York, Nov. 11-17, 2010, 52.

Lombardi, D.D. "Ester Partegàs at De Chiara Gallery." SCULPTURE, April 2002, 73-74.

Mayordomo, Carlos Delgado. “Arqueología Doméstica.” ABC Cultural Madrid, December 24,2022, 9.

McAdams, Shane. "Next Wave Art." Brooklyn Rail (November 2009), 16.

Molina, Angela. “Ester Partegàs.” El País: Babelia, no. 908 (April 2009): 5.

Murria, Alicia. "Lento." Lápiz, April 1996.

Navarro, Mariano. "Ester Partegàs, a través de la grieta.” El Mundo, January 2008, 32.

Neil, Jonathan D. “STEADY at the Wattis Institute, CCA.” Consecutive Matters, March 14, 2025.

Porges, Maria. “Michelle Lopez and Ester Partegàs.” SCULPTURE, March 28, 2025.

Richardson, Hayley. “Dikeou Superstars: Ester Partegàs.” zingmagazine, June 29, 2015.

Rodriquez, Marta. “Cart(ajena).” ArtNexus, No. 65 Volume 6 (June–Aug 2007): 155-158.

Rubio Nomblot, Javier. “Poéticas de lo fantasmagórico.” ABC Cultural Madrid, April 22, 2017.

———. "Ester Partegàs. Estudio Helga de Alvear.” Lápiz, November 2001, 82.

Rubira, Sergio. “Ester Partegàs, lo íntimo como refugio.” El Cultural Madrid, Dec 9, 2022, 40.

Saltz, Jerry. “Ester Partegàs.” New York Magazine, November 8, 2010, 96.

Schiff, Robyn. “Schiff on Partegàs.” Los Angeles Review of Books, Jan 11, 2024.

Schmerler, Sarah. "Outer City, Inner Space." Time Out New York, August 1-8, 2002.

Smith, Roberta. "The many layers of Now, explored in 3 dimensions." The New York Times, May 27, 2005, E37.

———. "The Passions of the Good Citizen." The New York Times, May 3, 2002, E30.

Sonkin, Rebeca. "Anywhere But Here." ARTnews, October 2000, 56.

Turner, T.T. "Aperto New York." Flash Art International, Summer 2000, 57-60.

Viveros-Fauné, Christian. "Ester Partegàs. Why do I feel sometimes so lost?." zingmagazine, Fall 1998, 208-209.

Vogel, Carol. "For Public Art, A New Scrutiny." The New York Times, October 5, 2001, E28.

Walen, A. "Ester Partegàs." Tema Celeste, International Edition (Summer 2001): 89.