Timeline

Born in Madrid in 1957. As a child he is already keen on drawing. He studies Law at the Complutense University of Madrid and then enters the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid with only 22 years of age. In parallel to his art career, and while working at Garcia Vazquez's studio, he takes a Town Planning course at the CEU. His town planning knowledge will be later on reflected in his works in the form of urban landscapes, street graffiti and daily tools. In 1980 he moves to the United States in order to broaden his education. Although he comes back to his home town one year later, he will then return to the USA to continue his career.

Involved in Hyperrealism, Cesar Galicia defines himself as the "painter of the untransfigured reality". In 1986 he is hired by the New York's Staempfli Gallery, where he takes part in the collective exhibition "Spanish Realism". In 1990 he opens his first individual exhibition in New York, a city where he will live for many years and which will play a key role in his personal and artistic trajectory. To this exhibition follows his participation in the Chicago Contemporary Art Fair, the Armony Show Fair, the Hong Kong Fair and the Art Miami Fair at the Forum Gallery in New York; The Estampa Fair at the Estiarte Gallery in Madrid, the individual exhibition at the Guereta Gallery in Madrid, the Paris FIAC Forum, the exhibition of American Realists at the Arkansas Museum, individual exhibition at the Laxeiro Cultura/ Concello de Vigo Foundation, Heritage Foundation Abu Dhabi and Leandro Navarro Gallery of Madrid, in 2009.

Some of the museums and cultural centres currently exhibiting the work of Cesar Galicia include: the Chicago Contemporary Art Museum, the Pennsylvania Museum, the Osaka Museum (Japan), the Modern Art Museum of Mexico, the Contemporary Art Museum of Madrid and the Cultural Centre Conde Duque of Madrid.