Jordi Mitjà was born in Figueres in 1970. Through a range of presentation formats – from sculpture and photography to publication and video – the artist explores the appropriation of different contexts, situations, media and external productions, bringing them to his own terrain through a high degree of emotional engagement with the references and starting points he selects. His is a complex and obsessive working practice that, going beyond its formalisation for exhibition, concentrates intensity in the production process and period of negotiation between the initial idea and the final resolution. As a result, Mitjà deliberately brings to bear free, flexible aspects such as intuition, testing, error and accident.

Jordi Mitjà finds inspiration for his work, which is formally heterogeneous, rich in social content and critique, sensitive and poetic, in the images of everyday life that he records continuously. The artist collections experiences and images, he invents situations, explores archives and proposes actions to examine the simplest human reactions to unexpected situations. He extracts and invents from reality, and raises questions about the individual, about social behaviours and about art. 

Mitjà has presented his projects at many exhibitions, both solo and collective. He also engages in publishing projects and, with Jesús Novillo and Carolina Trebol, founded the CRANI publishing company. In recent years he has consolidated his presence on the national art scene and has also been an artist in residence in Mexico City and São Paulo. He took part in the inaugural exhibitions of Bòlit, the Girona Centre for Contemporary Art and the Canòdrom art centre in Barcelona; his work is also found in such public collections as the Empordà Museum, the Media Library of "la Caixa" Foundation and the Galicia Centre for Contemporary Art (CGAC), amongst others.

Biography written in 2014