José Villarrubia
Spanish artist
José Antonio Villarrubia Jiménez-Momediano (born 17 November 1961) is a Spanish-American artist, comics colorist, educator, and photographer whose work spans comic books, fine art photography, and comics restoration. His collaborators have included Alan Moore, Paul Pope, and Jeff Lemire. He has received multiple Eisner Award nominations and won the Harvey Award for Best Colorist in 2011. His photography is held in institutional collections including the Baltimore Museum of Art, and he served as chair of the Illustration Department at Maryland Institute College of Art from 2010 to 2015.
Biography
Early life and education
Villarrubia was born in Madrid, where he studied at the Facultad de Bellas Artes of the Complutense University of Madrid from 1979 to 1980. He then moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Magna Cum Laude, from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1983, and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Towson University in 1986.
Academic Career
He taught at Towson University as an adjunct faculty member from 1986 to 1998, the Baltimore School for the Arts from 1997 to 2000, and the Walters Art Museum from 1995 to 1997. He joined the faculty of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) as a part-time instructor in 1997 and became a full-time professor in 2000. From 2010 to 2015, he served as chair of MICA's Illustration Department. Since 2015, he has been coordinator of its Sequential Art minor.
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