Aitor Ortiz was born in 1971 in Bilbao, Spain.
Lives and works in Bilbao, Spain. Photographer Aitor Ortiz completed his studies as a specialist technician in Image and Sound in Erandio (Bizkaia) in 1989. He works with architectural space, light and industry. Ortiz draws on architectural forms and their constituent elements to create optical illusions. The Basque artist captures the architectural structures in a state of nakedness, erasing any human trace or elements which might contextualise these buildings. Reducing the buildings to structures void of stylistic references raises the question of whether they are under construction or in a state of disrepair. In short, Ortiz strives to give the viewer a physical experience and allow them the space to interpret the work according to their own visual perception. Furthermore, Ortiz does not consider artistic techniques as closed systems, but rather as mechanisms which facilitate the creative process. They are points of departure from which Ortiz ventures to combine different artistic languages, extending the viewer´s experience beyond the boundaries of photographic language. The artists´s work has been displayed in solo exhibitions in the Museo de la Universidad de Navarra (Pamplona, 2018), at Le Centquatre (París, 2015), in the Canal de Isabel II (Madrid, 2013), in FOTOGRAFISKA, as well as in the Swedish Museum of Photography (Estocolmo, 2011). His pieces are present in various public and private collections, including those of the Museo Nacional Centro of Arte Reina Sofía, the Colección Masaveu, the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, the Colección de Arte Contemporáneo Fundación La Caixa and the Fundació Vila Casas.