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New Yorker Margo Fortuny is an artist and writer based in Madrid and Paris. She received a BA from the University of Southern California, and continued her education at Central Saint Martins in London, where she studied painting. Fortuny's artwork deals with desire, identity, and states of being.

Recent exhibitions include Les Résidents at Galerie Openbach in Paris (September 4-25, 2024), as well as (my darling,) ubiquitous I’m not at Ostra gallery in Lisbon (May 24-June 30, 2023) and Mindfuck (by Ojo Ultimo) at Teatro del Barrio, Madrid (June 2023.)

In 2021 she participated in Mandanga, a video artwork by the Spanish artist Ojo Ultimo. Fortuny also performed in Superinteligencia e Hiperlucidez, a live piece by Ojo Ultimo in Madrid, as well as collaborating on choreography and costuming for the piece.

Fortuny also participated in ‘Hold Up’, the performance art piece part of Do not go gentle into that good night by William Mackrell at The Ryder Projects in Madrid and in Gala Knörr's Tumbleweeds at Torre de Ariz in Bilbao (2020). Previous exhibitions include Use Your Illusions, Pavilion, Madrid, Art Against Knives, Shoreditch Town Hall, London, Trail of Tears, University of Southern California Thorton Hall, Los Angeles and La Journée des Arts at Galerie Atelier du Thabor, Rennes.

Her work has been published in The New York Times, Cabana, Exit, Flaunt, Buffalo Zine, Vice and Dazed. In 2020, Fortuny created an artist's book, ‘The Pleasures of Hackney Road’, which is now stocked at the Hauser & Wirth bookstore, Artbook, in Los Angeles, La Casa Encendida contemporary art institution in Madrid, the CCCB museum in Barcelona and numerous bookstores in London, Paris, Athens, Barcelona and Madrid. In 2021, her artist’s book was sold at Frieze Art Fair in London.

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La neoyorquina Margo Fortuny es una artista y escritora que reside en Madrid y París. Licenciada por la University of Southern California, continuó su educación en Central Saint Martins en Londres, donde estudió pintura. Las obras de Fortuny hablan sobre el deseo y los estados del ser.

Su trabajo ha sido expuesto en ‘Les Résidents’, Galerie Openbach, París, ‘(my darling,) ubiquitous I’m not’, Ostra, Lisboa, ‘Mindfuck (de Ojo Ultimo)’ Teatro del Barrio, Madrid, ‘Superinteligencia e Hiperlucidez’, Teatro del Barrio, Madrid, 'Use Your Illusions' Pavilion, Madrid, 'Art Against Knives' Shoreditch Town Hall, Londres, 'Trail of Tears' University of Southern California Thorton Hall, Los Angeles y 'La Journée des Arts' en Galerie Atelier du Thabor, Rennes.

También participó en la performance de William Mackrell en The Ryder Gallery en Madrid y en ‘Tumbleweeds’ de Gala Knörr's en Torre de Ariz en Bilbao.

Su trabajo ha sido publicado en The New York Times, Metal, Cabana, Exit, Flaunt, Buffalo Zine, Vice y Dazed & Confused. Su libro, 'Los Placeres de Hackney Road' se puede encontrar en Artbook de Hauser & Wirth, Los Ángeles, Shakespeare and Company en París, La Casa Encendida en Madrid, y en librerías en Europa y el Reino Unido.