Ignasi Aballí (Barcelona, 1958) lives and works in Barcelona. He has held several solo exhibitions in Spain and abroad, including those at the MACBA in Barcelona (2005), the Serralves Foundation in Porto (Portugal, 2006), the IKON Gallery in Birmingham (the UK, 2006), the ZKM in Karlsruhe (Germany, 2006), the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil (2010), the Artium Museum, Vitoria (2012), the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (2015), the Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona (2016), the Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá (2017), the Galeria Kula (Split) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia (2018).
He has exhibited on several occasions at the Estrany-de la Mota Gallery in Barcelona, Elba Benítez Gallery in Madrid, and Meessen De Clercq Gallery in Brussels. He has also recently exhibited at the galleries Proyecto Paralelo (Mexico City, Mexico), Pedro Oliveira (Porto, Portugal), and Nordenhake (Berlin, Germany). He has participated in the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007), the 8th Sharjah Biennial (the United Arab Emirates, 2007), the 11th Sydney Biennial (1998), and the 4th Triennial of Guangzhou, China (2012), and the 13th Cuenca Biennial (Ecuador, 2016). In 2015 he was awarded the V Joan Miró Prize.