Ignacio Iturria — Biography



1949 Born in Montevideo

 

 Ignacio Iturria was born in Montevideo in 1949. He grew up in the Uruguayan capital and studied commercial art and graphic design there before turning full-time to painting and fine art. Iturria traces his family roots to the Basque region of Spain. During the 1980s he and his family spent several years living in a town on the Mediterranean coast near Barcelona, but inevitably he returned to his homeland.