Concha Jerez (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1941) is a Spanish multidisciplinary artist known as a pioneer in conceptual art.
Concha Jerez studied piano at the Madrid Royal Conservatory, and in 1958–1959 she obtained a scholarship to Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia,[1] where she became interested in political and social affairs.
[8] Since 1976 she has collaborated on numerous projects with the composer and multidisciplinary artist José Iges [es],[7] with whom she presented Media Mutaciones at La Tabacalera in Madrid in 2015.
This was a tour of their joint projects, covering work connected with the legacy of the 1970s and their current visual and sound practices.
Of course in my attitude I have no choice but to be a feminist when you see the condition of women, with the large number of people killed by gender violence, the inequality of salaries, and the difficulty of accessing positions of political responsibility, public and private.
We must fight against this type of situation and educate from below, from the school itself, valuing the good way of making women very capable in economic, political, and social areas.Jerez has been an organizer, co-organizer, and grassroots militant of various associations of women and artists,[3] including the Asociación de Mujeres en las Artes Visuales (MAV), which granted her an award in 2012 as a recognition of her career.