In 1980, he received the Scholarship for Young Artists and in 1982 the Scholarship for the Research of New Expressive Forms, both from the Ministry of Culture. In his early works, he manifested himself as a follower of an abstract expressionist style. In 1984, he participated in the Arco’84 Annual Fair. In 1986, she moved with her partner Victoria Civera to New York and established her studio in Brooklyn. In 1992 she participated in the Documenta in Kassel. Her first retrospective was held in 1996 at the Valencian Institute of Modern Art. In 2002, he was awarded the National Prize for Plastic Arts from the Ministry of Culture, in recognition of his entire career, which, according to the jury, “has confirmed him as one of the most unique voices in international abstract painting” since the 1980s. “Uslé has been able to reconcile geometry and lyricism,” said Juan Manuel Bonet, director of the Reina Sofía Museum, who was part of the jury. The Cantabrian painter has carried out a large number of exhibitions, including those of the MACBA, the IVAM, the Saatchi Gallery, the Serralves Museum, the Ludwig Museum in Vienna, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York or the Morsbroich Museum in Leverkusen, and his work is represented in museums such as the Boymans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the Birmingham Museum of Art or the aforementioned Ludwig. In 2003, an anthology of his work entitled Open Rooms was produced, which was presented at the Velázquez Palace, the Marcelino Botín Foundation in Santander, the S.M.A.K Museum in Ghent and the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. Between January

29 and May 2, 2010, the Es Baluard museum in Palma exhibited Nudos y Rizomas, made up of 21 of his works belonging to the Rizomas family. In

2014 he was commissioned to design the poster for the Paris tennis tournament, the Rolang Garros 2014.1 August 2015. From 19 to 21, a “meeting” led by the Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Santander and Cantabria, Salvador Carretero Reves entitled ARTES, LETRAS, Y was held at the UIMP at its headquarters in the Palacio de la Magdalena in Santander. SCIENCES: CREADORES SANTANDERINOS. JUAN USLE.LABERINTO ESFERICO. They were lecturers on the work of Uslé, Stephan Berg, director of the Kunstmuseum Bonn in Germany; José Manuel Bonet, director of the Cervantes Institute in Paris and former director of the Reina Sofia and the IVAM; Javier Barón Thaidigsmannr, doctor in Art History and Head of the Area for the Conservation of 19th Century Painting at the Museo Nacional del Prado, Enrique Juncosa writer, gallery owner and former director of the Reina Sofia; John Yau, art critic and curator, etc … The round table was moderated by the artistic director of the Botín Center, Benjamin Weil.