José María Yturralde (Cuenca, 1942) is a Spanish painter, teacher and artist born in Cuenca in 1942. He holds a degree and PhD in Fine Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and is a Full Member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos in Valencia. He is currently Professor of Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Valencia.

He enjoyed a scholarship at the Colegio Mayor San Juan de Ribera, in Burjasot.

In 1968 he was awarded a scholarship to the Calculus Centre of the University of Madrid, where he carried out his first works with computers. He won several prizes and spent time abroad, among other centres, at MIT, where he came into contact with György Kepes, Otto Piene, Jürgen Claus, Walter de Maria and Mark Mendel, among others.

He worked as Assistant Curator at the Museo de Arte Abstracto Español in Cuenca. He developed a type of art close to science, such as his famous Figuras Imposibles (Impossible Figures). He introduced kinetic art in Spain, also working with lasers and holography. He is also the creator of the “Flying Structures”, three-dimensional works capable of flying. In his most recent works, he has focused on the study of colour and its influence on emotions and moods.

In 1999 the IVAM in Valencia dedicated the largest retrospective of his work to date to him,1 and in 2021 he will be exhibiting his work at the

1 and in 2021 he exhibited Hathor, a 9×9 metre work on the façade of the museum, which won the National Prize for Plastic Arts 2020,3 awarded by the Ministry of Culture and Sport, for the high level of experimentalism in his career, in which he has connected art and science.