Albert Bayona (Lleida, 1954) is a visual artist, cultural promoter, and educator at the Escuela de Arte Municipal Leandre Cristòfol in Lleida, where he worked as director from 1995 to 2000. His practice spans painting, drawing, photography, video, digital technologies, and music, exploring landscape, territory, and their transformation. Bayona often creates contradictions and tensions in his work, provoking discomfort in viewers and reflecting on the mechanisms of perception and deception in both art and cinema.

Between 1986 and 2000, he contributed to the Becas Entrega for emerging artists and directed artistic programming at Galería Periferiart and various municipal exhibition halls. He also served as co-director of the Lleida Animation Film Festival (Animac). His work has been shown in museums and galleries such as MACRO (Rome), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Centre d’Art La Panera (Lleida), Museu Abelló (Mollet del Vallés), Fundación La Caixa, Museu d’Art Jaume Morera (Lleida), Hangar, Glasgow Contemporary Art Center, Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica, and Galería 44 Arte Contemporáneo (Barcelona), and featured in international fairs and festivals including ARCO, Videoformes, LOOP, Madatac, New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, and more.

Bayona’s work has been widely recognized with awards, including the Second Prize at the XXIV Joan Miró International Drawing Prize (1985), the Vasudha Award for Best Environmental Short (Monday to Friday, 2008), and recent accolades for his films Pandèmia (2022) and Framed Triggers (2023), which received four international awards, including the Critics’ Prize at the Russian Film Institute (Rostov-on-Don) and Best Experimental Film in Stockholm, Berlin, and Toronto.