Aitor Lajarin-Encina is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and organizer born in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain, and currently working in Fort Collins, Colorado. He received his BFA in painting from the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, and his MFA in visual arts from the University of California, San Diego. Aitor’s creative work and research interests include contemporary painting and drawing, critical issues in the transdisciplinary field, reception and participation aesthetics, alternative self-organizational models for production, distribution, and collaboration within the arts, and the spaces of intersection between contemporary art and public culture.