Urtzi Urkixo was born in 1993 in Bilbao, when the city and the entire territory experienced the decline of a rich industrial past and grew alongside the great reconversion that was not long in coming thanks to the Guggenheim Effect .

All these architectural and urban changes certainly aroused interest in his unconscious, making him more sensitive to the physical and material context that surrounded him. During his adolescence, he cultivated an interest in architecture and urbanism, which he developed after completing the Creation and Design courses at the Faculty of BBAA at EHU-UPV, where he carried out his final project with the help of David Arteagoitia. Later, he worked as an assistant to Gloria Alonso, director of the calcography studio at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin.

He also spent a stay at CIEC in Betanzos, A Coruña, in the screen printing module and a two-month artistic residency in 2022, at Taller 75 Grados in Mexico City, a project dedicated to editing of graphic work for a long time. 30 years with great national and international prestige.

Living in Berlin since 2015. 

In the latest exhibitions “Erinnerung - Gogoratzen dut - Recuerdo” Sala Rekalde, Bilbao and “No one told me” the Juan Manuel Lumbreras Gallery, focused its energies on a process of rediscovery and experimentation with new media and visual narratives.

He was the guest artist at Fig Bilbao  2022 for an artistic residency at Atelier CPS. which resulted in the work "Atlântico".