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On May 25, 1862, a son was born to the marriage made up of Miguel Cerdá and Margarita Bisbal who was baptized with the name of Lorenzo.

At the age of six he began his studies at the public school in Pollença and at nine he moved to Palma, on the advice of his uncle Andrés Bisbal, to prepare for admission to the Secondary Education Institute, a center where he studied for a Bachelor’s and Nautical, attending at the same time night classes in figure drawing and clothing at the Academy of Fine Arts.

The decision was made: Art was his vocation and he should dedicate himself to it. A common front made up of the poet Costa i Llobera and the doctors Juan Albís and Antonio María Cerdá was necessary to obtain the consent of his parents.

At the age of eighteen, the young Cerdá moved, with the composer Miguel Capllonc, a piano student at the time, to the capital of Spain and entered the Special School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving of the Academy of San Fernando. Given the merits of the student, the Provincial Council of the Balearic Islands granted him, by competitive examination, during the years 1882 to 1884, the pensioner’s place to improve his painting studies in Madrid, obtaining at this time the title of professor of drawing.

In 1885 and 1886 he obtained, also by opposition, and given his great technical and cultural preparation, the pension in Rome that the State granted to artists who, deserving it, wished to expand their knowledge. There, in the Eternal City, he lived with artists such as Joaquín Sorolla, Mariano Benlliure, Enrique Simonet and Francisco Maura, nourishing himself, both technically and spiritually, not only from such masterful coexistence but also from contact with the works of Fra Angélico, Leonardo, Rafael, Titian and many other masters of the “Cuatrocento” and Renaissance admired by Cercdá.

It was at that time, in 1888, when Lorenzo Cerdá painted his famous canvas “Onderos Baleares”, made on the island of Capri and awarded the First Medal at the Universal Exhibition in Barcelona.

Back on the island, Cerdá entered, by competitive examination, as a professor of artistic drawing at the School of Arts and Crafts of Palma de Mallorca, occupying said position for forty-two years, later going on to direct said school, a position he held for twenty five years.

Retired from his teaching work, not from his creative work, at the age of seventy, the illustrious painter continued working with the tenacity that characterized him, in his studio on Calle Sol, deserving among other honors the Great Cross of Isabel la Católica.

That distinguished master of painting that was Lorenzo Cerdá, companion of Sorolla and Benlliure, Corresponding Academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Honorary Member of the Association of Painters and Sculptors of Spain, Illustrious Son of Pollensa, Honorary Member of the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Palma, First Councilor of the Provincial Academy of the Balearic Islands and Director of the Provincial Museum, he died on December 27, 1955, at the advanced age of 93, leaving behind him a lifetime dedicated to art and teaching; a life to which his friends and admirers paid homage, in 1977, by erecting a monument, the work of the sculptor Remigia Caubet, with the figure of the painter at work, in the Cala Sant Vicenç.

Lorenzo Cerdá, without a doubt, both for his activities in favor of art and for his important pictorial work, will remain one of the great masters in the history of Balearic painting.

(Extracted from the writing of Damián Ramis Caubet published in the catalog of the exhibition Twenty Mallorcan painters)

Currículum

Academic training

1993-98: Llicenciado en Bellas Artes por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid

1989-94: Llicenciado en Teología por la Universidad Pontificia Comillas. Madrid Exposiciones y

Exhibitions and competitions

(*Exhibitions with catalogue)

2022	Colectiva. “Tres cosins”. Espai Suscultura. Palma de Mallorca Colectiva “A favor de Ucrania”. Hotel Armadams. Palma de Mallorca
2021	Individual. “Historias que cuentan las hadas”. S’Agrícola. Manacor Colectiva “Art & Bags”. Born 2. Palma de Mallorca
2020	Colectiva. “Vinart”. Galeria Dionís Bennàssar. Pollença
2019	Colectiva Palma Activa. Quiosco del Olivar. Palma de Mallorca
2018	Colectiva. Galería Horts 1. Palma de Mallorca Colectiva. Galería MA. Palma de Mallorca
2017	Colectiva sobre papel. Galería Bennàssar. Pollença Colectiva. Galería Jaime III. Palma de Mallorca
2016	Individual. “Mirades”. Hotel OD Port Portals. Palma de Mallorca Individual. “Nit de l’Art 2016”. “Locals de Sant Feliu”. Palma de Mallorca Individual. Sareptas Hus. Ballstad. Noruega Colectiva. Grupo Poliart. Sala Banc 2. Palma de Mallorca Individual. Círculo Mallorquín. Palma de Mallorca
2015	Colectiva. Crisolart Galleries. Nueva York Colectiva de verano. Galería Espai d’Art 32. Pollença. Mallorca Colectiva. “I love Van Gogh”. Crisolart Galleries. Barcelona Colectiva de Año Nuevo. Galería Jaime III. Palma de Mallorca
2014	Colectiva de verano. Galería Espai d’Art 32. Pollença. Mallorca Obra en permanencia. Coyunda. Palma de Mallorca Individual. “Alfa”. Sala Carlos Martín. Palma de Mallorca Colectiva. “regalARTe”. Galería Espai d’Art 32. Pollença. Mallorca
2013	Individual. “Nit de l’Art 2013”. Los locales de Sant Feliu. Palma de Mallorca Colectiva. “El buit de l’aire”. Galería Espai d’Art 32. Pollença. Mallorca Colectiva. Atzaró Beach. Cala Nova. Ibiza Concurso de pintura “Ports i fars de Balears”. Palma de Mallorca. Seleccionado Colectiva. “Foc”. Galería Espai d’Art 32. Pollença. Mallorca Colectiva de Año Nuevo. Galería Espaimallorca. Palma de Mallorca
2012	Colectiva. Galería Gaudí. “Affordable Art Fair”. Estrasburgo. Francia Colectiva. “Nit de l’Art 2012”. Galería Espaimallorca. Palma de Mallorca Colectiva. Galería Gaudí. Feria “Arteando”. Irún. Guipúzcoa. *Individual “Anhel”. Galería Espaimallorca. Palma de Mallorca Colectiva. Galería Gaudí. “Affordable Art Fair”. Nueva York. EE.UU. Página individual en la Galería Virtual “arteideal.com”
2011	Colectiva de navidad. Galería Espaimallorca. Palma de Mallorca Colectiva “Na Caty des Forn”. Escuela Superior de Diseño. Palma de Mallorca Colectiva “Arte Ideal”. Pueblo Español. Palma de Mallorca Concurso de pintura “Dijous Bo”. Inca. Mallorca. Seleccionado Colectiva. Feria “Arteando”. Galería Gaudí. Irún. Guipúzcoa. *Individual “Anima”. Galería Espaimallorca. Palma de Mallorca Colectiva. Casal de Cultura Ca’n Gelabert. Binissalem. Mallorca
2010	Individual “Anima”. Galería Amador de los Ríos. Madrid Individual. “Anima”. Centre d’Exposicions. Inca. Mallorca *Individual. “Anima”. Casal de Cultura Ca’n Gelabert. Binissalem. Mallorca Colectiva. Galería Bini Art. Mahón. Menorca
2009	*Colectiva. Galería Espai d’Art Miquela Nicolau. Felanitx. Mallorca Colectiva. Galería El Temple. Palma de Mallorca Colectiva. Galería Bini Art. Mahón. Menorca
2008	Individual. “Sentinelles”. Ca’n Prohens. Felanitx. Mallorca Individual. “Flashback”. Fires 2008. Llucmajor. Mallorca * XXX Certamen Internacional de Artes Plásticas “Vila de Binissalem”. Seleccionado Colectiva. Galería El Temple. Palma de Mallorca * Individual. “Flashback”. Atzaró. Ibiza Colectiva. Galería Bini Art. Mahón. Menorca Colectiva. Hotel Molins. Cala San Vicente. Mallorca
2007	*Individual. “Sentinelles de Palma”. Galeria El Temple. Palma de Mallorca XXVIII Concurso de Pintura “Vila de Costitx”. Seleccionado Colectiva. II Encuentro internacional de acuarela. Xauen. Marruecos IV Concurso “Asociación Amigos de los Molinos”. Seleccionado III Concurso de Pintura “Casa de Castilla León”. Seleccionado Feria de Arte de Andalucía. Galería El Temple. Málaga Colectiva. Galería El Temple. Palma de Mallorca Feria de Arte “Cerco”. Galería Aguilar Caballero. Zaragoza *Individual “Infancia”. Can Tous. Buñola. Mallorca
2006	Certamen de Arte Creativo A. M. Lliteras. Artá. Seleccionado Concurso de pintura “Vila de Lloseta”. Seleccionado Colectiva. Círculo de Bellas Artes. Palma de Mallorca
2005	Certamen de Arte Creativo A. M. Lliteras. Artá. Seleccionado *XXVII Certamen Internacional de Pintura “Vila de Binissalem”. Seleccionado *Individual “Plaça del Pensament”. Taller d’Art Quart Creixent. Palma de Mallorca I Concurso de Pintura “Casa de Castilla León”. Seleccionado
2004	XX Concurso de Pintura “Vila d’Andratx”. Seleccionado
2001	*Individual “Et in Terram”. Galería Antonio Camba. Palma de Mallorca
2000	“En verano ven a ver Arte 00”. Colectiva. Galería Antonio Camba. Palma de Mallorca “Follarte”. Colectiva. Galería El Foro. Madrid “Regalarte”. Colectiva. Galería Antonio Camba. Palma de Mallorca
1999	“Diario del Tiempo”. Colectiva. Galería Antonio Camba. Palma de Mallorca X Concurso de Pintura “Vila de Capdepera”. Seleccionado “En verano ven a ver Arte 99”. Colectiva. Galería Antonio Camba. Palma de Mallorca XIII Mercado de Arte Contempor. Galería Antonio Camba. Palacio Provincial. Cádiz 1998: “Regalarte 98”. Colectiva. Galería Antonio Camba. Palma de Mallorca Exposición a favor de Amnistía Internacional. Casal Balaguer. Palma de Mallorca *X Concurso de Pintura Fundación Amigos de Madrid. Seleccionado Exposición de alumnos de Bellas Artes. Mercado Puerta de Toledo. Madrid “El Café del Círculo”. Colectiva. Círculo de Bellas Artes. Madrid
1997	“Per Amor a l’Art”. Colectiva. Palau Solleric. Palma de Mallorca