Chronology
Beginnings as a painter and draftsman, especially on paper.
He began his artistic training at the Higher School of Fine Arts of San Carlos (Valencia).
Participate in the group exhibition “Our Self”, at the Círculo Universitario de Valencia.
He began to dedicate himself mainly to sculpture.
He held his first individual exhibition at the Tassili Gallery in Oviedo.
He created “La ciutat 1973-1974”, the first of his cities. Exhibits at the Val i 30 Gallery in Valencia.
He moved away from painting to dedicate himself primarily to sculpture.
First exhibition exclusively of sculpture, at the Colegio de Arquitectos de Valencia, under the title "The City".
He exhibits an installation of "The City" in the Buades Gallery in Madrid.
Exhibits at the Juana de Aizpuru Gallery, Seville.
Make “Pyramid 1978-1979”.
Participates in the group exhibition Katalanische Funts des 20. Jahrhunderts, at the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Berlin.
His work is part of the group exhibition “Images from Spain”, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, an exhibition that will later travel to the United States.
Participates in the IV Coltejer Biennial of Medellín, Colombia.
It presents several sculptural installations, along with drawings and watercolors, at the Fernando Vijante Gallery in Madrid, under the title “Sculptures, watercolors, drawings 1972-1982.”
Participates in the XIIe Biennale de Paris.
Produces "The city 1984-1985".
“Font Pública” is inaugurated in Valencia, a 23-meter-high fountain that commemorates the bringing of water from the Júcar River to Valencia. This work will be popularly known as “The Pink Panther.”
Receives the National Prize for Plastic Arts awarded by the Ministry of Culture.
She participates in the XLII Biennale di Venezia, inside the Spain pavilion, alongside Ferran García Sevilla, José María Sicilia and Cristina Iglesias.
Create a public fountain in Turís, Valencia.
He receives the Alfons Roig Prize, awarded by the Valencia Provincial Council.
He exhibits a small anthology at Sala Parpalló, Valencia, at the Madrid gallery Gamarra y Garrigues and at the Barcelona gallery Joan Prats.
Exhibits at the Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum in Madrid.
On October 27, his “Paranoid Minerva”, 17 meters high, is placed in the Crystal Palace in Madrid, opening the exhibition season.
Receives the CEOE Award for the Arts. He installs the sculpture Tower of Sound at the Carlos III University of Madrid.
Installs the sculpture "Fraternitat" in Barcelona.
Exhibits at the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Center Georges Pompidou (Paris).
Installs the public fountain “Boca de luna” in Brussels.
Receives the National Award from the Association of Art Critics at ARCO'95 (Madrid).
Installs the public fountain “Boca de luna” in Brussels.
Miquel's World is on display at the Chicago Cultural Center, an exhibition that is repeated at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Monterrey, Mexico, and at the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City.
Installs the pieces “Casco industrial” in Bilbao and “Andarín” in Gijón.
Receives the Prix International d'Art Contemporain in Monte Carlo.
Expose and The Hague Sculpture 2000, and La Haya.
The sculpture “Vigía” is installed in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
He exhibits individually at the Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover.
The sculpture “Head with waning moon” is inaugurated in Mislata.
Participates in the exhibition Art in Spain 1977–2000 held in Moscow.
His sculpture The Gaze is placed in the plaza of the Artium Center-Basque Museum of Contemporary Art, Vitoria-Gasteiz.
Receives the Distinction of the Generalitat Valenciana for Cultural Merit 2002.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao acquires the sculpture City Wall, and presents it in Bilbao.
He exhibits “A city in your hands” in Amman (Jordan), Beirut (Lebanon) and in Taipei (Taiwan), with the collaboration of the Cervantes Institute.
Participates in the exhibition “The city that never existed”, at the Center de Cultura Contemporània of Barcelona and at the Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao.
The public sculpture “El parotet” is inaugurated in Valencia.
“Palas foundry” is installed in Ceutí (Murcia).
The Cathedral of Burgos commissions an altarpiece from him.
The Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) exhibits more than three hundred of his works from the period 1964–2005.
His work is included in the ArquiEscultura exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
The IVAM exhibition is shown at the Caixa Galicia Foundation, Ferrol.
Participates in the exhibition Homage to Chillida, at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
His work is included in the exhibition Times of Freedom (1975–2000), in the Kubo Room of the Kursaal Palace in Donostia-San Sebastián.
The exhibition “Ojos de Mar” is presented at the IVAM in Valencia and the exhibition “Drawings” at the Elvira González Gallery (Madrid).
He exhibited individually at the Musée National d'Art moderne, Center Georges Pompidou (Paris), under the title Voyage dans la ville «Sous la lune II».
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao inaugurates the Laboratories exhibition. Looks around the permanent collection: Miquel Navarro.
Participate in the World Record: Art & Sport exhibition at the Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing and in the Josep Suñol Collection exhibition. Second Part 1970–2001 of the Suñol Foundation, Barcelona.
He is elected full academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, filling the vacancy left by Juan de Ávalos after his death.
His work is part of the "Sculpture" exhibition in the IVAM Collection of the Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM) in Valencia.
The piece L'Almassil is installed in the Plaza Mayor of Mislata, Valencia.
His work is present in the group exhibition of painting and sculpture aimed at raising funds for UNICEF held at the Palau de la Música, Valencia.
He exhibits alongside other artists at The International 3, Manchester, and at the Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia.
The exhibition Figures for Battle is exhibited outside the Cidade da Cultura de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela.
His work Cabeza Pensante is temporarily installed in Plaza Patriarca, Valencia.
Together with the journalist Rafa Marí, he presents the artistic project 12 cities of the world at the Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM), Valencia.
He is named Favorite Son of Mislata (Valencia).
UNESCO accepts the donation of the sculpture “Ciudad vigía” for its Artistic Heritage.
City and Body is inaugurated at the Capa Gallery in Madrid.
Expose Beneath the Moon II: Journey through the City en el San Diego Museum of Art, EE. UU.
Temporary exhibition of “Sentinel City” at the Mie Prefectural Art Museum (Mie, Japan).
The Fernández-Braso gallery in Madrid organizes Miquel Navarro. Monuments and crowds.
The first edition of the Mislata Miquel Navarro Biennial is celebrated.
The Miquel Navarro exhibition opens. Imaginary Archaeologies, Aretoa Cube Room, Kursaal Donostia/San Sebastian.
The exhibition “Fluidos” is presented at the Bancaja Foundation in Valencia, a complete overview of Miquel Navarro's career since 1976.
The Miquel Navarro Foundation of the Valencian Community is established.
The exhibition “El gabinet secret de Miquel Navarro” is presented at the IVAM in Valencia
He takes office as a new academic of the Royal Academy of San Carlos in Valencia.
The Saló de Respecte de la Diputación de Valencia hosts the exhibition "Controlled smoke, fumeral", which moves to the microcosm conceived by Miquel Navarro between the vegetable garden and the city.
Inauguration, at the CAC Málaga, of the exhibition “Domain and Dream”, a journey through almost forty years of the work of Miquel Navarro, including some of his best-known cities, sculptures of various formats and materials, silkscreens on canvas and watercolors.
The sculpture “Walker” is installed in a roundabout in Mislata as a symbol of progress and a look toward the future.
The exhibition "Poetic Urbanism" is presented at the Muvim in Valencia.
