Concha Jerez (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1941) is a Spanish multidisciplinary artist known as a pioneer in conceptual art. One of the central axes of her work is the critical analysis of the media. Artistic career Concha Jerez studied piano at the Madrid Royal Conservatory, and in 1958–1959 she obtained a scholarship to Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia, where she became interested in political and social affairs. This led her to study for her licentiate in political science at the Complutense University of Madrid. In 1970 she decided to dedicate herself to visual arts, and held her first exhibition in 1973. As she began her career under the threat of censorship by the Franco regime, the role of the media, censorship, and self-censorship have often been present in her artistic work. In 1976 she presented her first large installation, Autocensura, still restricted to printed paper. In 1983 she exhibited the installation Retorno al comienzo at the Museo Vostell Malpartida. Later she opened the doors to the use of all kinds of new technological possibilities, such as video, interactive installations, photographs, and pure audio installations. Since then Jerez has focused her work on the field of performance art and on the development of the concept of installation as a work in situ, in large spaces, many of them combining the expressive resources of different media. She has been recognized as a member of Spain's first generation of conceptual artists. She began in the early 1980s. Her first video installation was centered around a staircase. It was presented at the First International Video Festival of Madrid held at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in 1984. Later in the decade she was invited to perform an installation at the First Media Art Festival in Osnabrück, Germany. Jerez has produced radio art pieces for several European stations. Since 1976 she has collaborated on numerous projects with the composer and multidisciplinary artist , with whom she presented Media Mutaciones at La Tabacalera in Madrid in 2015. This was a tour of their joint projects, covering work connected with the legacy of the 1970s and their current visual and sound practices. From July 2014 to January 2015, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León exhibited her Interferencias en los medios. In 2015, Jerez won the National Award for Plastic Arts "for her pioneering dimension in the use of technologies, for being representative