Ester Partegàs was born in 1972 in Barcelona, Spain and is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received an MFA from the Universitat de Barcelona, has completed postgraduate studies at Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, and participated in the International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York in 1999.

Her work has been exhibited internationally, including The Aldrich Museum, CT; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; 2nd Moscow Bienniale; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro NC; Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee WI; Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA; Cercle Cultural Caja Madrid, Barcelona; Sculpture Center, New York; Rice University Art Gallery, Houston TX; Queens Museum of Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York.

Partegàs' work features in a number of public collections, including MoMA, New York; The Dikeou Collection, Denver; Coca-Cola Espana Foundation, Madrid; Instituto de la Juventud, Madrid; CajaMadrid, Madrid. Her work also features in numerous private collections in the US and Europe. She is represented by Foxy Production, New York.