A member of the Asociación Española de Acuarelistas, Joaquín González Dorao has exhibited some of his work at the Supermercart gallery in Madrid (2005 and 2006) and at Altaïr in Barcelona (2008). In 2002 and 2004 he won first prize in the Annual Travel Diaries Competition organised by Ambar. He has been invited to the International Travel Journal Biennal held in Clermont-Ferrand (France), and his work has been published in EPS, the weekly supplement of the Spanish newspaper, El País (2002).