born in Santiago, Cuba
lives and works in New York, USA
1980-1987
Escuela Provincial de Arte „Joaquin Tejada“, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
1987-1992
Facultad de Educacion Artistica del Instituto Superior Pedagogico „Enrique Jose Varona“, Havana, Cuba
2004-2005
Rijksakademie van beldeende kunsten, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
residencies / fellowships / stipends
The Watermill Center, New York, 2016
Artist Studio in Residence Bronx Museum 2011
Chashama Studios, Brooklyn, New York 2011
The Pollock–Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, 2011
The Christopher Reynolds Foundation, New York,2010
Mattress Factory Residence Programs, 2010
ISCP. Brooklyn, NY,USA, 2010 \ 2011
Raid Project, Los Angeles California, 2009
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DCO/IC, 2005
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DCO/IC, 2004
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten/Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, 2004- 2005
Fundacion Marcelino Botin 2000, Spain
ART/OMI Residency, Nueva York, USA, July 1999
solo exhibitions (selection)
1993
„Arqueologia de la Simulacion“, Centro de Arte 23 y 12, Havana, Cuba
1996
„Nostra Nusquama“, Galeria Espacio Estudio, Havana, Cuba
„Des-Colon-izando el entorno“, Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba
1997
„Obra Reciente“, Galeria Angel Romero, Madrid, Spain
1998
„Obra Reciente“, Sala de Exposiciones Palacio de Abrantes, Salamanca, Spain
1999
„Recent Works“, Gary Nader Fine Art, Miami, Florida, USA
„Ropa Usada, Para los otros del tercer mundo“, Galeria Angel Romero, Madrid, Spain
2000
„Mas Alla“, Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba
„Recent Paintings“, International Art Studio, Valjevo, Jugoslavia
2001
„Mas Alla“, Museo Iberoamericano de Arte contemporaneo, (MEIAC) Badajoz, Spain
„La angustia de las influencias“, Galeria Theredoom, Barcelona, Spain
„In utero“, Gary Nader Fine Art, Miami, Florida, USA
2002
„Arte en las Venas“, Sala Rivadavia, Fundacion de la Diputacion Provincial de Cadiz, Spain
„Arte en las Venas“, Museo Cruz Herrera, Spain
„La Linea de la Concepcion“, Cadiz, Spain
„From My Bathtub“, Galeria Ray Gun, Valencia, Spain
„Con Permiso de mi Antropologo“, Galeria Ad Hoc, Vigo, Spain
2003
„Esteticamente Correcto“, Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2004
„Paintings“, Project Room Oost, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands
„Beautiful World“, Project Room Oost, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands
„Recent Paintings“, Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2006
„Crash/Clash“, Hof & Huyser Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
„The Night Inside of The Painter’s House“, Galerie Jean Brolly, Paris, France
2007
„Tervuern’s Tales“, Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle, Belgium
„Interiors“, Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2009
„Drilling America“, Pan American Art Projects, Miami, Florida, USA
2012
„Recent Paintings from the Year of the Protester“, 8th Floor Space, New York, NY, USA
„The Waste Land“, Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2013
„Under the Red Light“, Galerie Christoffer Egelung, Copenhagen, Denmark
Art Amsterdam, Netherlands
2014
„Recent Paintings after the Long Winter“, 532 Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, NY, USA
„Pinturas recientes“, Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2015
„Not All Who Wander Are Lost“, Galerie Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016
„Sweet Dreams“, The Watermill Center, Artist in Residence, NY, USA
„Recent Paintings“, Coates and Scarry Gallery, London, UK
2017
„Watercolours“, janinebeangallery, Berlin
2018
„New Works“, Oxymore, London, UK
2019
„La Selva Oscura“, Faction Art Projects, New York City, USA
2021
„Fake Landscapes“, Galleri Christopher Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark
„Still I’ll Rise“, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
group exhibitions (selection)
1990
„El Objeto esculturado“, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba
1994
„Los dados de medianoche“, Galeria Espuela de Plata, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba
Salon Provincial de Dibujo de Ciudad de la Habana, Centro Provincial de Artes Plasticas y Diseno, Havana, Cuba
1995
Primer Salon Nacional de Arte Contemporaneo Cubano, Castillo de la Fuerza y Palacio de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba
1996
„Rio Almendrales“, Ni fresa ni chocolate, CENCRE, Havana, Cuba
Tercera Bienal de Pintura del Caribe, Museo de Arte Modern, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
1997
„Cuatro Artistas Cubanos“, Exposition Identification, Salle Allende, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
VI Bienal de La Habana, Casona del Fondo Cubano de Bienes Culturales, Havana, Cuba
„Inside“, International Art Exhibition, Kassel, Germany
1998
„Hidden Art of Revolution“, Contemporary Cuban Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
„Caribe, exclusion, fragmentacion y paraiso“, M.E.A.C. (Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo, Badajoz, Spain
XXXe Festival internacional de la Peinture, Chateau-Musee Grimaldi, Cagnes sur Mer, France
1999
International Exhibition, ART/OMI Residency, New York, USA
„Heterotopias“, project rooms-Cambres d’art, INTERART 99’, Valencia, Spain
„The Young Ones“, Gary Nader Fine Art, Miami, Florida, USA
„Paraiso Cero“, Eventa 5. Contemporary Art Biennial, Uppsala, Sweden
2002
„Itinerarios, VII“, Convocatoria Becas de Artes Plásticas Marcelino Botin, Marcelino Botin Foundation, Santander, Spain
„Decada de los 90“, The Berardo Modern Art Collection, Museo de Sintra, Portugal
„Atravesados“, Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid, Spain
„Show y Basura“, Foro Sur, Caceres, Extremadura, Spain
„Der Global Komplex“, Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria
„Premio L’Oreal de Arte Contemporaneo“, XVIII Edition, Madrid, Spain
„Erased Border“, Contemporary Fair, Project Room, Miami, Florida, USA
„Centimetro a centimetro“, Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid, Spain
„Catastrofe Minim“, Museo de Nuoro, Cerdana, Italy
„La Coleccion“, Espacio Camargo, Cantabria, Spain
VIII Bienal de la Habana, La Cabana, Havana, Cuba
2004
„Inside/Outside“, Contemporary Cuban Art, Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Galllery, Wake Forest University, Florida, USA
„Collective“, Galeria METTA, Madrid, Spain
Open Ateliers, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands
„Affirming a Legacy“, art from Robert E. Holmes Collection, H.C. Taylor Gallery of the Dudley Building, North Carolina, USA
2005
„Contemporary Paintings of Latin-America“, The DeVos Museum, Northern Michigan University, USA
„Mi Cuerpo, Mi País“, Cuban Art Today, U.V.A Art Museum, University of Virginia, Virginia, USA
Open Ateliers, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands
„Berezdivin Collectio“, Espacio 1414, Opening Exhibition, San Juan, Puerto Rico
„Winter Show“, Hof & Huyser Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
„Young Painters“, Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle, Belgium
„New Paintings“, Hof & Huyser Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
„New Acquisitions“, The Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2006
„New Acquisition“, CBK Amsterdam, Netherlands
„Looking Back“, Looking Black African-American, African and Latino Images from the Robert E. Holmes Collection, The Kansas African-American Museum, Kansas, USA
„More than Meet the Eyes“, Perspectives from The Robert E Holmes Collection, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA
2007
„Cuban Avant-garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection“, Harn Museum of Art, Florida, USA
„Cuban Avant-garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection“, Ringling Museum, Tampa Florida, USA
„Restos“, Estudio Arteologico, Muestra temática de la colección permanente, Contemporary Art Museum of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2008
„Deconstruct“, Hof & Huyser Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
„Cuban Avant-garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection“, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, California, USA
„Visiones Públicas, Pasiones Privadas“, Contemporary Art Museum of Vigo, Vigo, Spain
„Something and Something Else“, Exhibition Oce, Art Foundation in Museum Van Bommel van Dam, Venlo, Netherlands
2009
„Peregrinatio“, Arte en las Ermitas de Sagunt, Sagunt, Valencia, Spain
„Cuban Avant-garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection“, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
2010
„Without Mask“, Contemporary Afro-Cuban Art, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
„Cuban Avant-garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection“, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Florida, USA
„Keloids“, Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba
„Keloids“, Mattress Factory, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA
„Sinergias“, Latin-American Art in Spain, MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain
„Cuban Avant-garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection“, Katonah Art Museum, New York, USA
Open Studios ISCP, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA
2011
„Sinergias“, Latin-American Art in Spain, Macuf Contemporary Art Museum Union Fenosa, Coruna, Spain
Open Studios ISCP, Brooklyn New York, USA
„Keloids“, Race and Racism in the Cuban Contemporary Art, The 8th Floor, Shelly and Donald Rubin Foundation, New York, USA
„Buy What You Love 2011“, The Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY, USA
„The Museo’s Biennal (S) Files“, Museo del Barrio, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA
„Cuba Now“, 21C Museum Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
2012
„Building Identities“, Contemporary Cuban Art from the Shelley and Donald Rubin Private Collection
Cleveland Clinic’s Art Program Arts & Medicine Institute, Ohio, USA
„Skyline Adrift“, Cuban Art and Architecture, Art Omi Sculpture Field Park, New York, USA
2013
„Fifteen“, Recent Acquisitions from the Deutsche Bank Collection, USA
„Revolutionary Island:Tales of Cuban History and Culture“, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, California, USA
„Citizens of the World, Cuba in Queens“, The Queens Museum, New York, NY, USA
„Summer Exhibition“, Galerie Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark
„Lenguaje de Papel“, Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2014
„Post Picasso: Contemporary Reactions“, Museu Picasso, Barcelona, Spain
„Without Mask“, The von Christierson Collection / Watch Hill Foundation, Museum of Anthropology of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
„Shifting Alterity“, Otherness in our Social Landscape, Skyline Gallery, New York, NY, USA
„Giant Among Us“, Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
„X’mas 14 The Annual Group Show“, Galerie Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark
„Lenguaje de Papel“, Galeria Fernando Pradilla, Madrid, Spain
2016
„An Island Apart: Cuban Artists In Exile“, Otterbein University, Ohio, USA
„Gestures of Faith in the Contemporary Cuban Art“, The Rubin Museum, New York, NY, USA
„Read My Lips“, Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam, Netherlands
„Bedazzled“, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, USA
„Sweet Dreams“, The Watermill Center, New York, USA
2017
„North by North of the Arctic“, Arctic Issues, Center/Periphery, Anchorage Museum, Alaska, USA
„In situ: Visiones del paisaje de las Antillas“, Museo de Arte Pio Lopez Martinez Universidad de PR en Cayey, Puerto Rico
„Without Mask“, National Museum of Art, La Havana, Cuba
„Pintura“, Galeria Fernando Pradilla, Madrid, Spain
„Artists in Purgatory“, Jorge Reynardus’s Collection, Kendall Art Center, Miami, Florida, USA
„Winter Show“, Galerie Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018
„All That You Have Is Your Soul“, Faction Art Project, New York, USA
„Ten Years After“, 532 Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York City, USA
„Art & Life“, Art Space Ben, Seoul, South Korea
„Castles in the Sky. Fantasy Architecture in Contemporary Art“, Lehman College, New York, USA
„Outside Cuba“, Gericke + Paffrath Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
„Strange Bodies“, Pulse Contemporary Art Fair Solo Booth präsentiert von Coates and Scarry Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA
2019
„Castles in the Sky“ – Fantasy Architechture in Contemporary Art, Coral Gables Museum, Miami, Florida, USA
„Five Years“, Livingstone Projects Berlin, The Hague, Netherlands
2020
„L’ Afrique Fantome“, Manifesta Lyon in Zusammenarbeit mit Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Lyon, France
„Winter Show“, Galerie Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark
„Regards hors-champ et paysages dans la collection Agnès B“, La Fab, Paris, France
2021
„XMAS’21 – The Annual Winter Group Show“, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark
2022
„When We See Us“ – A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa
„You Know Who You Are“, El Espacio 23, Miami, Florida, USA
„Abya Yala: Structural Origins“, The New York Latin American Art Triennal, Pace University Art Gallery, New York City, USA
„My Own Past / El Pasado Mio. Afrodescendant contributions to Cuban Art“, The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery
of African & African American Art, Harvard Universität, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
2023
„XMAS’23 – The Annual Winter Group Show, 19th Edition“, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark
„Cuban Dreams in America“, Puente Art Collection, Miami, Florida, USA
„Summertime ´23“, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark
„Spring Group Exhibition 2023“, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark
public collections
Fundation H. Antananarivo, Madagascar
Jorge Perez Collection, Miami, Florida, USA
Agnes B Art Collection, Paris, France
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Massachusetts, USA
MTA Collection, New York, USA
Deutsche Bank Collection, USA
21CMuseum, Kentucky, USA
Shelley and Donald Rubin Private Collection, New York, USA
Howard Farber Collection, New York, USA
Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba
ART/OMI Residency, New York, USA
ASU Art Museum, Arizona, USA
Coleccion Berardo Museo de Arte Moderna, Sintra, Portugal
Museo Extremeno Iberamericano de Arte Contemporaneo (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain
Marcelino Botin Foundation, Spain
National Museum of Valjevo, Jugoslavia
Espacio C. Camargo, Kantabrien, Spain
Diputacion Provicial de Cadiz Sala Rivadavia, Cadiz, Spain
Coca Cola Foundation, Spain
CEGAM Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporaneo, Galizien, Spain
University of Virginia Art Museum, USA
Rijskakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba
Stichting Oce Kunstbezit, Venlo, Netherlands
De Nederlandsche Bank, Netherlands
Arttoteek, The Hague, Netherlands
public projects
The Guardian Angel. Permanent glass mural at LIRR Brentwood Station. MTA NY
book illustration
Somewhere by Roberta Harris. Art by Armando Marino. Candlewick Press 2022
prizes and awards
Segundo Premio I Salón Nacional de Arte contemporáneo Cubano.
Castillo de la Fuerza y Palacio de Bellas Artes. Havana. Cuba. 1997
Mención de Honor XXXe. Festival International de la Peinture. Châ teau-Musée Grimaldi. Cagnes sur
Mer. Francia 1998
LUKAS.Visual Artist of the Year. London 2016
RESIDENCIES/Fellowships/stipends.
The Watermill Center. New York .2016
Artist Studio in Residence Bronx Museum 2011
Chashama Studios. Brooklyn. New York 2011
The Pollock–Krasner Foundation Grant. New York. 2011
The Christopher Reynolds Foundation. New York. 2010
Mattress Factory Residence Programs. 2010
ISCP. Brooklyn. NY.USA 2010 \ 2011
Raid Project. Los Angeles California.2009
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DCO/IC.2005
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DCO/IC.2004
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten/Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. 2004- 2005
Fundación Marcelino Botín 2000. Spain
ART/OMI Residency. Nueva York. USA. July 1999.
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