Personal Biography
Born in Cuba.
Lives and works in New York, USA.
1980-1987 Escuela Provincial de Arte “Joaquín Tejada,” Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. 1987-1992 Facultad de Educación Artística del Instituto Superior Pedagógico “Enrique José Varona,” Havana, Cuba.
2004-2005 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, Holland.
*SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS*
1993
“Arqueología de la Simulación,” Centro de Arte 23 y 12, Havana, Cuba.
1996
“Nostra Nusquama,” Galería Espacio Estudio, Havana, Cuba.
“Des-Colon-izando el entorno,” Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba.
1997
“Obra Reciente,” Galería Ángel Romero, Madrid, Spain.
1998
“Obra Reciente,” Sala de Exposiciones Palacio de Abrantes, Salamanca, Spain.
1999
“Recent Works,” Gary Nader Fine Art, Miami, USA.*
“ROPA USADA. Para los otros del tercer mundo,” Galería Ángel Romero, Madrid, Spain.
2000
“Más Allá,” Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba.
“Recent paintings,” International Art Studio Valjevo, Yugoslavia.
2001
“Más Allá,” Museo Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain.
“La angustia de las influencias,” Galería Theredoom, Barcelona, Spain.
“In utero,” Gary Nader Fine Art, Miami, USA.*
2002
“Arte en las Venas,” Sala Rivadavia, Fundación de la Diputación Provincial de Cádiz, Spain.
“Arte en las Venas,” Museo Cruz Herrera, La Línea de la Concepción, Cádiz, Spain.
“From my bathtub,” Galería RAY GUN, Valencia, Spain.
“Con permiso de mi antropólogo,” Galería Ad Hoc, Vigo, Spain.
2003
“Estéticamente correcto,” Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
2004
“Paintings,” Project Room East, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, Holland.
2005
“Beautiful World,” Project Room Oost, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Holland.
“Amsterdam. Recent Paintings,” Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
2006
“Crash/Clash,” Hof & Huyser Gallery, Amsterdam, The 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, FL, 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.
2014
“Recent Paintings after the Long Winter,” 532 Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York, 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, New York, USA.
“Recent Paintings,” Coates and Scarry Gallery, London, UK.
2017
“Watercolors,” Janine Bean Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2019
“La Selva Oscura,” Faction Art Projects, New York, USA.
2021
“Still I’ll Rise,” Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France.
“Fake Landscape,” Galerie Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark.
*SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS*
1990
“El Objeto esculturado,” Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba.
1994
“Los dados de medianoche,” Galería Espuela de Plata, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba.*
Salón Provincial de Dibujo de Ciudad de la Habana, Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas y Diseño, Havana, Cuba.
1995
Primer Salón Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo Cubano, Castillo de la Fuerza y Palacio de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba.*
1996
“Río Almendrales. Ni fresa ni chocolate,” CENCREM, Havana, Cuba.
Tercera Bienal de Pintura del Caribe, Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.*
1997
“Cuatro Artistas Cubanos,” Exposition Identification, Salle Allende, Université 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, exclusión, fragmentación y paraíso,” M.E.A.C. (Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo), Badajoz, Spain.*
XXXe Festival Internacional de la Peinture, Château-Musée Grimaldi, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France.*
1999
“International Exhibition,” ART/OMI Residency, New York, USA.
“Heterotopias,” Project rooms-Cambres d’art, INTERART 99′, Valencia, Spain.*
2000
“The Young Ones,” Gary Nader Fine Art, Miami, USA.
“Paraíso Cero,” Eventa 5, Contemporary Art Biennial, Uppsala, Sweden.*
2002
“Itinerarios,” VII Convocatoria Becas de Artes Plásticas Marcelino Botín, Marcelino Botín Foundation, Santander, Spain.*
Década de los 90, The Berardo Modern Art Collection, Museo de Sintra, Portugal.
“Atravesados,” Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain.*
“Show y Basura,” Foro Sur, Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain.
“Der Global Komplex,” OK Centrum fur Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria.
Premio L’Oréal de Arte Contemporáneo, XVIII Edition, Madrid.
“Erased Border,” Contemporary Fair, Project Room, Miami, FL, USA.
2003
“Centímetro a centímetro,” Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
“Catástrofe Mínime,” Museo de Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy.
“La Colección,” Espacio Camargo, Cantabria, Spain.
VIII Bienal de la Habana, La Cabaña, Havana, Cuba.
2004
“Inside/outside. Contemporary Cuban Art,” Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Florida, USA.
“Collective,” Galería METTA, Madrid, Spain.
“Open Ateliers,” Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, Holland.
“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, Holland.
“Berezdivin Collection,” Espacio 1414, Opening Exhibition, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
“Winter Show,” Hof & Huyser Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland.
“Young Painters,” Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle, Belgium.
“New Paintings,” Group show, Hof & Huyser Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland.
“New acquisitions,” De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, Holland.
2006
“New Acquisitions,” CBK Amsterdam, Holland.
“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 Meets the Eye,” Perspectives from The Robert E. Holmes Collection, California African-American Museum, Los Angeles, 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 Arteológico, Muestra temática de la colección permanente, Contemporary Art Museum of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2008
“Deconstruct,” Hof & Huyser Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland.
“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, Holland.
2009
“Peregrinatio,” Arte en las Ermitas de Sagunto, Sagunto, 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
