Biography

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1968 born in Havana, Cuba
Education
1999 - 2001 MFA Performance, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois/USA.
1987 - 1992 Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana.
1983 - 1987 Academia de Artes Plásticas San Alejandro, Havana.
1980 - 1983 Escuela Elemental de Artes Plásticas 20 de Octubre, Havana.
Professional activities
1992 - 1996 Professor, painting department, Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana.
1995 Teacher, Workshop and exhibition »Juego de Imágenes«, XVII Festival of New Latin American Film, Instituto de Arte e Industria Cinematográfica, Havana.
1994 Curator of the group exhibition »Una brecha entre el cielo y la tierra« (in conjunction with the V Havana Biennial), Centro de Artes Plástica y Diseño, Havana.

Teacher, interdisciplinary creativity workshop, Comunidad Las Terrazas, Pinar del Río, Cuba.

1992 - 1993 Coordinating director, project for children with behavioral difficulties, Tomas Sánchez Foundation.

Solo Exhibitions
1999
-    Vera van Laer Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium.
-    Lo que me corresponde, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Fundación Colloquia, Ciudad Guatemala, Guatemala. (catalogue)
1997
-    El peso de la culpa, artist's home in Old Havana, Tejadillo 214.
-    Anima, The Base Space, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois/USA.
1996
-    Cabeza abajo, Espacio Aglutinador, Havana. (catalogue)
-    Lágrimas de tránsito, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana.
1995
-    Lo que me corresponde, artist's home in Old Havana.
-    Soñando, with Fernando Rodriguez, Gasworks Studios Gallery, London/Great Britain.
1993
-    Memoria de la postguerra, Galería Plaza Vieja, Fondo Cubano de Bienes Culturales, Havana.
1992
-    Ana Mendieta, Sala Polivalente, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana. (catalogue)
1986
-    Marilyn is alive, Galería Leopoldo Romañach, Academia de Artes Plásticas San Alejandro, Havana.

Selected group exhibitions
2000
-    Exotica Incognita, 3rd Kwangju Bienale, Kwangju. (catalogue)
-    ARCO: Feria de Arte Contemporáneo, Recinto Ferial Juan Carlos I, Madrid/Spain. (catalogue)
1999
-    Videodrome, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.
-    Utopia/Distopia, 8va. Muestra Internacional de Performance, Mexico City.
-    Looking for a Place, III International Biennial, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico/USA. (catalogue)
-    Happening, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium.
-    Cuba -Maps of desire, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria. (catalogue)
1998
-    Art in Freedom, Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam/The Netherlands.
-    The Garden of Forking Paths, ( traveling exhibition, 1998-1999). Helsinski City Art Museum, Helsinski/Finland; Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen/Denmark; Edsuik Kunst & Kultur, Stockholm/Sweden. (catalogue)
-    II Salón de Arte Contemporáneo, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana (catalogue)
-    La dirección de la mirada, Stadhaus, Zürich; Musée de Beaux Arts, La Chaux-des-Fonds, Switzerland. (catalogue)
-    III Bienal Barro de América. Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela.
-    Desde el cuerpo: Alegorías de lo femenino, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas.
1997
-    Trade routes, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, The Electric Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa. (catalogue)
-    Troisiéme Manifestation International video et art electronique de Champs Libres, Montreal, Quebec/Canada.
-    1990's Art from Cuba, a national residency and exhibition program (traveling exhibition 1997-1999). Betty Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Institute, Chicago; Art in General, New York; Hallwalls Center for Contemporary Art, Buffalo, New York. (catalogue)
-    New Art from Cuba: Utopic Territories, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver/Canada. (catalogue)
-    ARCO: Feria de Arte Contemporáneo, Recinto Ferial Juan Carlos I, Madrid.
1996
-    23rd São Paolo International Biennial, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paolo/Brazil. (catalogue)
-    The visible and the invisible - representing the body in contemporary art and society, St. Pancras Church, Institute of International Visual Art, London.
-    I Salón Internacional de Estandartes, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana/México; Museo X Teresa, Mexico City.
1995
-    1st Contemporary Art Competition, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana. (catalogue)
-    ART/OMI International Workshop, Hudson, New York.
-    II Bienal del Barro, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Lía Bermudez, Maracaibo, Venezuela. (catalogue)
-    La Isla Posible, Centro di Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona, Spain. (catalogue)
-    New Art from Cuba, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, Cumbria, Great Britain. (catalogue)
1994
-    V Havana Biennial, Castillo de los Tres Reyes del Morro, Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana. (catalogue)
1993
-    XI International Drawing Biennial, Middlesbrough Fine Arts Museum, Cleveland/Great Britain.
-    La nube en pantalones, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana.
1986
-    Proteo, Galería Leopoldo Romañach, Academia de Artes Plásticas San Alejandro, Havana.

Performances
from the series »El peso de la culpa«:
no. IV Exotica Incognita, 3rd Kwangju Bienale, Kwangju, South Korea. March 29, 2000.
Utopia/Distopia, 8va. Muestra Internacional de Performance, Mexico City. October 15, 1999.

no. III Hapenning, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium. May 8, 1999.
no. II Looking for a Place, III International Biennial, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico/USA. July 10, 1999.
Vera van Laer Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium. March 26 1999.

no. I Cuba -Maps of desire, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria. March 19, 1999.
Desde el cuerpo: Alegorías de lo femenino. Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas. February 15 1998.
Tejadillo 214, La Habana, Cuba. May 4, 1997.

from the series »El cuerpo del silencio«:
Silencio Lo que me corresponde, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Fundación Colloquia, Ciudad Guatemala, Guatemala. April 24, 1999.
no. II Tejadillo 214, Havana.
no. I Fragmentos a su imán, Galería Latinoamericana, Casa de las Américas. June 17, 1998.
The Garden of Forking Paths. Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen. April 25, 1998.

»Destierro«:
  Obsesiones, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana. August 13, 1998.
II Bienal Barro de América, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela. July 9, 1998.

from the series »Dédalo o el imperio de salvación«:
no. II De discretas autorías, Cuba y Venezuela: Nuevas poéticas. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Mario Abrey, Maracay. 1998
no. I Museo de Bellas Artes, Havana. 1995
Untitled Xamaca Workshop, Cristal Spring, Jamaica. July 1995
Art in America (the dream), (work in progress)
  Gallery 2, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. March 7-8 1997.
Cabeza abajo
  Cabeza abajo, Espacio Aglutinador,Havana. December 20, 1996.
Trabajo por cuenta propia, Arts and Letters Faculty, University of Havana, Havana. May 6, 1997.
New Art from Cuba: Utopian Territories, The Western Front, Vancouver.

from the series »Lo que me corresponde«: Estudio de Taller
  23rd São Paolo Biennale, Parque de Ibirapuera, São Paolo.October 5, 1996.
Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana. July 18, 1996.

»Lo que me corresponde«
  artist's home, Havana, 1995
from the series »Memoria de la Postguerra: Miedo«
    La otra orilla, V Havana Biennial, Castillo de los Tres Reyes del Morro, Havana. May 8, 1994.

Alter Ego, Centro Provincial de las Artes Plásticas y Diseño, Havana., 1994

Proyecto de obra, Galería Espada, Casa del Joven Creador, Havana.

from the series »Homenaje a Ana Mendieta«:
Anima The Visible and the Invisible: Re-presenting the Body in Contemporay Art and Society, St. Pancras Church, Institute of International Visual Art, London. September 19, 1996.
Rastros corporales 1982-1993 (sobre performance de Ana Mendieta):
no. II La nube en pantalones, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana,1993.
no. I No por mucho madrugar amanece más temprano, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana,1988.

Fellowships and residencies
1999
-    Merit Scholarship, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, United States.
1998
-    Fellowship, The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York.
-    Artist in Residency, Headlands Centers for the Arts, Sausalito, California, United States.
-    Artist in Residency, Fundación Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Maracay Mario Abreu, Maracay, Venezuela.
1997
-    Artist in Residency, »1990's Art from Cuba«, a national residency and exhibition program. Art in General, The Bronx Council for the Art, The Andy Warhol Foundation, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Illinois. January - March.
-    Artist in Residency, The Western Front, media department, Vancouver. March-April.
-    Artist in Residency, Ephemeral Sculpture International Workshop, VI Havana Biennal, Soroa, Pinar del Rio, Cuba. May.
1995
-    Artist in Residency, The Gasworks Studios, London
-    Artist in Residency, ART/OMI International Workshop, Hudson, New York. July-August
-    Artits in Residency, Xamaca Workshop, Crystal Spring, Jamaica. June-July