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| 1968 | |
born in Havana, Cuba |
| Education | ||
| 1999 - 2001 | |
MFA Performance, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois/USA. |
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Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana. |
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Academia de Artes Plásticas San Alejandro, Havana. |
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Escuela Elemental de Artes Plásticas 20 de Octubre, Havana. |
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| 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 |
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| - | Vera van Laer Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium. |
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| - | Lo que me corresponde, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Fundación Colloquia, Ciudad Guatemala, Guatemala. (catalogue) |
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| 1997 |
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| - | El peso de la culpa, artist's home in Old Havana, Tejadillo 214. |
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| - | Anima, The Base Space, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois/USA. |
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| 1996 |
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| - | Cabeza abajo, Espacio Aglutinador, Havana. (catalogue) |
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| - | Lágrimas de tránsito, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana. |
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| 1995 |
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| - | Lo que me corresponde, artist's home in Old Havana. |
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| - | Soñando, with Fernando Rodriguez, Gasworks Studios Gallery, London/Great Britain. |
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| 1993 |
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| - | Memoria de la postguerra, Galería Plaza Vieja, Fondo Cubano de Bienes Culturales, Havana. |
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| 1992 |
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| - | Ana Mendieta, Sala Polivalente, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana. (catalogue) |
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| 1986 |
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| - | Marilyn is alive, Galería Leopoldo Romañach, Academia de Artes Plásticas San Alejandro, Havana. |
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Selected group exhibitions
| 2000 |
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| - | Exotica Incognita, 3rd Kwangju Bienale, Kwangju. (catalogue) |
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| - | ARCO: Feria de Arte Contemporáneo, Recinto Ferial Juan Carlos I, Madrid/Spain. (catalogue) |
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| 1999 |
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| - | Videodrome, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. |
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| - | Utopia/Distopia, 8va. Muestra Internacional de Performance, Mexico City. |
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| - | Looking for a Place, III International Biennial, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico/USA. (catalogue) |
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| - | Happening, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium. |
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| - | Cuba -Maps of desire, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria. (catalogue) |
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| 1998 |
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| - | Art in Freedom, Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam/The Netherlands. |
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| - | The Garden of Forking Paths, ( traveling exhibition, 1998-1999). Helsinski City Art Museum, Helsinski/Finland; Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen/Denmark; Edsuik Kunst & Kultur, Stockholm/Sweden. (catalogue) |
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| - | II Salón de Arte Contemporáneo, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana (catalogue) |
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| - | La dirección de la mirada, Stadhaus, Zürich; Musée de Beaux Arts, La Chaux-des-Fonds, Switzerland. (catalogue) |
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| - | III Bienal Barro de América. Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela. |
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| - | Desde el cuerpo: Alegorías de lo femenino, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas. |
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| 1997 |
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| - | Trade routes, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, The Electric Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa. (catalogue) |
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| - | Troisiéme Manifestation International video et art electronique de Champs Libres, Montreal, Quebec/Canada. |
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| - | 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) |
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| - | New Art from Cuba: Utopic Territories, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver/Canada. (catalogue) |
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| - | ARCO: Feria de Arte Contemporáneo, Recinto Ferial Juan Carlos I, Madrid. |
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| 1996 |
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| - | 23rd São Paolo International Biennial, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paolo/Brazil. (catalogue) |
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| - | The visible and the invisible - representing the body in contemporary art and society, St. Pancras Church, Institute of International Visual Art, London. |
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| - | I Salón Internacional de Estandartes, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana/México; Museo X Teresa, Mexico City. |
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| 1995 |
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| - | 1st Contemporary Art Competition, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana. (catalogue) |
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| - | ART/OMI International Workshop, Hudson, New York. |
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| - | II Bienal del Barro, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Lía Bermudez, Maracaibo, Venezuela. (catalogue) |
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| - | La Isla Posible, Centro di Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona, Spain. (catalogue) |
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| - | New Art from Cuba, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, Cumbria, Great Britain. (catalogue) |
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| 1994 |
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| - | V Havana Biennial, Castillo de los Tres Reyes del Morro, Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana. (catalogue) |
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| 1993 |
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| - | XI International Drawing Biennial, Middlesbrough Fine Arts Museum, Cleveland/Great Britain. |
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| - | La nube en pantalones, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana. |
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| 1986 |
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| - | 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«: | ||
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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. |
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| 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) | ||
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Gallery 2, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. March 7-8 1997. |
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| Cabeza abajo | ||
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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. |
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| from the series »Lo que me corresponde«: Estudio de Taller | ||
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23rd São Paolo Biennale, Parque de Ibirapuera, São Paolo.October 5, 1996. Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana. July 18, 1996. |
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| »Lo que me corresponde« | ||
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artist's home, Havana, 1995 |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Rastros corporales 1982-1993 (sobre performance de Ana Mendieta): | ||
| no. II | La nube en pantalones, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana,1993. |
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| no. I | No por mucho madrugar amanece más temprano, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana,1988. |
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Fellowships and residencies
| 1999 |
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| - | Merit Scholarship, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, United States. |
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| 1998 |
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| - | Fellowship, The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York. |
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| - | Artist in Residency, Headlands Centers for the Arts, Sausalito, California, United States. |
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| - | Artist in Residency, Fundación Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Maracay Mario Abreu, Maracay, Venezuela. |
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| 1997 |
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| - | 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. |
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| - | Artist in Residency, The Western Front, media department, Vancouver. March-April. |
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| - | Artist in Residency, Ephemeral Sculpture International Workshop, VI Havana Biennal, Soroa, Pinar del Rio, Cuba. May. |
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| 1995 |
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| - | Artist in Residency, The Gasworks Studios, London |
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| - | Artist in Residency, ART/OMI International Workshop, Hudson, New York. July-August |
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| - | Artits in Residency, Xamaca Workshop, Crystal Spring, Jamaica. June-July | |
