Cuba (1977). Graduated from the University of Arts of Cuba (Havana) and currently teaching there. His works reflect on the conceptual link between space and time, drifting towards poetical and political aspects of the existence. The artist had participated in the world largest exhibitions and biennale with his installations, sculptures, photos, paintings and drawings. Currently his works are owned by some famous national and private collections.
Sancti Spíritus (1971). Winner of Noemi Prize awarded by Gilbert Brownstorm’s Foundation (Paris). He graduated from the Central University “Marta Abreu” of Las Villas. His personal exhibitions took place in multiple cities around the globe, including the exhibition Body Memories in New York, Camuflajes in Montreal and Mexico City, Perro de Casa in Bogota and many others.
Manzanillo (1983). Graduated from the Art Academy of Holguin and the University of Arts of Cuba (Havana). In 2011 he won Pittura ISOLE Sardegna-Cuba Primer premio international award (Italy). Participated in several biennale in Havana and Galería Luz y Suárez del Villar (Spain).
Graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana ( ISA ), where in 2006 he founded the department of New Media, where he teaches new technologies. His recent work focuses on photograph, video, technology and interactivity. His work has been exhibited in many group exhibitions, art fairs and biennials in Europe, Cuba, Latin America and the Caribbean; e.g. Tyler Art Gallery. Oswego. State University of New York at Oswego; Contemporary Art Museum of the Institute for Research in Art, College of the Arts, University of South Florida.USF, Tampa; 11 Havana Biennial ; PORTUGAL ARTE 10, Survery of Contemporary Art. Portugal, Lisbon.
He graduated from the Fine Arts Academy of Camagüey (2002) and the University of Arts of Cuba (Havana) (2005). He participated in Cuban and international exhibitions, such as Anthropological Mystery in the Alejo Carpentier gallery (Camagüey, Cuba) and Art Wynwood Fair (Miami, USA). Had collaborations with the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) and NuevaEra Magazine (Mexico City).
Havana (1969). Currently resides and works in Miami. Graduated from the University of Arts of Cuba (Havana). The recipient of multiple awards and grants, including the Grand Prix of the First Cuban Modern Art Salon (1995) and a grant of Joan Mitchell’s Foundation for Artists and Sculptors (2015). His personal exhibitions were held all over the world, i.e. the Great Britain, Switzerland, USA, France, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Japan, Dominican Republic, Peru, Panama.
Santa Clara (1982). Graduated from the University of Arts of Cuba (Havana) and Benny More Art School. Her artworks were exhibited in various galleries of Cuba, Switzerland, USA, Brazil and Mexico. Quote from the artist: ‘I enjoy making connections between my vision of the world and the world of words. I use already established terms to create visual forms based on the words that satisfy my definition’.
Havana (1985). Graduated from the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts, took a course of photography at the Union of Artists and Writers of Cuba. Participant of the exhibitions such as The Light in Cuban Eyes (New York), Art Fest@Doral (Miami), Transcendental (Mexico), etc. Participated in multiple international festival including Festival de Artes de Montreal (Canada), Festival de cine de Tampas, Detras del Muro (New York), etc.
Havana, Cuba, 1977. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of San Alejandro, Havana 2000 and the Higher Institute of Art, Havana, 2004. Professor of Painting Department, Faculty of Fine Arts of the (ISA)- Higher Institute of Art, Havana. His works have been exhibited at the Centre for Development of Visual Arts, La Casona Gallery, Havana Gallery, Hispanic- American Center of Culture, Cuba Contemporary Art Center Wilfredo Lam, Higher Institute of Art, Havana, Cuba; La Luz Gallery, Merida, Mexico; Amadis Gallery, Madrid, Spain; Museum of Contemporary Art in Algeria; International Fair of Contemporary Art- Shanghai, China; Biennial of Contemporary Art- Portugal 2011 and others.
Pinar Del Rio (1956). Graduated from the University of Arts of Cuba (Havana), the winner of the National Fine Arts Award (2013). His personal exhibitions include Scratch in the Museo de las Culturas del Mundo (Milan), Vuelo in the gallery IFA (Berlin), Mira in Diputación de Huesca (Aragon, Spain), Autorretratos in the Gallery Or (Vancouver), Por diversos conceptos in the gallery 106 Flatbed (Austin, USA).
Cabaiguan (1979). Graduated from the Samuel Feijoo School of Arts (Villa Clara, Cuba) majoring in Fine Arts. The San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts (Havana) and the University of Arts of Cuba (Havana) Academica Award (2001). His personal exhibitions were held not only on Cuba, but in Spain, USA and Costa Rica. He participated in Muestra de Arte Cubano in the at gallery Nina Torres (USA), RGB in the gallery The Browse Gallery (Germany), Pintores cubanos contemporáneos in the gallery Valanti (Costa Rica).
Havana (1974). Graduated from the University of Arts of Cuba (Havana). His personal exhibitions include Guttenberg Arts (USA), Inventario (Switzerland), Instruments to relief the asphalt (New Zealand), Artflow (Costa Rica). His works belong to the Museum of Latin-American Art in LA, the Havana gallery in Zurich, Hainaut province in Belgium, Jorge L. Pérez Collection in Miami.
Sancti Spíritus (1977). Graduated from the Oscar Fernandez Morera Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Arts of Cuba (Havana). His works were exhibited at Touched International Biennale (UK), Off the Record in the art centre Edge Zones (USA), Liste in The young Art Fair (Switzerland), La Huella Múltiple the gallery La Casona (Cuba), From a Black Hole in the Expo Itinerante (Spain), Copenjague (Germany), Todo en orden in the gallery Celaya brothers (Mexico).
Jose Emilio Fuentes Fonseca (JEFF) was born in Cuba, 1974. JEFF began studying art at age 13. When he was age 21, got a grant from the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba (LFC) to produce his Landscape at 21 installation. In 1994, his first solo exhibition at Havana’s Museo Municipal de Alquízar Álvaro Reinoso Valdez with El Rostro Innocente (in English: The Innocent Face) he received his first recognition as a significant artist. El Rostro Innocente installation featured a classroom full of broken chairs in which on the back of each chair was a pair of lead wings and paintings of fetuses with congenital birth defects covered the classroom walls.[1] JEFF was a guest artist of the Havana Biennial from March 27 – April 30, 2009. He created a herd of 12 metal elephants, which he moved from place to place throughout the city during the night.
Cuba (1979). Graduated from the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts (Havana) and the University of Arts of Cuba (Havana). Professor of the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Arts of Cuba (Havana). His works can be found in some public and private collections of the different countries, including The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum (USA), National Museum of Fine Arts (Cuba), Shelley & Donald Rubin Collection (USA), Milan Spierenburg (Spain), Sari Bermúdez (Mexico), Alejandro Castaño (Columbia).
Havana (1965) As a visual artist, he has performed since 2001 numerous exhibitions of painting in Spain, Italy, United States and Cuba. SELECTION OF SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2012 SER. O. PADECER. Galery Museo del Ron. La Habana Vieja, Cuba. 2009 MUROS. Galery Teatro Campoamor. Oviedo, Asturias, España. MALECONADAS. The Cuban Art Space. New York City, Estados Unidos de América. 2008 JORGE PERUGORRÍA. Galery Siranga Contemporánea. Valencia, España. Abril de 2008. 2007 "CHIVO QUE ROMPE TAMBÓ..." The Cuban Art Space, New York, Estados Unidos de América. 2006 "CHIVO QUE ROMPE TAMBÓ..." Galery Pilar Mulet. Madrid, España. "LABYRINTH" Galery de “Villa La Colombaia” di casa de Luchino Visconti, Ischia, Italia.
Cienfuegos (1983). Graduated from the University of Arts of Cuba (Havana) and Benny More Art School (Cienfuegos). Participant of multiple exhibitions such as Hacerse El Chino in the gallery Havana (Zurich), Viáticos, Salir Es Llegar in Casa Fusión (Mexico City), Esto Es Todo in the XI Havana Biennale. Her works belong to the private collections all over the world, i. e. Colección Jorge Pérez (Miami), Havana Galerie (Zurich), Colección José Pinto Mazal (New Mexico).
Havana (1969). Member of the Union of Artists and Writers of Cuba. Graduated from the University of Arts of Cuba (Havana). Participant of multiple exhibitions such as Kuba Libre (Germany), Señales de Cuba: Propuestas Femeninas (Belgium), Art Chicago (USA), Feria de Rusia (Russia), Cuba contemporaine (Switzerland), Feria Art Madrid (Spain), Muestra el azar recurrente (Portugal), etc.
Camagüey (1974). Graduated from De Ateliers (Amsterdam) and from the University of Arts of Cuba (Havana) .Participated in exhibitions all over the world, including For which it Stands in the gallery The Lodge (New York), The Edge of Intent в Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago), Itinerarios в Marcelino Botin Foundation (Spain), Art Rotterdam 2008 in the gallery Rotterdam. Hof & Huyser Gallery (Netherlands), L’Arte Il Torchio 2005 in Art and the Printing Press (Italy), Departure Point in the gallery Refugium (Berlin).
Havana, 1968. Graduated from the San Alejandro School of Visual Arts and the University of Arts of Cuba (Havana). Used to teach in the University of Arts of Cuba (Havana) and The Ohio State University (USA). Personal exhibitions: Alibi in Carol Jazzar Contemporary art (USA), Non Site in the gallery Tasneem (Spain), Desierto in the gallery Anais (Germany), etc. His works were exhibited at international exhibition in Italy, Sweden, Canada, USA, Spain, Portugal and Colombia.
Camagüey (1984). Graduated from the Provincial Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Arts of Cuba (Havana). In 2011 he won the first prize of the IX International Art Award Biennale ISOLE (Italy). Used to teach at San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts,the University of Arts of Cuba (Havana) and the Academy Raúl Martínez de Morón. Personal exhibitions: Estado de silencio in the gallery El Apartamento (Havana), Saliva ajena in the gallery Servando (Havana), Proyecto Inventario in Fundación Ludwig (Havana).
Cienfuegos (1986). Member of the Union of Artists and Writers of Cuba. Graduated from San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Arts of Cuba (Havana). Her personal exhibitions were held in several countries including USA, Spain, Chile, Peru, Portugal. Participated in exhibitions in Russia, France, UK, Monaco, Portugal, Sweden, South Korea, Brazil, Mexico, Sri-Lanka, China, Panama, Colombia.
Sancti Spíritus (1973). Graduated from the Central University “Marta Abreu” of Las Villas. Her personal exhibition were held in Cuba and abroad, for example An Earthly Project and Shouting Chamber in Canada. She also participated in next several exhibitions Behind the Wall in New York, Soundings in Venice, Performance in Barcelona, Parábolas del Agua in Glasgow, Heartbeat in Oslo, etc.
Camagüey (1984). He graduated from the University of Arts of Cuba (Havana) and the Fine Arts Academy of Camagüey. Participated in Un minuto frente al horizonte в IOS Art Center (Cancun, Mexico), Culturas 2008 (Spain), El lugar de cada cosa at the XII Havana Biennale, etc.
Holguin (1981). Graduated from the Fine Arts Academy and the University of Arts of Cuba (Havana). His exhibitions include La primera aventura in the gallery Knoerle & baettig (Sweden), Ya no pienso en ti in the gallery Reino de este Mundo (Cuba). His works were exhibited not only in Cuba, but in Sweden, Peru, Germany, Spain, Denmark, USA and Brazil.
Camagüey (1982). Graduated from School of Fine Arts and the University of Arts of Cuba (Havana). Participated in exhibitions in Cuba, Spain and USA. For example Life style in the gallery Luz y Suárez del Villar (Madrid), Cuba, The Next Generation in the Cuban Art Space art centre(New York), Open Dreams in Buena Vista Building (Miami). His artworks belong to various collections in Belgium, Spain, UK, Cuba and USA.
René de Jesus Peña González (La Habana, 1957) Self-taught photographer. Studied English at the Instituto Superior Pedagógico de Lenguas Extranjeras, Universidad de La Habana, Cuba. Collections / Коллекции Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. La Habana, Cuba. / Galerìa Habana. La Habana, Cuba. / Reinhard Schultz Collection. Alemania. / Archivo Fotográfico Toscano. ltalia. / Southeast Museum of Photography Daytona, USA / Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Houston, USA / Duhran Contemporary Art Gallery Nuevo México, USA / Throckmorton Fine Arts. New York. USA / Colección de la Provincia de Hainaut. Belgica...
Camagüey (1985). Graduated from the Vicentina de la Torre Academy of Fine Arts, San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Arts of Cuba (Havana). Professor at the Department of Fine Arts in the University of Arts of Cuba (Havana). Participant of the exhibitions Parallel Vienna 2015 (Austria); Tres chicas, dos esposas (Sweden) ; the V International Fine Arts Biennale in Mexico, etc.
Havana (1982). Graduated from the Maximo Gomez School of Sculpture, Quinta de Los Molinos (Havana) and Gaspar Melchor De Jovellanos School of Art (Havana). A member of the National List of the Creators of Fine Arts and Crafts. His personal exhibitions were held not only on Cuba, but abroad as well, including Recuento (Alava, Spain), Premoniciones in the gallery Arlatino (Arles, France), Dibujos in the gallery Arlatino (Arles, France).