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.
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.
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.