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.