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Lázaro Saavedra. C.V.

Solo and Bi-Personal Shows
2016
  • Plus, Premios Nacionales Artes Plásticas, (Plus, National Prizes in Visual Arts), Origenes Gallery, Gran Teatro de La Habana, Havana, Cuba. (Jan.-­‐Mar.)
2015
  • Haciendo memoria (Recalling) (Videos) (Caja Negra Hall), Development Center for Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba (Dec. 17 – Jan. 11)
  • Añejo 27. Galiano Gallery (Sixth Salon of Contemporary Art), Havana, Cuba (Jan. 9 – Feb. 10)
2014
  • Toma y daca (Give and Take). Figueroa Vives Studio/Norwegian Embassy, Havana, Cuba (Sept. 24, only one day)
2013
  • Cortocircuitos (Shortcircuits). Casa Daros, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Nov.30, 2013 – Mar. 9, 2014)
  • Expo sin concepto (Expo without Concept). Habana Gallery, Cuba (Sep.11 – Oct. 18)
  • Arte rupestre (Cave Painting). Museum of Art of Pinar del Río (MAPRI), Pinar del Río, Cuba (Aug. 8 – Sep. 27)
2012
  • Masaje visual para espectador de Bienal (Visual Massage for Biennial Spectator). Fortress San Carlos de La Cabaña, Collateral, Eleventh Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
2011
  • Lázaro Saavedra (Estudiante) (Student). San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts, Cuba
  • Altamente confidencial (Lázaro Saavedra en su Isla) (Highly Confidential. Lázaro Saavedra in His Island). Arte Actual Gallery, Quito, Ecuador (Oct. 11 – Nov. 27)
2009
  • Sponsor. Collateral, Tenth Havana Biennial, Servando Cabrera Gallery, Havana, Cuba (Mar. – Apr.)
  • Lázaro Saavedra. Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain (Jan.)
2008
  • Animaciones y videos 1997-­‐2007 (Animation and Videos 1997-­‐2007). Gogh Museum, Germany
2007
  • Exhumaciones (Exhumations). Salle Zéro, Alliance Française, Havana, Cuba (Oct. 15)
2006
  • En una noche de terror cualquiera comete un crimen (In a Night of Terror Anyone Commits a Crime). Cinematographic Cultural Center, ICAIC, Havana, Cuba
2003
2002
  • Todo final es el comienzo de algo desconocido (Every End is the Beginning of Something Unknown). Iaab Atelier. Basel, Switzerland
1998
  • Historia para historiadores III (History for Historians III). Provincial Art Center, Holguín, Cuba
  • Mi dossier, el descaro y la representación (My Dossier, the Insolence and the Representation). Development Center for Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba (Apr. – May)
1997
  • Historia para historiadores II (History for Historians II). Arte Universal Gallery, Santiago de Cuba (Sep. – Oct.)
  • Masaje mental (Mental Massage). Rice University´s Media Center, Houston, U.S.A.
  • Muriendo libre (Dying in Freedom). Diverse Works Art Space, Houston, U.S.A. (Feb. – Mar.)
1996
  • Stipendiaten. Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, Germany (Dec.)
  • Cuerpo, alma y pensamiento (Body, Soul and Thought). S Gallery, Aachen, Germany
  • Levántate Chago, no jodas Lázaro (Stand Up, Chago, Fuck You, Lázaro). Espacio Aglutinador, Havana (Feb.)
1995
  • Historia para historiadores I (History for Historians I). Development Center for Visual Arts, Cienfuegos, Cuba (Aug.)
  • Historia para historiadores (as part of the project Una de cada clase) (History for Historians, as part of the project One of Each Kind). Luis de Soto Gallery, Faculty of Arts and Literature, University of Havana, Cuba (Mar. – Apr.)
1993
  • La imagen del pensamiento, el pensamiento de la imagen (The Image of Thought, the Thought of the Image). Habana Gallery, Havana, Cuba (May)
1991
  • El desafío de mi arte (The Challenge of my Art). Servando Cabrera Moreno Gallery, Fourth Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba (one day)
1989
  • Una mirada retrospectiva (A Retrospective Glance). Provincial Center of Visual Arts and Design, Havana, Cuba (Jan.)
  • The Spaces Between: Contemporary Art from Havana. Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia. Vancouver, Canada (Jan. 10 – Apr. 13). Traveling to: Bildmuseet, Umea University, Umea, Sweden (Feb. 8 – Apr. 19)
1988
  • Pintar lo que pienso, pensar lo que pinto (To Paint What I Think, to Think What I Paint). (Graduation thesis). L Gallery, Havana, Cuba (Aug.)
Group Exhibitions
2015
  • Ficción y fantasia (Fiction and Fantasy). Casa Daros, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Sep. 11-­‐ Dec. 13)
  • Iconocracia. Basque Museum-­‐Center of Contemporary Art (June 26 –Oct. 25). CAAM (Feb. 1 – May 31)
  • Luminato Festival. Welcome to Toronto public project, Toronto,Canada (June)
  • Pulso (Pulse). L Gallery, Retiro Odontológico, L e/ 23 y 21, collateral to the Twelfth Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba (May 25 – 29)
  • Lost and Found. Fábrica de Arte Cubano, Collateral to the Twelfth Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba (May 25)
  • Estrictamente personal (Strictly Personal). Spanish Embassy, collateral to the Twelfth Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba (May 23)
  • Pez peo. Wilfredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Twelfth Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba (May 22)
  • HB -­‐ Muestra de arte contemporáneo cubano (HB -­‐ Showcase of Contemporary Cuban Art), Pabexpo, collateral to the Twelfth Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba (May 21)
  • Haciendo presión (Exerting Pressure). Morro-­‐Cabaña Military History Park, collateral to the Twelfth Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba (May 21)
  • El péndulo de Foucault (Foucault’s Pendulum). Morro-­‐Cabaña Military History Park, collateral to the Twelfth Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba (May 21)
  • La primera colá (The First Coffee Brewing). National Prizes in Visual Arts, “Fresa y Chocolate” Cinematographic Cultural Center, ICAIC, collateral to the Twelfth Havana Biennial (May 23) Contaminación (Contamination). National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba (Feb. – Apr.)
  • Ajaccio a la hora de Cuba (Ajaccio in Cuban Time). Fesch Palace, Museum of Fine Arts of the Town of Ajaccio, France (Feb. 20 – May 18)
  • Nuevas tentaciones de Narciso (New Temptations for Narcissus). House of Mexico, Havana, Cuba (Feb. 19)
  • Érase una vez en Cuba (Once upon a Time in Cuba). La Acacia Gallery, Havana, Cuba. (Feb. 14)
  • The Spaces Between: Contemporary Art from Havana, Bildmuseet, Umea University, Umea, Sweden (Feb. 8 – Apr. 19)
2014
  • Manipulación mediática en el arte cubano contemporáneo (Media Manipulation in Contemporary Cuban Art). Development Center for the Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba
  • Memorias de la obsolescencia (Memories of the Obsolescence). Museum of Image and Sound (MIS), Sao Paulo, Brazil (Dec. 13 – Feb. 13)
  • Cuban Contemporary Perspectives #1. Bianconi Gallery, Milan, Italy (Nov. 18, 2014 – Jan. 18, 2015)
  • Eppur si muove. Torrione Passari Molfetta, Bari, Italy (Oct. 25 – Dec. 29)
  • La utilidad de la historia (The Usefulness of History). Factoría Habana, Cuba (Sep.26 – Nov. 20)
  • Las otras narraciones: una década de animación independiente (The Other Narratives: a Decade of Independent Animation). Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center (during the Sixth Salon of Contemporary Cuban Art) Havana, Cuba (Sep. 13 – Oct.18)
  • Como (...) cosas que no existen (As ... Things That Do Not Exist). Thirty-­‐first Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil (Sep. 6 – Dec. 7)
  • De lo sublime a lo ridículo (From Sublime to Ridiculous). Photographic Hall of the Fábrica de Arte Cubano. Havana, Cuba (Jul. 31 – Oct. 15).
  • Intermission: Video Cubano @ MOCA Cleveland. A Project of The 8th Floor of NY. MOCA. Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. (June 9 – 27)
  • A este lado del paraíso (This Side of Paradise). José Martí National Library of Cuba, Havana, Cuba (June 6)
  • Art Brussels 2014. Brussels, Belgium (Apr. 18 – 21)
  • Rolling They Meet, Contemporary Cuban Art in the Collection of CNAP. Urban Planning Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China (Mar. 27 – Apr. 20)
  • Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre, Miradas múltiples en el arte cubano contemporáneo (Virgin of Charity of Cobre, Multiple Glances in Contemporary Cuban Art). Libertad Gallery, Regional Museum, Mexico (Mar. 20 – Apr. 7)
  • Global Practices. Art of Latin America in the Ella Fontanals-­‐ Cisneros Collection. Museum of Fine Arts of Boston, U.S.A. (Mar. 19 – Jul. 13)
  • Lo que sucede conviene (Whatever Happens Is Convenient). Servando Cabrera Gallery. Havana, Cuba (Jan.18 – Feb. 12)
2013
  • Global Practices. Art of Latin America in the Ella Fontanals-­‐ Cisneros Collection. Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation. Miami, U.S.A. (Dec. 4, 2013 – Feb. 23, 2014)
  • Citizens of the World: Cuba in Queens. Queens Museum. Queens, N.Y., U.S.A. (Nov. 9 – Mar. 9, 2014)
  • Viajando con Calvino, ligereza, rapidez, exactitud, visibilidad, multiplicidad y constancia. (Traveling with Calvino, Lightness, Swiftness, Accuracy, Visibility, Multiplicity and Perseverance). Spanish-­‐American Cultural Center, Havana, Cuba (Nov. 4 – 29)
  • Video Cubano. A Project of The 8th Floor of NY. TCNJ Art Gallery in the Art and Interactive Multimedia (AIMM) Building, N.J., U.S.A. (Oct. 23 – Dec. 15)
  • Diversionismo Ideológico (Ideological Diversion). Nuble Gallery. Santander, Spain (Jul. 18 –Sept. 7)
  • Habitar, Construir, Pensar: Perspectivas poéticas y discursivas del videoarte contemporáneo cubano (1990-­‐2010) (To Inhabit, Construct, Think: Poetic and Discursive Perspectives of Contemporary Cuban Video Art (1990-­‐2010). Museum of Contemporary Art of Tampa. Graphic Studio, University of South Florida (USF), U.S.A. (June 7– Aug. 3)
  • De metáforas y metamorfosis (Of Metaphors and Metamorphosis). Victor Hugo House, Havana, Cuba (June – July)
  • Turn on. National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba (June)
  • La perversión de lo clásico: anarquía de los relatos (The Perversion of Classics: Anarchy of the Stories). National Museum of Archaeology, Palazzo Reale. Fifty-­‐fifth International Exposition, Venice Biennial, Italy (June 1 – Nov. 24)
2012
  • El deporte derecho del arte II (Sports. A Right of Art II). Espacio Abierto Gallery, magazine Revolución y Cultura, Havana, Cuba (Dec. 3, 2012 – Jan. 30, 2013)
  • El deporte derecho del arte I (Sports. A Right of Art I). Espacio Abierto Gallery, magazine Revolución y Cultura, Havana, Cuba (Sept.24 – Oct.)
  • Sucedáneos de fe (Substitutes of Faith). Convent of Saint Francis of Assisi, Havana, Cuba (Sept. 7 – Nov. 2)
  • Daiquiri sin azúcar (Daiquiri with No Sugar). Habana Gallery. Havana, Cuba (Jul. 4 – 31)
  • Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre. La Caridad nos une (Virgin of Charity of Cobre. Charity Unites Us). Metropolitan Cathedral, Mexico (June)
  • Las metáforas del cambio (The Metaphors of Change). Collateral to the Eleventh Havana Biennial, Factoría Habana, Havana, Cuba (May – June)
  • Travesías (Journeys). Bertolt Brecht Cultural Center. Colateral to the Eleventh Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba (May –June)
  • Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre. Miradas múltiples de la plástica contemporánea de Cuba (Virgin of Charity of Cobre. Multiple Glances of Contemporary Visual Arts from Cuba). Central Gallery of the National Center for the Arts, Mexico City, Mexico (May 17 – June 14)
  • Grabado en la memoria (Recorded on the Memory). University of the Arts (ISA), Havana, Cuba (Apr.)
  • El camino más largo comienza con una simple línea (The Longest Road Begins with a Simple Line). Continua Gallery, Saint Gimignano, Italy (Feb. 11 – Mar. 31)
  • Under the Influence: the Comics. Lehman College Art Gallery, N.Y., U.S.A. (Feb 7 – May 12)
  • Entre trópicos: 46°05’: Cuba/Brasil (Between the Tropics: 46°05’: Cuba/Brazil. CAIXA Cultural Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Jan. 23 – Mar. 25)
2011
  • Del símbolo a la metáfora. La Caridad nos une. (From the Symbol to the Metaphor. Charity Unites Us). Félix Varela Cultural Center, Saint Charles and Saint Ambrose Seminar, Havana, Cuba (Dec. 23) Imagecity: Selections from Cuban Video, a Project of The 8th Floor,
  • N.Y., YBCA San Francisco, California, U.S.A. (Sept. 29, 2011 –Jan. 22, 2012)
  • Crisisss... América Latina: Arte y Confrontación (Crisis... Latin America: Art and Confrontation). Museum of the Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City, Mexico / Arocena Museum, Torreón, Mexico (Mar. 12 – June 5)
  • Spray, kubanische Videokunst. Hochhaus Hansa, Germany (Mar. 19 – Apr.10)
  • La Ubre del Humor. Humor gráfico cubano contemporáneo (The Udder of Humor. Contemporary Cuban Graphic Humor). CDAV, Havana, Cuba (Mar. 18 – Apr. 18)
  • Ya sé leer. Imagen y texto en el arte latinoamericano (I Can Read Already. Image and Text in Latin American Art). Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center / Gallery of Rubén Martínez Villena Gallery, Havana, Cuba (Apr. – May)
2010
  • CUBA Avant-­‐Garde. Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art. Beijing, China
  • Video cubano (Cuban Videos). The 8th Floor, N.Y., U.S.A. (Oct. 12)
  • ARCO Madrid 2010. Madrid, Spain
  • Héroes y villanos (Heroes and Villains) (Open Studio v.4). Carlos Garaicoa Studio, Madrid, Spain.
  • adn. Group exhibition of videos. “Domingo Ravenet 2010” Prize of Curatorship granted by the UNEAC. Villa Manuela Gallery, Havana, Cuba (Feb.-­‐Mar.)
2009
  • Antecomienzo. Factoría Habana, Havana, Cuba (Dec. 2009 – Jan. 2010) Video abierto 2 (Open Video 2). Murcia, Spain (Oct. 2009 – Jan. 2010)
  • Seventh Mercosul Biennial. Porto Alegre, Brazil (Oct. – Nov.)
  • 50 años de una revolución solidaria. Video experimental y video arte: artistas de Cuba (Fifty Years of a Revolution in Solidarity. Experimental Videos and Video Art: Artists from Cuba). Museum of Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia (May 19 – Jul. 19)
  • Cuba: arte e historia desde 1968 hasta el presente (Cuba: Art and History since 1968 to the Present). Museum of Groningen, Holland (May 18 – Sept. 20)
  • Para usted (For You). Daros Exhibitions, Zurich, Switzerland (Apr.25 – Sept. 6)
  • I Shoot the Sheriff (Open Studio v3). Carlos Garaicoa Studio, Madrid, Spain (Feb. 13)
2008
  • Pulse Contemporary Art Fair. Wynwood Art District, Miami, U.S.A. (Dec. 3 – 7)
  • Visionarios (Visionaries). Latin American Audiovisuals. Traveling exhibition organized by the Itau Bank of Brazil.
  • 5to Salón de Arte Cubano Contemporáneo (Fifth Salon of Contemporary Cuban Art). CDAV, Havana, Cuba (Nov. 14)
  • Visiones desde una isla (Visions from an Island). Arte Actual Space, FLACSO. Quito, Ecuador (Oct.)
  • Estrategias de resistencia (Strategies of Resistance). Espai 2N0U2, Barcelona, Spain (Oct. 23 – Dec. 5)
  • No es neutral (Not Neutral). Daros Latinamerica Collection. Tabakalera, Donostia, San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain (June 19– Oct. 5)
  • Todos los caminos conducen a Cuba (All Roads Lead to Cuba). Riberaygua Gallery, Andorra (June)
  • Puro arte (Pure Art). House of America, Madrid, Spain (June)
  • Viva la muerte (Long Live Death). Atlantic Center of Modern Art (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain (Apr. 18– June 29)
  • Cuba: arte e historia desde 1868 hasta nuestros días (Cuba: Art and History from 1868 Until Our Days). Museum of Fine Arts of Montreal, Canada (Jan. 31 – June 8)
  • States of exchange. Artists from Cuba. INIVA, London, U.K. (Jan. 23– Mar. 22)
  • Champola de maracuyá, sin azúcar ni ná: el reguetón. Private home, neighborhood of Cayo Hueso, Habana Vieja, Cuba (Jan. 11, from 4:00 pm to 11:00 pm)
2007
  • Vostok. CPAD. Havana, Cuba
  • Homing Devices. USF Contemporary Art Museum. Tampa, U.S.A. (Oct. 25 – Dec. 15)
  • Domesticaciones. Espacio Aglutinador, Havana, Cuba
  • A través del espejo. Arte cubano hoy (Through the Mirror. Cuban Art Today). Allegro Gallery, Panama City, Panama (Sept. 27 – Oct. 31) Intervenciones plásticas en La Marina (Visual Art Interventions at La Marina). Castle of Denia, Alicante, Spain (Jul. 5)
  • Regarding Fear and Hope. Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Clayton, VIC, Melbourne, Australia (Jul 4. – Aug. 25)
  • The Hours: Visual Art of Contemporary Latin America. Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sidney, Australia (June 21 – Sept. 2) Espacios multiplicados (Multiplied Spaces). CDAV, Havana, Cuba (June 15)
  • Cuban Avant-­‐Garde. Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection. Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art. Gainesville, Florida, U.S.A. (May 29 –Sept. 9)
  • Killing Time: An Exhibition of Cuban Artists from the 1980s to the Present. Exit Art, N.Y. U.S.A. (May 12 – July 28)
  • Third Triennial of Auckland. Turbulence. Auckland, New Zealand (Mar.)
  • Cosmos. Habana Gallery, Havana, Cuba (Feb.-­‐Mar.)
2006
  • Lista de espera: tiempo y transición en el arte cubano contemporáneo (Waiting List: Time and Transition in Contemporary Cuban Art). City Art Museum Ljubljana, Mestna Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia (Dec. 18 – Jan. 27, 2007)
  • La vida en pelota. Servando Gallery, Havana, Cuba (Nov. – Dec.)
  • Estrecho dudoso. TEOR/éTica, San José, Costa Rica (Nov.)
  • Habana Factory. A Chocolatería, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (Oct.)
  • Batiscafo Project. Pasaje Acebo, Cerro, Havana, Cuba (Sept.)
  • Plus ça change (La Nuit Blanche, Toronto). Institute of Contemporary Cultures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada (Sept.)
  • Pacemaker. Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Canada (Sept.)
  • El tercer entorno (The Third Environment). La Casona Gallery, Havana, Cuba (Sept.)
  • OFF-­‐LOOP Festival. CCCE. Barcelona, Spain (May)
  • Certain Encounters: Daros-­‐Latinamerica Collection. Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (Apr.)
  • Marcapaso (Pacemaker). Ninth Havana Biennial. Meliá Habana Hotel, Cuba (Mar.)
  • Museo tomado (Seized Museum). Ninth Havana Biennial, Cuban Art Building, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba (Mar.)
  • La huella múltiple (The Multiple Trace), fifth edition. Ninth Havana Biennial, Convent of Saint Francis of Assisi, Havana, Cuba (Mar.)
  • Arte de Cuba (Art from Cuba). Banco do Brasil Cultural Center (CCBC). Rio de Janeiro / Brasilia, Brazil
2005
  • Contactos y mediaciones. Poéticas de lo digital en el arte cubano (Contacts and Mediations. Digital Art Forms in Cuban Art). Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada (Nov.)
  • The Hours. IMMA, Dublin, Ireland
  • The Daros-­‐Latin America Tapes. Huis Marselle, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, Holland
  • Cuban Prints. Contemporary Visual Narratives. Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, N.Y., U.S.A.
  • Heterónimos (Heteronyms). Conde Duque Cultural Center, Madrid, Spain
2004
  • Nueva ruta del arte cubano (New Route for Cuban Art). National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • Just on Time. Habana Gallery, Havana, Cuba
  • New Installations, Artists in Residency: Cuba. Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
2003
  • SINembargo (Nevertheless). Espace de Création Contemporaine, Grenoble, France
  • Labores domésticas (Domestic Chores). Provincial Center for Visual Arts, Pinar del Rio / CDAV, Havana, Cuba
2002
  • Atravesados. Telefónica Foundation, Madrid, Spain
  • Overtures über Wasser. Gelsenkirchen, Germany (Sept.)
  • Global Imprint: Prints from New Jersey to South Africa and Points Between. Mason Gross School of Arts Galleries, New Jersey, U.S.A.
2001
  • Hello Cuba. Breaking Barriers. Contemporary Cuban Art. The Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science, Florida, U.S.A. (Sept. – Jan. 2002)
  • Toronto 2001 International Fair. Toronto, Canada
2000
  • Salón de Invierno (Winter Salon). Development Center for Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba
  • Havana Nagila. Cuba-­‐Israel: Dialogue. Chelouche Gallery, Noga Gallery, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv Artists’ Studios, Tel Aviv, Israel (Sept.)
  • From the Negative. An Exhibition of Contemporary Cuban Photography. Photographic Arts (PARTs), Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.
  • Ni a la derecha, ni a la izquierda (Neither to the Right nor to the Left). Santa Clara, Cuba
  • La conjunción de la nada. Arte cubano en el nuevo milenio (The Conjunction of Nothingness. Cuban Art in the New Millennium). Development Center for Visual Arts, Havana (Jan.)
1999
  • La huella múltiple 1999 (The Multiple Trace 1999). Development Center for Visual Arts / Centro for Conservation, Restoration and Museology (CENCREM), Havana, Cuba
  • Queloides (Keloids). Development Center for Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba (Sept.)
  • ¡Te vi primero! (I Saw You First!). Rubén Martínez Villena Hall, UNEAC, Havana, Cuba (July)
  • Baila mi son. Quince sones para quince artistas (Dance My son. Fifteen sones for Fifteen Artists). La Acacia Gallery, Havana, Cuba Mind the Gap. APT Studios, Deptford, London (May)
  • Trabajando pa´l inglé. Concourse Gallery, Barbican Center, London (May)
1998
  • La dirección de la mirada (The Direction of the Glance). Stadthaus, Zurich / Museum of Fine Arts, La Chaux de Fonds. Prohelvetia Foundation, Switzerland
  • La imagen y el laberinto. Arte cubano actual (The Image and the Labyrinth. Cuban Art Today). House of the Arts, Vigo / University Church, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  • Memorealism. Museum City Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan
  • The Stella Fine Art and Photography Show. Gramercy Park Armony, N.Y., U.S.A.
  • The Art International / NY Fair. Jacob Javits Center, N.Y., U.S.A. De una isla a otra isla (From One Island to Another). Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba
  • I Festival de Performance Ana Mendieta (First Ana Mendieta Festival of Performace). Performance Salud, dinero y amor (performance Health, Money and Love), UNEAC, Havana, Cuba
1997
  • El ocultamiento de las almas (Hiding the Souls). Development Center for Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba
  • Recintos interiors (Interior Spaces). Sixth Havana Biennial. Fortress of San Carlos de la Cabaña, Havana, Cuba (Nov.) Realidades virtuales (Virtual Realities). Sixth Havana Biennial. Cuba Pavilion, Havana, Cuba
  • Miradas sobre el Che (Glances at Che). Ganbara de Donostia Hall, Basque Land / Hika Ateneo, Bilbao, Spain. (Oct. – Nov.)
  • 1990´s Art from Cuba: A National Exhibition and Residency Program. Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo / Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. (Feb. –Mar.)
1996
  • Mundo soñado. Joven plástica cubana (Dreamed World. Young Cuban Visual Arts). House of America, Madrid, Spain
  • Altered States. Rituals of Interchanges. Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Center for the Arts, Alberta, Canada (July – Aug.)
  • La carne. Tatuajes. (The Flesh. Tattoos). Espacio Aglutinador, Havana, Cuba (July)
  • De Huid van De Witte Dame. Artic Fundation, Eindhoven, Holland
  • Del sitio en que nacimos (From the Place We Were Born). Pavilion of the Arts, Tecalli de Herrera, Puebla, Mexico
  • Los héroes de la plástica cubana (The Heroes of Cuban Visual Arts). San Antonio Abad Hall, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
  • Río Almendares. Ni fresa, ni chocolate (Almendares River. Neither Strawberry nor Chocolate). Metropolitan Park Project. Center for Conservation, Restoration and Museology (CENCREM). Havana, Cuba (Apr.)
  • Las otras escri(p)turas. Provincial Center for Visual Arts and Design, Havana, Cuba (Feb.)
1995
  • Una de cada clase (One of Each Kind). Ludwig Foundation of Cuba, Center for Conservation, Restoration and Museology (CENCREM), Havana, Cuba (Mar.)
  • Vestigios. Ego: un retrato posible (Vestiges: Ego: A Possible Portrait). Development Center for Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba (May) Iluminación (Lighting). Development Center for Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba
1994
  • Utopía (Utopia). Espada Gallery, House of the Young Creator, Havana, Cuba
  • Arte cubano de hoy / Art Cubain Actuel (Cuban Art Today). UQAM Gallery, University of Quebec in Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1993
  • Cómprame y cuélgame (Buy Me and Hang Me). Development Center for Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba
  • Dibujo no te olvido (Drawing, I Don’t Forget You). Development Center for Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba (Dec. – Jan.)
  • Mitos del arte cubano (Myths of Cuban Art). Development Center for Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba
1992
  • Von Dort aus: Kuba. Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, Germany
  • La década prodigiosa. Plástica cubana de los 80 (The Prodigious Decade. Cuban Visual Arts from the 1980’s). University Museum of El Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico
  • The Unknown Face of Cuban Art. Northern Center for Contemporary Art. Sunderland, U.K.
1991
  • Nuevas adquisiciones contemporáneas: Muestras de arte cubano (New Contemporary Acquisitions: Samples of Cuban Art). National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba (Mar.)
  • Ciertas historias de humor (Certain Humorous Stories). Development Center for Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba (June – July)
  • Ostkunst-­‐Westkunst. Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, Germany
  • Humor en la plástica actual (Humor in Visual Arts Today) (Collateral to the Seventh Biennial of Humor). Museum of Humor, San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba
  • Los hijos de Guillermo Tell (The Sons of William Tell). Alejandro Otero Museum of Visual Arts, Caracas, Venezuela / Luis Ángel Arango Library, Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia
1990
  • The Nearest Edge of the World: Art and Cuba Now. Massachusetts College of Art. Boston, Massachusetts (Nov. 1991). Bronx Museum of Art, N.Y., U.S.A.
  • Salón de Artes Plásticas UNEAC 90 (Visual Arts Salon UNEAC 90). National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
  • 1er Salón Nacional de Humorismo y Sátira (First National Salon of Humor and Satire). Museum of Humor, San Antonio de los Baños, Havana, Cuba
  • El objeto esculturado (The Sculpted Object). Development Center for Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba
  • Cuba OK, Arte actual de Cuba (Cuba OK, Cuban Art Today). Städtische Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
  • Sin chistar (Without a Word). Guerrero Gallery, Havana, Cuba
1989
  • ¿Arte-­‐sexo? Lo erótico en el arte (Art-­‐Sex? The Erotic in Art) (Collateral to the Third Havana Biennial). Luis de Soto Gallery, Faculty of Arts and Literature of the University of Havana, Havana, Cuba
  • Kitsch (Third Havana Biennial). Galiano y Concordia Art Center. Havana, Cuba
  • III Bienal de La Habana (La tradición del humor) (Third Havana Biennial. The Tradition of Humor). National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
  • Arte y humor (Art and Humor). Matanzas Gallery, Matanzas, Cuba
  • El paisaje (The Landscape) (collateral to the Third Havana Biennial). State Committee for Finances, Havana, Cuba
1988
  • IV Salón de Pequeño Formato (Fourth Small Format Salon). L Gallery, Havana, Cuba
  • Raíces en acción. Nuevos artistas cubanos (Roots in Action. New Cuban Artists). Carrillo Gil Art Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
  • II Encuentro de Jóvenes Artistas Plásticos. II Salón de la Plástica Joven de Cuba (Second Meeting of Young Visual Artists. Second Salon of Young Visual Art from Cuba). Provincial Museum of Villa Clara, Santa Clara, Cuba
  • Encuentro Internacional de Plástica Joven Socialista (International Meeting of Young Socialist Visual Art). Leningrad, USSR
  • VI Encuentro de paisaje (Sixth Meeting on Landscape Art), House of Culture, Baracoa, Guantánamo, Cuba
  • Arte cubano contemporáneo (Contemporary Cuban Art). Tetriakov Gallery, Moscow, USSR
  • Suave y fresco (Soft and Fresh). National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
  • Collateral to the Meeting on Pedagogy at ISA. ISA, Havana, Cuba
  • No por mucho madrugar amanece más temprano. Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba
  • Es solo lo que ves (It’s Only What You See) (exhibition of abstract art). Havana, Cuba
  • No es solo lo que ves (It’s Not Only What You See) (Provisional group) Luis de Soto Gallery, Faculty of Arts and Literature of the University of Havana, Cuba
1987
  • Salón Playa 1987 (Playa Salon 1987). Servando Cabrera Moreno Gallery, Havana, Cuba (Dec.)
  • Salón de Grabado 1987 (Salon of Engraving 1987). National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
  • I Festival de la Creación y la Investigación (First Festival of Creation and Research). Higher Institute of Art (ISA), Havana, Cuba (Nov.)
  • Primer Encuentro de Jóvenes Artistas Plásticos. 1er Salón de la Plástica Joven de Cuba (First Meeting of Young Visual Artists. First Salon of Young Visual Artists of Cuba). Provincial Museum of Villa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba (Oct.)
  • Veinte y tantos abriles (Twenty and More Years). Habana Gallery, Havana, Cuba
  • Aire fresco (Fresh Air). Plaza Vieja Gallery, Cuban Fund of Cultural Goods, Havana, Cuba
  • Inaugural Exhibition of the House of Culture of Punta Gorda. Moa, Cuba
  • 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11 y 12. House of the Young Creator, Havana, Cuba
  • La obra: estrictamente personal. (The Work: Strictly Personal). Fototeca de Cuba, Havana (May)
1986
  • Relevo ISA (ISA Relay) Collateral to the Second Havana Biennial. El Pasillo Gallery, Higher Institute of Art (ISA), Havana, Cuba (Nov.-Dec.)
  • Homenaje I (Tribute I). Higher Institute of Art (ISA), Havana, Cuba
  • Homenaje II (Tribute II). Shop window of La Moderna Poesía bookstore, Havana, Cuba
  • 10 años del ISA (Ten Years of ISA). National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba (May – June)
  • Salón 13 de Marzo. L Gallery, Havana, Cuba Collateral to Pedagogía ´86. ISA, Havana, Cuba
  • Puré expone (Puré Exhibits). L Gallery, Havana, Cuba (Jan.)
1985
  • Salón 13 de Marzo. L Gallery, Havana, Cuba
1983
  • Second National Salon of Visual Arts. Medium level schools. National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
Education
1983-1988
  • Higher Institute of Art (ISA), Havana
1979-1983
  • San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts, Havana
1976-1979
  • Elementary School of Fine Arts “20 de Octubre”, Havana
Teaching
1992-2006
  • Professor at the Painting Department of ISA
1989-1991
  • Professor of Painting at the Faculty of Art Education of Enrique José Varona Higher Pedagogic Institute (ISPEJV)
Residencies and Fellowships
2010
  • Brownstone Foundation, Paris, France
2006
  • Batiscafo Project, Havana, Cuba
2004
  • Mattress Factory. Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, PA. U.S.A.
2002
  • Resident artist at the Iaab of Christoph Merian Foundation, Basel, Switzerland
1999
  • Resident artist at the Barbican Center, London, United Kingdom
1998
  • Resident artist at Museum City Fukuoka´98, Fukuoka, Japan
  • Resident artist at ECAV, Valais, Pro-­‐Helvetia Foundation, Switzerland
1997
  • 1990´s Art from Cuba: A National Residency and Exhibition Program. Diverse Works Arts Space, Houston, N.Y., U.S.A.
1996
  • Resident artist at the Banff Center for the Arts, Alberta, Canada
  • Resident artist at the Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, Germany
Workshops
2014
  • El arte de los nuevos medios en Cuba. Entre la voluntad tecnológica y la intención artístico-conceptual (New Media Art in Cuba. Between the Technological Will and the Artistic-­?Conceptual Intention). House of the International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema, Havana, Cuba
2013
  • Imposibilidad posible (Possible Impossibility). Creative workshop. Casa Daros, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012-2013
  • Contemporary Art Workshop. San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
2011
  • El doble (The Double). Workshop of Audiovisual Creation with New Media. FLACSO University, Quito/ ITAE, Guayaquil, Ecuador
2009
  • Imposibilidad posible (Possible Impossibility). Creative workshop. Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
2007
  • Objeto creativo no Identificado (Unidentified Creative Object). Creative workshop. Conduct Chair, Havana
Grants and Distinctions
2014
  • National Award of Visual Arts 2014
  • Prize of Curatorship 2014.
  • Mention to his solo show: Expo sin concepto, 2013, granted by the National Council for Visual Arts
2012
  • Maretti Prize, granted by the Valerio Riva Foundation, Naples, Italy
2007
  • Diploma of Honor, awarded by the Higher Institute of Art (ISA) for his teaching practice of indelible aesthetic and artistic impact
2000
  • Diploma to Pedagogic Merit awarded by the Ministry of Culture
1999
  • Distinction for National Culture
1993
  • Prize “Abril”
1987
  • Mention granted by the Cuban Fund of Cultural Goods, at the 1987 Salon of Engraving (Grabado'87)
  • Grand Prix of the First Festival of Creation and Research, ISA
  • Prize granted by the Visual Arts Section of the Ministry of Culture at the Festival of Creation and Research, ISA
1986
  • First place in the seminar about José Marti with the exhibition Homenaje (Tribute)
Other Activities
  • Oct 1988 – May 1989 “Pilón” project
  • Illustrations and collaborations for the magazines Albur and Credo of ISA 
  • 1989 Visual Arts Dedicates Itself to Baseball (project)
  • Member of the Group Enema
Collections (selection)
  • Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). Toronto, Canada
  • Bacardí Collection. U.S.A.
  • Brownstone Foundation. Paris, France
  • Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Havana, Cuba
  • CIFO Art Foundation, U.S.A.
  • Daros Latinamerica. Zurich, Switzerland
  • Donald Rubin Private Collection. U.S.A.
  • Farber Foundation. U.S.A.
  • Cuban Fund of Cultural Goods. Havana, Cuba
  • Ludwig Forum for International Art. Aachen, Germany
  • Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Montreal, Canada
  • National Council for Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba
  • National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba