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Habana, 1964. He graduated in 1988 from the Higher Institute of Art (ISA)  of  Havana,  specializing  in  painting.  He  has  been  a  teacher  of  plastic  arts  on  the  faculty  of  the  School  of  Artistic Education  of  the Higher  Pedagogic  Institute  “Enrique  José  Varona”  (ISPEJV),  at  San  Alejandro School of Fine Arts, and at the School of Visual Arts of the Higher  Institute  of  Art  (ISA).  He  has  had  numerous  solo  and  group  exhibitions  in  Cuba  and  abroad,  in  which  he  has  combined  his conceptual  work  with  different  forms  of  expression:  installations,  the  body,  new  media  and  others.  He  has  earned  various  residencies  and  scholarships  in  Germany,  Canada, Cuba,  the  USA,  Japan,  the  United  Kingdom  and  Switzerland.  

He  has  contributed  illustrations  and  design  to  alternative  publications  such  as  Albur,  Credo,  Memoria  de  la Postguerra and Enema. He was a member of the group Puré, of the Pilón project, as well as the group Enema. He is the creator of the I-MEIL Gallery (2007), a work that uses email as a means of artistic creation. His works are part of several public and private collections: AGO  in  Ontario,  Canada,  CIFO  Art  Foundation  in  the  USA,  Daros-Latinamerica  in  Switzerland, the Brownstone Foundation in Paris, the Ludwig Foundation in Germany, the Farber Foundation in the USA, the Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal, Canada, the National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba, the Shelley and Donald Rubin Private Collection in the USA, and others. In recognition of his outstanding educational activity, the Higher Institute of Art  granted  him  the  Diploma  of  Pedagogic  Merit  in  2000  and  the  Diploma  of  Honor  in  2007.  He  won  the  Maretti  prize  in  2013.  He  was awarded the  Distinction  For  National Culture in 1999 and the National Prize in Visual Arts in 2014.

 

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