EXHIBITION

FEMALE CONTEMPORARY ART FROM CUBA

We present an exclusive art exhibition of 40 female contemporary artists. The mediums represented will include paintings, engravings, photography, and multi-media. Join us and experience the talent, beauty, and resourcefulness of a culture in an increasingly global community and at a time of transition.

From silence to the shout, a phrase coined by Professor Adelaida de Juan, is still one of the most accurate to metaphorically describe the journey experienced by female Cuban artists since the second half of the 20th century. Upon reviewing various advancements of the National School of Art (ENA) and the Institute of Art (ISA) from their beginnings until the early 1990s, the changes clearly reveal how fruitful the careers developed by women artists have been within the standards of respected institutions. Several of these artists have enjoyed critical acclaim at important international Biennials, fairs, museums and galleries. This validates the level of acceptance of the feminine voices of the island beyond its borders. The scope of their bodies of work, completely distant from that of conventional art, explodes into boundaries of that of the esoteric, especially when dealing with stereotypical notions of feminine imagery. Diverse analytical circumstances have served as pretexts in this evolutionary process: historical-cultural patrimony, religious precepts mythical traditions, social and ideological contexts, ethical and moral alternatives, and the sense of correlation between public and domestic experiences. On multiple occasions the creators also appeal to self-referential resources that have resulted in numerous autobiographical works with strong spiritual and intimate aspects.

The Institute of Design (ISDi), located in La Havana, also has had a profound effect in amplification of the female in contemporary, visual, contextual art. Based on these ideas we are developing a curatorial project that will be exhibited in the Cara y Cabezas Contemporary Gallery. The project follow the vision of its director, Paulo Acosta Cabezas. The showcase, which we began to prepare in late 2012, will be dedicated to artist and friend, Belkis Ayón. We do not pretend to be far-reaching, conclusive, or definitive of this unique movement. We merely wish to display art that will scarcely ever be seen again by North Americans due to a broken relationship between two countries that has persisted for 53 years. We intend to dedicate a second stage of this initiative to female Cuban artists living abroad. For practical reasons, we only intend to present a representative inventory of the artistic activity of women creators who currently live and work in Cuba. We will include female authors who emerged and were validated by their peers and scholars alike during the period 1990-2013. We will try to ascertain the majority of the premises entailed by this phenomenon, and promote new conjectures and hypotheses surrounding a production that is ever more plural and complex.

The impassioned alternatives that confronted so many years of prejudice and a lack of visibility in society, and culture fathered the existence toward the catalyst of the late 20th century fertile space inducing the pragmatism of gender roles to be debated on an international scale. Society saw the movement of women creators become more ambitious and strongly rooted. As a result of that very intensity and overexcitement, some critics and curators stimulated a trend of thought and discourse on somewhat excessive feminist ideas that still authenticates their prejudices in some areas of representation in modern society. Notwithstanding, many women creators managed to overcome this problem and put all their efforts into visual interpretations and allegories that transcend the sexual condition and have remained alert against experts who may attempt to label them simply as abrasive gender artists. Attaining an adequate position in their respective social and cultural contexts under equal conditions concerning humankind in a cosmological sense became the first step in neutralizing the men/women, masculine/feminine, stronger sex/weaker sex, conflicts…

The drive, the amplification of the creative process led by women, began to take place within the social and cultural transformations of the 1960s. Juana Borrero, Amelia Peláez, Loló Soldevilla, Concha Ferrant, and Rita Longa are emblematic figures within a group of foundational approaches, both from technical and thematic standpoints. The movement continued to grow with the incorporation of many female artists graduating from Cuba’s national system of artistic teaching, and the understanding and appreciation of the work of creators from previous periods. Lesbia Vent Dumois, Nélida López, Isavel Gimeno, Zaida del Río, Flora Fong, Jacqueline Maggi, Ana Mendieta, Consuelo Castañeda, Liliam Cuenca, Magdalena Campos, Marta María Pérez, Ana Albertina Delgado, Alicia Leal, Hilda Vidal, Belkis Ayón, Sandra Ramos, Sandra Ceballos, Tania Brugueras, Dania Fleites, Magalys Reyes, Yasbel Pérez, Aziyadé Ruíz, Yamilys Brito, Jacqueline Brito, Cirenaica Moreira, Glenda León, Elsa Mora, Rocío García, and Aimée García are just some representative figures of that transition who succeeded in achieving a place of recognition in collective memory without setbacks and from different methodological and aesthetic positions.

Upon reviewing various advancements of the National School of Art (ENA) and the Institute of Art (ISA) from their beginnings until the early 1990s, the changes clearly reveal how fruitful the careers developed by women artists have been within the parameters of respected institutions. Several of these artists have enjoyed critical acclaim at important international Biennials, fairs, museums and galleries. This validates the level of acceptance of the feminine voices of the island beyond our boarders. The scope of their bodies of work, completely distant from that of conventional art, explodes into boundaries of that of the esoteric, especially when dealing with stereotypical notions of feminine imagery.

In our context of the organic materialization of this desire to flourish, we find an irrefutable example in the artistic activity, and intellectual position of integrationist poet Antonia Eiriz. The 21st century is four years past, but many young female artists are still enjoying success in the art world. Many are creating a significant name for themselves in the graduation to our galleries, salons, and creative grants promoted by Cuban and foreign institutions. This corroborates the opinion that visual arts productions by women is in full growth and consolidation. Never before in Cuban and Latin American art, have we had such wide and keen-sighted feminine representation as in our present time. It is worthwhile to mention Grethel Rasúa, Susana Delahante, Marianela Orozco, Danay Vigoa, Camila García, Nadia García, Lisette Solorzano, Paola Martínez, Evelyng Aguilar, Mari Claudia García, Elizabet Cerviño, Adislén Reyes, Adriana Arronte, Yaniesky Bernal, or Khadis de la Rosa, who are defining the direction of Cuban feminine artists with unquestionable interest in new aesthetic concepts and generational concerns. These feminine creators do not experience a total split with their recent past, rather they persist in the dynamics of group work and the ubiquitous public exchange that stimulated Cuban art during the 1980s. They continue to be inspired by the means availed by action art and performances. We are now witnessing a development of a leading role for women in graphic design, particularly in poster design, a field traditionally represented by men. The almost mythical influence of Ana Mendieta exerts a vital influence on the trend of action art and performances. The works of Laura Llópiz, Idania del Río, Giselle Monzón, Michelle Miyares Hollands, and Lili Díaz shine in this regard.

Feminine Voices and Poetics is an exclusive and largest art exhibition of 40 female contemporary artist all of whom live and work in Cuba. The exhibit are works of art that represent the current trends, concepts and methods of Contemporary Cuban Art. Femenine Voices and Poetics comprises over 80 works and the mediums represented will include painting, engraving, photography, and multi-media from the period between 1990 and 2013.This marks the first time that all of the 40 female artist have been devoted to a single theme. This Famine Voices and Poetics presents an exclusive and unique glance into the talent, beauty, and resourcefulness of a culture in all of its multiplicities, in an increasingly global community, and at a time of transition.

CARA AND CABEZAS

Contemporary Gallery

San Francisco, CA. USA

Project director

PAULO ACOSTA CABEZAS

General curator

DAVID MATEO

Assistant curator

YOANNA TOLEDO

Texts

DAVID MATEO

YOANNA TOLEDO

Catalogue design

MIGUEL GUERRERO

ARTISTS

Rocío García

Las Villas, Cuba, 1955

Graduate of San Alejandro Academy, Havana, Cuba, in 1997, and of the Repin Fine Arts Academy, St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1983, with the rank of Master in Fine Arts. She is presently a professor of painting at San Alejandro Academy. She has more than thirty solo shows in Cuba and abroad, as well as more than fifty group exhibitions. Among the solo shows stand our: Los museos, at the Repin Gallery (St. Petersburg, 1988); El eros del lobo, Espacio Abierto Gallery (Havana, 1993); Mis pedacitos en venta, Racklan Building East Gallery, University of Michigan (Michigan, U.S.A., 1997); El domador y otros cuentos, J.M. ARTS Gallery (París, 2005); Cosas ocultas, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College (New York, 2011) and El regreso de Jack el castigador, Havana Galerie (Zurich, 2013). In 1994 she Bienniobtained a Mention of Honor at the Second Painting Biennial of the Caribbean and Central America, organized by the Museum of Modern Art of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. In 1997 she was appointed Distinguished Artist in Residency by the University of Michigan, as well as by the Vermont Studio Center in 2010. Her pieces are part of numerous collections, among them the Brownstone Foundation of France; the Cheng Xin Dong Space for Contemporary Art of Peking, China; the collection of the Center for Cuban Studies, New York, U.S.A., and the Museum of the Repin Art Academy, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Belkis Ayón

Havana 1967-1999

She studied at San Alejandro Academy and at the Higher Institute of Art (ISA). Her work comprised different techniques such as lithography, calcography and collography. Her works have participated in numerous exhibitions in Cuba and other countries like Japan, the United States of America, Switzerland, Germany, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Argentina, Australia, Malaysia, the United Kingdom, South Africa.

Among her most recent solo shows are: Siempre Vuelvo. Colografías de Belkis Ayón, Habana Gallery, Havana; Imágenes desde el silencio. Colografías y matrices de Belkis Ayón, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana; Para un regreso. Colografías de Belkis Ayón, Provincial Center for Plastic Arts and Design, Santiago de Cuba; Belkis Ayón. La huella múltiple 2002, La Casona Gallery, Havana; Belkis Ayón.

Early Work. Patricia Doran Graduate Gallery. Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, U.S.A.; Resurrection. Belkis Ayón (1967-1999). Collographs from Cuba. Arthur Ross Gallery. University of Pennsylvania and Brandywine Workshop, Philadelfia, PA, U.S.A.; Siempre vuelvo. Colografías de Belkis Ayón, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Reencuentro. Solo show, together with works by Belkis Ayon’s students. Tribute to her pedagogic activity.

National Meeting of Engraving 2004, San Alejandro Academy, Havana; Belkis Ayón, origen de un mito, Villa Manuela Gallery, Havana; Nkame. Belkis Ayón (1967-1999), Convent of St. Francis of Assisi, Havana.

Throughout her career she received important awards and distinctions, such as: First Prize of the First Graphics Biennial of Maastricht, Holland; Prize at the Meeting of Engraving 1993, Provincial Center for Plastic Arts and Design, Havana, Cuba; Distinction For National Culture; Prize of the 12th San Juan Biennial of Latin American and Caribbean Engraving, Puerto Rico Residences and lecturer/instructor at Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA./The Tyler School of Art, Temple University Printmaking Department/The University of the Art Printmaking Department, Borosky Center/ Benson Hall Gallery, Intaglio Studio, Benson Hall, RISD Printmaking Department and RISD Museum, R.I., U.S.A.

Her engravings are part of numerous institutional and private collections such as: DAROS Latinamerica Collection, Zurich; Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Lehigh University Art Galleries (LUAG), Bethlehem, PA., U.S.A.; Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany; National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana; National Museum of Engraving, Buenos Aires; Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, California; Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach;

Museum of Modern Art, New York; Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, U.S.A.; Van Reekum Museum, Apeldoorn; Antonio Pérez Foundation, Cuenca; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas, Austin; Alex Rosenberg Fine Art, New York; Brownstone Foundation, Paris; The Selden Rodman Collection, Art Galleries Ramapo College of New Jersey; University of Central Florida Library, Orlando, Florida; Nelson Fine Art Center, Tempe, Arizona; The Farber Collection, New York; Afrika Museum, Berg en Dal, Holland; The von Christierson Collection, London; Metropolitan Pavilion, New York.
Sandra Ceballos

Guantánamo, Cuba, 1961

Graduate of San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts in 1983. She has covered performance, photography, painting, drawing, installation and video film. In 1986 she won the prize of the 2nd Jaume Wash Painting Biennial (Barcelona, Spain). In 1994, together with artist Ezequiel Suárez, she created an independent space for art events: Espacio Aglutinador, where more than 200 artistic events have already taken place and which was selected in 2008 by an international group of prestigious artists, specialists and art critics as one of the 100 best galleries in the world and one of the three best in Latin America, in a survey made by the magazine Flash Art of New York. She has obtained residences of creation from Art in General (1996, New York, U.S.A.), Longwood Project (1996, Bronx, New York), and the School of Design and Audiovisual Means of Basel (1998, Switzerland). She participated in the 3rd International Performance Festival (Odense, Denmark); in the 2nd Painting Biennial of the Caribbean and Central America, organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Costa Rica, and in the 1st International Biennial of Engraving, Maastricht Exhibition Congress Center (the Netherlands). Her works have been exhibited in numerous countries, among them Spain, Switzerland, Canada, United States, France, South Africa and England, and are part of the collections of the National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba; Michoacán Museum of Contemporary Art (Morelia, Mexico); Collection of Latin American Photography of Lehigh University Art Galleries (Pennsylvania, U.S.A.); Track 16 Gallery, Bergamon Station, (LA, U.S.A.), The Shelley & Donald Rubin Private Collection (New York, U.S.A.), of the Center for Cuban Studies of New York, and the Howard Farber Fund Collection (New York, U.S.A.).
Lidzie Alviza

Havana, Cuba, 1969

In 1994 she graduated from the Higher Institute of Art (ISA). She uses photography as means of creative expression, in addition to drawing, sculpture, installations and performance. She is a member of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC). She took part in the 1996 Havana Biennial, in La Huella Múltiple in 2006, the Portugal Biennial in 2010, Art Miami Pulse, Art Madrid, Art Paris, Toronto, ARCO Fair, Art Moscow and Context Art Miami. She has participated in national and international auctions such as the Havana Auction, the Humanitarian Auction at Casa de las Américas, and the first Fernando Durán Latin American Auction. She has presented several solo shows, having personally assumed their curatorial work, and has participated in more than 70 group exhibitions. She was a juror in international events and in 2007 received the Batiscafo residence. Her works appear in articles, magazines, books and catalogues, from Cuban and international. She has collections in U.S.A., Mexico, Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, Venezuela, Russia, and the United Kingdom.
Cirenaica Moreira

Havana, Cuba, 1969

Graduate of the Scenic Arts Faculty of the Higher Institute of Art, in the specialty of acting (1992). She has more than twelve solo shows in Cuba and abroad; among the most important are: Sin torres ni abedules, 11th Havana Biennial (2012); Cirenaica Moreira: fotografías 1994-2006, Espacio Abierto Gallery, magazine Revolución y Cultura, Havana, Cuba (2009); Con el empeine al revés, 9th Havana Biennial, Miramar Trade Center, Havana, Cuba (2006); Three Cuban Woman Photographers: Photography by Elsa Mora, Cirenaica Moreira and Marta María Pérez, Fraser Gallery, Washington, U.S.A. (2003), as well as Fotografía conceptual cubana. The group exhibitions she has participated in exceed fifty, many of them in important international fairs like the Houston Fine Art Fair, U.S.A., the Moscow International Art Fair; Hot Art Fair, Art Basel, Switzerland; New York Fair and ARCO Fair in several editions. Her works are part of public and private collections in Cuba and abroad, among them the National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba; Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba; Les Filles du Calvaire Galerie, Paris, France; Photo-Fest, Houston, Texas, U.S.A.; Throckmorton Fine Art Gallery, New York, U.S.A.; Art Museum, University of Virginia, U.S.A.; Arte Viva Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Lehigh University Art Gallery, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Aimée García

Matanzas, Cuba, 1972

In 1996 she graduated from the Higher Institute of Art (ISA), Havana, Cuba. She has more than eighteen solo shows in Cuba and abroad. Among the most relevant are Abrazando la tierra, Art in General, New York (1998); Aimée García. Obra reciente, Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico City (2001); La rueca, at Robert Berman Gallery, Los Angeles, California (2004); Sabor del silencio, Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Havana, Cuba (2004); Recent Works by Contemporary Cuban Woman Artists. Sandra Ramos and Aimée García, Fraser Gallery, Washington DC (2007) and Contrapuntos. Aimée García/Eduardo Kac, Factoría Consulting in La Coruña, Spain (2012). Among the group exhibitions stand out Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California/ICC Contemporary Gallery, Jerusalem; Künstlerhaus, Graz, Austria (1995); Havana Nagila Cuba-Israel: Dialogue, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (2000); A través del espejo: Arte cubano de hoy, Allegro Gallery, Panama City. (2007); FOTOLOGIA 6. International Festival of Photography of Bogotá, Ciudad Universitaria, Bogotá (2008); Portugal Arte 10 Biennial, Portugal Pavilion, Lisbon (2010); Flowers, Lies and Revolution. Contemporary Cuban Art, Sheldon Museum of Art, Nebraska, U.S.A. (2010); Cuban Visions, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, U.S.A. (2011); Entre trópicos, La Caixa Cultural, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2012); Performing for the Camera, ASU Art Museum, Arizona, U.S.A. (2012) and Detrás del muro, at the 11th Havana Biennial (2012). In 1998 she received a scholarship from Mid-America Arts Alliance and additional Art in General`s general operating support. Her works are in numerous collections: National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba; Arizona State University (ASU) Art Museum, Arizona, U.S.A.; Museo del Barrio, New York, U.S.A.: University of Virginia Art Museum, Virginia, U.S.A.; Museum of Finest Cuban Arts (MOFCA), Vienna, Austria; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Jacqueline Brito

(Havana, Cuba, 1973)

Graduate of the Higher Institute of Art (ISA) in 1996, and since that year, a professor at the painting laboratory in that Institute. Member of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC). From 1998 through 2005 she was a professor of painting in the bachelor studies of Restoration and Goods and Chattels, at the Higher Institute of Art. She has sixteen solo shows in Cuba and the United States (U.S.A.). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions and her work has been exhibited in U.S.A., Spain, Russia, Italy, Austria, Colombia, France, Germany, Mexico, Argentina, United Kingdom, Dominican Republic, Canada and Japan, among other countries. She took part in the Painting Biennial of the Caribbean, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in 1996; in the 30th Painting Festival of Cagnes sur Mer, France, in 1999, and in the Art Link Sotheby’s International Young Art Auction, held simultaneously in Tel Aviv, Israel; Chicago, U.S.A., and Vienna, Austria, in 2000, as well as in several editions of the Havana Biennial. In 2009 she was invited, representing Cuba, to the important French show Bye-Bye Polaroid, Leic’art. As professor she has cured several exhibitions of ISA students, and has conducted several workshops and held conferences at the University of the Atlantic, in Colombia, and at the UCLA, Los Angeles, U.S.A. Her work is part of numerous collections in important museums and galleries: Arizona State University Art Museum, U.S.A.; Antonio Pérez Foundation, Cuenca, Spain; the Akron Art Museum, Ohio, U.S.A.; San Francisco Art Institute, U.S.A. and Rubin Museum of Art, New York, U.S.A.; Jablonka Gallery, Cologne, Germany. She has obtained several awards: award of the contest Painting for Peace, of UNESCO, 1999, and that same year, award to the Best Painting at the Painting Festival of Cagnes sur Mer, France.
Hilda María Rodríguez

Havana, Cuba, 1960

Bachelor in Art History from the University of Havana in 1982, and from San Alejandro Academy and in the specialties of painting and sculpture in 1986. She has multiple solo shows, among them El lado derecho no es el del corazón, Galiano Gallery (Havana, 2004); De lo humano y lo divino, Development Center for the Visual Arts (Havana, 2008); El corazón con que vivo, Orígenes Gallery (Havana, 2010), Dádiva, collateral to the 11th Havana Biennial (Havana, 2011). Among the group projects she has participated in stand out the show El maíz es nuestra vida, Provincial Center for Plastic Arts and Design on the occasion of the 10th Havana Biennial (Havana, 2009); Arte cubano, at Grove Gallery (St. James, Barbados, 2010); Ya sé leer. Imagen y texto en el arte latinoamericano, Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center (Havana, 2011). From 1984 to 1989 she was director of the Provincial Center for Plastic Arts and Design of Havana, and was also curator and director of Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center from 1989 to 2005; during this period she was at the head of the 8th Havana Biennial. Member of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) and of the Cuban section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA).
Yasbel Pérez

Camagüey, 1970

A prolific Cuban artist from Camaguey Cuba her work is widely collected and exhibitied world wide. A graduate of Institute of Art. Havana. Cuba. and Professional School of Art and Ballet her personal exhibitions have included; VERSE AND REVERSE. Havana Club Gallery. Ron.Ciudad Museum of Havana. Cub and 2003 - CUBAN ART IN SAN JUAN 2003. Museum of the Americas. San Juan. Puerto Rico. Her work with group exhibitions includs, Tres.Galeria Encuentros.Ciudad of Panama.Panama, THE ART OF THE APPROPRIATION. Servando Gallery. Havana. Cuba, and NEW ROUTE OF CUBAN ART-National Art Gallery of Malaysia,Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia-Akureyri Museum, Iceland - Gerduburg Cultural Ctr, Rejkavik. Colelctd including Baehler Bernard Baehler and Virginia Geneva, Switzerland, International Museum of Women San Francisco, California, USA, Maxoli Fine Art. Miami, Florida, USA.
Adislén Reyes

Havana, Cuba, 1984

Graduate of San Alejandro Academy in the specialty of engraving and from the Higher Institute of Art (ISA). She has four solo shows, among which stand out Happy Boys and Girls, at 23 & 12 Gallery (Havana, 2009) and Replay, at Walloon Showcases gallery (Havana, 2012). She has numerous group exhibitions in Cuba and abroad, among them Landings 5, The Art Museum of the Americas (Washington, 2007); Landings 8, Taipei Fine Art Museum (China Taipei, 2008); Making Connections. Contemporary Cuban Printmakers, Laconia Gallery, Boston (2009); El arsenal, at the exhibition hall of Puerta de Toledo (Madrid, City Hall, 2011); Hecho a mano en Cuba, Lafayette College, Special Collections; Skillman Library (Easton, 2011), as well as Un olor entra por mi ventana, at the 11th Havana Biennial, Rum Museum (Cuba, 2012).

Hanna Chomenko

Havana, Cuba, 1973

Graduate of San Alejandro Academy in 1992. To date she has 19 solo shows and 43 participations in group exhibitions in Cuba and abroad. She obtained the first prize at the 1st Illustration Salon Los Puentes, organized by the Fayad Jamis Art Center (Havana, 1997), and the first prize in illustration of the Tablas- Arcos Publishing House (Havana, 2006). She likewise received the award La Konfronta to the best illustration, granted by the April Publishing House (Havana, 2011). In 2006 she was awarded with the medal 20th Anniversary of the Hermanos Saíz Association, granted to young intellectuals. Some of her works are in public and private collections in France, Canada, Panama, Spain, Switzerland, Portugal, Poland, and U.S.A.; among them stand out the Latin American Fine Art Collection of Meredith Kelly Gallery and the Art America Collection of Panama.
Marianela Orozco

Sancti Spíritus, Cuba, 1973

Bachelor in Literature from the University of Las Villas, Cuba (1996). She has more than three solo shows and important public art projects, among which stand out Un proyecto terrenal (2005) and Cámara de gritos (2004), both at CAFKA, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. She has participated in more than thirty group exhibitions in Cuba and abroad; among the most outstanding of them are: Circular Motion: Subverting Circumscription, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A. (2012); Habitar, construir, pensar. Perspectivas poéticas y discursivas del videoarte contemporáneo cubano (1990-2010), Miami Spanish Cultural Center, U.S.A. (2012); Detrás del muro, malecón of Havana, and Escapando con el paisaje, Provincial Center for Plastic Arts and Design, both part of the 11th Havana Biennial (2012). To these more recent showcases add Soundings, with Work in Progress, Anglican Church of Saint George, Venice Biennale, Italy (2011); Action-Actual, at Museo del Barrio, New York, U.S.A. (2011); 5th World Meeting on Corporal Art, Caracas, Venezuela (2010); Parábolas del agua (Cuban Art Show), Glasgow, Scotland, and Latido. Jóvenes artistas cubanos, Stenersenmuseet (National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design) Oslo, Norway (traveling showcase 2006-2007). She obtained the award of the 7th City Salon, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba (2003) and the award of the 22nd Provincial Salon Oscar Fernández-Morera, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba (2004).
Adriana Arronte

Havana, Cuba, 1980

Graduate of San Alejandro Academy and afterwards of the Higher Institute of Art (ISA). She has six solo shows, five of them in Cuba and one at Luz & Suárez del Villar Gallery, Madrid, Spain. She has made more than twenty group exhibitions, among which stand out those related with the Havana Biennial, as well as those made in the Museum of Berlin, Meridian Gallery (Society for Art Publications of the Americas), San Francisco, California, U.S.A.; Galería 904 in Mexico, and in the Satu-Mare Museum of Art of Rumania. Among the main awards received are: National Prize Unión Latina to Young Creation in Plastic Arts 2005-2006, Prize of the 5th Salon of Installations “Juan Francisco Elso”, 2006, and Special Prize of Académica 2001 granted by Luz y Oficios Gallery. Some of her pieces are part of the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) Collection, U.S.A., and of the Satu-Mare Museum of Art of Rumania.
Susana Pilar Delahante

Havana, Cuba, 1984

Graduate of San Alejandro Academy, of the Art Conduct Chair (coordinated by artist Tania Brugueras) and of the Higher Institute of Art (ISA). She has more than twenty exhibitions in Cuba and abroad, among which stand out Líneas paralelas at NAOS Gallery, Karlsruhe (Germany, 2012), Circular Motion: Subverting Circumscription Video Installations by Contemporary Cuban Artists, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco (U.S.A., 2012), Again and Again, La Verónica Arte Contemporánea Gallery (Italy, 2011), Satellite 2010, curated by White Box LIC Experimental Gallery, Juvenal Reis Art Studios and Residencies, Long Island City, New York (U.S.A.) 2010 ), and El extremo de la bala: una década de arte cubano, Pabellón Cuba (Havana, 2010). She has participated at the 4th Biennial of Performance, Chile; at the first edition of the Biennial of Contemporary Art from the Caribbean, Aruba; at the 11th Havana Biennial; at the 3rd Biennale Arts Actuels Réunion, Reunion Island, France, and at the European Book Art Biennale, first edition, Art Museum Satu-Mare, Rumania. In 2009 she obtained the Darling Foundry Residency in Montreal, Canada; in 2010 the Villa Waldberta Residency in Munich, Germany, and the MAP Residency in Art, Holland. Her works are part of collections in Antwerp, Belgium; Galleria La Veronica Arte Contemporanea, Italy, MHKA Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp, Belgium; ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany, as well as in other private collections in Germany.
Elizabet Cerviño

Manzanillo, Cuba, 1986

Graduate of the Plastic Arts School “Carlos Enríquez” of Manzanillo, and afterwards of the Higher Institute of Art (ISA)., Havana. She has ten solo shows, two of them – Contando estrellas and La historia de una gota de agua que se rompe en el fondo del océano (2009, ISA), collaterals to the 10th Havana Biennial. Among the group exhibitions stand out El extremo de la bala, Una década de arte cubano, Pabellón Cuba (2010) and Detrás del muro, on the occasion of the 11th Havana Biennial (2012). Added to them are Portugal Arte 10, Portugal (2010); Parábolas del agua, WASPS Artist’s Studios, Glasgow, Scotland (2010); Ya sé leer II. Imagen y texto en Cuba, Colombia (2012) and ¡CUBA! Saltfineart Gallery, Los Angeles, U.S.A. (2012). She has received two scholarships of creation: “Juan Francisco Elso”, granted by the Hermanos Saíz Association of Havana and the Henry Moore Foundation of Glasgow.
Nadia García

Havana, Cuba, 1978

Graduate of San Alejandro Academy, in the specialty of Engraving. She worked as a professor of the National Lithography Chair in that academy. She is a guest artist of the Experimental Graphics Workshop of Havana. Formas de una realidad, at the Pierre A. Renoir Gallery of the French Union of Cuba (Havana, 2009) and Sueño de una noche de verano, at the Biennial; at the 3rd Biennale Arts Actuels Réunion, Reunion Island, France, and at the European Book Art Biennale, first edition, Art Museum Satu-Mare, Rumania. In 2009 she obtained the Darling Foundry Residency in Montreal, Canada; in 2010 the Villa Waldberta Residency in Munich, Germany, and the MAP Residency in Art, Holland. Her works are part of collections in Antwerp, Belgium; Galleria La Veronica Arte Contemporanea, Italy, MHKA Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp, Belgium; ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany, as well as in other private collections in Germany. Adislén Reyes (Havana, Cuba, 1984) Graduate of San Alejandro Academy in the specialty of engraving and from the Higher Institute of Art (ISA). She has four solo shows, among which stand out Happy Boys and Girls, at 23 & 12 Gallery (Havana, 2009) and Replay, at Walloon Showcases gallery (Havana, 2012). She has numerous group exhibitions in Cuba and abroad, among them Landings 5, The Art Museum of the Americas (Washington, 2007); Landings 8, Taipei Fine Art Museum (China Taipei, 2008); Making Connections. Contemporary Cuban Printmakers, Laconia Gallery, Boston (2009); El arsenal, at the exhibition hall of Puerta de Toledo (Madrid, City Hall, 2011); Hecho a mano en Cuba, Lafayette College, Special Collections; Skillman Library (Easton, 2011), as well as Un olor entra por mi ventana, at the 11th Havana Biennial, Rum Museum (Cuba, 2012). Cirenaica Moreira (Havana, Cuba, 1969) Graduate of the Scenic Arts Faculty of the Higher In- Rubén Martínez Villena Hall of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) (Havana, 2001), are two of her most important solo shows. She has displayed a sustained work with performances, and has created the controversial character “Maraya Shells”. She obtained the award Alegoría del Alma to the graphic work at the 2nd Plastic Arts Salon of the Bento Gonçalves-RS vineyard region, cultural event “José Alicido Kolling”, University of Caxias del Sur (Brazil, 2005), and the award at The Chelsea International Fine Art Competition (New York, U.S.A., 2011). She received a scholarship from The Hudson River Fellowship (New York, U.S.A., 2011). Works of hers are in private collections in Cuba, Italy, Austria, Spain, Switzerland, United States, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico.
Angélica Ermus

Havana, Cuba, 1990

Self taught artist. Currently studying Biology at the University of Havana. She has participated in events such as Fotografía de la Naturaleza (Cayo Sabinal, Camagüey, Cuba, 2011). She made her first solo show in May 2012 at El Templete, inserting herself in the Habana Vieja circuit during the 11th Havana Biennial. Among the distinctions she has received are the Golden Prize to Plastic Arts at the Amateur Festival, category: photography (University of Havana, 2012) and the first prize at the Nature Photo Forum (Faculty of Biology, University of Havana, 2012). She recently took part in a group exhibition at Lloyd’s Register’s office in Havana.
María Eugenia Rossitch

Havana, Cuba, 1968

Graduate of the Faculty of Architecture at the Higher Polytechnic Institute “J. A. Echeverría” of Havana in 1990. Since 1992 and for the last twenty years she has been in charge of the entire promotion of the work of artist Arturo Montoto, keeping the entire photographic register and inventory of his work as well as the production, coordination and on occasions shared curatorial work of solo shows. She photographically documented the artist’s creative process during the preparation of the works for the exhibitions Ámbitos silenciosos (2003), La lección de pintura (2004), La fábula del hortelano (2006), Ciudad para ciegos (2006), Conversación en el huerto (2007), Agua y metal (2008). In recent years she has been developing an independent photographic work of intimate nature that, from a woman’s point of view, intends to show elements of her personality, concerns related to her closest environment and her insertion in the social context. Other themes to be highlighted in her work are nature and urban development, which are a continuation of her research work during the initial stages as an architect.
Khadis de la Rosa Alejo

Ciego de Ávila, Cuba, 1991

Graduate of middle level from the Provincial Academy of Plastic Arts “Raúl Corrales”, Ciego de Ávila, Cuba. She is currently in third year at the Higher Institute of Art (ISA). Among the most important exhibitions in which she has participated are the solo show Colisión (2010) at the “Florinda Monzón” Gallery of Ciego de Ávila, Cuba; the 7th Young Art Salon Espacio Cero (2009), as well as the different editions of the Winter Salon organized by the í “Raúl Corrales” Academy. In 2008 she obtained the prize 5th Edition of the Academic Salon, awarded by the Provincial Academy of Plastic Arts of Ciego de Ávila, Cuba.

Graphic Designer. Studied at the Higher Institute of Design (ISDI) from 1995 through 2000; she remained there until 2005 teaching themes of basic design and typography. She was designer of Artecubano Ediciones from 2001 through 2005, and of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) until 2011. She is currently an independent designer, connected with diverse cultural institutions, art publications, artists and curators. She has exhibited in several group showcases, among them Cultural Diversity, National Museum of Fine Arts (Havana, Cuba, 2007); Junge Szene Kuba, Pasinger Fabrik (Munich, Germany, 2011); Gritos en la pared, National Museum of Fine Arts (Havana, Cuba, 2013); and one solo show, Laura Llópiz. Plakate, Gedok Gallery (Munich, Germany, 2010). She has lectured on Cuban graphic design and on her work in Havana and in Quito, Ecuador. Her works have received awards in different events and have been published in books like World Wide Identity (Rockport Publishers, New York, 2005); Diseño gráfico latinoamericano (Trama Ediciones, 2006) and Logo Design 2 (Taschen, 2009). Member of the UNEAC and of the Cuban Prográfica Committee.
Paola Martínez

Havana, Cuba, 1991

Graduate of San Alejandro Academy in the specialty of sculpture. She has made two solo shows: Mientras tenga memoria, at the “Antonio Díaz Peláez” Gallery of San Alejandro Academy (Havana, 2010) and Artificial, at the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba (Havana, 2011). She has participated in important group exhibitions in Cuba and abroad, among them Fundición, collateral to the 10th Havana Biennial (San Alejandro, 2009); Así vinimos, así nos vamos, on the occasion of the ARS LATINA Latin American Art Biennial at the Development Center for the Visual Arts (Havana, 2009), as well as Les moustaches de Zapata (2011) and Nuevas ciudades (2012), both exhibited in Bordeaux, France. Winner of the award of the 3rd Cascarilla Salon, granted by San Alejandro Academy.

Giselle Monzón

Santa Clara, Cuba, 1979

Graphic designer. Her work is closely linked to the cultural environment. She has been a professor at the Higher Institute of Design (ISDI) and at the Faculty of Communication of the University of Havana. She focuses her work on the creation of posters, frequently collaborating with national and international cultural institutions, particularly with the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC). She has received two Coral awards in the category of film poster at the International New Latin American Film Festival of Havana. She has been a finalist in several international poster biennials. She recently received a shared award at the 3rd Iberian American Design Biennial (BID12). She currently works as designer at the Development Center for the Visual Arts in the promotion of exhibitions and events. Member of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) and of the Cuban Prográfica Committee (attached to Icograda, International Council of Graphic Design Associations).
Laura Llópiz

Havana, Cuba, 1977

Graphic Designer. Studied at the Higher Institute of Design (ISDI) from 1995 through 2000; she remained there until 2005 teaching themes of basic design and typography. She was designer of Artecubano Ediciones from 2001 through 2005, and of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) until 2011. She is currently an independent designer, connected with diverse cultural institutions, art publications, artists and curators. She has exhibited in several group showcases, among them Cultural Diversity, National Museum of Fine Arts (Havana, Cuba, 2007); Junge Szene Kuba, Pasinger Fabrik (Munich, Germany, 2011); Gritos en la pared, National Museum of Fine Arts (Havana, Cuba, 2013); and one solo show, Laura Llópiz. Plakate, Gedok Gallery (Munich, Germany, 2010). She has lectured on Cuban graphic design and on her work in Havana and in Quito, Ecuador. Her works have received awards in different events and have been published in books like World Wide ldentity (Rockport Publishers, New York, 2005); Diseño gráfico latinoamericano (Trama Ediciones, 2006) and Lago Design 2 (Taschen, 2009). Member of the UNEAC and of the Cuban Prográfica Committee. Wide ldentity (Rockport Publishers, New York, 2005); Diseño gráfico Wide Wide ldentity (Rockport Publishers, New York, 2005); Diseño gráfico latinoamericano (Trama Ediciones, 2006) and Lago Design 2 (Taschen, 2009). Member of the UNEAC and of the Cuban Prográfica Committee.
Michele Miyares

Havana, Cuba, 1976

Graduate of the Higher Institute of Design of Havana (ISDI) in 2002. Art Director of the cultural magazine La Gaceta de Cuba published by the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC). She has been a professor at ISDI and at the Higher Institute of Art (ISA). Member of the Plastic Arts Section of UNEAC and of the Cuban Prográfica Committee. She obtained the Coral award to film poster at the 29th International New Latin American Film Festival of Havana in 2007. She was a finalist at the 17th International Lahti Poster Biennial (2009); at the 2nd International Chicago Poster Biennial (2010); at the 11th and 12th editions of the International Poster Biennial in Mexico (2010 and 2012); and of the 2nd and 3rd Iberian American Design Biennial (Madrid, 2010 and 2012). Her work has been exhibited in Cuba and abroad, and has been reviewed in national and international publications. She designs posters for the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC) and collaborates with some of the country’s main editorial houses.
Lilia Díaz

Havana, Cuba, 1988

Graduate of Graphic Design at the Higher Institute of Design (ISDI) in 2010. In 2011 she developed the campaign project Save Energy for the Association of Caribbean States. In 2012 she designed the book series Premios Especiales of Casa de las Américas. She has created posters and catalogues for plastic arts exhibitions such as El rito del hereje, group exhibition of photography (Latin American Gallery, 2011); José Venturelli (Havana Engraving Workshop, 2011); Cartel en cartel, by Fernando Pimenta (Servando Gallery, 2012) and Nueva Figuración Española (Latin American Gallery, 2012). She is one of the authors selected for the postcard collection New Cuban Posters, edited by the Poster Friends’ Club in collaboration with the Center for Cuban Studies of New York. She is currently a designer at Casa de las Américas, and assistant designer of the Ruth editorial house. In parallel she collaborates with the Espacios project.
Idania del Río

Havana, Cuba, 1981

She studied graphic design and visual communication at the Higher Institute of Design in Havana (ISDI), and art direction at the International Film and TV School of San Antonio de los Baños. She was two years professor at ISDI, and there conducted the Basic Design workshop for second year students. In 2008/2009 she worked at Palermo Estudio, Montevideo, Uruguay, doing animation and artwork for advertising, while collaborating in the animation feature Anina, a Rain Dogs and Palermo Estudio production. She has made posters for the theater, films, exhibitions and cultural events. Her illustrations have been published in the Cuban magazines with the greatest circulation. She is currently in charge of design at Tablas-Alarcos editorial house, where she is involved in diverse projects and theater festivals. As a free lance artist she also assumes the art direction of projects involving music, design and performance, such as the presentations of Quiet Nights and La mujer de carne y leche. In 2012 she was invited to the Mois du Graphisme D’Echirolles, event presided over by the outstanding French designer Michel Bouvet. Her work as poster designer and illustrator has been exhibited in Cuba, Germany, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, U.S.A. and France. She has obtained several prizes, among them the Cubadisco to graphic design, the Uruguayan Graffiti to the best video film; the Raúl Martínez prize to book design and the Caja Alta design prize of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC).
Ivette Corcho

Havana, Cuba, 1974

Graduated in 1997 from the Higher Institute of Industrial Design at the University of Havana (ISDI), specializing in clothing and accessories. In 2001 participated in the Ninth Edition Mittelmoda Contest, organized by the Chamber of Italian Fashion and held in the city of Gorizia, Italy, with the collection not lock. Shows that had important awards from the International Textile (No. 824 November-December / 2001). In 2003 participated in Design Holland 2003, organized by the Latin American Design Foundation LADF in Villa Arena, Amsterdam Cuban Collection T-Shirt, as well as collateral exposure In Real Life (EVR), Ludwig Foundation, during the 8th. Havana Biennial. In 2006 he was part of the exhibition Art Nouveau in Havana during the Belgian Culture Week in Cuba. He has worked in costume design, art direction and assistance for cinematographic-graphic materials, working closely with the International School of Film and Television of San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV)
Celia Ledón

Havana, Cuba, 1983

Graduate of the Polytechnic Institute of Industrial Design (IPDI) in 2005 as project producer, as well as from the art direction course Entre la idea y la imagen final, given in 2011 by architect Juan García Prieto. She obtained the FIART prize for the collection Reciclarte of the wardrobe students (Havana, 2010), and the first place nationally at the festival of performance fans (2010). She was a finalist at the International Design Contest Salao Design (Brazil, 2011). She has worked as a designer for the theater ensemble El Público and performed the art direction for numerous short video films directed by important Cuban filmmakers. In 2010 the magazine Arte Sur published an ample selection of photos and interviews of the Reciclarte collection. In 2012 she participated in an exhibition of furniture, fantasy wardrobe and photos in Belomonte Gallery, Portugal, in the Havana Biennial together with Roberto Ramos with the urban tribes poster project, and in the event Arte y Moda 2012 edition, with catwalks at the National Museum of Fine Arts.
Mayelín Guevara

Havana, Cuba, 1971

Her education has been linked to design and particularly to craftsmanship in precious metals. In 2002 she graduated from the jewelry course Cuentas de la esperanza, given by U.S. specialist Marilyn Berd at the Hermanos Saíz Association (AHS), and in 2003 of the course Cincelado y repujado sobre bases planas y duras, sponsored by the Cuban Association of Handicraft Artists (ACAA). She has numerous solo shows, among them: Colección circulen, at the Museum of Silversmithing of the City Historian’s Office (OHCH) (Havana, 2005); Colección Atrévete-te at the Museum of Silversmithing of the OHCH (Havana, 2008); Colección Chapeando, Factoría Gallery in its venue of Santiago de Compostela (Spain, 2011); Colección Al grano, together with graphic designer Giselle Monzón at the Sargadelos Gallery, collateral to the Havana Biennial (Havana, 2012); Colección Habana, in tribute to designer and design historian Pedro Contreras, Museum of Silversmithing of the OHCH (Havana, 2012). She has taken part in group projects such as the 3rd Hispanic American Meeting of Silversmiths (Mexico, 2010) and in Diseño emergente, innovación y futuro, traveling show of the 3rd Iberian American Design Biennial, where she obtained the prize in the Fashion and Complements category (Spain, 2012). She has worked with Spanish designers Eva Ferrans and Gilberto Téllez in the collection Moda o Muerte exhibited in the Lost Steps Hall of the National Capitol (Havana, 2003). Member of the Hermanos Saíz Association since 1999
Mabel Poblet

Cienfuegos, Cuba, 1986

Graduate of San Alejandro Academy in 2007 and of the Higher Institute of Art (ISA) in 2012. In 2008 she was part of the Conduct Art Workshop coordinated by Cuban artist Tania Bruguera. Among her most important solo shows are Works on Paper and Sculpture at The Cuban Art Space, Center for Cuban Studies (New York, 2006); Un sueño real, Fototeca de Cuba (Havana, 2009); De tus ojos la sal, Nuno Sacramento Gallery (Portugal, 2011); Hoy mi voz tiene sonido, at Villa Manuela Gallery (Havana, 2012) and Situación límite, Raquel Ponce Gallery (Madrid, 2013). Some of her works are part of the CIFO Collection, Cisnero Fontanals Art Foundation. (U.S.A.), Brownstone Foundation, Paris (France), and Havana Club Collection, Habana Cultura (Cuba).
Camila García

Havana, Cuba, 1988

Graduate of San Alejandro Academy and of the Higher Institute of Art (ISA). She has around twenty group exhibitions in Cuba and abroad, among which stand outthe 2nd and 4th International Video Art Festival of Camagüey, Cuba (2009 and 2011) and the 9th Digital Art Salon, Havana, Cuba (2007). In addition are El arsenal, at the Yemayá Cultural Center, Madrid, Spain (2010), senseLAB III, at the E105 Gallery, and Made in Cuba, at the Kuerfürstliches Gärtnerhaus Gallery, both in Bonn, Germany (2011). She received a scholarship from the Ludwig Foundation in Aachen at Alanus University, Bonn, Germany. She obtained the Unesco Prize and Camaquito Mention at the 2nd International Video Art Festival of Camagüey, Cuba, as well as the Honorific Mention from the Solidarity in Art Cuba-U.K. Exchange Project (San Alejandro, Havana, Cuba/Cardinal Wiseman School, London, England).

Evelyn Aguilar

San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, 1991

Graduate of the Eduardo Abela Plastic Arts Academy (San Antonio de los Baños, former province of La Habana) in 2010, and currently studying at the Plastic Arts Faculty of the Higher Institute of Art (ISA). In 2010 she had her first solo show, Sujetos, at the Eduardo Abela Gallery of the Academy. Among the group exhibitions she has taken part in stand out Fuera de lugar, at the gallery of the Higher Institute of Design (ISDI) (Havana, 2012); Simulación, collateral to the 11th Havana Biennial at ISA (Havana, 2012); Tasajo, Espacio Abierto Gallery (Havana, 2013) and Lo abierto, Barreto Hall, Luz y Oficios Gallery (Havana, 2013). She obtained the first prize of the 9th edition of the May Salon (2009); the first prize of the 3rd Francisco Martínez Villamil Landscape Meeting (2008), and the 1st prize in the mural genre at the 2nd Francisco Martínez Villamil Territorial Landscape (2007).
Danay Vigoa

Santa Clara, Cuba, 1982

Graduate of the “Benny Moré” Plastic Arts Academy, Cienfuegos, and of the Higher Institute of Art (ISA). She has some fifteen group exhibitions, among which stand out El extremo de la bala, Una década de arte cubano, Pabellón Cuba (2010); Luz a tu química II, Fototeca de Cuba (2009), and Cambio y fuera, exhibition by students of the ISA Plastic Arts Faculty at the 10th Havana Biennial. Among the awards received are the Grand Prix of the 13th City Salon, granted by the National Council of Plastic Arts, the Development Center for the Visual Arts and the Provincial Center for Plastic Arts and Design. She obtained a Mention in Video Loop, Week of Contemporary Art, Ciego de Ávila (2009). Some of her pieces are part of the Havana Galérie, Beatrice Liaskowski Collection, of Zurich.
Mari Claudia García

(Havana, Cuba, 1989)

Graduate of San Alejandro Academy and currently in fifth year at the Higher Institute of Art (ISA). Among the main group exhibitions in which she has participated stand out the 9th Digital Art Salon of Havana (2007); Cambio y fuera, collateral to the 10th Havana Biennial (ISA, 2009); El verdadero loop, at Factoría Habana Gallery (2010); Sotto Voce, at the Development Center for the Visual Arts (Havana, 2011); Layers, collateral to the 11th Havana Biennial (2012). She took part in the third and fourth editions of the Senselab exchange workshop with Alanus University, in Germany (2010-2012) and in the Cuba-UK Solidarity in Art Project, developed between San Alejandro Academy of Havana and the Cardinal Wiseman School of London.
Yamilys Brito

Havana, Cuba, 1972

Graduate of the Higher Institute of Art (ISA) in 1996, and since then professor at the Engraving Laboratory in that Institute. Member of the Scientific Commission of the Faculty of Visual Arts at ISA. Member of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) and of the Experimental Graphics Workshop of Havana. She has 15 solo shows in Cuba and the United States. She has participated in several group exhibitions, and her work has been exhibited in the United States, Spain, Italy, Austria, Colombia, Russia, France, Germany, Mexico, Argentina, United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Brazil and Sweden, among other countries. She took part in the prize La Joven Estampa on three occasions; in the National Meetings on Engraving, and in the Havana Biennial. As a professor she has conducted workshops and conferences at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain; Santa Rosa, Argentinean Pampa; the arts and crafts school of Gloucestershire, United Kingdom, y la Arizona State University, United States. She has cured several engraving exhibitions. Her work is in numerous collections: Arizona State University Art Museum, United States Antonio Pérez Foundation, Cuenca, Spain; the Schreiner Museum of Graphics, Germany; the Akron Art Museum, Ohio, United States; the San Francisco Art Institute., U.S.A.; Casa de las Américas, Cuba, and Rubin Museum of Art, New York, U.S.A. and the Art in General Foundation, New York, as well as in multiple private collections worldwide. In 1997 she obtained the Honorable Mention of the Latin American engraving prize La Joven Estampa. In 2009 she obtained the second prize in the category of printed work at the 10th Digital Art Salon, and that same year, mention in the CLIMARTE Latin American Virtual Contest, organized by Casa de las Américas, Cuba.
Liang Domínguez

Havana, Cuba, 1975

Graduate in 1993 of San Alejandro Academy, in the specialty of engraving, and in 1998 of the Higher Institute of Art (ISA). She has important exhibitions in Cuba and abroad. Among her solo shows stand out: Tan solo una mirada, Sotage Gallery of the Modern Art Center of Puerto la Cruz (Venezuela, 2006); Laberinto, at Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center (Havana, 1999) and Huella en la mirada, at the 23 & 12 Gallery (Havana, 2005). Among the group exhibitions should be noted: Arte cubano: entre el lienzo y el papel, Miró Hall, UNESCO venue, Paris (France, 2007); Manual de instrucciones, una mirada al vacío, at Casa América de Madrid (Spain, 2007) and En blanco y negro, Vernissage Art Gallery of Barcelona (Spain, 2008).
Grethell Rasúa

Havana, Cuba, 1983

Graduate of San Alejandro Academy, of the Art Conduct Chair (coordinated by artist Tania Brugueras) and of the Higher Institute of Art (ISA). She is a Bachelor in Humanities of Cuba, attached to the Christopher Columbus University of Veracruz, Mexico. She has participated in more than fifty group exhibitions in Cuba and abroad, among which stand out Erótica. Sexualidad y erotismo, Museum of Universal Art of the National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba (2008), Video experimental y video arte: artistas de Cuba, at the Museum of Antioquia, Colombia (2009); Océano Digital. Travesía por incertidumbres, in Córdoba, Spain (2010); Videoarte. Video crítico en Latinoamérica y el Caribe, organized by the Pera Museum and the Cervantes Institute of Istanbul (2011); 3rd Media Forum Festival, Moscow, Russia (2012), and the 10th Video Art Screen Festival, Barcelona, Spain (2012). She obtained the Intermediae-Minbak residence, collateral to IFEMA ARCO, Madrid, Spain (2007), as well as the Batiscafo residence, granted by the Hivos Foundation, Great Britain (2010).
Celia y Yunior

Havana, Cuba, 1985 & Havana, Cuba, 1984

Graduates of San Alejandro Academy and of the Art Conduct Chair (coordinated by artist Tania Brugueras). Also graduates of the Higher Institute of Art (ISA). They have made four solo shows, among which stand out Surfear sobre concreto in Salle Zéro, Alliance Française of Havana, Cuba (2011) and Creo Saber…, Development Center for the Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba (2012). They have participated in numerous group exhibitions, among them Bomba lógica, Art Conduct Chair at the 7th Biennial of Gwangju, South Korea (2008); Experimenta Colombia: Concepto comunidad comunismo, as part of the Latin American Festival of Media Art in Bogotá, Colombia (2009); Video Cubano at 8th Floor Space 17, New York, U.S.A. (2010), and the 3rd Week of Iberian American Video, Film Archive of Andalusía, Spain (2011). In 2006 they obtained the residence of the Caribbean Contemporary Art Center (CCAC) and in 2010 the Batiscafo residence. Among the awards received is the Ceiba Prize at the 4th International Video Art Festival of Camagüey, Cuba (2011) and the FESTARTE Mention – 3rd Video Art Festival Invisible Violence. Private-Public-Social –, Rome, Italy (2010).
Lisandra García López

Havana, Cuba, 1989

Graduate of San Alejandro Academy and of the Higher Institute of Art (ISA). She has several solo shows, among which stand out: Inventory No. 55 (2009), at the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba, Havana; Imitación de vida (2010), gallery of the Miramar Trade Center, in Havana; Autorretrato de la artista adolescente (2012), at CMBF Radio Musical Nacional, Havana; Cristal Blando (2013), Villa Manuela Gallery, Union of Artists and Writers of Cuba, Havana. She has participated in several group exhibitions, among them: Tiempo compartido (2007); Tu espacio de fotografía, Photokasbah, Spain; Yo,Yo y Yo (2007), Experimental Center of Visual Arts, Belkis Ayón Gallery, Havana; Variaciones en blanco y negro (2007), José Antonio Díaz Peláez Gallery, San Alejandro Academy, Havana; Luz a tu propia química 2 (2009), Fototeca de Cuba, Havana; First National Salon of Plastic Artists (2009), House of Culture, Sanjuelito, Bogotá, Colombia; XVI Salon of Erotic Art (2010), Fayad Jamís Gallery, Centro de Arte y Literatura, Havana; Festival of 5x7 Photography (2010), Pablo de la Torriente Brau Cultural Center, Havana; Turn Around (2010), La Casona Gallery, Havana; Interna cognición (2010), Villena Hall, Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba, Havana; Torbellino II (2011) Habana Gallery, Havana; Layers (2012), 11th Havana Biennial, Faculty of Plastic Arts, Higher Institute of Art (ISA), Havana; Un olor que entra por mi ventana: Havana Cultura (2012), 11th Havana Biennial, Gallery of the Museum of Rum, Havana Club International, Havana; La herencia de la tradición pictórica (2012), showcase of Cuban digital art organized by Pablo de la Torriente Brau Cultural Center, Casona Municipal. Córdoba. Argentina; Gulliver (2012). Meeting Havana Cultura, Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany; Cuba contemporánea (2012). Manoir de Cologny Cultural Center, Geneva, Switzerland.
Anyelmaidelin Calzadilla

Havana, Cuba, 1975

Graduate of San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts in 1995 and of the Higher Institute of Art (ISA), in the specialty of Engraving. She has numerous solo shows, among which stand out: Inventory, Ludwig Foundation of Cuba (Havana, 2008); Navíos del Impedimento, Experimental Graphics Workshop (Havana, 2003) and Entre Turbias y Cristalinas, Provincial Center for Plastic Arts and Design (Havana, 2002). Among the group exhibitions she has participated in stand out Landings 8 at the Fine Arts Museum of Taipei (Taiwan, 2008), Making Connections: Contemporary Cuban Printmakers, Laconia Gallery (Boston, 2009); Cuban Gold: Viva La Reproducción at London Print Studio (London, 2011) and Codex 13 Book Fair in San Francisco (U.S.A., 2013). She has received the Unión Latina National Award, first edition (Havana, 2003) and the third prize at the 6th Meeting of Engraving, organized by Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center (Havana, 2004).
Sandra Ramos

Graduate of San Alejandro Academy in 1988 and of the Higher Institute of Art (ISA) in 1993. She has more than twenty solo shows in Cuba and abroad, and has participated in more than forty group projects. Among her most important solo shows are: Manera de matar las soledades, Development Center for the Visual Arts (CDAV), (Havana, 1999); Sandra Ramos. Obra reciente, eat 420 x 20 Gallery (Arhem, Holland, 1995); Inmersiones y enterramientos, at the Nina Menocal Gallery (Mexico City, 1999); Naufragios. Sandra Ramos, pinturas e instalaciones, at Citizen Gallery, Fuchu Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan, 2003); Sea of Sorrows, The Fraser Gallery (Washington, U.S.A., 2004); Puentes: entre cercanías y lejanías, at the National Museum of Fine Arts, 11th Havana Biennial (Havana, 2012) and Bridging the Past, Present and Future: Recent Works by Sandra Ramos, at Fort Smith Regional Art Museum (Arizona, U.S.A., 2013). Among the group projects stand out the Second International Biennial of Engraving Bharat Bhavan (Bhopal, India, 1991); Arte contemporáneo latinoamericano de La Habana a Sao Paulo, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, Germany, 1995); Crisis: América Latina: arte y confrontación 1910-2010, Museum of the Palace of Fine Arts of Mexico City (2011); Happy Islands, collateral to the Biennial of Contemporary Caribbean Art, Encuentro Prome Bienal di Aruba. Foundation, Paradera Park 213 (Aruba, 2012). In 2003 she received the National Prize to Curatorial Work for the event La huella múltiple, granted by the National Council of Plastic Arts (CNAP) of Cuba, in addition to the Best Show of the Year award to La huella múltiple, Gallery 106 Flatbed Press. (Austin, Texas, U.S.A.). In 1993 she was awarded the Grand Prix of the National Salon of Engraving (Havana, Cuba). Her works are part of the collections of the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), California, U.S.A.; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, U.S.A.; The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York, U.S.A., as well as of the Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.