The following is a list of

Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ...

n painters.

Colonial Period (1750s–1902)

Miguel Arias Bardou Miguel Arias Bardou (1841–1915) was a Spanish born Cuban painter. He is best remembered for colorful landscapes such as ''Pueblo Campesino'' (1891) and ''Bohío y Palma con Riachuelo'' (1908) which mainly depicted harmonious rural themes. Bardo ...

Guillermo Collazo Guillermo Collazo Tejada (7 June 1850, Santiago de Cuba - 26 September 1896, Paris) was a Cuban painter and advocate for independence. Biography Collazo was born into an established colonial family. His artistic talent was noticed at an early ag ...

José Nicolás de la Escalera José Nicolás de Escalera (1734 – 1804) was a Cuban painter specializing in religious scenes and portraits. He is often described as "Cuba's first painter", having been the earliest native-born artist to create a large, surviving body of professi ...

Vicente Escobar Vicente Escobar (1757 - 1834) was a Cuban painter. A native of Havana, he was initially self-trained as an artist, though he later graduated from the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. He then undertook a voyage through Sp ...

Víctor Patricio de Landaluze Víctor Patricio de Landaluze (1828 - 8 June 1889), was a Spanish-born painter active for much of his career in Cuba. Biography Born in 1830 in Bilbao, Landaluce received a careful education, which included learning several languages. For a time ...

José Abreu Morell José Abreu Morell (1864–1889) was a Cuban painter. A native of Havana, he studied from 1877 until 1886 at the San Alejandro Academy in that city. He also traveled to Madrid to study at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando ...

José Joaquín Tejada José Joaquín Tejada Revilla (18 September 1867, Santiago de Cuba – 7 March 1943, Santiago de Cuba) was a Cuban painter; best known for his landscapes, which show the influence of the Barbizon school. Biography His interest in art began by c ...

Early Republic (1902–1950s)

Antonio Sanchez Araujo Antonio Sánchez Araujo (1887–1946) was a Cuban ''costumbrista'' painting, painter, during the early years of the Cuban republic. His paintings have been admired for their strong colorful and definite techniques. He was born in Santa Lucía, O ...

* Pastor Argudín Pedroso * Armando Menocal *

Antonio Rodriguez Morey Antonio Rodriguez Morey (1872–1967) was one of the pre-eminent Cuban landscape painters. He was born in Spain, in 1874 and studied painting at the San Alejandro national school of fine arts in La Habana, Cuba. In 1891 he moved to Europe to conti ...

Leopoldo Romañach Leopoldo Romañach y Guillen (1862–1951) was a Cuban painter. He was born in Sierra Morena, Cuba, Sierra Morena, Corralillo, in the province of Las Villas Province, Las Villas. Romañach was a professor of color theory at San Alejandro, won a n ...

The Vanguard (1880s–1920s)

Eduardo Abela Eduardo Abela (1889–1965) was a Cuban painter and comics artist. Born in San Antonio de los Baños, he studied at the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 1921. For the next decade he lived abroad, first in Spain and then in France. ...

Cundo Bermúdez Cundo Bermúdez (September 3, 1914 – October 30, 2008), born Secundino (Cundo) Bermúdez y Delgado, was a Cuban painter. Born in Havana, Cuba, he died of a heart attack in his Westchester home on October 30, 2008. In 1926, Bermudez was admitt ...

Víctor Manuel García Valdés Víctor Manuel García Valdés (October 31, 1897–February 1, 1969) was a Cubans, Cuban painter. He was an early member of the "Vanguardia" movement of artists who, beginning in the 1920s, combined European concepts of Modern art with native Pr ...

* Antonio Gattorno *

Wifredo Lam Wifredo Óscar de la Concepción Lam y Castilla (; December 8, 1902 – September 11, 1982), better known as Wifredo Lam, was a Cuban artist who sought to portray and revive the enduring Afro-Cuban spirit and culture. Inspired by and in conta ...

Fidelio Ponce de León Fidelio Ponce de León (24 January 1895Sánchez 1985: 17. - 19 February 1949Sánchez 1985: 14.) was the pseudonym of Alfredo Fuentes Pons, a Cuban painter. A native of Camagüey, he studied at the San Alejandro Academy in Havana from 1913 until ...

Amelia Peláez Amelia Peláez del Casal (5 January 1896 – 8 April 1968) was an important Cuban painter of the Avant-garde generation. Biography Amelia Peláez was born in 1896 in Yaguajay, in the former Cuban province of Las Villas (now Sancti Spíritus Pro ...

Marcelo Pogolotti Marcelo Pogolotti (1902–1988) was a Cuban painter. Born in Havana, the son of Dino Pogolotti, he spent his childhood between Cuba and Europe, beginning his artistic study in Italy. He briefly studied engineering and philosophy in the United Sta ...

René Portocarrero René Portocarrero (born Havana, 24 February 1912; died Havana, 7 April 1985) was a Cuban artist recognised internationally for his achievements. History Portocarrero began his artistic education at the San Alejandro academy, but left early and ...

Carlos Enriquez Gomez Carlos may refer to: Places ;Canada * Carlos, Alberta, a locality ;United States * Carlos, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Carlos, Maryland, a place in Allegany County * Carlos, Minnesota, a small city * Carlos, West Virginia ;Elsewhe ...

* Juan Ramon Valdez Gomez

The Moderns

* José Bernal * Hugo Consuegra *

Agustín Cárdenas 250px, ''Untitled'' (1961), sculpture by Auguste Cardenas in the area above the Roman quarry in Sankt Margarethen im Burgenland near Lake Neusiedl.">Lake_Neusiedl.html" ;"title="Sankt Margarethen im Burgenland near Lake Neusiedl">Sankt Margareth ...

* Mario Carreño * Consuelo Castañeda * Rolando López Dirube * Antonia Eiriz *

Agustín Fernández (artist) Agustín Fernández (16 April 1928 - 2 June 2006) was a Cuban painter, sculptor, and multimedia artist. Although he was born in Cuba, he spent the majority of his career outside of Cuba, and produced art in Havana, Paris, San Juan, Puerto Rico, ...

* Lourdes Gomez Franca * Ángel Acosta León * Raúl Martínez *

José María Mijares José María Mijares (born 1921 in Havana, Cuba - d. March, 2004) was a Cuban contemporary visual artist. He began drawing in his adolescent years and entered the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts on a scholarship at the age of 16. His greatest i ...

Servando Cabrera Moreno Servando Cabrera Moreno (1923–1981) was a Cuban painter. A supporter of the Cuban Revolution, he created many paintings that depict the Cuban peasantry. Stylistically, his paintings are rooted in the tradition of vanguardia, and are especial ...

* Dionisio Perkins *

José Rodríguez Fuster José Rodríguez Fuster (born August 1946 in Villa Clara, Cuba) is a Cuban naïve artist specializing in ceramics, painting, drawing, engraving, and graphic design. Career From 1963 he studied at the ''Escuela Nacional de Instructores de Arte'' ...

Loló Soldevilla Dolores "Loló" Soldevilla Nieto (1901–1971) was a Cuban visual artist primarily known for her role in concrete art. Biography Born in 1901 in Havana, Cuba, Soldevilla was an avid painter, sculptor, collage artist and draughtsman. In addi ...

* Rafael Soriano (painter)

Contemporary

A–M

* Jeannine Achón * Ana Albertina Delgado Álvarez *

Angel Delgado Fuentes Angel Delgado is a Cuban visual artist who lives in Long Beach, California. Biography Delgado studied at the Elementary School of Visual Arts of Havana, between 1976 and 1980. He graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejand ...

* Baruj Salinas * José Bedia Valdés * Julio Breff * Adriano Buergo *

Luis Enrique Camejo Luis Enrique Camejo (born January 19, 1971, in Pinar del Río) is a Cuban contemporary painter who won several prizes, including the First Place Prize in the V Painting Contest Nicomedes García Gomez in 2003. He lives and works in Havana today. ...

* Humberto Castro * Rafael Consuegra * Xavier Cortada * José Ramón Díaz Alejandro * Ofill Echevarria * Carlos Estévez (artist) *

Roberto Fabelo Roberto Fabelo (born 1951 Camagüey, Cuba) is a contemporary Cuban painter, sculptor, and illustrator. Biography Born in Guáimaro, Camagüey,Moore, Robin D. (2006) ''Music and Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba'', University of Cali ...

* Emilio Falero *

Miguel Fleitas Miguel A. Fleitas is a Cuban-American visual artist, photographer, and film director based in Miami, Florida. Fleitas was a television director and film editor for several popular television programs during his tenure with Univision and Telemundo ...

* Juan Gonzalez *

Josignacio Josignacio (b. José Ignacio Sánchez-Rius, in Havana, Cuba, on October 24, 1963) is a Cuban Contemporary artist and author. He is among the most significant living contemporary Cuban and Latin American artists due to his career auction records, ...

Kcho KCHO (sometimes spelled "K'cho"), born Alexis Leiva Machado on the Isla de la Juventud, Isle of Pines (1970), is a contemporary Cuban artist. He first attracted international attention by winning the grand prize at South Korea's Gwangju Biennale ...

* Julio Larraz *

Roel Caboverde Llacer Roel Caboverde Llacer (born November 20, 1947 in Baracoa, Cuba) is a Cuban painter. He grew up in the towns of La Poa and Moa and started his painting career as a house painter followed by work painting signs. He even painted murals during his se ...

* Rubén Torres Llorca * Luis Marín *

Juan T. Vázquez Martín Juan T. Vázquez Martín (December 23, 1940 in Caibarién, Villa Clara Province, Las Villas, Cuba – January 31, 2017 in Miami, Florida) lived and worked in Havana, died in Miami. This artist is listed among the Cuban painters, Cuban Painters mast ...

Manuel Mendive Manuel Mendive Hoyos (born 1944) is one of the leading Afro-Cuban artists to emerge from the revolutionary period, and is considered by many to be the most important Cuban artist living today. Biography Mendive was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1944 ...

N–Z

Adriano Nicot Adriano Adolfo Fernandez Nicot is a Cuban-American painter and poet based in Miami, Florida. He is known for a distinctive Neo-Expressionist style and is closely associated with the prominent Cuban artists Antonia Eiriz, Manuel Vidal Fernández, ...

* Pedro Pablo Oliva * Gina Pellón *

Sandra Ramos Sandra Ramos (born Oct, 1969) is a Cuban contemporary painter, printmaker, collagist, video and installation artist who explores nationality, gender, and identity in her work. She is known for works featuring her character of the Cuban Pioneer gir ...

Roberto Álvarez Ríos Roberto Jesús Álvarez Ríos (17 September 1932 – 16 December 2015) was a Cuban artist who specialised in painting and drawing. Between 1951 and 1955, Alvarez studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro" in Havana. In 1958, ...

Miguel Rodez Miguel Rodez (born November 12, 1956) is a Cuban born contemporary visual artist, curator, and former attorney who has resided in the United States since 1969. Artistically, Rodez is known for his textured luminescent paintings and his Minimalist ...

Emilio Hector Rodriguez Emilio Hector Rodriguez (born September 26, 1950, in Sancti Spíritus, Cuba) is a Cuban-American artist. His current work is abstract painting and fine art photography. He resides in Miami, Florida, USA. Rodríguez was born in the colonial villa ...

* Juan Andrés Rodríguez known as El Monje * Gilberto Andrés Romero Pino * José Ángel Rosabal Fajardo * Zilia Sánchez Domínguez * Tomás Sánchez *

Cesar Santos Cesar Santos (born July 10, 1982) is a contemporary Cuban-American artist and portrait painter. He is better known for his body of work "Syncretism", a term he uses to describe paintings where he presents two or more art tendencies in aesthetic ba ...

* Raul Santoserpa * Jesús Selgas Cepero *

José Omar Torres López José Omar Torres López (born 1953) is a Cuban artist. His main fields were painting, engraving, and drawing. He was Director of the Taller Experimental de Gráfica (TEG), Havana, Cuba from 1986 to 1993. Education López was born in 1953 in Ma ...

* Carlos Trillo Name *

Zafra Zafra () is a town situated in the Province of Badajoz (Extremadura, Spain), and the capital of the comarca of Zafra - Río Bodión. It has a population of 16,677, according to the 2011 census. Zafra is the hometown of Fray Ruy Lopez, author ...

* Juan Ramon Valdez Gomez * Fernando Velázquez Vigil *

Pedro Vizcaíno Pedro A. Vizcaíno Martínez (born October 11, 1966), sometimes known by the nickname "Cafetero", is a Cuban-born American artist. He was one of the members of Arte Calle "Street Art" group, between 1985 and 1987. He works in the mediums of paint ...

* Rafael Zarza Gonzalez

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cuban painters * Painters

Cuban Cuban may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Cuba, a country in the Caribbean * Cubans, people from Cuba, or of Cuban descent ** Cuban exile, a person who left Cuba for political reasons, or a descendant thereof * Cuban citizen, a perso ...