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List Of Cuban Artists
List of Cuban artists (in alphabetical order by last name) includes artists of various genres, who are notable and are either born in Cuba, of Cuban descent or who produced works that are primarily about Cuba. A * Agustín Drake Aldama (1934–2022), metal sculptor, born in Matanzas * Edel Alvarez Galban (born 1967), visual artist, painter, born in Havana * Nela Arias-Misson (1915–2015), Cuban-born American abstract, expressionist painter *Pastor Argudín Pedroso (1880–1968), Afro-Cuban portrait painter from Havana * Armando de Armas Romero (1914–1981), Havana painter * Belkis Ayón (1967–1999), Havana painter and lithographer B * Eduardo Muñoz Bachs (1937–2001), Spanish-born Cuban poster artist * Henry Ballate (born 1966), artist, born in Aguada de Pasajeros * Juan Pablo Ballester Carmenates (born 1966), photographer, video artist, born in Camagüey * Dulce Beatriz (1931–2021), painter, born in Havana * José Bedia Valdés (born 1959), painter, born in Havana * Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agustín Drake Aldama
Agustín Drake Aldama (1 September 1934 – 4 August 2022) was a Cuban metal sculptor. Born in Matanzas, he graduated at the Escuela Provincial de Artes Plásticas Alberto Tarascó, Matanzas, Cuba in 1953 and years later he was a director of this school between 1963 and 1968. He developed different art forms like drawing, painting, sculpture and graphic design. Individual exhibitions Drake made various exhibitions, among them we can quote ''Exposición de Esculturas de Agustín Drake'' at Liceo de Matanzas, Matanzas, Cuba in 1959; ''Sculpture sur la Faune Fantastique'' at Anasy Antananarivo, Madagascar and ''Fauna fantástica. Esculturas de Agustín Drake'' at Salao Internacional do Departamento Nacional de Museus e Monumentos, Luanda, Angola and Museu Nacional de Arte, Maputo, Mozambique, both in 1981. Collective exhibitions Drake also formed part of many collective exhibitions: for example at Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana he shows his work in 1954, 1955, 1956, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Bernal (artist)
José Bernal Romero (January 8, 1925 – April 19, 2010) was a Cuban-American artist, born in Santa Clara, Cuba, in the former province of Las Villas (now Villa Clara). He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1980. Bernal's aesthetics stemmed from his Cuban birth and the experience of exile and renewal. His art has been described as modernist, abstract, and expressionist. The term postmodernist also may be applied to Bernal's diverse and complex body of work, specifically as he rejected the notion of the new in art, a characteristic imbued in postmodern theory. Biography Life in Cuba A a child, Bernal was privately tutored in art and music. He graduated from Normal Teachers College in 1945 and began teaching at a series of public and private schools in the province of Las Villas. Simultaneously, he enrolled in the ''Escuela de Artes Plásticas Leopoldo Romañach'' where he earned his MFA. His musical and visual creations were performed and exhibited in Santa Clara an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humberto Castro
Humberto Jesús Castro García (born July 9, 1957) is a Cuban painter. He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro" and at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana, Cuba. In 1980 he became part of the Taller Experimental de Gráfica (TEG), Havana, and from 1982 until 1985 he was also member of the ''Equipo de Creación Colectiva Hexágono'', Havana. Individual exhibitions '"Hallazgos"', in 1980, was his first individual exhibition and it took place at Teatro Mella, Havana, Cuba. In 1988 ''"Three Cuban Artists"'' in Gallery 76, Ontario College of Art/Forest City Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Three years after this experience in North America ''"Humberto Castro. Jeune Peinture"'', Grand Palais, Paris, France. In 1993 ''"Humberto Castro. L'envol d'Icare"''. Le Monde de L'Art, Paris, France and Art 93 Chicago. The New Pier Show, Chicago, Illinois, USA. In 1995 ''"Le Radeau d'Ulyses"''. Le Monde de L'Art, París, France and ''"Humberto Castro. Nu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Álvarez Castelló
Pedro Reinaldo Álvarez Castelló (February 9, 1967 – February 12, 2004) was a Cuban artist who rose to prominence during Cuba's Special Period. Biography Álvarez was a native of Havana, Cuba. He studied art at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes “San Alejandro” from 1980 to 1985 and the Instituto Superior Pedagógico Enrique José Varona from 1986 to 1991. He was a member of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba. On February 12, 2004, Álvarez died just five days after the beginning of a major solo exhibition of his work, "Landscape in the Fireplace," at the Arizona State University Art Museum. Work Álvarez's paintings are shown in museums around the world, including the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana in Havana, the Museo Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville, Spain, the Arizona State University Art Museum in Tempe, Arizona, the Museum of Art in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and the Museo de la Universidad de Alicante in Alicante ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Consuelo Castañeda
Consuelo Castañeda (born 1958, Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban artist, professor, and art critic whose work includes painting, installations, photography, graphic art, architecture, and print. She was a major part of a movement of the relationship between art and politics in the 1980s avant-garde scene and revolutionized how women were treated in the art world. Castañeda is also credited with helping to catapult the cultural production of the Cuban avant-garde onto the international stage and shifting the popular understanding of the relationship between art and politics in Cuba, as well as in broader Latin America. Castañeda was living in Miami, Florida until 2016, and then moved back to Havana, Havana, Cuba. Biography In 1977, Castañeda attended the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts in Havana, Cuba. She then attended the Advanced Institute of Fine Arts in Havana, Cuba in 1982 where she would then teach and add contemporary discourse to the curriculum. As a professor at the Insti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Emilia Castagliola
María Emilia Castagliola (born 1946) is a Cuban-American painter and conceptual artist. She is also known by the name Maria Faedo. Born in Havana, Cuba, she immigrated to the United States in 1961. Her early work stressed her Cuban roots with the use of Catholic and Renaissance icons; her more recent projects have been installation and community-based. Biography Castagliola has a B.A. degree in sociology, in addition to B.F.A and M.F.A degrees from the University of South Florida. She has taught art, as an assistant professor, at the same university. Castagliola has a background in social services and religion. Her early work synthesized her Cuban roots with Catholic and Renaissance icons, but she also tried to incorporate personal things in her artwork. She then moved on towards installation and community-based projects. Castagliola discusses that it is within her work that we can see and comprehend her bicultural dichotomy. She focuses her artwork on Latin American traditions a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Williams Carmona
Williams Carmona is a Cuban painter. He was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1967. In the early 1990s he moved to Puerto Rico. He has works in a number of museums including the Museum of Latin American Art The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) was founded by Dr. Robert Gumbiner in 1996 in Long Beach, California, United States, and serves the greater Los Angeles area. MOLAA is the only museum in the United States dedicated to modern and contemp ... (MOLAA). References External links Facebook- Williams CarmonaNexos Magazine "Williams Carmona surrealismo caribeño"Cernuda Artewilliamscarmona.com Living people 1967 births Artists from Havana Cuban contemporary artists Cuban painters Cuban surrealist artists {{Cuba-artist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Rodríguez Cárdenas
Carlos Rodríguez Cárdenas is a Cuban painter. Biography Rodríguez Cárdenas was born in 1962 in Sancti Spiritus, Villa Clara, and completed his arts studies in 1983 at Havana’s Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA). He formed part of the René Portocarrero workshop, where he began to make a name for himself in serigraphy, drawing and painting. He became a key figure in the resurgence of criticism and of the arts movement at the time. His participation played a decisive role in the birth of the provisional group. From among the imagery created in the late 1980s, which questioned and made ironic the “revolutionary” state slogans, some of Rodríguez Cárdenas's proposals became iconic representations of his generation such as his self-portrait featuring him bare-chested, the skin painted like a brick wall, on which the words ”I am my home” are written; from his neck hangs a skeleton with a comic blurb that reads “I do not exist, only my intention”. In Rodríguez Cár ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agustín Cárdenas
250px, ''Untitled'' (1961), sculpture by Auguste Cardenas in the area above the Roman quarry in Lake_Neusiedl.html" ;"title="Sankt Margarethen im Burgenland near Lake Neusiedl">Sankt Margarethen im Burgenland near Lake Neusiedl. Agustín Cárdenas Alfonso (April 10, 1927, Matanzas, Cuba – February 9, 2001, Havana, Cuba) was a Cuban sculptor who was active in the Surrealist movement in Paris. His sculpture was influenced by Brâncuși, Henry Moore, and Jean Arp. Poet André Breton said of his artistic hand that it was "efficient as a dragonfly." Biography Cárdenas was a descendant of slaves from Senegal and the Congo, and was born in Matanzas, a major port in the sugar industry. In Cuba, Cárdenas studied under Juan José Sicre, and from 1943 to 1949 at Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes “San Alejandro” in Havana. He was member of ''Asociación de Grabadores de Cuba'' (AGC) from 1951 to 1955, and of the creative group ''Los Once'' from 1953 to 1955. Cárdenas' work wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camila Cabello
Karla Camila Cabello Estrabao (; ; born March 3, 1997) is an American singer and songwriter. She rose to prominence as a member of the Pop music, pop girl group Fifth Harmony, one of the List of best-selling girl groups, best-selling girl groups of all time. While in the group, Cabello established herself as a solo artist with collaborative singles "I Know What You Did Last Summer (song), I Know What You Did Last Summer" (with Shawn Mendes) and "Bad Things (Machine Gun Kelly and Camila Cabello song), Bad Things" (with Machine Gun Kelly (rapper), Machine Gun Kelly), the latter making number four on the US Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100. She left Fifth Harmony in late 2016. Cabello's debut studio album, ''Camila (album), Camila'' (2018), peaked atop the US Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200. Largely influenced by Latin music, its lead single "Havana (Camila Cabello song), Havana" (featuring Young Thug) was an international chart-topper. It was the List of best-selling si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adriano Buergo
Adriano Buergo (born José Adriano Buergo y Ortiz March 5, 1964), is a Cuban artist specializing in painting, drawing and installations. Buergo was a member of two in Havana, Cuba based artistic groups: Grupo Vindicación, from 1983–84; and Grupo Puré, from 1986–1987. Buergo studied painting in at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro" between 1980 and 1983 and continued his studies until he graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in 1988. He was a professor at the ''Instituto Superior Pedagógico "Enrique José Varona,"'' in Havana, Cuba, from 1988-1990. Individual exhibitions * 1986 – ''"Del Ambiente"'', Wifredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba. * 1989 – ''"Roto Expone. Adriano Buergo"'', Castillo de la Real Fuerza, Havana, Cuba. * 1990 – ''"Solo Show"'', Provincial Center of Culture, Pinar del Río, Cuba. * 1991 – ''"Ana Albertina & Adriano"'', Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico. Collectives exhibitions * 1986 – "Puré Expone", G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matanzas
Matanzas (Cuban ; ) is the capital of the Cuban province of Matanzas Province, Matanzas. Known for its poets, culture, and Afro-American religions, Afro-Cuban folklore, it is located on the northern shore of the island of Cuba, on the Bay of Matanzas (Spanish ''Bahia de Matanzas''), east of the capital Havana and west of the resort town of Varadero. Matanzas is called the ''City of Bridges'', for the seventeen bridges that cross the three rivers that traverse the city (Rio Yumuri, San Juan, and Canimar). For this reason it was referred to as the "Venice of Cuba." It was also called "La Atenas de Cuba" ("The Athens of Cuba") for its poets. Matanzas is known as the birthplace of the music and dance traditions danzón and Cuban rumba, rumba. History Matanzas was founded on October 12, 1693, as ''San Carlos y San Severino de Matanzas''. This followed a royal decree ("''real cédula''") issued on September 25, 1690, which decreed that the bay and port of Matanzas be settled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
