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Lesbia Claudina Vent Dumois (born 1932) is a contemporary
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, whose works include
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. She does not specialize in any themes but is "interested in the everyday and historical references." Lesbia Claudina Vent Dumois was born on November 6, 1932, in Cruces, Las Villas,
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. Vent Dumois studied at the ''Escuela de Artes Plásticas'' in Santa Clara,
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under Leopoldo Romañach. In 1961 she obtained a
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fellowship to study lithography in
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. In 1968 she was a member of the Taller Experimental de Gráfica (TEG), in
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Exhibitions


Solo exhibitions

* 1954 ''Grabados'', in the Galería Habana, Arte y Cinema La Rampa,
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. * 1961 ''Engravings'', in the Union of Fine Artists,
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Group exhibitions

* 1952, ''Exposición de la Estampa Cubana'', in the Museo de Bellas Artes de Toluca, Mexico City,
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. * 1959, ''16th National Exhibition of Prints'',
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* 1977, ''Cuba Peintres d'Aujourd'hui'', in the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris,
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. * 1984, I Bienal de La Habana. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes,
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. * 1995, 1er Salón de Arte Cubano Contemporáneo. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes,
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Awards and honors

* 1960, the Prize at the Primer Certamen Latinoamericano de Xilografía,
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. * 1972, Prize in the International Print Biennial Cracow'1972, Kraków,
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. * 1996, Alejo Carpentier Medal, Council of State, Republic of Cuba.


Collections

* Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba * Collection of Engravings, in
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. *Museo de la Solidaridad, Santiago de Chile, Chile


References

Cuban contemporary artists 1932 births Living people Artists from Havana Cuban modern painters Cuban women painters 20th-century Cuban women artists 21st-century Cuban women artists {{Cuba-painter-stub