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BORN:
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FORTHCOMING
SOLO EXHIBITIONS: |
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- 2001
Residency program, San Francisco Art Institute, California, United States.
Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba.
The Kitchen, New York, United States.
LiebmanMagnan Gallery, New York.
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- 1999
Vera van Laer Gallery, Antwerpen, Belgium.
Lo que me corresponde, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Fundación Colloquia,
Ciudad Guatemala, Guatemala. (catalogue)
- 1997
El peso de la culpa, Tejadillo 214, Havana, Cuba.
Anima, The Base Space, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago,
United States.
- 1996
Cabeza abajo, Espacio Aglutinador, Havana. (catalogue)
Lágrimas de tránsito, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana.
- 1995
Lo que me corresponde, artist's home, Havana.
Soñando, with Fernando Rodriguez, Gasworks Studios Gallery, London,
England.
- 1993
Memoria de la postguerra, Galería Plaza Vieja, Fondo Cubano de Bienes
Culturales, Havana.
- 1992
Ana Mendieta, Sala Polivalente, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales,
Havana. (catalogue)
- 1986
Marilyn is alive, Galería Leopoldo Romañach, Academia de Artes Plásticas
San Alejandro, Havana.
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FORTHCOMING
GROUP EXHIBITIONS: |
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- 2001
Performance Festival, Odense, Denmark.
Span, International Performance Arts Residency Project, London, United
Kingdom.
- 2000
VII Havana Bienal. Habana, Cuba. (catalogue)
Eventa V, Sweden. (catalogue)
Arte all Arte, 5th edition, Arte Continua, Italy. (catalogue)
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SELECTED
GROUP EXHIBITIONS: |
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- 2000
Exotica Incognita, 3rd Kwangju Bienale, Kwangju, South Korea. March
29, 2000. (catalogue)
ARCO: Feria de Arte Contemporáneo, Recinto Ferial Juan Carlos
I, Madrid, Spain. (catalogue)
- 1999
Videodrome, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, United States.
Utopia/Distopia, 8va. Muestra Internacional de Performance, Mexico City,
Mexico.
Looking for a Place, III International Biennial, SITE Santa Fe, New
Mexico, United States. (catalogue)
Happening, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium. Cuba -Maps of desire, Kunsthalle
Wien, Austria. (catalogue)
- 1998
Art in Freedom, Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
The Garden of Forking Paths, (traveling exhibition, 1998-1999) Helsinski
City Art Museum, Helsinski, Finland;
Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Demark;
EdsuikKunst & Kultur, Stockholm, Sweden. (catalogue)
II Salón de Arte Contemporáneo, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo
Wifredo Lam, La Habana. (catalogue)
La dirección de la mirada, Stadhaus, Zürich; Musée
de Beaux Arts, La Chaux-des-Fonds, Switzerland. (catalogue)
Obsesiones. Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana.
De discretas autorías. Cuba y Venezuela: Nuevas poéticas,
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Mario Abreu, Maracay, Venezuela.
(catalogue) Fragmentos a su imán. Galería Latinoamericana,
Casa de las Américas,Havana. (catalogue)
III Bienal Barro de América. Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas,
Venezuela.
Desde el cuerpo: Alegorías de lo femenino, Museo de Bellas Artes,
Caracas, Venezuela.
- 1997
Trade routes, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, The Electric Workshop, Johannesburg,
South Africa. (catalogue)
Troisiéme Manifestation International video et art electronique
de Champs Libres, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
1990's Art from Cuba, a national residency and exhibition program (traveling
exhibition 1997-1999) Betty Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Institute,
Chicago;
Art in General, New York, Hallwalls Center for Contemporary Art, Buffalo,
New York. (catalogue)
Trabajo por cuenta propia, Arts and Letters Faculty, University of Havana,
Havana.
New Art from Cuba: Utopic Territories, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery,
Vancouver, Canada. (catalogue)
ARCO: Feria de Arte Contemporáneo, Recinto Ferial Juan Carlos
I, Madrid.
Las mieles del silencio, Galería Latinoamericana, Casa de las
Américas, Havana.
El ocultamiento de las almas, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales,
Havana.
- 1996
23rd Sao Paolo International Biennial, Parque do Ibirapuera, Sao Paolo,
Brazil. (catalogue)
The visible and the invisible -- representing the body in contemporary
art and society, St.Pancras Church, Institute of International Visual
Art, London.
La carne, Espacio Aglutinador, Havana. (catalogue)
I Salón Internacional de Estandartes, Centro Cultural Tijuana,
Tijuana, México;
Museo X Teresa, México City.
Otras Escri(p)turas, Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas y Diseño,
Havana.
Un giro de tuerca, Galería Taller de Serigrafía René
Portocarrero, Havana.
Mujeres por mujeres, Galería Imago, Gran Teatro de la Habana,
Havana.
- 1995
1st Contemporary Art Competition, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana.
(catalogue)
ART/OMI International Workshop, Hudson, New York.
II Bienal del Barro, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Lía
Bermudez, Maracaibo, Venezuela. (catalogue)
La Isla Posible, Centro di Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona, Spain.
New Art from Cuba, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.
Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, Cumbria, England. (catalogue)
Las formas de la tierra, Galería Buades, Madrid.
- 1994
La otra orilla, V Havana Biennial, Castillo de los Tres Reyes del Morro,
Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana. (catalogue)
Una brecha entre el cielo y la tierra, Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas
y Diseño, Havana. (catalogue)
Utopía, Galería Espada, Casa del Joven Creador, Havana.
Catálogo, Galería Catálogo, Union of Writers and
Artists of Cuba, Havana.
Salón de la Ciudad '94, Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas
y Diseño, Havana.
- 1993
XI International Drawing Biennial, Middlesbrough Fine Arts Museum, Cleveland,
England.
La nube en pantalones, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana.
Dibujo no te olvido, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana.
- 1992
2nd International Poster Biennial, Museo Jose Luis Cuevas, Mexico City.
- 1989
II Festival de la Creación y la Investigación, Instituto
Superior de Arte, Havana.
Fotografía Manipulada, workshop's exhibition, Fototeca de Cuba,
Havana.
Es sólo lo que ves (arte abstracto), La Habana.
- 1988
No por mucho madrugar amanece más temprano, Fototeca de Cuba,
Havana.
El ISA en Casa, Casa de las Americas, Havana.
- 1987
I Festival de la Creación y la Investigación, Instituto
Superior de Arte, Havana.
- 1986
Proteo, Galería Leopoldo Romañach, Academia de Artes Plásticas
San Alejandro, Havana.
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PERFORMANCES: |
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the series El peso de la culpa
no. IV Exotica Incognita, 3rd Kwangju Bienale, Kwangju, South Korea.
March 29, 2000.
Utopia/Distopia, 8va. Muestra Internacional de Performance, Mexico City,
Mexico. October 15, 1999.
no. III Hapenning, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium. May 8, 1999.
no. II Looking for a Place, III International Biennial, SITE Santa Fe,
New Mexico, United States. July 10, 199.
Vera van Laer Gallery, Amberes, Belgium. March 26 1999.
no. I Cuba -Maps of desire, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria. March
19, 1999.
Desde el cuerpo: Alegorías de lo femenino. Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas.
February 15 1999.
Tejadillo 214, La Habana, Cuba. May 4, 1997.
from
the series El cuerpo del silencio
Silencio, Lo que me corresponde,Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Fundación
Colloquia, Ciudad Guatemala, Guatemala. April 24 1999.
no. II Tejadillo 214, Havana. no. I Fragmentos a su imán, Galería Latinoamericana,
Casa de las Américas. June 17, 1998.
The Garden of Forking Paths. Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen. April 25,
1998.
Destierro Obsesiones, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana.
August 13, 1998.
II Bienal Barro de América, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela.
July 9, 1998.
from
the series Dédalo o el imperio de salvación
no. II De discretas autorías, Cuba y Venezuela: Nuevas poéticas. Museo
de Arte Contemporáneo Mario Abrey, Maracay.
no. I Museo de Bellas Artes, La Havana.
Untitled Xamaca Workshop, Cristal Spring, Jamaica.
Art in America (the dream), (work in progress) Gallery 2, The School
of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. March 7-8 1997.
Cabeza abajo Cabeza abajo, Espacio Aglutinador,Havana. December 20,
1996.
Trabajo por cuenta propia, Arts and Letters Faculty, University of Havana,
Havana. May 6, 1997.
New Art from Cuba: Utopian Territories, The Western Front, Vancouver.
from
the series Lo que me corresponde:
Estudio de Taller 23rd Sao Paolo Biennale, Parque de Ibirapuera, Sao
Paolo.October 5, 1996.
Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana. July 18, 1996.
Lo que me corresponde artist's home, Havana.
from
the series Memoria de la Postguerra
Miedo La otra orilla, V Havana Biennial, Castillo de los Tres Reyes
del Morro, Havana. May 8, 1994.
Alter Ego Centro Provincial de las Artes Plásticas y Diseño,
Havana.
Proyecto de obra Galería Espada, Casa del Joven Creador, Havana.
from
the series Homenaje a Ana Mendieta.
Anima The Visible and the Invisible: Re-presenting the Body in Contemporary
Art and Society, St. Pancras Church, Institute of International Visual
Art, London. September 19 1996.
Rastros corporales 1982-1993 (sobre performance de Ana Mendieta).
no. II La nube en pantalones, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana,1993.
no. I No por mucho madrugar amanece más temprano, Fototeca de Cuba,
Havana,1988.
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VIDEOS:
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Juego con
los sentimientos (playing with feelings,) loop of 5:00 min.
El peso de la culpa (The Burden of Guilt,) 1999, 4:55 min., Production
Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, Austria.
Cabeza abajo (Head Down), 1997, 10:05 min., Production Western Front,
Vancouver, Canada.
Tania Bruguera, Performances 1994-1999 (Selection,) 1999, 10 min.
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COLLECTIONS: |
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Museo Nacional
de Bellas Artes, Havana.
Centro de Arte Contemporaneo Wifredo Lam, Havana.
The New Museum for Latin American Art, Essex, England.
Colección Barro de America, Maracaibo, Venezuela.
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FELLOWSHIPS
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- 1999
Merit Scholarship, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois,
United States.
- 1998
Fellowship, The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York,
United States.
Artist in Residency, Headlands Centers for the Arts, Sausalito, California,
United States.
Artist in Residency, Fundación Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Maracay
Mario Abreu, Maracay, Venezuela.
- 1997
Artist in Residency, "1990's Art from Cuba," a national residency and
exhibition program.
Art in General, The Bronx Council for the Art, The Andy Warhol Foundation,
The School of The Art Institute of Chicago.
January - March. Artist in Residency, The Western Front, media department,
Vancouver.
March-April. Artist in Residency, Ephemeral Sculpture International
Workshop, VI Havana Biennal, Soroa, Pinar del Rio, Cuba.
- 1995
May 1995 Artist in Residency, The Gasworks Studios, London.
Artist in Residency, Slade College of Art, printmaking department, London.
Artist in Residency, ART/OMI International Workshop, Hudson, New York.
Artist in Residency, Xamaca Workshop, Crystal Spring, Jamaica.
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PROFESSIONAL
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1992-96
Professor, painting department, Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana.
1995 Teacher, Workshop and exhibition "Juego de Imagenes," XVII
Festival of New Latin American Film, Instituto de Arte e Industria Cinematografica,
Havana.
1994 Curator of group exhibition "Una brecha entre el cielo y
la tierra" (in conjunction with the V Havana Biennial), Centro de Artes
Plástica y Diseño, Havana.
Teacher, interdisciplinary creativity workshop, Comunidad Las Terrazas,
Pinar del Río, Cuba.
1992-93 Coordinating director, project for children with behavioral
difficulties, Tomas Sánchez Foundation.
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EDUCATION: |
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1999-2001
MFA Performance, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois.
1987-92 Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana.
1983-87 Academia de Artes Plásticas San Alejandro, Havana.
1980-83 Escuela Elemental de Artes Plásticas 20 de Octubre, Havana.
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SELECTED
LECTURES: |
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The Kitchen,
New York, United States.
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam.
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
The School of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston.
Hunter College, New York.
Columbia College, Chicago.
DePaul University, Chicago.
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.
Essex University, Essex, England.
Slade College of Art, London.
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.
ART/OMI, Hudson, New York.
Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana.
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BOOKS
AND CATALOGUES: |
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Corpus
Delecti -Performance Art of the Americas- text by Coco Fusco, text
by Tania Bruguera Edited by Coco Fusco Ed.Routledge, London, England;
New York, United States, 1999. (ilust.) p.152-153 ISBN 0-415-19453-9
(hbk) ISBN 0-415-19454-7 (pbk)
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Performance
Live Art since 1960. text by Roselee Golberg Ed. Thames and Hudson
Ltd, London, England; Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York, United States,
1998. (illust.) p.142 ISBN 0-8109-4360-3
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Cuba
-Los Mapas del Deseo- interview with Octavio Zayas, text Eugenio
Valdes Figueroa Ed. Folio, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, Austria, 1999. (ilust.)
p. 113, 136-140, 144, 155-157, 235-254. exhibition catalogue ISBN 3-85256-110-8
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The
Garden of Forking Paths (illust) exhibition catalogue
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Trade
Routes - 2nd Johannesburg Biennale Ed. Johannesburg Metropolitan
Council, The Prince Claus Fund, New York, United States, 1997 (illust)
p. 84-85 exhibition catalogue ISBN 0-620-21522-4
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Islas
Ed. Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria,
Spain, 1997. (ilust) exhibition catalogue
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1990's
Art from Cuba: A National Residency and Exhibition Program text
by Betty Sue Hertz, Valerie Cassell, among others. 1997 (illust) exhibition
catalogue
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Cuba
siglo XX, Modernidad y Sincretismo "El arte de la negociacion y
el espacio del juego. El coito interrupto del arte cubano contemporaneo."
text by Eugenio Valdes Figueroa Ed. Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno
(CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 1996. (illust.) p.108 exhibition
catalogue
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Cuba:
La Isla Posible Ed. Centro di Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona,
1995 (illust) exhibition catalogue
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New
Art from Cuba text by Antonio Eligio (Tonel) Fernandez Ed. Whitechapel
Art Gallery, London, England, 1995 (illust.) exhibition depliant
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New
Art of Cuba text by Luis Camnitzer Ed. University of Texas Press,
Austin, 1994 (illust.) p.194, 326 ISBN 0-292-71149-2
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1996-2000. Artists work is protected by their own ©.
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