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Studies: 2000 – 2001. 12th grade, Spanish Educational Center of Havana / 2001 - 2003: Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos Workshop School / 2003 - 2006: Escola de Canteiros de Pontevedra (autonomous body of the Pontevedra council) / 2006 - 2007: Introduction to Art I and II / 2013: Pictorial Integration Course, San Gerónimo of Havana School. Scholarships and residencies: 2018. José Jacinto Milanes. AHS. Scenic Design Main solo exhibitions: 2004. Painting exhibition at La Petit Galerie de Teo, Pontevedra. Main group exhibitions: 2004. a ́ X Feira dos callos e da Canteria de…Read more …

Lidzie Alvisa Jiménez (Havana, 1969) graduated in 1988 from the specialty of engraving at the San Alejandro Academy in her hometown. Later he studied higher studies in the same specialty at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), from which he graduated in 1994. Photographer, sculptor and installation artist, she has made more than a dozen personal exhibitions in Cuba and the United States. He has participated in group shows in Italy, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Chile, the United States, Belgium and Cuba. He has participated in international art fairs in Europe, Asia and America.Read more …

Jany Batista (Havana *2001) is a Cuban contemporary visual artist whose career reflects both academic excellence and creative innovation within the Havana art scene. She began her formal training in 2014 at the Experimental Center of Visual Arts “José Antonio Díaz Peláez” (23 and C), graduating in 2016 with special recognition. That same year, she entered the prestigious National Academy of Fine Arts “San Alejandro,” where she graduated with honors in 2020. In 2021, Batista continued her studies at the University of the Arts (ISA), Faculty of Visual Arts, where she is currently…Read more …

Talía is a Cuban artist based in London since 2021. She holds a Master’s in Contemporary Art Practice, Public Sphere from the Royal College of Art and a Bachelor’s in Fine Art, Sculpture from the University of Art of Cuba. Talía works across mediums in installation, performance, text, photography, and video art, exploring issues of social mobility and global inequities, informed by cultural and historical dilemmas in her home country. Talía has worked and exhibited in Cuba, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the UK, and Japan. Solo and two-person exhibitions include “Self-Preservation”, as part of…Read more …

ALICIA LEAL (*1957) is an artist, who’s work oscillates between dream and reality. With carefree Caribbean color intensities she leans her narrative, surreal paintings towards Cuban folk art. Her subjects are fables, mysteries, visions, myths and life itself. Someone might say that Alicia is an artist touched by an elf. Others attribute her virtues to a kind of state of grace. I would say that we are in front of a personality that has succeeded in finding those magic strings that emerge from her visual repertoire with intuition, craftsmanship, persistent search, imagination, wisdom…Read more …

The Graceful Flight of the Woman-Bird “I am the vision that arrives at dawn with a bunch of transparent lilies (…) I am a kaleidoscope in the mist of a vault I am the woman who loves and expects nothing.” Zaida del Río  (“The Woman of Winter”) At the end of the 1970s a body of work emerged in the Cuban art scene that rapidly filled a unique space. The drawings, engravings, installations, and paintings by Zaida del Río (* 1954, Guadalupe, Las Villas) took their place at the top of the art…Read more …