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Cuban painter and engraver Eduardo Roca, alias Choco, was awarded the 2017 National Prize for Visual Arts on November 3, for his valuable contribution to the development of visual arts on the island. The artist has a degree in Art History from the University of Havana and has developed an important teaching career in art institutions in Cuba and Spain. Choco’s work is exhibited in museums and galleries around the world, such as Cuba’s Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes; the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago, the United States; the Museo…Read more …

Nobody was surprised when Pedro Pablo Oliva (1949, Pinar del Río) was announced the winner of the National Prize in Visual Art in 2006. As stated by David Mateo, this was, “a prize of public consensus.” And it is, because Oliva’s work is, undoubtedly, among the greatest examples of visual arts in the Island. The far-reaching distinction was not the initial recognition already ensured many years ago by said “public consensus”, but merely a confirmation of the substantial contribution made by this creator with his work and of his preeminent place in the…Read more …