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List Of Cuban Women Artists
This is a list of women artists who were born in Cuba or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. A *Yaquelin Abdala (born 1968), mixed media artist *Belkis Ayón (1967–1999), printmaker B *María Brito (born 1947), Cuban-American painter, sculptor *Tania Bruguera (born 1968), installation artist C *María Magdalena Campos Pons (born 1959), Cuban-American multidisciplinary artist *Maria Emilia Castagliola (born 1946), mixed-media artist * Sandra Amelia Ceballos Obaya (born 1961), painter *Mirta Cerra Herrera (1904–1986), painter * Liliam Cuenca (born 1944), painter, engraver D * Demi (artist) (born 1955), Cuban-born American contemporary painter * Ana Albertina Delgado Álvarez (born 1963), painter, photographer, installation artist F *Coco Fusco (born 1960), Cuban American interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator * Lourdes Gomez Franca (1933–2018), Cuban–American painter, poet G *María Elena González (born 1957), installation artist J * Martha Jim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuba
Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean meet. Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico), south of both the American state of Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola ( Haiti/Dominican Republic), and north of both Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Havana is the largest city and capital; other major cities include Santiago de Cuba and Camagüey. The official area of the Republic of Cuba is (without the territorial waters) but a total of 350,730 km² (135,418 sq mi) including the exclusive economic zone. Cuba is the second-most populous country in the Caribbean after Haiti, with over 11 million inhabitants. The territory that is now Cuba was inhabited by the Ciboney people from the 4th millennium BC with the Gua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenda León
Glenda León is a Cuban artist born in Havana, in 1976. León received a graduate degree in visual arts from the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana, while also graduating from the Academy of Media Arts Cologne in Cologne, Germany in 2007. She is noted for her body of work spanning from drawing to video art, including installation, objects, and photography. León is "interested in interstices between visible and invisible, between sound and silence, between ephemeral and eternal." She is currently based in Havana and Madrid. Awards Her internationally acclaimed work has received prizes such as The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award and residencies like Couvent des Recollets, in Paris and Fonderie Darling, in Montreal. Additional international prizes include the Latin American Roaming Art (LARA) award. Public collections Her works belong to the permanent collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesbia Vent Dumois
Lesbia Claudina Vent Dumois (born 1932) is a contemporary Cuban visual artist, whose works include illustration, painting, art curation, and engraving. 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, Cuba. Vent Dumois studied at the ''Escuela de Artes Plásticas'' in Santa Clara, Cuba under Leopoldo Romañach. In 1961 she obtained a UNESCO fellowship to study lithography in Prague. In 1968 she was a member of the Taller Experimental de Gráfica (TEG), in Havana. From 1980 to 1993, she was Director of Fine Arts at the Casa de las Américas in Havana, and since 1993 is Vice President of the Casa de las Américas. Exhibitions Solo exhibitions * 1954 ''Grabados'', in the Galería Habana, Arte y Cinema La Rampa, Havana, Cuba. * 1961 ''Engravings'', in the Union of Fine Artists, Prague. Group exhibitions * 1952, ''Exposición de la Estampa Cubana' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilda Vidal Valdés
Hilda Aurora Vidal Valdés (born August 13, 1941, in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban artist, specializing in painting, drawing, design, sculpture, collage Collage (, from the french: coller, "to glue" or "to stick together";) is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. ..., artistic tapestry, and papier mache. Vidal from 1959 to 1961, studied fashion design and interior design at the ''Lily del Barrio's American Academy'' in Havana, Cuba, and in 1961, studied scenography and theater wardrobe at the ''Sala Arlequín'' in Havana, Cuba. She was married to fellow Cuban painter Manuel Vidal. In 2021, the National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba acquires two oil on canvas works by Hilda Vidal. Individual exhibitions * 1975 – ''"Pinturas de Hilda Vidal"''; Galería La Rampa, Hotel Habana Libre, Havana, Cuba. * 1978 – ''"Paseo por el Sol. Oleos de Hil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Emilia Valdés Borrero
Julia Emilia Valdés Borrero (born February 26, 1952, in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba) is a Cuban artist specializing in painting, drawing, engraving, and illustration. From 1967 to 1972, she studied in the Escuela Nacional de Arte (ENA), in Havana, Cuba. Between 1984 and 1989 she studied art history at the Universidad de Oriente in Santiago de Cuba. Individual exhibitions Between 1982 and 1998, she presented several solo exhibitions, both in Cuba and in Europe. * 1982: ''Músicos y Palmas,'' Havana * 1989: ''Exposition Peintures de Choy, Julia Valdés, Manuel Pozo,'' Bordeaux, France * 1993: ''Paintings. Julia Valdés/Alberto Lescay,'' Berlin, Germany * 1996: ''Día Imaginario. Julia Valdés Borrero,'' Havana * 1998: ''De máscaras y otras imágenes. Julia Valdés,'' Santiago de Cuba Collective exhibitions * 1992: ''De otra isla. Muesta colectiva de pintores cubanos,'' Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic * 1993: ''Neve Cubanische Malerel (Six Cuban Fine Artists),'' Spey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gladys Triana
Gladys Triana is a Cuban-American visual artist. Triana's career as an artist has spanned nearly six decades and includes works on paper, paintings, sculpture, mixed-media collage, installations, and photography. Triana currently resides in New York City and is still actively creating artwork. Early life and education Gladys Triana Perez was born to José Daniel Triana and Francisca Maria Perez on November 17, 1937, in Camagüey, Cuba. Triana has two siblings, José Triana (poet), José Triana, a well-recognized Cuban playwright and poet, and Lyda Elena Triana Perez, an actress who performed in Cuba and Spain, and eventually became a messo singer in the chorus Zarzuela and the Teatro Real, in Madrid. When she was 6 years old, Triana’s family moved to Bayamo, Cuba for her father’s job, where she attended primary school. She lived in Bayamo until 1959, when she moved to Havana, Cuba. In Havana, Triana worked in the Department of Design at the Instituto Nacional de la Industria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
