Aimeé García Marrero (born 1972) is a
Cuban painter and mixed media artist. She has exhibited her work internationally and has participated in several art biennials. García Marrero lives in
Havana.
Biography
Aimeé García Marrero was born in 1972 in
Limonar
Limonar is a municipality and town in the Matanzas Province of Cuba.
Overview
The municipality is divided into the barrios of Canímar, Guamacaro, Caoba, Sumidero, Coliseo, and San Miguel.
Established in 1876 as ''Guamacaro'', the name was chan ...
,
Matanzas
Matanzas (Cuban ) is the capital of the Cuban province of Matanzas. Known for its poets, culture, and Afro-Cuban folklore, it is located on the northern shore of the island of Cuba, on the Bay of Matanzas (Spanish ''Bahia de Matanzas''), east ...
,
Cuba. She graduated in 1991 from the Escuela Profesional de Artes Plásticas in
Camagüey
Camagüey () is a city and municipality in central Cuba and is the nation's third-largest city with more than 321,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Camagüey Province.
It was founded as Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe in 1514, by S ...
; followed by study at
Instituto Superior de Arte and graduation in 1996.
From April to May 2016, García Marrero displayed public art in
Times Square in Manhattan entitled ''Times of Silence'', was displayed as part of Times Square Arts.
The work was made up of 6 panels of collaged paper and embroidery thread mounted in display cases.
She has participated in several international biennials including the
57th Venice Biennale
The 57th Venice Biennale was an international contemporary art exhibition held between May and November 2017. The Venice Biennale takes place biennially in Venice, Italy. Artistic director Christine Macel, the chief curator at the Centre Pompi ...
in 2017;
Havana Biennial in 1995, 2012, and 2015;
Cuenca Biennial in 1998;
Gwangju Biennale
The Gwangju Biennale is a contemporary art biennale founded in September 1995 in Gwangju, South Jeolla province, South Korea. The Gwangju Biennale is hosted by the Gwangju Biennale Foundation and the city of Gwangju. The Gwangju Biennale Founda ...
in 1997; and Biennial of Painting of the Caribbean and Central America () in 1996.
Her work is found in museum collections, including at the
Fralin Museum of Art at the
University of Virginia; the
Pérez Art Museum Miami; the
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana (English: National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba);
Arizona State University Art Museum
The Arizona State University Art Museum is an art museum operated by Arizona State University, located on its main campus in Tempe, Arizona. The Art Museum has some 12,000 objects in its permanent collection and describes its primary focuses as c ...
;
El Museo del Barrio
El Museo del Barrio, often known simply as El Museo (the museum), is a museum at 1230 Fifth Avenue in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It is located near the northern end of Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile, immediately north of the Museum of the Cit ...
; Museum of Finest Cuban Arts, Vienna;
and
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the
University of Oregon.
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1972 births
Living people
Cuban women artists
Cuban painters
21st-century Cuban painters
Cuban women painters
Artists from Havana
People from Matanzas Province
Instituto Superior de Arte alumni