José Antonio Cedeño (born José Antonio Cedeño y Labout on June 16, 1939, in

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, Oriente, Cuba) is a self-taught Cuban artist specializing in sculpture, drawing and painting. During the 1950s, Cedeño was a professional in Aeronautical engineering and automotive mechanics in Havana. Since 1990, he has been a member of the

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( UNEAC). His first individual exhibition, ''José Cedeño. Antillana de Acero'', opened in 1971 in Havana, Cuba. He has also participated in a number of collaborative shows: the II Trienal de Arte Insito (Naif), in

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, Slovakia ( Czechoslovakia at the time), in 1969; the ''11 Pintores Ingenuos de Cuba'', at the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, in Mexico City in 1976; the ''Artistas Populares de Cuba'', at the

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in 1981; and the ''Inventario de Cosas Naturales. Pintores, Dibujantes y Escultores populares de Cuba'', at the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, in Havana in 1990. The principal collection of his work is at the

, Havana.

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* * Cuban contemporary artists Living people 1939 births {{Cuba-artist-stub