The following is a list of Cuban painters.

Colonial Period (1750s–1902)

* Miguel Arias Bardou * Guillermo Collazo * José Nicolás de la Escalera *

Vicente Escobar Vicente Escobar (1757 - 1834) was a Cuban painter. A native of Havana, he was initially self-trained as an artist, though he later graduated from the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. He then undertook a voyage through Sp ...

Víctor Patricio de Landaluze Víctor Patricio de Landaluze (1828 - 8 June 1889), was a Spanish-born painter active for much of his career in Cuba. Biography Born in 1830 in Bilbao, Landaluce received a careful education, which included learning several languages. For a time ...

José Abreu Morell José Abreu Morell (1864–1889) was a Cuban painter. A native of Havana, he studied from 1877 until 1886 at the San Alejandro Academy in that city. He also traveled to Madrid to study at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando ...

* José Joaquín Tejada

Early Republic (1902–1950s)

* Antonio Sanchez Araujo *

Pastor Argudín Pedroso Pastor Argudín Pedroso (1880 – 1968), also known as Pastor Argudín Y Pedroso, was an Afro–Cuban portrait and genre painter, and teacher. He was internationally exhibited and was awarded the Order of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes by the Rep ...

Armando Menocal Armando José Isabel García-Menocal y García-Menocal (1863 – 1942), commonly known as Armando Menocal, was a Cuban painter and educator. Biography and career Menocal was born on July 8, 1863 in Havana, Captaincy General of Cuba, Spanish ...

Antonio Rodriguez Morey Antonio Rodriguez Morey (1872–1967) was one of the pre-eminent Cuban landscape painters. He was born in Spain, in 1874 and studied painting at the San Alejandro national school of fine arts in La Habana, Cuba. In 1891 he moved to Europe to conti ...

Leopoldo Romañach Leopoldo Romañach y Guillen (1862–1951) was a Cuban painter. He was born in Sierra Morena, Cuba, Sierra Morena, Corralillo, in the province of Las Villas Province, Las Villas. Romañach was a professor of color theory at San Alejandro, won a n ...

The Vanguard (1880s–1920s)

* Eduardo Abela *

Cundo Bermúdez Cundo Bermúdez (September 3, 1914 – October 30, 2008), born Secundino (Cundo) Bermúdez y Delgado, was a Cuban painter. Born in Havana, Cuba, he died of a heart attack in his Westchester home on October 30, 2008. In 1926, Bermudez was admitt ...

* Víctor Manuel García Valdés *

Antonio Gattorno Antonio Gattorno (born Havana, March 15, 1904 - died Acushnet, Massachusetts, 1980) was a Cuban painter. He was a distinguished member of the first generation of modern Cuban painters.Alonso ''et al'', p162. Early life He studied at the Academy ...

* Wifredo Lam *

Fidelio Ponce de León Fidelio Ponce de León (24 January 1895Sánchez 1985: 17. - 19 February 1949Sánchez 1985: 14.) was the pseudonym of Alfredo Fuentes Pons, a Cuban painter. A native of Camagüey, he studied at the San Alejandro Academy in Havana from 1913 until ...

* Amelia Peláez * Marcelo Pogolotti *

René Portocarrero René Portocarrero (born Havana, 24 February 1912; died Havana, 7 April 1985) was a Cuban artist recognised internationally for his achievements. History Portocarrero began his artistic education at the San Alejandro academy, but left early and ...

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* Juan Ramon Valdez Gomez

The Moderns

* José Bernal * Hugo Consuegra *

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* Mario Carreño *

Consuelo Castañeda Consuelo Castañeda (born 1958) is a Cuban artist, professor, and art critic whose work includes painting, installations, photography, graphic art, architecture, and print. She was a major part of a movement of the relationship between art and po ...

* Rolando López Dirube *

Antonia Eiriz Antonia Eiriz Vázquez (1929–1995) was an influential Cuban painter whose work was known for its Expressionist qualities and was exhibited throughout Latin America during her life. Life and career She was born in Havana, Cuba in the neighb ...

* Agustín Fernández (artist) * Lourdes Gomez Franca * Ángel Acosta León * Raúl Martínez *

José María Mijares José María Mijares (born 1921 in Havana, Cuba - d. March, 2004) was a Cuban contemporary visual artist. He began drawing in his adolescent years and entered the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts on a scholarship at the age of 16. His greatest i ...

Servando Cabrera Moreno Servando Cabrera Moreno (1923–1981) was a Cuban painter. A supporter of the Cuban Revolution, he created many paintings that depict the Cuban peasantry. Stylistically, his paintings are rooted in the tradition of vanguardia, and are especi ...

Dionisio Perkins Dionisio Perkins (1929 – 2016), better known as Dennis (sometimes spelled "Denis") Perkins, was a Cuban artist recognized as a key member of the early Cuban exile art community in South Florida. Life and career Early years Dionisio Perki ...

* José Rodríguez Fuster *

Loló Soldevilla Dolores "Loló" Soldevilla Nieto (1901–1971) was a Cuban visual artist primarily known for her role in concrete art. Biography Born in 1901 in Havana, Cuba, Soldevilla was an avid painter, sculptor, collage artist and draughtsman. In addi ...

* Rafael Soriano (painter)

Contemporary

A–M

* Jeannine Achón *

Ana Albertina Delgado Álvarez Ana Albertina Delgado Álvarez (born April 1963 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban artist. Her main disciplines are painting, installations and photography. She studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro", Academia Nacional de Bellas A ...

Angel Delgado Fuentes Angel Delgado is a Cuban visual artist who lives in Long Beach, California. Biography Delgado studied at the Elementary School of Visual Arts of Havana, between 1976 and 1980. He graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejand ...

Baruj Salinas Baruj Salinas (born July 6, 1935) is a Cuban-American contemporary visual artist and architect. He is recognized as a central figure in the establishment of the modern Latin American art market in South Florida. Background Salinas' family is of ...

José Bedia Valdés José Braulio Bedia Valdés (born January 13, 1959 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban painter currently residing in Florida. Bedia studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro" and then finished his art studies at the Instituto Sup ...

* Julio Breff *

Adriano Buergo Adriano Buergo (born José Adriano Buergo y Ortiz March 5, 1964), is a Cuban artist specializing in painting, drawing and installations. Buergo was a member of two in Havana, Cuba based artistic groups: Grupo Vindicación, from 1983–84; and Gr ...

Luis Enrique Camejo Luis Enrique Camejo (born January 19, 1971, in Pinar del Río) is a Cuban contemporary painter who won several prizes, including the First Place Prize in the V Painting Contest Nicomedes García Gomez in 2003. He lives and works in Havana today. ...

* Humberto Castro *

Rafael Consuegra Rafael Consuegra (September 16, 1941 – September 17, 2021) was a Cuban-born American sculptor and ceramist who worked in the United States and Europe. Consuegra was born in Havana, Cuba. He left the island in 1960 and established residence ...

* Xavier Cortada * José Ramón Díaz Alejandro *

Ofill Echevarria Ofill Echevarria (born 1972 in Havana, Cuba) is a painter and multimedia artist based in New York City. Ofill graduated from the Elementary School of Fine Arts '20 de Octubre' in 1986 and from the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts in 1991. As a ...

Carlos Estévez (artist) Carlos Estévez is a Cuban visual artist. He received the Grand Prize in the First Salon of Contemporary Cuban Art in 1995, as well as The Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant in 2015. Bermejo, M. Roxana. ''Across Time,'' Contempor ...

Roberto Fabelo Roberto Fabelo (born 1951 Camagüey, Cuba) is a contemporary Cuban painter, sculptor, and illustrator. Biography Born in Guáimaro, Camagüey,Moore, Robin D. (2006) ''Music and Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba'', University of Cali ...

Emilio Falero Emilio Falero (born 1947 in Sagua la Grande, Cuba) is a Cuban Fine Arts painter residing in Florida. Career Emilio Falero was born in Sagua La Grande, Cuba in 1947. Falero began studying art under painters Juan Llera and Juan Luis Ruyan; their tea ...

Miguel Fleitas Miguel A. Fleitas is a Cuban-American visual artist, photographer, and film director based in Miami, Florida. Fleitas was a television director and film editor for several popular television programs during his tenure with Univision and Telemundo ...

* Juan Gonzalez *

Josignacio Josignacio (b. José Ignacio Sánchez-Rius, in Havana, Cuba, on October 24, 1963) is a Cuban Contemporary artist and author. He is among the most significant living contemporary Cuban and Latin American artists due to his career auction records, ...

Kcho KCHO (sometimes spelled "K'cho"), born Alexis Leiva Machado on the Isla de la Juventud, Isle of Pines (1970), is a contemporary Cuban artist. He first attracted international attention by winning the grand prize at South Korea's Gwangju Biennale ...

Julio Larraz Julio Fernández Larraz (born 12 March 1944) is a Cuban artist. He has lived in the United States since 1961. He first worked as a political caricaturist and cartoonist, signing his work Julio Fernandez. In the 1970s, he began to paint and chang ...

Roel Caboverde Llacer Roel Caboverde Llacer (born November 20, 1947 in Baracoa, Cuba) is a Cuban painter. He grew up in the towns of La Poa and Moa and started his painting career as a house painter followed by work painting signs. He even painted murals during his se ...

Rubén Torres Llorca Rubén Torres Llorca (born March 3, 1957, in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban artist specializing in painting, drawing, sculpture, collages, and photography. He studied from 1972 to 1976 at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro" in Havan ...

* Luis Marín *

Juan T. Vázquez Martín Juan T. Vázquez Martín (December 23, 1940 in Caibarién, Villa Clara Province, Las Villas, Cuba – January 31, 2017 in Miami, Florida) lived and worked in Havana, died in Miami. This artist is listed among the Cuban painters, Cuban Painters mast ...

* Manuel Mendive

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Adriano Nicot Adriano Adolfo Fernandez Nicot is a Cuban-American painter and poet based in Miami, Florida. He is known for a distinctive Neo-Expressionist style and is closely associated with the prominent Cuban artists Antonia Eiriz, Manuel Vidal Fernández, ...

Pedro Pablo Oliva Pedro Pablo Oliva Rodríguez (Pinar del Río, Cuba, January 15, 1949) is a Cuban painter. Early life Oliva studied art from 1961 to 1964 in the Provincial School of Plastic Arts in Pinar del Río. He specialized in painting in the National S ...

Gina Pellón Gina Pellón (December 26, 1926 – March 27, 2014) was a Cuban painter who lived in France. She was known for her abstract expressive paintings in strong colours, usually depicting women. She also wrote collections of poems. Life Born in Cuman ...

* Sandra Ramos *

Roberto Álvarez Ríos Roberto Jesús Álvarez Ríos (17 September 1932 – 16 December 2015) was a Cuban artist who specialised in painting and drawing. Between 1951 and 1955, Alvarez studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro" in Havana. In 1958, ...

* Miguel Rodez *

Emilio Hector Rodriguez Emilio Hector Rodriguez (born September 26, 1950, in Sancti Spíritus, Cuba) is a Cuban-American artist. His current work is abstract painting and fine art photography. He resides in Miami, Florida, USA. Rodríguez was born in the colonial villa ...

* Juan Andrés Rodríguez known as El Monje * Gilberto Andrés Romero Pino * José Ángel Rosabal Fajardo * Zilia Sánchez Domínguez *

Tomás Sánchez Tomás Sánchez (born May 22, 1948, in Aguada de Pasajeros, Cienfuegos, Cuba) is a Cuban art, Cuban painter and Engraving, engraver, known for his landscape art, landscapes. Sánchez is the most expensive living Cuban painter. Biography Ear ...

Cesar Santos Cesar Santos (born July 10, 1982) is a contemporary Cuban-American artist and portrait painter. He is better known for his body of work "Syncretism", a term he uses to describe paintings where he presents two or more art tendencies in aesthetic ba ...

Raul Santoserpa Raul Santoserpa (born March 1939 in Las Villas, Cuba) is a Cuban artist specializing in painting and engraving. In 1960 he graduated in Sculpture at the Escuela Provincial de Artes Plásticas “Leopoldo Romañach” Santa Clara, Las Villas, Cu ...

* Jesús Selgas Cepero * José Omar Torres López * Carlos Trillo Name * Zafra * Juan Ramon Valdez Gomez * Fernando Velázquez Vigil *

Pedro Vizcaíno Pedro A. Vizcaíno Martínez (born October 11, 1966), sometimes known by the nickname "Cafetero", is a Cuban-born American artist. He was one of the members of Arte Calle "Street Art" group, between 1985 and 1987. He works in the mediums of paint ...

* Rafael Zarza Gonzalez

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