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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 Caribb ...

painters Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

Colonial Period (1750s–1902)

Miguel Arias Bardou Miguel Arias Bardou (1841–1915) was a Spanish born Cuban painter. He is best remembered for colorful landscapes such as ''Pueblo Campesino'' (1891) and ''Bohío y Palma con Riachuelo'' (1908) which mainly depicted harmonious rural themes. Bardo ...

Guillermo Collazo Guillermo Collazo Tejada (7 June 1850, Santiago de Cuba - 26 September 1896, Paris) was a Cuban painter and advocate for independence. Biography Collazo was born into an established colonial family. His artistic talent was noticed at an early ...

* 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 ...

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 tim ...

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 Antonio Sánchez Araujo (1887–1946) was a Cuban ''costumbrista'' painting, painter, during the early years of the Cuban republic. His paintings have been admired for their strong colorful and definite techniques. He was born in Santa Lucía, O ...

* Pastor Argudín Pedroso * Armando Menocal * Antonio Rodriguez Morey * Leopoldo Romañach

The Vanguard (1880s–1920s)

Eduardo Abela Eduardo Abela (1889–1965) was a Cuban painter and comics artist. Born in San Antonio de los Baños, he studied at the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 1921. For the next decade he lived abroad, first in Spain and then in France ...

* Cundo Bermúdez * Víctor Manuel García Valdés * Antonio Gattorno *

Wifredo Lam Wifredo Óscar de la Concepción Lam y Castilla (; December 8, 1902 – September 11, 1982), better known as Wifredo Lam, was a Cuban artist who sought to portray and revive the enduring Afro-Cuban spirit and culture. Inspired by and in conta ...

* Fidelio Ponce de León *

Amelia Peláez Amelia Peláez del Casal (5 January 1896 – 8 April 1968) was an important Cuban painter of the Avant-garde generation. Biography Amelia Peláez was born in 1896 in Yaguajay, in the former Cuban province of Las Villas (now Sancti Spíritus P ...

* Marcelo Pogolotti * René Portocarrero * Carlos Enriquez Gomez * Juan Ramon Valdez Gomez

The Moderns

José Bernal José Bernal Romero (January 8, 1925 – April 19, 2010, known by his first name and by his paternal family name José Bernal) was a Cuban-American artist, born in Santa Clara, Cuba, in the former province of Las Villas (now Villa Clara). H ...

Hugo Consuegra Hugo Consuegra (born Hugo Consuegra Sosa October 26, 1929 in Havana, Cuba – January 24th 2003 in New York City, New York) was a Cuban-born artist and architect who, in 1953, became one of the founding members of Los Once (The Eleven), a group of y ...

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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 * 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 *

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 *

Rafael Soriano (painter) Rafael Soriano (November 23, 1920 – April 9, 2015) was a Cuban painter who lived in the United States. Biography Soriano was born on November 23, 1920, in Cidra, Matanzas Province, Cuba. He was studied at the San Alejandro Art Academy in Hav ...

Contemporary Contemporary history, in English-language historiography, is a subset of modern history that describes the historical period from approximately 1945 to the present. Contemporary history is either a subset of the late modern period, or it is o ...

A–M

* Jeannine Achón * Ana Albertina Delgado Álvarez * Angel Delgado Fuentes *

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 Super ...

* 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 ...

* Luis Enrique Camejo *

Humberto Castro Humberto Castro (born Humberto Jesús Castro García in 1957 in Havana, Cuba) is an important Cuban painter. He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro" and at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana, Cuba. In 1 ...

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 Xavier Ignacio Cortada (born September 13, 1964, in Albany, New York) is an American eco-artist, public artist and former lawyer. As a National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program fellow and a New York Foundation for the Arts ...

* José Ramón Díaz Alejandro * Ofill Echevarria * Carlos Estévez (artist) * Roberto Fabelo * Emilio Falero * Miguel Fleitas * Juan Gonzalez * Josignacio *

Kcho KCHO (sometimes spelled "K'cho"), born Alexis Leiva Machado on the 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 in 1995. Biograph ...

* Julio Larraz * Roel Caboverde Llacer * Rubén Torres Llorca * Luis Marín * Juan T. Vázquez Martín *

Manuel Mendive Manuel Mendive Hoyos (born 1944) is one of the leading Afro-Cuban artists to emerge from the revolutionary period, and is considered by many to be the most important Cuban artist living today. Biography Mendive was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1944 ...

N–Z

* Adriano Nicot * Pedro Pablo Oliva * Gina Pellón *

Sandra Ramos Sandra Ramos (born Oct, 1969) is a Cuban contemporary painter, printmaker, collagist, video and installation artist who explores nationality, gender, and identity in her work. She is known for works featuring her character of the Cuban Pioneer gir ...

* Roberto Álvarez Ríos * Miguel Rodez * Emilio Hector Rodriguez * Juan Andrés Rodríguez known as El Monje * Gilberto Andrés Romero Pino * José Ángel Rosabal Fajardo * Zilia Sánchez Domínguez * Tomás Sánchez *

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 * Jesús Selgas Cepero * José Omar Torres López * Carlos Trillo Name *

Zafra Zafra () is a town situated in the Province of Badajoz (Extremadura, Spain), and the capital of the comarca of Zafra - Río Bodión. It has a population of 16,677, according to the 2011 census. Zafra is the hometown of Fray Ruy Lopez, autho ...

* Juan Ramon Valdez Gomez * Fernando Velázquez Vigil * Pedro Vizcaíno *

Rafael Zarza Gonzalez Rafael Zarza Gonzalez (born October 1944 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban artist specializing in painting, engraving, graphic design and illustration. Zarza studied drawing and painting from 1959 to 1963 at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "Sa ...

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Painters Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

Cuban Cuban may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Cuba, a country in the Caribbean * Cubans, people from Cuba, or of Cuban descent ** Cuban exile, a person who left Cuba for political reasons, or a descendant thereof * Cuban citizen, a pers ...