Ana Albertina Delgado Álvarez (born April 1963) is a Cuban artist. Her main disciplines are painting, installations and photography. She studied at the
Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro
Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro, is the oldest and most prestigious fine arts school in Cuba. It is also known as Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro", Academia San Alejandro, or San Alejandro Academy. The school is lo ...
in
Havana
Havana (; ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) The University of Arts of Cuba / Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) was established on 1 September 1976, by the Cuban government as a school for the arts. Its original structure had three schools: Music, Visual Arts, and Performing Arts.
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, Havana. During the 1980s she was member of the group ''Vinculación'' and also of the
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in Havana, Cuba.
Life
Delgado Álvarez was born in April 1963 in
Havana
Havana (; ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.
Collective exhibitions
She has featured in many collective exhibitions, among them ''"El ISA Saluda la Bienal"''. First Havana Biennial Bienal de La Habana, 1984. Galería L, Havana, at the same time she was included in ''"Grupo Vinculación"''
Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) The University of Arts of Cuba / Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) was established on 1 September 1976, by the Cuban government as a school for the arts. Its original structure had three schools: Music, Visual Arts, and Performing Arts.
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. Other important exhibition was ''"Kuba O.K. Aktuelle Kunst aus Kuba/Arte Actual de Cuba"''. 1990 Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, R.F.A. and ''"The Nearest Edge of the World: Art and Cuba Now."'', 1991, The Bronx Museum of Art,
New York City
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, U.S.A. In this same country she was part of ''"Breaking Barriers. Selections from the Museum of Art’s Permanent Contemporary Cuban Collection"'', 1997, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.A.
Awards
She has been awarded in several occasions for example in 1985 a Mention in Photography and Drawing, Contest 13 de Marzo, Havana. In 1986 she won the award XVI Seminario Juvenil de Estudios Martianos, Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), Havana, and in 1987 Mention. Salón Playa ’87, Galería
Servando Cabrera Moreno
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, Havana, Cuba.
Collections
Her works are located in Galería Nina Menocal,
Mexico City
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, in the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst,
Aachen
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Aachen is locat ...
, Germany, in the
Art and Culture Cuban Museum
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, Miami, United States, in the
Kendall Art Center
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, Miami, and in the
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana
The National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana) in Havana, Cuba is a museum of fine arts that exhibits Cuban art collections from the colonial times up to contemporary generations.
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It was founded o ...
, Cuba among many others private and institutional collections.