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,'' Contemporary Cuban Art Exhibition Catalogue. 2018.

Biography

Carlos Estévez was born in Havana in 1969. Estévez graduated from the

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, Havana, Cuba, in 1992. He has done residencies at the Academia de San Carlos, UNAM, Mexico (1997), Gasworks Studios, London, England (1997), the UNESCO-ASCHBERG in The Nordic Artists' Center in Dale, Norway (1998), Art-OMI Foundation, New York, USA (1998), The Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, USA (2002),

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in Paris, (2003–2004), Montclair University, New Jersey, USA (2005), and the

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, USA (2016). 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. His work ''La batalla permanente de la vida transitoria (The Permanent Battle of the Transitory Life)'', from 2010, is included in the permanent collection of the

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, Florida. His work at the McColl Center in Charlotte formed the foundation for what would eventually become an extensive proficiency in ceramics. In the four months that he spent at the center, he made over 200 ceramic pieces. His plates, especially, have a unique elegance and concentrate on color, expressive shapes, and thematic abstractions that refer to architecture, astronomy, and anatomy.

Selected exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

*FIREWORKS,

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, Miami, FL, USA *Fine Arts Museum, Havana, Cuba *The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA *Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA *Center of Contemporary Art, New Orleans, LA, USA *Pan American Art Projects, Miami, FL, USA *LaCa Projects, Charlotte, NC, USA *Denise Bibro Fine Art, Chelsea, NY, USA *Havana Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland *JM' Arts Galerie, Paris, France *Alva Gallery, New London, CT, USA *Enlace Arte Contemporáneo, Lima, Peru *Promo-arte Gallery, Tokyo, Japan *Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic *Taylor Bercier Gallery, New Orleans, LA, USA *UB Galleries, Buffalo University, USA

Group exhibitions

*VI and VII Havana Biennale, Cuba *The traveling exhibit ''Contemporary Art from Cuba: Irony and Survival on the Utopian Island'' at the Arizona State University Art Museum in Tempe, USA *Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection. Art Vitam. ''Carlos ESTEVEZ,'' Biography
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References

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