Enrique Gay García (1928–2015) was a Cuban-born American visual artist. He worked in abstract expressionist painting and bronze sculpture.
Biography
Enrique Gay García was born in 1928, in
Santiago de Cuba,
Cuba
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.
Gay García graduated in 1953 from the
Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro in Havana.
He also studied at
Instituto Politécnico Nacional in Mexico City, Art Institute of Venice, and the
University of Perugia in
Perugia
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, Italy.
Gay García's artwork has been displayed in galleries at
Miami Dade College in
Miami
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; the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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in New York City;
Havana;
Washington, D.C.; and the
San Carlos Institute in
Key West, Florida.
He participated in the
São Paulo Art Biennial VI (1959) and VII (1963).
Gay García's work is included in museum and public collections, including the
Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami; the
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana; the Museum of Contemporary Latin American Art in Washington, D.C.; the
Miami-Dade Public Library; and the
Vermont Academy.
Gay García died at age 87 on November 17, 2015, after suffering from respiratory and cardiac problems for a few days prior.
See also
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List of Cuban artists
References
1928 births
2015 deaths
20th-century Cuban male artists
20th-century Cuban painters
20th-century Cuban sculptors
21st-century Cuban male artists
21st-century Cuban painters
Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro alumni
Artists from Miami
Cuban emigrants to the United States
Instituto Politécnico Nacional alumni
People from Santiago de Cuba
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