Juan Ramón Valdés Gómez (born 1968 in

Manicaragua Manicaragua () is a municipality and mountain town in the Villa Clara Province of Cuba. It is located in the Escambray Mountains at the southern part of Villa Clara, bordering the provinces of Cienfuegos Province, Cienfuegos to the west and Sanct ...

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), also called "Yiki", is a modern Cuban artist, known for his paintings. His paintings are representative of 20th-century vanguardia artists who rejected the academic conventions of Cuba's national art academy. His work is influenced by

Cubism Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement which began in Paris. It revolutionized painting and the visual arts, and sparked artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and architecture. Cubist subjects are analyzed, broke ...

and Modernist Primitivism themes from Cuba. He attended the

Instituto Superior de Arte 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. History T ...

in Havana. He has earned numerous awards and his work has been exhibited extensively throughout Cuba as well as in North America and Europe. This includes notable exhibits such as "Borders Crossroads" (Galleria Villa Manuela, Havana City - 2006), "Tribute to the 110th Birthday of Wifredo Lam" (Sagua la grande, Villa Clara, Cuba - 2012), "That's Cuba!" (Galleria di Palazzo Tiepolo Salvadori, Venice, Italy, 2016), and "A Fine Collection of Cuban Art, (Whitehalls Gallery, Ontario)

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