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Visual Artists:
Yvette CABRERA VEGA: (New
York, 1955): A full-time faculty member at the University
of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez, where she has taught studio art
courses since 1993. Cabrera Vega is one of the leading figures
in contemporary Puerto Rican ceramics. She is the recipient
of two fellowships from the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture
and won the acquisition prize at the Contemporary Ceramics
Biennial in San Juan in 1993. Her work was chosen for
the second Havana Biennial and for several other international
shows in Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Italy and Mexico.
She was a visiting artist at the Clay Studio in Philadelphia
in 2001. Her pieces are in the collections of The Clay Studio,
Pratt’s Permanent Collection in Brooklyn and the Contemporary
Puerto Rican Ceramic Sculpture Collection at the Casa Candina
in San Juan. Cabrera Vega lives in Sabana Grande, Puerto
Rico. She has a master of fine arts degree in ceramic, sculpture
and drawing from the Pratt Institute of New York. (Cintas
for art, 1984-85)
Humberto CALZADA (b.
1944, Havana): The paintings and prints of Miami-based artist
Humberto Calzada are rich with architectural imagery and
highly evocative of Cuba. They have been exhibited in solo
and group shows in the United States and Latin America, including
a 1991 retrospective at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach.
Calzada is the winner of the1978 acquisition prize from the
Museum of Modern Art of Latin America in Washington, D.C.
and the recipient of a painting fellowship from the Florida
Fine Arts Council. He was selected for the third ¡Mira! Canadian Club Hispanic Art Tour, the Outside
Cuba exhibition, the Miami Generation traveling
exhibition and the Cuba-USA: The First Generation traveling
exhibition. His work is in numerous private and public collections,
including Miami-Dade’s Art in Public Places collection, the
permanent collection of the Miami-Dade Public Library, the
Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, the Denver Art Museum, the
Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico, the Museo Nacional de
Bellas Artes in Chile and the Museum of Modern Art of Latin
America in Washington, D.C. Calzada studied industrial engineering
and has a master in business administration from the University
of Miami. He taught engineering at Miami-Dade Community College
in the early 1970s, but has since dedicated himself fully to
his painting. (Cintas, 1979-80, 1981-82)
Guillermo CALZADILLA (b.
1971, Havana): A graduate of the Escuela de Artes Plásticas
of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and based in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico,
and Cambridge, Mass., Calzadilla has worked since 1995 in
collaboration with the artist Jennifer Allora in producing
community collaborations, installations, photography and
sculptural work. A 2003 project at London’s Tate Modern featured
cartographic felt floor to recreate landscape of Vieques,
the island off Puerto Rico that was used by the U.S. military
for controversial bombing practice. The artists participated
in the VII Havana Biennial, the XXIV biennial in Sao Paulo,
Brazil, the III Interamerican Biennial in Lima, Peru, and
the 2003 Venice biennial. Venues for recent installations
include the Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio, the Walker
Art Center in Minneapolis, the Power Plant in Toronto, the
International Center of Photography in New York and the Arch
at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn. (Cintas for art,
2000-01)
Pablo CANO (b. 1961, Havana): Since 1998,
Pablo Cano has been turning his found-objects sculptures into
living characters for musical plays commissioned annually by
the Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami. Three of the plays
– ending with For Heaven’s Sake in 2003 – formed what
Cano called a trilogy on the human condition. His work – which
includes drawings and paintings in addition to sculpture –
has been shown at Columbus Museum of Art in Georgia, the Museum
of Contemporary Art, the von Liebig Art Center and the New
Word School for the Arts in Florida, and Private View Fine
Art Gallery in New York. His work was included in group exhibitions
such as The Miami Generation, at the Cuban Museum
of Arts and Culture, Cuba-USA: The First Generation,
which traveled to several venues in the United States, and globe>miami<island at
the Bass Museum in Miami Beach. Cano’s public art projects
include pieces for Concourse G at Miami International Airport
and the ILAC Center Puerto Plata Church in Santo Domingo. His
work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Art in
Fort Lauderdale, the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami
and the Miami-Dade Public Library, among others. Cano has a
bachelor of fine arts degree from the Maryland Art Institute
and a master of fine arts degree from Queens College. (Cintas
for art, 1983-84)
Galaor CARBONELL (b. Havana, 1938-d. Miami,
1992): A painter as well as a sculptor and critic, Carbonell
was also a professor at universities in Kentucky and Colombia.
He exhibited regularly in Kentucky in the 1960s and in Colombia
in the 1970s and 80s, and wrote frequently about art. He won
the Wendell Smock Sculpture Prize from the Louisville Arts
Center in 1961. Carbonell received a master’s degree from the
University of Kentucky. (Cintas for art, 1971-72)
 Bernard M. CARRENO: (Cintas for art, 1982-83).
Mario CARREÑO (b. Havana, 1913-d. Santiago
de Chile, 2000): A painter and illustrator, Carreño belonged
to the legendary group of Havana artists and intellectuals
known as Grupo Orígenes. He trained in Havana, Madrid and Paris,
taught at the New School for Social Research in New York between
1944 and 1948 and became a founding member of the Asociación
de Pintores y Escultores de Cuba in 1949. The next year, he
became the editor of Noticias de Arte in Havana, a
position he held until 1957, when he moved permanently to Santiago
de Chile and became a professor of painting at the Art School
of the Catholic University. Throughout his long career, he
exhibited widely in Latin America and Europe and was the subject
of retrospectives in Chile’s Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
(1991), Havana’s Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (1993) and
Sotheby’s in Coral Gables (1995). His work was included in
the Outside Cuba exhibition. Among the recognitions
he earned were the 1938 National Award in Painting in Havana,
a Guggenheim International Award, and a National Art Award
and a Pablo Neruda bronze medal in Chile. His work is in the
collections of Museo de Bellas Artes in Santiago de Chile,
the Museo de Bellas Artes in Caracas, the Museo Nacional de
Bellas Artes in Havana, the Museum of Modern Art in New York,
the Museum of Modern Art of Latin America in Washington, D.C.
and the Miami-Dade Public Library. One of his large glass mosaic
murals, Homenaje a Fray Angélico, is at the San Ignacio
School in Santiago de Chile. (Cintas for art, 1987-88)
 Ramón CARULLA (b. Havana, 1938): A painter
and engraver, Carulla’s work was included in the Latin America
Graphic Arts Biennial at the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic
Art in New York, the Grands et Jeunes d’Aujourd’hui exhibition
at the Grand Palais in Paris, the Norwegian International Print
Biennale and the Sapporo International Biennial in Japan, among
others. Carulla participated in Expresiones Hispanas,
a national tour of U.S. Hispanic artists in 1988-89. Hewon
the Simon Daro Daridowicz Painting Award in 1980 from the Metropolitan
Museum and Art Center in Coral Gables and prizes from the VI
Biennial in San Juan and the 8th Mini‑Print Internacional de
Cadaqués in Barcelona. His work is represented in several collections,
including those of the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, the
Centre International d’Art Contemporain in Paris, the Cincinnati
Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Joan Miró Foundation
in Barcelona, the Japan Printmakers Association, the Museo
de Arte Contemporáneo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City, the Museum
of Fine Arts in Montreal and the Miami-Dade Public Library.
(Cintas for art, 1973-74, 1979-80)
Consuelo CASTAÑEDA (b. 1958, Cuba): A conceptual
artist who often uses photography in her work, Castañeda is
a student of French thinkers such as Derrida and Baudrillard.
She has written that she is interested in exploring the borders
between the arts and the sciences. Among the many group and
solo shows in which her work has been featured are the Miami
Warehouse Project, Traces: The Body in Contemporary Photography at
the Bronx Museum of Arts, 11 Conceptual Photographers at
the Generous Miracles Gallery in New York, and the installation Cybernetic
Information Center at the Miami Art Museum. Castañeda
studied art at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana. (Cintas
for art, 1997-98)
Edwin CASTAÑEDA: (Cintas for art, 1986-87)
 Eloisa CASTELLANOS (b. 1938, Camagüey): A
painter trained at the San Alejandro School of Fine Arts in
Havana and at the Pan American Art School in New York, Castellanos
has participated in group shows in the United States, Latin
America and Europe, in venues such as the Bronx Museum of Art,
The Ponce Museum in Puerto Rico, the Metropolitan Museum of
Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Madrid
and the Museum of Albuquerque in New Mexico. Her work was represented
at the First Biennial of Iberoamerican Painting in Mexico.
(Cintas for art, 1976-77, 1977-78)
Liset CASTILLO VALDÉS (b.
1974, Camagüey) Educated at the Higher Institute of Art (ISA)
in Havana, Castillo latest works have involved elaborate
sand constructions that she describes as “conceptually focused
on the representation of the impermanence, vulnerability
and nomadic aspects of contemporary art.” Since 2000, Castillo
has lived in the Netherlands, where she participated in a
residency with de Ateliers, an international artist’s institute
in Amsterdam. In 2002, she was selected
to participate in New York City’s International Studio and
Curatorial Program, continuing her work on the exploration
of “Artificial Nature.” Castillo’s work has been shown in the
United States, South America and Europe. It is in the permanent
collections of Allen & Overy in Amsterdam, the Museum of
Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Fla., the National Gallery of
Art in Washington, D.C., and the Antonio Pérez Foundation in
Cuenca, Spain. (Cintas for art, 2003-2004)
Albert CATASUS (b.
1947, Havana): An artist and educator, Albert Catasus is
the director of the American studies program at the Christa
McAuliffe School in Brooklyn, New York.(Cintas for art, 1978-79)
 Carlos Víctor CAUSO (B. 1959, Havana): The
photography of Carlos Causo has been exhibited in several galleries
in the United States. He has a master of fine arts degree from
the School of Visual Arts in New York and is a photography
instructor at Florida International University. (Cintas for
art, 1992-93)
José CHARDIET (b. 1956, Havana): A glass
artist who cites as influences Spanish still-life paintings,
Chardiet’s pieces are included in the permanent collections
at the Renwick Gallery, the Smithsonian Museum of American
Art, the American Craft Museum, the Corning Museum of Glass,
the Detroit Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art and the Yokohama
Museum of Art, among others. He received a master of fine arts
degree from Kent State University in 1983, and has taught at
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (Cintas for
art, 1988-89)
Humberto CHÁVEZ (b. Havana, 1937): After
graduating with a bachelor of fine arts degree from the New
School for Social Research in New York, Chávez pursued a career
as a sculptor. He has received scholarships and fellowships
from the Bronx Council on the Arts, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation,
the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council
on the arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has
participated in group exhibitions at the Intar Latin American
Gallery, the Bronx Museum of Art and the Alternative Museum
in New York, among others. His work is in the collections of
the Islip Museum in Long Island, Foster Securities and the
Prudential Life Insurance Corporation. (Cintas 1986-87)
Eduardo CONDE (b. Havana, 1955): After attending
the San Alejandro Academy in Havana, Conde came to the United
States in the Mariel boatlift of 1980. He is the recipient
of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and an Arkansas
Arts Council fellowship for large drawings on paper. The Arkansas
Arts Center holds one of his drawings in the 20th Century drawing
permanent collection. He works and exhibits his art in Eureka
Springs, Arkansas (Cintas for art, 1990-91)
 Hugo CONSUEGRA (b.
1929, Havana- d. 2003, Rego Park, NY): An architecture graduate
from the University of Havana and the San Alejandro Academy,
Consuegra was one of the leading exponents of abstract expressionism
in Cuba in the 1950s. He was a member of “Los Once,” the
legendary group that broke from the representational style
that predominated in Cuba at the time. He taught and practiced
architecture in Havana and was widely exhibited in Cuban
and internationally until he received political asylum in
Spain in 1967. He moved to New York three years later, eventually
joining the architecture firm of Brennan Beer Gorman Architects
in Manhattan while continuing his painting, drawing and engraving
career. His pieces are in the permanent collections of the
Museo de Barranquilla, the Museo de Bellas Artes in Caracas, the Museo de Bellas
Artes in San Juan, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana,
the Miami-Dade Public Library and the Museum of Modern Art
of Latin America in Washington, D.C., among others. A
large marble mural by Consuegra is in the lobby of the Time & Life
Building, in New York’s Rockefeller Center. (Cintas for art,
1970-71, 1973-74)
 Rafael CONSUEGRA: (b. 1941, Havana): A sculptor
who works in clay as well as metal, Consuegra has taught at
Miami-Dade College, Barry University and his own studio. In
1995, he held a retrospective of his work at Galería Vanidades
in Miami. He holds a bachelor of fine arts degree from the
University of Miami. His pieces are in the permanent collections
of Barry University and the Museum of Latin American Art in
Los Angeles, among others. (Cintas for art, 1972-73, 1973-74)
 Emilio CRUZ (b.
1938, New York - d. 2004, New York): A poet and writer as well
as a visual artist, Cruz was educated at Art Students League
in New York; the University of Louisville and the New School
for Social Research in New York. He is the founder of Spectacle,
Inc., a multi-media theater production company. He has taught
at a number of higher education institutions, including the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Parsons School of Design,
Cooper Union, the Pratt Institute and New York University.
For his expressionistic work, Cruz has won of numerous awards
and fellowship from the Walter Gutman Foundation, the National
Endowment for the Arts, the Illinois Arts Council, the Artemercato
Internanzionale Accademia Italia, the Fulbright program and
the Joan Mitchell Foundation, among others. He is represented
in several permanent collections, including the Brooklyn Museum,
the Hirshhorn Museum of Art, the Rhode Island School of Design
Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, National
Gallery of American Art in Washington, D.C., and the Studio
Museum in Harlem. (Cintas for art, 1965-66)
Luis CRUZ AZACETA (b. 1942, Havana): After
arriving in the United States in 1960, Luis Cruz Azaceta settled
in New York, where he studied at the School of Visual Arts
and participated in the city’s neo-expressionism movement of
the 1970s. He now lives in New Orleans. He is widely exhibited
in the United States and abroad. Cruz was selected for the
Canadian Club’s Mira! Hispanic Art Tour in 1985, for
the Outside Cuba exhibition and for the Cuba-USA:
The First Generation, which toured this country in the
early 1990s. He is the winner of grants and fellowships from
the Penny McCall Foundation, the National Endowment for the
Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Guggenheim
Foundation, among others. His pieces are in several permanent
collections, including those of New York’s Metropolitan Museum
of Art and Museum of Modern Art, the Rhode Island School of
Design, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and the Miami-Dade
Public Library. (Cintas for art, 1972-73, 1975-76)
 Miguel CUBILES (b. 1937, Caibarien): After
arriving in the United States in 1961, Cubiles studied art
at Miami-Dade Community College and the University of Miami.
He moved to Mexico in 1980, where he lives, works and frequently
shows his work. He has also exhibited in several countries
in Europe, the United States and Japan. His work – which includes
paintings, engravings and ceramics as well as sculpture – is
in the permanent collections of the Fundación Joan Miró in
Barcelona, the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña in San Juan,
the Japan Printmakers Association in Tokyo, the Museo de Arte
Contemporáneo in Sevilla, the Miami-Dade Public Library, and
the Museo de Arte y Cultura and the Museo Rufino Tamayo in
Mexico City, among others. (Cintas for art, 1986-87)
Arturo CUENCA (b. 1955, Holguin): After studying
art and literature at the San Alejandro Academy and the Escuela
Nacional de Instructores de Arte in Havana, Cuenca taught briefly
at the Instituto Preuniversitario 8 de Octubre in El Cotorro.
He won several prizes for engraving, photography and installation
in Cuba before moving to Mexico in 1989 and finally to the
United States in 1991. He has been exhibited widely, both nationally
and internationally. In 1995, the Center for Curatorial Studies
in Bard College held a one man show, Arturo Cuenca: Modernbund. That
same year, the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale hosted Sharing
Roots: Cuenca and Gory. His work is in several permanent
collections, including the Art Space Gallery in Rotterdam;
the Museo de Arte Moderno in Caracas and the Museo Nacional
de Bellas Artes in Havana. (Cintas for art, 1992-93)
 Lilliam CUENCA (b.
1944, Havana): A painter and engraver, Cuenca studied at
the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro in Havana
and later was active at the Taller Experimental de Gráfica. She moved to Caracas in 1980
and to the United States in 1985. She has worked as an instructor
for ArtCenter/South Florida, in Miami Beach, where she has
her studio. Among her awards are a first prize in calcography
at the first Víctor Manuel Engraving Triennial in Havana and
the Ashati Broadcasting Corporation Award at the Osaka Triennale
1990 in Japan. Her work is in the permanent collections of
the Contemporary Art and Culture Center in Osaka, the Museo
de Arte La Rinconada in Caracas and the Universidad Central
de Venezuela. (Cintas for art 1990-91)
 Christian CURIEL (b.
Ponce, Puerto Rico): Curiel’s paintings
have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at the Bass
Museum of Art in Miami Beach, the Museum of Contemporary Art
in Washington, D.C., and the Fredric Snitzer Gallery, the Barbara
Gilman Gallery and Leonard Tachmes Gallery in Miami. His pieces
are in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art in
Washington, D.C., and the Hort Collection in New York. Curiel
is a member of FeCuOp, a collaborative group based in Miami,
which experiments with social interactions and art. Curiel
is the recipient of the 2004 Robert Schoelkopf Traveling fellowship
from Yale University School of Art, and the Chestler Visual
Arts award. Curiel received a bachelor of fine arts degree
in painting from the International Fine Arts College in Miami
and a master of fine arts degree in painting from the Yale
School of Art. (First Cintas Foundation-Emilio Sanchez Fellowship
in Visual Arts, 2005-06)
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