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Visual Artists:
 Neraldo DE LA PAZ (b. 1955, Matanzas): Since
1996, De La Paz has been working in a collaborative team with
Alain Guerra under the name Guerra del a Paz. They tend to
work with found objects, most recently recycled clothes, with
which they create sculptures. Their work has been included
in exhibitions such as Ephemeral/Trends II at Merrill
Lynch ARTEAMERICAS and Between Art and Life: From Joseph
Cornell to Gabriel Orozco at the Miami Art Museum. De
La Paz has a bachelor of fine arts degree from Northern Illinois
University. (Cintas for art, 1984-85)
 Eduardo
DEL VALLE (b.
1951, Havana): Working in collaboration with his wife, Mirta
Gomez, since 1973, Del Valle’s photography often documents
the life and geography of Yucatan, Mexico. He is the recipient
two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships as well as
fellowships from the New York State Council for the Arts, the
Florida Arts Council and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation, among others. His work is included in the permanent
collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the New
Orleans Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the California
Museum of Photography and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France.
His work was included in the Cuba-USA: The First Generation
traveling exhibition. . Del Valle and Gómez’s books include
Fried Waters published by Nazraeli Press in 2005 and, most
recently, Between Runs, which consist of photographs made at
the Hing Yip printing plant in Dongguan, China. Del Valle holds
a master of fine arts degree from Brooklyn College and a bachelor
of fine arts from Florida International University. He is
an associate professor of photography at FIU (Cintas for
art, 1989-90, 1995-96)
Alicia DEYÁ (b. Havana):
A stone carver who works in large-scale marble sculptures,
Deyá has earned numerous awards, including the Cortona Government
Grant in Italy and the Edith Fergus Gilmore Grant from Ohio
State University. Deyá was executive director of the Ann
Norton Sculpture Gardens. She is also an educator, having
taught most recently at Palm Beach Community College, the
Robert & Mary Montgomery Armory
Art Center and the University of Georgia at Cortona, Italy.
Deyá has a bachelor’s degree from Louisiana State University
and a master’s from Ohio State University. (Cintas for
art, 1987-88)
Waldo DÍAZ-BALART (b. 1931, Holguin): A longtime
resident of Madrid, Díaz-Balart studied accounting and political
science and economics in Havana before moving to New York to
pursue art studies in 1962. Díaz-Balart lectures frequently
and his work – explorations of color and light in geometric
paintings and light sculpture – has been widely exhibited.
Most recently, he had one-man shows in the Netherlands, in
Spain and in the United States at the Art Gallery of Florida
International University. He is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner
Foundation fellowship and his work is in the permanent collections
of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centro de Arte
Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Mondriaanhuis in Amersfoort, The
Netherlands, and the Museum of Modern Art in Huenfeld, Germany,
among others. In 1992 he published the book Waldo Díaz-Balart,
Ensayos de Arte. (Cintas for art, 1968-69, 1969-70)
Fernando Luis DOMINGUEZ (b. 1932, Havana-d.1983,
Miami): The large surrealist paintings that Dominguez produced
toward the end of his career were only one aspect of his art,
which also included drawings, engravings and ceramics. His
work, first shown at the Lyceum in Havana in 1962, has been
exhibited internationally and was included in the Outside
Cuba exhibition. He received an honorable mention at the
IV Paris Biennial and an award for drawing at the VIII International
Competition of the Fundación Joan Miró in Barcelona. His pieces
are in the permanent collections of the museums of modern art
of Madrid, San Sebastian and Santiago de Chile, and in the
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana. He lived in Spain
and France between 1970 and 1976, when he moved to Miami. He
was known professionally as Fernando Luis. (Cintas for art,
1971-72)
Vicente DOPICO (b. 1945, Havana): An expressionist
painter and water-colorist, Dopico also writes on Latin American
art and was the director of the Cuban Museum of Art and Culture
in Miami. He has participated in many group and individual
exhibitions, including the Contemporary Latin-American
Art Exhibition at the Museum of Art and History in Delray
Beach and Latin-American Painters of Today held at
the Museum of the Americas in San Juan. His work is in the
permanent collection of the Miami-Dade Public Library. Dopico
received a bachelor and a master of fine arts degree from the
University of St. Thomas in Miami and studied visual arts,
watercolor, drawing, painting and design at the Art Student
League of New York. (Cintas for art, 1977-78)
Felipe DULZAIDES (b. 1965, Havana): A video,
installation and performance artist, Dulzaides has participated
in experimental theater groups internationally, curated shows
and exhibited his work at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
in San Francisco, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the
Ludwig Foundation in Havana and the Tel Aviv Cinematheque among
other venues. Dulzaides is a recipient of an Art Council Grant
in New York and a Headlands Artist in Residence fellowship.
He graduated from the theater program of the Instituto Superior
de Arte in Havana in 1989 and was a member of the experimental
theater group Buendía. He received a master of fine arts degree
from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2001. (Cintas 2001-02
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