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Visual Artists:
Pío GALBIS (b. 1957, Havana): The paintings
of Pío Galbis were recently shown in the solo exhibition Still
Lives at the Everson Museum of art in Syracuse. He has
also had one-man shows at the Matthew Kerr Gallery in New York
and the Wessel O’Connor Gallery in New York, among others.
He has been represented in various group shows, including exhibitions
at the Drawing Center in New York, the Brooklyn Academy of
Art and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Galbis is the recipient
of a traveling grant from the MacArthur Foundation and of fellowships
from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Macdowell Colony,
the Vermont Studio School and the Ford Foundation. He is the
winner of a Barbara Chase Burke Memorial Drawing Award. (Cintas
for art, 1982-83, 1992-93)
Álvaro GARCÍA (b.
1957, Havana): An installation artist, García works with automobile
tires in which, he says, he finds a silent history of the places
where they’ve been. He uses the tires to create iconic sculptures
that he calls a “three-dimensional drawings.” García’s work
was included in the Cuba-USA: The First Generation exhibition
that toured throughout the United States, and in Reflections
on the nuevo mundo at the INTAR Latin American Gallery,
among others. He is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner, NYSCA
Individual Artist program grant; a New York Foundation for
the Arts sculpture grant and a Deutscher Akademisher Austauschdienst.
His work is represented in the permanent collections of the
Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art and the Amorback Museum of
Art in Germany. García earned a bachelor’s degree from the
Philadelphia College of Art and master of fine art degrees
from Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania.
He has been an instructor at Franklin & Marshall College. (Cintas for art, 1980-81,
1984-85)
Manuel GARCÍA FONTEBOA: (Cintas
in art, 1978-79)
 Fernando GARCÍA (b.
1945, Havana-d. 1989, Miami): A conceptual artist deeply involved
with civic life in Miami, García’s artwork often involved the
whole community. He created Holiday Spheres to float
over the Miami-Dade Cultural Center during its opening, and
organized the city’s literary community for his Miami Reading
Symphonies for
the public library system. Garcia studied mathematics at the
University of Georgia in Athens and drawing and painting at
Georgia State University in Atlanta. He was an art instructor
at Miami-Dade Community College and the International Fine
Arts College in Miami. Solo shows included On the Line.
A Simultaneous Exhibition in Key West and Coral Gables; Miami
Magic, an installation at the Metro‑Dade Cultural
Center, and Aries. Installation, at the Albany Museum
of Art. His work was included in the Miami Generation traveling
exhibition. His work is in the permanent collections of the
Miami-Dade Public Library, Miami‑Dade College and the Museum
of Art in Fort Lauderdale, among others. Making Purple,
a neon piece, is at the Okeechobee Metrorail Station as part
of Miami-Dade’s Art in Public Places program. (Cintas for art,
1978-79)
Juan Carlos GARCÍA-LAVÍN (b.
1956, Havana): An installation artist who produces work of
great mechanical complexity, García-Lavín has grounded his
work on the human anatomy. “I examine bones and cartilages
for their structural qualities,” the artist has said. His work
was exhibited at the Cuban Museum of Art and Culture, the Ambrosino
Gallery and the Bakehouse Arts Complex in Miami, and the Now
Gallery in New York. He participated in the Post Miami Generation exhibition
at the InterAmerican Art Gallery. One of his public art pieces
is at the Ryder Trauma Center in Miami. His work is in the
permanent collection of the Miami-Dade Public Library. García-Lavín
studied art at the Istituto D'Arte Porta Romana in Italy and
at Miami-Dade Community College (Cintas for art, 1987-88)
 Laureano GARCÍA (b.
1922, Sancti Spiritus): An architect by training, Garcia
has designed parks and residential buildings, and his murals
and paintings – García is particularly known for his still
lifes – combine abstraction and geometry with figurative
elements. Garcia was selected to participate
in the inaugural show for the Amalia Mahoney gallery in Chicago
and has been exhibited in Europe and the United States. He
studied architecture at the University of Havana and art in
Paris under sculptor Ossip Zadkine and the painter Andre Lothe.
In the United States, he attended Fairfield University in Connecticut,
the Pratt Institute and the Art Students League. (Cintas for
art, 1963-64)
Roberto GARCÍA YORK (b. 1929, Havana): A
painter and engraver as well as a wardrobe and interior designer,
García York was artistic director of the Galerie l’Oeuf du
Beaubourg in Paris and wardrobe designer for the Venice Carnival
in Italy and the Festival Internationale du Film in Cannes.
His first show – featuring designs of women’s fashions – took
place in the Havana Lyceum in 1943. Since then, he has had
many solo exhibitions at galleries and museums such as Galería
Proteo in Mexico City, the Fondation Rosa de Grancher in Paris,
Círculo 2 in Madrid and Galerie Forni in Amsterdam. Group exhibitions
include the VI Biennial in Sao Paulo, 7 Peintres Surrealistes
Cubains at Galerie Maya in Brussels, Artistes Latino‑Americains
de Paris at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris,
the First Surrealist Exhibition in Sao Paulo, and Le
Fantastique Contemporaine, at the Galerie de L’Université
in Paris. His work is represented in the permanent collection
of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris. (Cintas
for painting, 1970-71)
Enrique GAY GARCÍA (b.
1928, Santiago de Cuba): A painter and sculptor, Gay Garcia’s
work – whether abstract or figurative – is generally balanced
and technically controlled. “I don’t like ‘torment’ in art,”
he has said. His work was selected for the VI and VII Sao
Paolo biennials and the exhibitions Hispanic‑American Artists
of the United States at the Museum of Modern Art of
Latin America in Washington, D.C., Recent Developments in Latin
American Drawing at the Art Institute of Chicago, Outside
Cuba and Expresiones Hispanas 88/89, the Coors
National Hispanic Art Exhibition, among others. He was the
subject of reporter Ana Azcuy’s 1978 documentary Gay García
Casting Bronze. His work is in the permanent collections
the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami, the Museo
Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana, the Museum of Modern
Art of Latin America in Washington, D.C., the Miami-Dade
Public Library and the Vermont Academy, among others. His
sculpture of Father Félix Varela is at the San Carlos Institute
in Key West. Gay García studied at the Escuela Nacional de
Bellas Artes San Alejandro in Havana, the Instituto Politécnico
in Mexico City, the Art Institute in Venice and the University
of Perugia. (Cintas for art, 1983-84)
Tatiana GARMENDÍA (b.
1961, Havana): A figurative/conceptual artist, Tatiana Garmendía
creates realistic, X-ray like images of the human body using
graphite and metal leaf on paper. She has written of her interest
in “reconciling figurative representation and the formal concerns
of creating illusionistic images on a flat surface.” Garmendía
has exhibited at the Bronx Museum of Arts, the Museo Rufino
Tamayo in Mexico City, the Milan Art Center, the Castfield
Gallery in England, and the Galeria Riesa Efau in Germany among
other venues. She is the recipient of a best of show award
from the Bellevue Art Museum in Washington, of grants from
Seattle Central Community College and of two Pratt G.I.A. fellowships
from the Drawing Resource Center in Brooklyn. Among her independent
curatorial projects are Salpicón
Cubano/Cuban Splash at the Kirkland Art Center in Kirkland,
Washington, and Survival Of Joy: Contemporary Cuban Artists,
at the SCCC Art Gallery in Seattle. Garmendía has taught
at Coral Gables Senior High School, the Pratt Institute and,
since 1993, at Seattle Central Community College. Garmendia
was trained at the American University in Paris, and has
master of fine arts degrees from Florida International University
and the Pratt Institute of Art. (Cintas for art, 1993-94)
Jose GELABERT-NAVIA (b.
1954, Havana): An architect and educator, Gelabert-Navia’s
recent work include the Village of Merrick Park Office and
Residential Sectors in Coral Gables, the Delray Beach Public
Library, the Caribbean Technology Center in San Juan, the University
of Miami School of Communication, the St. Agatha Catholic Church
in Miami and, with Charles Gwathmey, the Center for Contemporary
Art in North Miami. He studied architecture at Cornell University,
where he also received a master of fine arts degree, at the
Universidad Central de Venezuela and at Isola Degli Studi in
Italy. Gelabert-Navia is co-author of Ocean Drive. Miami Beach. U.S.A, and
is a frequent contributor to design and architecture journals.
He is a trustee of the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation
and a professor at the University of Miami School of Architecture.
(Cintas for art, 1975-76, and for architecture, 1987-88)
 Grace GILBERT: (Cintas
for art, 1985-86).
 Julio GIRONA (b. 1914, Manzanillo-d. 1987):
In his long career as a painter, graphic artist and sculptor,
Julio Girona has worked in a range of styles, from figurative
to symbolic abstraction. He was also a writer whose published
books include the poetry collection La corbata roja.
His first works – caricatures – appeared in 1927 in the magazine Social.
He participated in the XXVI Venice Biennial, the exhibition American
Painting 1945‑1957 at the Minneapolis Institute of Art,
the LXII American Exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago,
the XX Biennial International Watercolor Exhibition at the
Brooklyn Museum, and in the I and II Havana Biennials. Girona
won the sculpture prize of the Paris Biennial in 1961 and of
Cuba’s National Plastic Arts Prize in 1998. His work is in
the permanent collections of the Museo de Bellas Artes de La
Plata in Argentina, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana,
the New Jersey State Museum, and the University of Dortmund
in Germany, among others. Girona studied at the San Alejandro
Academy in Havana, the Academie Ranson in Paris, the Taller
de Gráfica Popular in Mexico City and the Art Students League
in New York. He taught Engraving Techniques at Werkkunstschule,
Kufel, F.R.G. and Spanish at the Center for Cuban Studies in
New York. (Cintas for art, 1965-66)
 Luis GISPERT: (b.
1972, Jersey City, N.J.). Mixing hip-hop iconography and art-historical
references, Gispert’s photographs and sculptures have drawn
critical acclaim. His work has been featured in group exhibitions
at Audiello Fine Art; AT the New Museum of Contemporary Art
and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, all in New York; AT the Museum
of Art in Fort Lauderdale, at the MIT List Visual Arts Center
in Cambridge, Mass., and at the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in
Bologna, Italy, among other venues. He participated in the
2002 Whitney Biennial and, in 2004, the Whitney Museum of American
Art at Altria presented Luis Gispert: Urban Myths Part II (Return of
the Hypenaholics), the artist’s first solo New York
museum show. He had had previous solo exhibitions in the
Berkeley Art Museum in California and at the galleries at
Miami-Dade College, Kendall Campus. Gispert has a bachelor
in fine arts degree from the School of the Art Institute
of Chicago and a master in fine arts from Yale University.
(Cintas for art, 2004-2005)
 Anthony
GOICOLEA: (b. 1971, Atlanta, Ga.):
Although he has worked primarily in photography,
Goicolea has also engaged in video projects
and drawings. In describing his work, he
has written: “I am still interested in self-portraiture,
vanity and narcissism as well as issues dealing
with the body, bodily functions, beauty,
chaos, the grotesque and the perverse.” He
is often the lead character in his photographic
narratives, acting out childhood scenes.
He has had numerous solo exhibitions in Europe
and the United States and his work is in
the permanent collections of the Whitney
Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern
Art in New York, the Guggenheim Museum of
Art, New York and the Brooklyn Museum of
Art, among other institutions. Goicolea attended
the Universidad de Madrid, the University
of Georgia, where he studied art history,
drawing and painting and received a BA and
a BFA, and the Pratt Institute of Art, where
he received an MFA. In 2005 Goicolea won
the
BMW-award for photography. His books include
Antony Goicolea: Drawings, released by Twin
Palms Press Publishing in 2005. He lives
and works in New York. (Cintas for art, 2006)
Gregory GÓMEZ (b.
1958, Buffalo, N.Y.): An educator as well as an artist, Gregory
Gómez has exhibited his work at the Brush Art Museum, the
Boston Center for the Arts, the Fitchburg Art Museum, the
Davis Museum and Cultural Center and the Institute of Contemporary
Arts in Massachusetts, among other venues. He is the recipient
of grants and fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural
Council, Wheelock College, Wellesley College and the Maryland
Institute. Gómez has a master of fine arts degree in printmaking
from Washington University in Missouri and a bachelor in
fine arts degree from Grinnell College in Iowa. He is an
associate professor in the arts department at Wheelock College,
Boston. (Cintas for art, 1992-93)
José Antonio GÓMEZ (b.
1945, Jaruco): The sculptor José Antonio Gómez has had solo
exhibitions at the Thorne Building in Millbrook and at the
Hudson Hall Gallery of Dutchess Community College, both in
New York, and has participated in numerous group shows in that
state. Gómez is the recipient of grants from the Storm King
Sculpture Center, Dutchess County and the National Community
Arts Program. He won five merit awards and three “best in sculpture”
awards from the Barrett Art Center in Poughkeepsie. In addition
to his art career, Gómez has been involved in computer systems
development and in teaching mathematics. His work is in the
permanent collections of the Barrett Art Center, the Dutchess
County Community College and the St. Peter's College Art Department
in Union City, New Jersey, among others. (Cintas for art, 1968-69,
1969-70)
 Mirta
GÓMEZ (b.
1953, Havana): Working in collaboration with her husband, Eduardo
del Valle, since 1973, Gómez’s photography
often documents the life and geography of Yucatan,
Mexico. She 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.
Her work is included in the permanent collections
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. Her
work was included in the Cuba-USA: The First
Generation traveling exhibition. Gómez and
Del Valle’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. Gómez holds a master of fine arts degree
from Brooklyn College and a bachelor of fine
arts from Florida International University.
She is an associate professor of photography
at FIU. (Cintas for art, 1989-90, 1995-96)
 Zita GÓMEZ DE KANELBA (b.
1932, Paris): Gómez had a show at the Ars Atelier in Union
City in 2000. (Cintas
for art, 1974-75, 1976-77)
Andrés GONZÁLEZ: (Cintas for art, 1982-83)
Miguel GONZÁLEZ PADURA (Miguel Padura) (b.
Havana, 1957): Among other exhibitions, Padura has participated
in Outside Cuba,Les Plus Grands Peintres Latins
d’Amérique at the Centre Culturel Paul Dumais in Tonneins,
France; Cuban Artists in North America/Artistes Cubains
en Amérique du Nord at the National Library of Canada; ¡Mira!
Canadian Club Hispanic Art Tour III, and Breaking
Barriers at the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale. His
work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York, the Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery
in Texas, the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum in New Jersey,
the Lowe Art Museum at University of Miami, and the Norton
Gallery of Art in West Palm Beach. Padura studied painting
with Roberto Martínez in Miami. (Cintas
for art, 1981-82)
Eladio GONZÁLEZ (b. 1937,
Itabo): The sculptor Eladio González has been exhibiting his
work in the United States since his first solo exhibition at
the Chicago Press Club in 1972. He has participated in shows
at the Cuban Museum of Art and Culture in Miami, the Art Institute
of Chicago, and the Chicago Institute of Contemporary Art among
others. González graduated from the San Alejandro Academy in
1962. (Cintas for art, 1979-80)
Félix GONZÁLEZ-TORRES (b.
1957, Güaimaro-d. 1996, Miami): A minimalist artist of enormous
eloquence, Félix González-Torres began his career in photography
but expanded to create installations and conceptual work. His
pieces were included the biennial exhibition at the Whitney
Museum of American Art, the Venice Biennial and the Sydney
Biennial and in exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago,
the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Louisiana Museum
of Modern Art, among other venues. He had solo exhibitions
at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Brooklyn
Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum in
Progress in Vienna, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles,
the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.,
the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris as well as in
museums in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. One of his pieces
was selected for the exhibition Latin
American & Caribbean Art presented by the Museum
of Modern Art at El Museo del Barrio in New York. He received
fellowships and grants from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
program in Berlin, the Gordon Matta-Clark Foundation, the
National Endowment for the Arts, the Pollock-Krasner foundation
and Art Matter, Inc. He studied at the Pratt Institute and
at the International Center for Photography in New York.
An extended interview with González Torres appeared in the
1996 book Between
Artists. (Cintas for art, 1989-90)
 Juan J. GONZÁLEZ (b.
1942, Camagüey- d. 1993, New York): The super-realist drawings
and paintings of Juan González, rich in detail and narrative
content, revealed his interest in religion and the history
of art. González participated in group shows such as Painting and Sculpture Today‑1974 at
the Indianapolis Museum of Art; Looking Inside: Latin American
Presence in New York; Ancient Roots/ New Visions, which
traveled to several cities in the United States; Hispanic‑American
Artists of the United States, at the Museum of Modern
Art of Latin America in Washington, D.C., The Figure in
the Twentieth Century at the New York Academy of Design, Outside
Cuba, the Miami Generation traveling exhibition
and the Cuba-USA: The First Generation traveling
exhibition. He had solo shows in the United States and abroad
in venues such as, the Center for Inter‑American Relations
and the Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York, the Cleveland
Center for Contemporary Art, the Meadows Museum in Dallas
and the Center for the Fine Arts in Miami. He was the recipient
of a Creative Artists Public Service (CAPS) Fellowship and
of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
His work is in the permanent collections of the Art Institute
of Chicago, The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.,
the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Miami-Dade
Public Library and the Smithsonian Institution, among others.
González was one of the artists featured in Wayne Salazar’s
1985 documentary Cuba-USA: Three Cuban Artists
in New York City. From 1984 to the time of his death,
González was a member of the board of governors of the New
York Foundation for the Arts. He received a master of
fine arts degree from the University of Miami. (Cintas for
art, 1972-73, 1974-75)
María Elena GONZÁLEZ (b.
1957, Havana): Using industrial materials such as tile, safety
surface rubber and glass, González creates installations that
draw community participation. In 2002, she spent two weeks
in Memphis working with the city’s Hispanic community with
a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation. In 2003, the National
Endowment for the Arts sponsored an art project involving residents
of a public housing complex in the Watts neighborhood of Los
Angeles. She lectures frequently, and has had solo shows at
venues such The Nuyorican Poets Café and El Museo del Barrio
in New York, and the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba. Group shows
include the VII Bienal Iberoamericana de Arte Domecq in Mexico
City, the Biennial of Contemporary Latin American Artist in
Connecticut, Cadences: Icon and
Abstraction in Context at the New Museum of Contemporary
Art in New York, and the Encuentro interamericano de artistas
plásticos in Guadalajara. She has a bachelor of fine
arts degree in sculpture from Florida International University
and a master of fine arts degree in sculpture from San Francisco
State University. (Cintas for art, 1989-90, 1994-95)
Ana GUERRA (Cintas for art, 1978-79)
 Ramón GUERRERO (b.
1946, Camagüey-d. 1993, Miami): Photographer Ramón Guerrero
had solo shows at the Museo Cubano de Arte y Cultura in Miami,
Marta Gutiérrez Fine Arts and the Tampa Museum of Art. Group
shows included Myths & Realities, at
the West‑Dade Regional Library in Miami; the traveling exhibition Cuba‑USA:
The First Generation; Islands in the Stream: Seven Cuban American
Artists, at the Dowd Fine Arts Gallery in Cortland,
New York and, posthumously, Past Cuba: Identity and Identification
in Cuban‑American Art, at the Quick Center for the Arts
in Fairfield, Connecticut. Guerrero won a grant from the
National Endowment for the Arts and a first prize Andy Award
from the Advertising Club of New York. His work is in the
permanent collection of the Miami-Dade Public Library. (Cintas
for art, 1990-91)
Carlos GUTIÉRREZ de la SOLANA (b.
1947, Havana): An artist, writer and curator, Gutiérrez’s
work includes photography and installation art. He
is the winner of an Art Matters award, and was the director
of Artists’ Space in New York. He was a participant in the
Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program and his work was
included in the Outside Cuba exhibition. Gutiérrez received
a bachelor of fine arts degree from the Kansas City Art Institute
and a master’s degree from the University of California Art
Institute. (Cintas for art, 1974-75)
 Osvaldo GUTIÉRREZ (b. 1917, Matanzas-d. 1997,
Miami): Although he worked for many years as a set designer for
the theater, Gutiérrez always pursued a career as a painter and
had exhibitions throughout Latin America, Europe and the United
States. He participated in Art Cubain Contemporain at
the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris in 1951, the Homenaje
a la pintura latinoamericana in El Salvador in 1977 and
in Hispanic-American Artists of the United States: Argentina,
Bolivia, Chile, Cuba and Uruguay, at the Museum of Modern
Art of Latin America, in Washington D.C., in 1979. His work is
in the collections of the Lowe Art Museum of the University of
Miami, the Miami-Dade Public Library, the Museo Nacional, Montevideo,
and the Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, among others (Cintas
for art, 1970-71, 1971-72)
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