Visual Artists: A B C D E F G H K L M N O P R S T U V W Z

Ramon LAGO (b. 1947, La Esperanza) In the 1960s, Lago was one of the youngest artists ever to exhibit at the National Academy of Design.  He has several pieces of public sculpture, including Continuum at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton and Silent Cry at Florida International University. He studied under José de Creft and Nathaniel Katz at the Art Students League and also attended the Newark School of Fine Arts and the National Academy of Design. Lago taught at Cooper Union. He is the winner of a Roman Bronza award in sculpture. (Cintas for art, 1979-80)

Julio FERNÁNDEZ LARRAZ (Julio Larraz) (b. 1944, Havana): The figurative work of Julio Larraz – bold still lifes, paintings lush with color and light and rich in dramatic content – have twice earned the artist recognition from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has held individual exhibitions at the Westmoreland County Museum of Art in Pennsylvania; the Edward Hopper Landmark Preservation Foundation in Nyack, N.Y.; the Wichita Falls Museum and Art Center; the Grand Palais in Paris; the Museo de Arte Moderno in Bogota and the Museo de Monterrey in Mexico, among others. His work was included in the Outside Cuba exhibition. His work is in the permanent collections of the Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery of the University of Texas, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, The Museo de Arte Moderno in Bogota, the Vassar College Art Gallery, the Miami-Dade Public Library and the Westmoreland Museum of Art in Pennsylvania, among others.Between 1968 and 1970, Larraz attended the workshops of Burt Silverman, David Levine and Aaron Schickler in New York.  (Cintas for art, 1975-76)

Maria LINO (b. 1951, Havana) A painter and sculptor as well as a videographer, Lino has exhibited widely in the United States. Her solo shows include a 1991 exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art in New York. Group shows include Nam: Ten Contemporary Hispanic Artists, at the Brooklyn Museum; Ancient Roots/New Visions, which traveled widely across the nation and to Mexico, and the traveling exhibition Cuba‑USA: The First Generation. She is the winner of a Stanley Cohen Memorial award. Lino directed the documentary Three Artist Profiles: María Brito, Carlos Alfonzo, Arturo Rodríguez. She has a bachelor’s degree from New York University and also studied at the Université de Paris. (Cintas for art, 1975-76, 1976-77)

Inverna LOCKPEZ (b. 1941, Havana) A widely-exhibited artist, Lockpez has also been a visual arts consultant for private foundations and corporations such as AT&T New Art/New Visions International Program and the Lila Wallace- Reader's Digest International Artist Series. From 1979 to 1994, she was director of the INTAR Gallery in New York, where she curated more than 250 exhibitions. Since 2002, she has been the curator of the Erpf Gallery at the Catskill Center. Lockpez attended medical school at the University of Havana, and studied arts at the National Academy of San Alejandro and the Taller de Grabado in Havana. She also studied social work at Columbia University and film/video and computer graphics at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She has lectured at Columbia and Cornell universities, Hunter College and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, among many institutions. She is past president of the National Association of Artists' Organizations. Lockpez is the winner of grants and fellowships from the Roxbury Arts Group, Creative Artists Public Service (CAPS, for sculpture), CETA, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Vogelstein Foundation. (Cintas for arts, 1970-71, 1971-72)

Rolando LÓPEZ DIRUBE (b. 1928, Havana-d. 1997, Puerto Rico) A sculptor, painter and engraver, Dirube left Cuba in 1960 and, after traveling throughout the United States, Europe and parts of Latin America, settled in Puerto Rico. He taught painting and design at the University of Puerto Rico and the Universidad Interamericana in San Juan and was founder and professor of the Escuela Taller de Artes Plásticas y Galería at La Romana in the Dominican Republic. Dirube studied at the Havana School of Architecture, the Art Students League of New York, and the Art Workshop at the Brooklyn Museum Art School. He participated in many solo and group shows in the United States, Latin America and Europe, including the Outside Cuba exhibition, and won the Iberia Airlines award for wood engraving and the I Bienal Hispanoamericana de Arte in Madrid. His works are in several major collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Caracas, the Miami-Dade Public Library, the Philadelphia Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. (Cintas in art, 1964-65, 1965-66)

J. Tomás LÓPEZ (b. 1949, Camagüey): A professor of photography, López is also the head of the photography program at the University of Miami. His large-scale digital prints are part of several major collections, including those of the Smithsonian Institution, the National Gallery of American Arts, the Biblioteque Nationale of France and the International Museum of Photography. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts award in the visual arts. H he has a bachelor’s degree from Fordham University, a master’s degree from the University of South Carolina and a master in fine arts from the University of South Florida. Before moving to the University of Miami, he taught at the Rochester Institute of Technology. (Cintas for art, 1990-91)

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