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Visual Artists:
 Carlos MACIÁ (b.
1951, Havana-d. 1994, Miami) An artist deeply influenced
by his interests in religion and spirituality, Maciá created artists
books, usually held in boxes, which he said offered him the
ability to capture the audience visually and through the
sense of touch. To make his books, he used a variety of textures,
from coffee bags to copper pages to handmade paper. In 1996,
two years after his death, Barry University held a retrospective
of his work. Maciá was a graduate of Barry University, where
he studied theology and philosophy. He was one of the artists
featured in the traveling exhibitions The Miami Generation and Cuba-USA:
The First Generation and his work is in the permanent
collection of the Miami-Dade Public Library. Maciá was the
winner of a Florida Arts Council award. (Cintas for art, 1983-84)
Oscar MAGNAN, S.J. (b. 1937, Cienfuegos):
An artist and professor of visual arts in St. Peter’s College,
New Jersey, Magnan is also a restorer of Old Master paintings
and was invited to participate in the Sistine Chapel restoration
project in 1985. Magnan’s paintings have been featured in several
one-man shows in North America and Europe, and he is the winner
of awards from the Canada Council, the Guggenheim Foundation
and the Hereward Lester Cooke Foundation. He is also the gallery
director and curator at St. Peter’s College. His work is represented
in several collections, including those of the Guggenheim Museum,
the Brooklyn Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the British Museum and the Bibliotheque Nationale
in Paris. Magnan has master’s degrees from Oxford and St. Mary’s,
and a Ph.D. from the Sorbonne. (Cintas for art, 1966-67)
 Luis MALLO (b. 1962,
Havana) Mallo’s photographs – which range from explorations
of the human form to studies of veiled, empty cityscapes
– have been exhibited in group and solo shows in Latin America,
Europe and the United States. He is the winner of a Catherine
and Denis Krusos Award, and has received a fellowship from
the Art Matters Foundation. His
work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston,
the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, and the Bibliotheque Nationale
in Paris, among others. Mallo received an associate’s degree
in graphic arts from the Fashion Institute of Technology in
New York. (Cintas for art, 1990-91)
Tomás MARAIS (b.
1931, Matanzas) Marais has worked in a variety of media,
from painting, drawing and printmaking to collage and sculpture,
and exhibits his work regularly. He studied at the San Alejandro
Academy in Havana and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.
In 2002, the Gulf Coast Museum of Art in Largo held a retrospective
of his work. (Cintas
for art, 1966-67, 1967-68)
Ana Maria MARTÍNEZ: Painter. (Cintas for
art, 1979-80)
 María MARTÍNEZ-CAÑAS (b. 1960, Havana) A
photographer who uses and stretches the medium to explore color
and form Martínez-Cañas’ work also delve on also issues of
culture and identity. Her work was included in the Outside
Cuba exhibition and the Cuba-USA: The First Generation traveling
exhibition. Her pieces are included in the collections
of the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, the Center for Creative
Photography in Arizona, the International Museum of Photography
in Rochester, N.Y., the Museum of Modern Art and the International
Center of Photography in New York and the Centro Cultural Arte
Contemporáneo in Mexico City, among others. She received
a bachelor of fine arts in photography from the Philadelphia
College of Art and a master of fine arts from the Art Institute
of Chicago. (Cintas for art, 1988-89)
 Linda MATALON (b. 1958, Brooklyn): The magazine Art
in America recently described Matalon’s work as an “unflagging
effort, by turns dogged, tender, angry and amused, to wrestle
pure vision into tangible form.” Her drawings and sculpture
have been featured in solo exhibitions throughout the United
States and in Paris. Matalon has received grants from the
New York Foundation for the Arts and Art Matters. (Cintas
for art, 1991-92)
 Francisco MÉNDEZ-DIEZ (b. 1948, Holguin)
A painter and printmaker, Méndez-Diez teaches art at the Museum
of Fine Arts, and is professor of drawing, painting and Latin
American Art at Roxbury Community College, both in Boston.
He is also a frequent participant in panels and seminars on
museum issues. Recent exhibitions include the solo shows Del
Barrio a la frontera at the Yo Gallery in Manchester,
N.Y., and Paintings, at Arte de las Americas, in Brookline,
Mass. His works is in the collections of Westfield State
College in Massachusetts, Lehigh University in Pennsylvania,
the Miami-Dade Public Library and various private collections.
Méndez-Diez received a fifth year studio diploma from the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts and studied painting in Puerto Rico with
Cubiña, Dirube and Antonio Gantes. (Cintas for art, 1976-77)
Tony MENDOZA (b. 1941, Havana) A writer and
photographer who combines both mediums to tell stories, Mendoza
is the author of four books, including Ernie: A Photographer’s
Memoir and Cuba – Going Back. His work was included
in the Outside Cuba exhibition and the Cuba-USA:
The First Generation traveling exhibition. His photographs
are in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum, the
Fogg Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of
Modern Art in New York, and the Museum of Fine Art in Boston,
among others. He has a bachelor’s degree in engineering from
Yale University and a degree in architecture from the Harvard
School of Design. He is the winner of three National Endowment
for the Arts photography fellowships, a Guggenheim photography
fellowship and two Ohio Arts Council writing fellowships. Mendoza
teaches photography at Ohio State University. (Cintas for art,
1995-96)
 José M. MIJARES (b. 1921, Havana-d. 2004,
Coral Gables) A painter, engraver and muralist, Mijares was
a member of the “Grupo Diez Pintores Concretos” formed in Havana
in 1958. The group was influenced by the tradition of European
concrete painters and its members were pioneers in geometric
abstraction in Latin America. Mijares studied at the Escuela
Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro and then taught there
until moving to the United States in 1960. His drawings were
used as illustrations in the legendary magazine Orígenes.
Throughout his life, he participated in numerous exhibitions,
beginning in 1944, when he had his first solo show at the Conservatorio
Nacional Hubert de Blanck in Havana. In 1950, he won first
prize at the Salón Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado
in Havana. He was represented in the exhibition Modern
Cuban Painters at the Museum of Modern Art in New York,
the Outside Cuba exhibition and in Hispanic‑American Artists
of the United States at the Museum of Modern Art of Latin
America in Washington, D.C. In 1994, the Museo Cubano de Arte
y Cultura in Miami celebrated his 50th anniversary as an artist
with an exhibition. His work is in the collection of the Lowe
Art Museum, the Miami‑Dade Public Library System, the Museo
Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana and the Museum of Modern
Art in New York. Florida International University awarded Mijares
an honorary degree in 2001. (Cintas for art, 1970-71,
1971-72)
 Abelardo MORELL, JR. (b. 1948, Havana) A
photographer best know for his haunting use of the camera obscura,
Morell’s body of work also includes a large number of intimate,
richly evocative photographs of ordinary household objects
and extreme close-ups of pages of antique books. His photographs
were featured in a solo show at the Art Museum at Florida International
University in 2004 and are in the collections of many major
museums including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum
and the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Art Institute
of Chicago. His books include Abelardo
Morell and the Camera Eye, Camera in a Room, Face to Face:
Photographs at the Gardner Museum, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and A
Book of Books. He received a Guggenheim fellowship in
1993. Morell has amaster of fine arts degree
in photography from Yale University.He is a professor at the
Massachusetts College of Art. (Cintas for art, 1992-93)
 Gean MORENO (b. 1972, New York, NY) An art critic and curator as well as an artist, Moreno uses pop culture to inform his collages and paintings. As a curator, he focuses on emerging artists who work on the fringes of traditional art. Moreno is a frequent contributor to art publications such as Contemporary, Art Papers and Flash Art. He is a graduate of Florida International University with a bachelor of arts in philosophy. Moreno lives and works in Miami. (Cintas Foundation Emilio Sánchez Award in Visual Arts, 2006-07).
 Ileana MORGADO GARCÍA, (b. Havana) A naif
painter. (Cintas for art, 1981-82)
Eduardo
J. MUÑOZ-ORDOQUI (b.
1964, Havana): The photographer Muñoz Ordoqui is also a curator
and frequent lecturer on art and photography. Recent solo exhibitions
include Resurrecciones at Espai Xavier Miserachs in
Barcelona, Cartaspor Sabina at Galería Nina
Menocal in Mexico City, and Eduardo Muñoz Ordoqui at
the Image Room Photography Gallery & Studio in Los Angeles.
He is the winner of a Guggenheim fellowship. Muñoz Ordoqui
studied art history at the University of Havana. (Cintas for
art, 1998-99)
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