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

Gustavo C. OJEDA (b. 1958, Havana-d. 1989, New York) After winning early acclaim for his paintings and engravings, Ojeda participated in exhibitions across the United States, including the International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and Outside Cuba. His work is in the collections of the Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery in Houston, the Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey and the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., among others. Ojeda had a bachelor of fine arts from the Parsons School of Design. He was the winner of a studio fellowship from, P.S.1. Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Inc. (Cintas for art, 1980-81)

Efraim OLIVER (b. 1930, Matanzas) An architect by profession and training, Oliver  has had several one-man shows and has participated in group exhibitions at the University of Miami, the Museum of Science in Miami, the Society of Four Arts in Palm Beach and the Museum of Modern Art of Latin America (OAS) in Washington, D.C., among other venues. He received a Delineation Award from the Florida Association of the American Institute of Architects and his work has been published in Drawings by American Architects and Presentation Drawings by American Architects. He is associate vice president for Spillis Candela & Partners Inc. Oliver studied architecture at the University of Havana. (Cintas for art, 1985-86)

Aramis O’REILLY (b. 1958, Havana): O’Reilly teaches painting and drawing at the New World School of the Arts in Miami. His work has been exhibited in museums, galleries and public spaces; he was represented in the Outside Cuba exhibition, among others. The critic Juan Espinosa has described his art as providing “the traditional visual elements of drawing and painting with scenic, kinetic and musical components.” His work is in the permanent collection of the Miami-Dade Public Library. Reared in New Jersey, O’Reilly attended the University of Connecticut and received a master of fine arts degree from Florida International University. (Cintas for Art, 1987-88)

Felipe ORLANDO (b. 1911, Tenosique, Mexico-d. 2001) An anthropologist as well as a painter and engraver, Orlando, whose full name was Felipe Orlando Garcia Murciano, studied at the University of Havana and at the painting workshop of Jorge Arche and Víctor Manuel. He was a founding member of the Asociación de Pintores y Escultores de Cuba (APEC) and aprofessor at the Universidad de las Américas and the  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, both in Mexico City. His work was exhibited regularly in solo and group shows until 1995 and is in the permanent collections of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of Modern Art of Latin America in Washington, D.C., among others. Orlando was the subject of various documentary films, including La pintura de Orlando, filmed in Mexico City in 1950, Wolf Hanke’s Felipe Orlando, done for Germany’s RTV and  Felipe Orlando, for Mexico’s Channel 5. His collection of pre-Columbian art formed the core of the Archeological museum at Benalmádena, Spain, of which he was honorary director since its creation in 1970 (Cintas for art, 1967-68)

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