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Visual Artists:
Jorge PANTOJA: The painter has exhibited
his work at the Javier Lumbreras gallery, the Gutiérrez Fine
Arts gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art, where he showed
his series 100 Haikus, and at Books and Books, all
in Miami-Dade County. (Cintas for art, 1995-96)
Jorge Javier PARDO (b.
1951, Havana): An architect, interior designer and arts administrator,
Pardo has extensive experience as a guest lecturer, juror
and panelist, particularly on issues of public art. He was chairman
of the City of Santa Monica Arts Commission from 1997 to 2000
and co-founder of the Public Art Coalition of Southern California.
In 2002, he became art & design manager for creative services
with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in Los Angeles.
He participated in the Outside Cuba exhibition and the
Cuba-USA: The First Generation traveling exhibition and
is the winner of fellowships and awards from the Mid-America
Arts Alliance of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Texas
Society of Architects and the Austin Chapter of the American
Institute of Architects. Pardo has a master’s degree in architecture
from the University of Texas at Austin, a master of fine arts
degree from Florida State University and a bachelor’s degree
from the Universidad de las Américas in Mexico. (Cintas for
art, 1982-83)
 Angel R. PEDREGUERA (b. 1938, Havana-d. 1979,
Miami ): Under the sponsorship of the City of Miami, Pedreguera
created a mural dedicated to Our Lady of Charity in Little
Havana’s Southwest Eighth Street and 15th Avenue.(Cintas for
art, 1969-70)
 José A. PELÁEZ (b. 1950, Havana) An architecture
graduate from the University of Puerto Rico, Peláez has devoted
himself to graphic design, printmaking, photography and literature.
He exhibits his print work regularly and directs a workshop,
Arte Sobre Papel, in Puerto Rico. Peláez has taught graphic
arts at Monmouth University in New Jersey, and at the schools
of Architecture and Communications at the University of Puerto
Rico. His books include La verdad sencilla, a selection
of works by José Martí, and the poetry collections Poemas
sobre el lienzo con música y dos películas de terror,
and Arqueología. (Cintas for art, 1977-78)
 Gina PELLÓN (b. 1926, Cumanayagua) A widely
recognized expressionist painter, Pellón exhibits her work
regularly in Europe and the United States, and has been honored
by the French minister of culture for her contribution to the
French arts. She was represented in the Outside Cuba exhibition,
and her work is in the permanent collection of the Miami-Dade
Public Library. In 1992, she received the Arletty award. In
1999, the Musee du Pilori, in Niort, France, held a retrospective
of her work. (Cintas for art, 1978-79).
Jorge PÉREZ CASTAÑO (b. 1932, Havana) Even
though he has lived in Paris since 1959, the style and themes
of Castaño’s paintings have stayed close to his Cuban roots.
He regularly exhibits his work in Europe and the United States,
and has participated in group shows such as the 1998 exhibitions Three
Cuban Painters in Paris at the Galerie du Carrousel du
Louvre in Paris and Far from Cuba at the Musees des
Tapisseries et Pavillons de Vendome in Aix-en-Provence. His
work is in the permanent collection of the Miami-Dade Public
Library. (Cintas for art, 1965-66)
Lisandro PÉREZ-REY (b. 1975, Baton Rouge).
After studying anthropology at Florida International University,
Pérez-Rey began working in film and television. His full-length
documentary on the Mariel boatlift, Beyond the Sea (Más
allá del mar), was an official selection of the 2003 Los
Angeles Film Festival, the Leeds International Film Festival
and the Cambridge Latino Film Festival, and won for best feature-length
documentary in the Made in Miami Film Festival. He is a recipient
of a grant from the Ford Foundation. Other documentaries include Gato and Reunión
familiar. (Cintas for art/film, 2002-2003)
Maritza PÉREZ: Sculptor. (Cintas for art,
1990-91)
Mario PETRIRENA (b.
1953, Unión de Reyes) A sculptor, ceramicist and installation
artist, Petrinera has said that his work is autobiographical,
informed by his dual heritage. He has had several group shows
in Georgia and has participated in many group exhibitions,
including Outside
Cuba, the Cuba-USA: The First Generation traveling
exhibition and American Ceramics Now: The 27th Ceramic
National Exhibition, which traveled widely across the
United States, and Latin American Artists of the Southeast
Coastal Region at the Contemporary Art Center in
New Orleans. He is the winner of an Artist in Education Fellowship
from the Georgia Council for the Arts, a Jurors Award of Excellence
at Spotlight’87 of the American Craft Museum and a
National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. His work is in
the collections of Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, the Macon
Museum of Art and Sciences, and the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale,
among others. Petrirena received a bachelor of fine arts degree
from the University of Florida, and a master of fine arts from
the School for American Craftsmen at the Rochester Institute
of Technology. (Cintas for art, 1986-87, 1991-92)
Jose Angel PIEDRA: Painter. (Cintas in art,
1972-73)
Ernesto PUJOL (b. 1957, Havana): Although he
trained formally as a painter, Pujol work has broadened into
installation work and photography. He has said his work deals
with obsessive memory as its main theme, which he divides into
memory of place, of gender and of violence. Pujol attended the
University of Puerto Rico and the Universidad Complutense in
Madrid and studied art therapy at Pratt Institute; he also studied
theology and was a monk for four years. He has exhibited internationally,
at venues such as the VI Havana Biennial, the Second Johannesburg
Biennial and the Bronx Museum. He has received grants from the
National Endowment for the Arts, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation
and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. His work is in the collections
of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Museo Rufino
Tamayo in Mexico City, the Casa de las Américas in Havana and
El Museo del Barrio in New York. In 2001, he participated in
the NEA's colloquium Artists Making Work. (Cintas in art, 1991-92,
1997-98)
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