Cintas Foundation

Baruj SALINAS (b. 1935, Havana): An architect by training – he studied at Kent State University in Ohio – Salinas found early success as a painter and engraver. He is regularly featured in solo shows in galleries in Europe and the United States. His participation in group exhibitions includes Recent Developments in Latin American Drawing at The Art Institute of Chicago, Outside Cuba,Breaking Barriers: Selections from the Museum of Art’s Permanent Contemporary Cuban Collection at the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale. He is the winner of numerous awards, including the Prize to Excellency at the VII Grand Prix International de Peinture in Cannes, a first prize at the IV Pan American Exhibition in Miami, and a first prize at the Sexta Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano in San Juan. His works is in the collections of museums in Israel, Spain, Colombia, Mexico and the United States, including that of the Miami-Dade Public Library. (Cintas for art, 1969-70, 1970-71)

Eduardo SÁNCHEZ (b. 1956, Havana) An assistant conservator in the department of antiquities conservation at the Getty Trust, Sánchez was part of the team that completed the conservation treatment of a mural painting by Philip Guston and Reuben Kadish at the new Visitors Center of the City of Hope hospital in Duarte, Calif. In 1999, he worked in the conservation assessment and survey of the hieroglyphic stairway at the Mayan Ruins in Copan, Honduras; most recently, he worked in the restoration of first-century statues of Marcus Aurelius and the Gaius Caesar owned by the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. He studied fine arts at the Claremont Graduate University in California (Cintas for art, 1982-83)

Emilio SÁNCHEZ (b. 1921, Camagüey- d. 1999, Warwick, N.Y): After moving to New York City in 1944 to study painting and printmaking at the Art Students League, Sánchez embarked in a successful artistic career. Among the group shows in which he participated are Artistas Latinoamericanos, at the Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo in Madrid, Outside Cuba, El Espíritu Latinoamericano: Arte y Artistas en los Estados Unidos, Latin American Artists in the U.S. before 1950 at the Godwin‑Ternbach Museum in Flushing; and Breaking Barriers: Selections from the Museum of Art’s Permanent Contemporary Cuban Collection at the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale. Although Sánchez is perhaps best known for his paintings of houses and other architectural themes, his body of work also included still lifes, flowers, landscapes, portraits and human figures. Sanchez’s work is in the permanent collections of many institutions, including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Museo de Arte Moderno of Bogota, the Miami-Dade Public Library and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. (Cintas for art, 1989-90)

George SÁNCHEZ CALDERÓN (b. 1967, New York):With large-scale, site-specific pieces, Sánchez takes his politically charged art into the community at large. One of his recent projects flashed numbers onto Miami’s famed Freedom Tower to symbolize the journalists killed or imprisoned around the world. Another project, La Bendición, recreated architect Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye under an overpass in one of Miami’s poorest districts. Sánchez has a master of fine arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. (Cintas for art, 2003-04)

Zilia SÁNCHEZ (b. 1928, Havana) A member of the group Los Once, Sánchez has distinguished herself in the areas of painting, sculpture, drawing and theater design. She studied at the San Alejandro Academy, at the Instituto Central de Conservación y Restauración in Madrid and at the Pratt Institute in New York. She exhibits widely in the United States and Latin America. Among the awards she has received are first prizes from the IV Bienal de Arte de Medellín and the IV Salón Nacional de la UNESCO in San Juan, and a prize for excellence from the Metro Art Gallery in New York. She participated in the Outside Cuba exhibition, and her work is in the collections of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña in San Juan and the Museo de Arte de Ponce, among others. (Cintas for art, 1966-67, 1968-69)

Ernest Delamartier SCOTT (b. 1959, Camagüey) A photographer and educator, Scott is associate professor of photography at the University of Illinois, Champaign. He is the winner of awards from the Illinois Arts Council, the Polaroid Corporation and the UCLA Art Council. His work is in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago Historical Society, the University of Notre Dame Library and the Joseph Brodsky Collection, among others. Scott received a master of fine arts degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and a bachelor of fine arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. (Cintas for art, 1991-92)

Daniel SERRA BADUÉ (b. 1914, Santiago de Cuba – d. 1996, New York): Considered by many the godfather of Cuban art in exile, Serra Badué was one of the first winners of a Cintas fellowship and an early member of the board of the Cintas Foundation. A surrealist painter and graphic artist, he is one of the artists featured in Artists in Exile, a series of four television documentaries directed by Ray Blanco in 1994. He once wrote that his art was always connected to his homeland. “There's a relationship between me, as an artist, and the land where I was born,” he wrote. “I don't feel like a foreigner in any place, because I continue to create my own vision of the world.” His work was included in the Outside Cuba exhibition, and it is in the permanent collection of the Miami-Dade Public Library. Serra Badué studied at art schools in Santiago de Cuba, Barcelona, and New York, at the Art Students League, the National Academy of Design and Columbia University. He was the first Cuban-American winner of a Guggenheim fellowship. (Cintas for art, 1963-64, 1964-65)

Andrés SERRANO (b. 1950, New York): After exploding upon the U.S. art scene with his controversial photo of a crucifix immersed in urine, Serrano has never strayed far from the battlefield of America’s off-and-on culture wars. Topics for his photographic series have ranged from mutilated bodies in a morgue, Ku Klux Klan members and explicit sex scenes to portraits of everyday Americans. “I want to explore the unexplorable," Serrano once said, and he has. For his work, he has won awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts and has been featured in countless solo and group shows in the United States and abroad. (Cintas in art, 1989-90)

Paul SIERRA (b. 1944, Havana) After moving to the United States in 1961, Sierra settled in Chicago, where he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. His richly rendered figurative and landscape paintings are in the permanent collections of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian, in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Snite Museum of Art at Notre Dame University, among others. His work was represented in the exhibitions Outside Cuba, 2000-2003 Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Cuba/USA: The First Generation, ¡Mira! The Canadian Club Hispanic Art Tour 1988-1989 and Hispanic Art in the Untied States: Thirty Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, among other group shows. He is the winner of three grants and fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council. (Cintas for art, 1990-91)

Susana SORÍ (b. 1949, Camagüey) Having focused 30 years of her life on the studies of yoga, meditation and vibratorial/energetic healing methods along side her art, Sorí believes art must “draw forth a change, a transformation in our nature that will manifest as a change in how we relate to ourselves to the world.” Sorí has had several solo and group exhibitions at venues such as the Museo de Arte in Santo Domingo, the National Library of Canada, the Grand Rapids Art Museum, the Orlando Museum of Art and the Hillwood Art Museum in New York. She was represented in the 10th International Independent Exhibition of Prints in Kanagawa, Japan, in Expatriates: Paintings by 15 Young Latin American Artists, which traveled throughout Florida and in the traveling exhibition Outside Cuba. SOS Kinderdorf In't. Org. commissioned the large mobile sculpture I Am That, now located at Village d’Enfants in Marrakech, Morocco. Her work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Miami-Dade Public Library. (Cintas for art, 1981-82)

Primitivo SUÁREZ (b. 1973, Chicago): Trained both in art and architecture, Suárez is a conceptual artist whose large-scale work has been described as “experimental architecture.” A recent exhibition at a Los Angeles gallery was a mixed media, three dimensional flattened, paper house that took up 1,200 square feet of gallery floor. He has a master of fine arts degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. (Cintas for art, 2001-02)

William SWETCHARNIK (b. 1951, Philadelphia) An educator as well as an artist, Swetcharnik describes his work as using “the vocabulary of old master paintings to summon up images from centuries of art history and weave them into a complex architectonic fabric, concerned principally with the idea of time as filtered through Old and New World experience.” One of his pieces was selected by the Art in Embassies Program for the U.S. Ambassador’s house in Tegucigalpa. He is the creator of the Latin American Art Resource Project, which teaches art educators in Latin America to use inexpensive, indigenous art materials. He is the recipient of two Fulbright grants to Spain to study Romanesque altarpieces and one to Honduras. He also won an Arts America Lecturing fellowship to Belarus, and has been artist in residence at the Ragdale Foundation and Yaddo. Swetcharnik studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and at the University of California at San Diego. Artist's website: www.swetcharnik.com (Cintas in arts, 1985-86)