Yailen Sellén

Yailen Sellén

Yailen Sellén (Cienfuegos, *1987) graduated in Plastic Arts from the Provincial School of Art Instructors “Octavio García”, of Cienfuegos, in 2006. In 2014 she graduated in Social Communication. In the University "Carlos Rafael Rodríguez" of that city. She has made two personal exhibitions in her hometown and has participated in more than a dozen collective shows in Cuba and Venezuela. Her works are part of private collections in Cuba and the United States. There is in many of Yailén Sellén's engravings an almost childish candor, which evokes the illustrations of children's storybooks. Some,…Read more …
Alejandro Gómez Cangas

Alejandro Gómez Cangas

New Exhibition Opening - Friday, June 10, 2022, 6 - 9 p.m. Alejandro Gómez Cangas (Villa Clara, 1986) graduated from the "Leopoldo Romañach" Professional Academy of Santa Clara (2005). He later studied at the University of the Arts, ISA, from which he graduated in the painting profile in 2012. He works and lives in Havana, Cuba. He has made almost a dozen personal exhibitions in Cuba, Peru and Lebanon. He has participated in collective exhibitions in Cuba, Denmark, Italy, Panama, Germany, Switzerland and Lebanon. His works are part of private collections in Cuba,…Read more …
Onay Rosquet

Onay Rosquet

Interview by Virginia Alberdi - Havana, December 2016 ONAY ROSQUET -  SELF PORTRAIT Young people have an outstanding position in contemporary Cuban art; they are the vanguard in the different ways of expressing art and tend to participate in all sorts of trends. Onay Rosquet’s work – which initially focused on characters and later on objects carefully reproduced in his drawings and paintings – attracts attention in an extraordinary way. In his first series on objects they appeared lonely, abandoned, but loaded with nostalgia that revealed much about them. At present, the young painter,…Read more …
Abel López Valdéz (Havana, *1985)

Abel López Valdéz (Havana, *1985)

López Valdés, who lives and works in Havana, studied in the Experimental School for Visual Arts “José Antonio Díaz Peláez” and continued studies at the San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts where he graduated in 2004 . He is a member of the Asociación Hermanos Saíz (AHS ). Abel worked as a designer for the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba from 2008 to 2010 . He is also a video maker at REMACHE studio.Read more …
Hector Frank Heredia García (Havana, *1961)

Hector Frank Heredia García (Havana, *1961)

Trained engineer and self-taught artist, Heredia García has organized workshops for children and teenagers. He is a member of the Visual Artists Association of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC ). He currently lives and works in Havana.Read more …
Carlos Quintana – Passage

Carlos Quintana – Passage

– by David Mateo, Art Critic, Habana, 2018 - Carlos Quintana (*1966, Havana) began his artistic career as a sketcher and painter in Cuba in the early 1990s.His pictures from this period show clear features of neo-expressionism.At the time, this stylistic orientation was characteristic of other contemporary painters in Cuba.His works showed the influence of paradigmatic artists such as Schnabel, Baselitz, Kiefer and Kippenberger.Nevertheless, Quintana was not granted a rapid rise in the national art scene of Cuba.One reason for this was that as a painter he was formally traveling on alternative paths…Read more …