Holguín, 1960

Studies
1982	Nacional School of Arts (ENA), Havana city.
1987	Superior Institute of Arts (ISA), Havana city.

Artistic Residences
2008	Artist in residence. Art Center of Mataro. Barcelona. Spain.
2004	Artist in Residence, Cuban Artists Found. Artist in Residence, Mattres Factory Pittsburg, USA.
2003	Artist in Residence, Schloss Wiepersdorf, Germany.
1999	Artist in Residence, Hersliya. Artist Residence, Israel.
1997	Artist in Residence, Museum of Fine Arts La- Chaux- De-Fonds, Switzerland.
1996	Artist in Residence, Ludwig Forum Internacional Kunst, Germany.

Profesional activity
	Professor, Superior Institute of Arts (ISA), Havana city. Member, Union of Writers and Artist of Cuba (UNEAC), Havana city.

Solo exhibitions  2008  Screening of his trilogy of new videoworks. Frills Community Garden 38 Charles Street, Kingston, Ontario, Canada  2008  Historias Cruzadas. PanAmerican Art Projects, Miami, USA
2006	Patio de Nin (9th Havana Biennial), Miramar Trade Center, Havana city.
2005	Lista de Espera. Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico D.F. Pasta Cortada. M.A. Contemporary Galerie, Berlin. Trabajo social (Exhibition colateral to Matanzas´s Salon of Art). Provincial Center of Art, Matanzas.
2003	Cositas sueltas. Schloss Wiepersdorf, Germany. Ca(sz)a persona beuys. Foto Graphik Galerie Käthe Kollwitz, Berlin. Ajuste de cuentas (8th Havana Biennial). Nacional Museuom of Fine Arts, Havana city.
2002	Todo uso es un abuso. Casa de las Américas. Havana city. Abajo René Francisco. Gallery 106, Austin, TX.
2001	Tubosutra. Goch Museum, Germany.
2000	Humano demasiado, humano. Gallery Herzliya Residence, Tel Aviv, Israel.
1999	Tubosutra. Havana Gallery, Havana city.
1997	Autorretratos (with Tonel and Eduardo Ponjuán). Gallery Or, Vancouver, Canada.
1996	Call Malevich (with Eduardo Ponjuán). Kunshtalle, Dusseldorf y Kunstverein Lingen, Alemania. El Cumpleaños de Malevich. Contemporary Art Center Wifredo Lam, Havana city.
1994	Vuelo (with Eduardo Ponjuán). Ifa-Galerie Friedrichstrase, Berlin. Muestra del mes (with Eduardo Ponjuán). Agglutinative Space, Havana city.
1993	Arte y Confort (with Eduardo Ponjuán). Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico D.F.
1992	Ven y dame una mano. Art Center 23 y 12, Havana city.
1989	Artista Melodramático (with Eduardo Ponjuán). Castle of The Royal Force, Havana city.
1988	Lectura II (con Eduardo Ponjuán). Centro Provincial de Arte Plásticas y Diseño, Havana city.
1985	Confluencias. Art Center of Pinar del Río, Pinar del Río/ Alex Urquiola Library, Holguín.

Group Exhibitions 2008  Cartografías de una isla de ultramar. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. La Habana.Cuba.
2008	Lugares comunes. La experiencia colectiva en el video latinoamericano. Centro Jose Guerrero. Granada, España. Territories. Contemporary Latinoamerican Art. Otranto, Italy. Post it cities-international. CCCM. Barcelona. Spain
2007	New technologies. Spaces of the contemporary art. Salamanca University. Spain. Balelatina 2007. Basilea Foundation. Dreinlandereck, Basel, Switzerland. 52ª Venice Biennial. Venice. Italy. Killing time (second version of Waiting List). Exit Art. Nueva York, USA.
2006	Como en botica. Salón de la Plástica Mexicana (Zócalo´s Book Feir) Mexico D.F, Mexico. Waiting List. Mestna Galerija Ljubljana. Slovenia. Rising Stars: North Latin Americans. Art Loves Design Program 2006. Art Basel Miami Beach 2006. Miami. USA. Art Forum. Nina Menocal Gallery, Berlin, Germany. Del otro lado del atlántico. Sacramento Gallery, Aveiro, Portugal. Fantastic frameworks. Architectural Utopias + Designs for life. Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada. Fast Forward. Cultural Center Fresa y Chocolate, Havana city. Ciudades internas: Habana-Berlín (9th Habana Biennial). Provincial Center of Plastica Arts and Design, Havana city. La huella múltiple. Convento of San Francisco de Asís, Havana city.
2004	Just on Time. Havana Gallery, Havana city. 26th Sao Paulo Biennial. Sao Paulo, Brasil Unknown Sister, Unknown Brother. Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany. Escalar montañas hermana hombres. Workshop Réne Francisco with KiT and KhiT Bergen, Norway. Cuban artists in residence.Installations. Mattres Factory. Pittsburg, Philadelphia, E.U.A. Massa Dammata. Galerie Refugium, Berlin, Germany. Art Cologne. Galerie Refugium. Koln, Germany.
2003	Sentido Común. Havana Gallery, Havana city. Maneras de inventarse una sonrisa. Center of Development of Visual Art (CDAV), Habana. Art Basel Feir, Miami. USA 4D. Rain Project. Cuba Pavilion, Havana city.
2002	With eyes of stone and water. Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland. 2: 12. San Francisco Art Comission Gallery. Overtures uber Wasser. Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
2001	Transform: 8 artists in Trieste, Italy. Cuba Contemporánea. Galería DUPP, MAC, Brasil. Hello Cuba Breaking Barries (with Galería DUPP). Tallahasse, USA.
2000	Havana Nagila. Cuba - Israel: Dialogue. Tel Aviv, Israel. 7th Havana Biennial. Castle of the Three Kings, Havana city. ( with Galería DUPP) Forum internacional de escultura CODEMA 2000. Havana city.
1999	Big River. Workshop. Grand Riviere, Trinidad & Tobago. National Museum. Trinidad Tobago. 48va Venice Biennial. Italy.
1998	Ironía y supervivencia en la isla utópica. Museum of Fine Arts, Arizona, USA. La dirección de la mirada. Zurich, Switzerland.
1997	Taller de reparaciones. 6th Havana Biennial. Havana city. I Bienal Iberoamericana. Lima, Perú. Utopian Territories: New Arts from Cuba. Morris & Helen Belkin Gallery, (British Columbian University), Vancouver, Canada.
1996	Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo ARCO´96. Recinto Ferial Juan Carlos I, Madrid. - A dentro-A fuera. Walter Phillips Gallery, Canada.
1995	Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo ARCO´95. Recinto Ferial Juan Carlos I, Madrid. Una de cada clase. Nacional Center of Conservation, Restoration and Museology, Ludwig Fundation of Cuba, Havana city.
1994	Sueño, Arte y Mercado. 5th Havana Biennial. Morro- Cabaña complex, Havana city.
1992	Avantgarde & Kampangne. Cultural Center of Dusseldorf, Germany. on Dort aus: Kuba. Ludwig Forum for the Internacional Culture, Aachen, Germany. La época prodigiosa. Museum of the Chopo, Mexico D.F.
1990	El objeto esculturado. Center of the Development of Visual Arts. Havana city.
1988	No es solo lo que ves. Arts and Letters School, Havana University, Havana city.
1985	Salón Joan Miró. Barcelona, Spain.

Plastic actions
2002	El prestamista y el deudor (concert). Superior Institute of Art (ISA), Havana city.
2001	Homenaje a San Francisco. San Francisco, California, E.U.A. (with Felipe Dulzaides).
2000	Desde un pensar abstraído. Havana Gallery, Havana city (with Galería DUPP).
1998	El Regreso de Joseph Beuys. First Festival of Performance Ana Mendieta, Havana city.
1997	Reviva la ReVoltaire. Gruop action of cuban artists in Spiegelgasse 1, Zürich, one-time location of the Voltaire cabaret, place where Dada used to hold their meetings. Joseph Beuys, 7 días en Holguín. Holguín, Cuba.
1996	Malevi bobo, papá bobo. Center of Contemporary Art Wifredo Lam, Havana city.
1987/1988	La plástica cubana se dedica al baseball (group performance). Círculo Social. José A. Echevarría, Havana city.
1987	Si salgo llego... Fototeca de Cuba, Havana city (with Francisco Lastra).

Social Insertion Works
2004/05	Patio de Nin. El Romerillo quarter, La Habana.
2003	A la ca(sz)a de Rosa. El Romerillo quarter, La Habana.
1997	Desde una pragmática Pedagógica. Third edición. Galería DUPP, Superior Institute of Art, Havana city.
1992	Desde una Pragmática Pedagógica. Second Edition. Department of Debates and Exhibitions, Superior Institute of Art (ISA), Havana city.
1990	Los Cuadros por Encargo Gratis. Santa Cruz del Valle, Ávila, Spain.
1989/90	Desde una pragmática pedagógica. First Edición, January-May, Havana city.

Prizes & Acknowledgements 2008  Orden por la Educación Nacional           Orden por la Cultura Nacional
2001	Honorary Doctorate Fine Art, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.
2000	Premio UNESCO con Galería DUPP, 7th Havana Biennial, Havana city.