Full CV

I was born in Havana in 1964. Throughout my childhood and youth, I watched my father's architectural drawings and the works of local artists and craftsmen, and I began to feel drawn to what humans are capable of expressing and creating with their hands.

I studied initially Veterinary Medicine until one day I decided to sign up for the entrance exams to study at the San Alejandro School of Art. Two months later, I was studying sculpture, my true calling, leaving behind veterinary medicine.

During this new phase I alternated my evening classes with the work in a jewellery workshop, where I learned to create and execute jewellery designs. But the final push towards the meaning of Art was transmitted to me by the sculptor René Negrín. My initial wood sculptures were joined by stone, marble and steel; and later, woodcut and digital painting.

Since 1990, I have taken part in dozens of solo and group exhibitions in museums and art galleries which, along with public works, have allowed my creations to gain exposure over the years. For more than 20 years, I have also participated on a regular basis in monumental sculpture symposiums that have taken my works to Brazil, Russia, Italy and France, among other countries.

Having been born and having lived in Cuba has defined my personality and how I see the world, and my work is a reflection of that. But insularity has its limits, and the need to expand them has brought me to Sitges, Spain, where I have lived and worked, alternating with Havana, since 2012. My current works bear the imprint of my life and art journey.

My Caribbean essence nurtured by the Mediterranean, and my knowledge of artistic traditional tools and methods along with the use of digital technologies make up my present expressive universe.

CV

EDUCATION
1988 - 1991 Associate degree in Art, San Alejandro Art School, Havana, Cuba
1989 - 1990 Jewellery studies, Coral Negro Corporation S.A, Havana, Cuba

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Selection)
2022 Miramar Cultural Center, Sitges, Spain, Aramis Justiz
2016 Hotel Eurostars Convento Capuchinos, Segovia, Spain, Aramis Justiz y Rafael Ruz
2014 Casa de la Obra Pía Gallery, Havana, Cuba, Impacto
2009 National Museum of Colonial Art, Havana, Cuba, Abstracciones
2006 National Museum of Colonial Art, Havana, Cuba, En Movimiento
2004 Orígenes Art Gallery, Havana, Cuba, A mi manera
2002 Servando Cabrera Moreno Art Gallery, Havana, Cuba, Vivencias
2001 Casa Benito Juárez Art Gallery, Havana, Cuba, Fuerza viva

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selection)
2022 14th Havana Biennial, Collage Habana Gallery, Havana, Cuba, Fabulaciones de la Piedra a la PC
2019 Miramar Cultural Center, Sitges, Spain, Finalists in the XXIII Pere Jou Contest
2018 Alejo Carpentier Gallery, Havana, Cuba, De la idea a la forma, travelling exhibition
2018 Ona Gallery, Havana, Cuba
2017 Miramar Cultural Centre, Sitges, Spain, Finalists in the XXI Pere Jou Contest
2016 Guerrero Gallery, Sitges, Spain
2015 Habana Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2012 11th Havana Biennial, Complejo Morro-Cabaña, Havana, Cuba, Contemporary Cuban Sculpture
2012 11th Havana Biennial, Pabexpo, Havana, Cuba, Proyecto HB
2011 Veldtart Art Gallery, Mehmels, Germany
2011 La Confronta Art Gallery, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, Habana-Santiago
2010 Casa del ALBA Cultural Art Gallery, Havana, Cuba, 10 escultores cubanos

PUBLIC ART (Selection)
2021 Port d’Envaux, France, Les Lapidiales
2015 Caransebes, Romania, Parcul de sculptura in andezit
2011 Mehmels, Germany, Katzarstrasse
2010 Havana, Cuba, Casa de las Tejas Verdes, Centre for the Promotion of Modern and Contemporary Arquitecture
2010 Penza, Russia, Chitie Prudy
2010 Bayamo, Cuba, Plaza de la Patria
2008 Vilnoja, Lituania, Akmens skulpturu parkas
2008 Soria, Spain, Paseo de San Prudencio
2008 Manzanillo, Cuba, Centro turístico El Litoral
2006 Bayamo, Cuba, Bayamo South Beltway
2006 Havana, Cuba, Colonial Art Museum
2005 Las Tunas, Cuba, Bosque por la Paz
2003 Brusque, Brazil, Parque das esculturas

SCULPTURE SYMPOSIA
2021 Port d’Envaux, France, Les Lapidiales
2016 Fordongianus, Italy, Simposio Internazionale di scultura su Pietra Trachite
2015 Caransebes, Romania, Simpozionul Internaional de Sculptura în Andezit
2014 Bayamo, Cuba, Simposio de Escultura en mármol
2011 Mehmels, Germany, Internationales Bildhauersymposium
2010 Bayamo, Cuba, Simposio Nacional de esculturas
2010 Penza, Russia, International Sculpture and Painting Symposium
2008 Manzanillo, Cuba, Simposio Nacional de Escultura en mármol
2008 Soria, Spain, I Intercambio cultural Soria-Cuba
2008 Vilnoja, Lithuania, Granito skulpturu simpoziumas
2006 Bayamo, Cuba, Simposio Rita Longa

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
2019 2nd prize in the 23rd Pere Jou Contest, Sitges, Spain
2017 Finalist in the 21st Pere Jou Contest, Sitges, Spain
2016 1st prize in the International Sculpture Symposium, Fordongianus, Italy
2008 1st prize in the International Granite Sculpture Symposium, Vilnoja, Lithuania
2004 Finalist in the VI International Digital Art Show, Havana, Cuba
2002 2nd prize in the Wood Sculpture Show, Havana, Cuba
2002 D´Arq Prize in the Wood Sculpture Show, Havana, Cuba

COLLECTIONS (Selection)
Colonial Art Museum, Havana, Cuba
Soria City Hall Collection, Soria, Spain
ISS Museum, Penza, Russia
Bernardo Quetglas, Spain
Colección Viñas-Gil, Spain
María de Lourdes Duke, USA
Peter Carqueville, Germany
Eugene Grin, USA

MEMBERSHIP
Unión Nacional de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba
Asociación internacional de eventos de escultura monumental