Motivated by the opportunity to explore what Cuba means for us on our own terms
B. 1980, MIAMI Ruben Millares (b. 1980, Miami, FL.) is a visual artist considers himself a medium agnostic who attempts to define balance as a concept in everyday life. Through the use of sculpture, Sumi ink drawing, performance, installation, print making, music and video he is able to capture the essence of an idea without the…
B. 1981, MIAMI Marcos Valella (b 1981, Miami) received a Masters of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA and a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from Florida International University, Miami, FL. He is the recipient of Here and There Grant, Bass Museum of Art and Mildred…
B. 1972, MADRID Manny Prieres (b. 1972, Madrid) addresses the influence of mass communication mostly in the print and digital medium. The work is informed by graphic language and how different social groups have used it to convey or contain ideas. He is interested in how graphic design and the written word are used in art, and…
B. 1973, HAVANA Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova (b. 1973 Havana, Cuba) currently lives and works in Miami, FL. He attended the Ringling School of Art and Design and New World School of the Arts where he was awarded the Frances Wolfson Endowed Visual Arts Scholarship, and has completed residencies at the Capri Palace, Capri, Italy; Vermont Studio Center,…
B. 1963, HAVANA As a multi-disciplinary artist Juana Valdes’ work traces, recollects, and records her own personal experience of migration. Her artwork is informed by her Afro-Cuban ethnicity and the experience of growing up in America. Throughout her career, Valdes has participated in a range of exhibitions and residencies most currently at the European Keramic Work Center…
B. 1975, MIAMI Born + raised in Miami by Cuban immigrants, Norberto Rodriguez (b. 1975 Miami, FL) began his career at 18 as a multi-disciplinary conceptual artist known for his disruptive + innovative practice. He works in all media + genre including installation, performance, photography, sculpture, digital, music, film, text + tenderness. In 1995 he performed Lookin’ For…
B. 1980, MIAMI Antonia Wright is a multidisciplinary artist based in Miami, FL. Wright creates aestheticized extreme gestures using her own body as an artistic tool. Her works negotiate the boundary between performance, video art, photography, and poetry, questioning social norms through physical actions combining danger with beauty, aggression with vulnerability. Her ultimate goal is to…