CV

Rigoberto Díaz Martínez.  (Cuba.1990) 

 

Cursed studies.

2010-2015

• Visual Arts Licenciature given by the University of Arts of Cuba (ISA). Havana, Cuba.

2006-2009

• Academy of Plastics Arts “Raúl Corrales”, Ciego de Ávila, Cuba.

 

 Solo Exhibitions.

2021    

• Location Intelligence project. The artist’s Studio, Miami, Florida, United States.

2018   

• Sanctuary City. Project Space Residency. Visual Studies Workshop. Rochester, New York, United States.

2015   

• Collateral Project to the XII Biennial of Havana. The artist’s Studio, Cerro, Havana, Cuba.

2013   

• November of Photography. Open Space Intervention. Publisher of “Revolution and Culture” Magazine. Vedado, Havana, Cuba.

2012

• XI Havana’s Biennal, ISA Project, personal Project, Visual Arts Faculty, Superior Institute of Arts. Havana, Cuba.

2009   

• Influence. Provincial Academy of Plastics Arts Raúl Corrales. Ciego de Ávila, Cuba.

 

 Awards.

2015

• Funding scholarship Antonia Eiriz. Association Hermanos Saíz; Havana,Cuba.

 2013

• Vairoletto Foundation Award: I Fuorilegge. Mill’s Hall. Faena Art Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2012

• 1st Place Award in the 5th International Biennal of College’s Visual Art. Autonomus College of Mexico State, Arts Faculty, Toluca, Mexico.

 

  Residencies.

2018

• Project Space Residency. Visual Studies Workshop. Rochester, New York, United States.

 

Collective Exhibitions (selection).

2021

• Arte Laguna Prize. Arsenale of Venice. Venice. Italy.

2019

• Contemporary Venice 2019. ITSLIQUID International Art Show. THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space. Venice. Italy.
• Current Seen: Seeing Change. Visual Studies Workshop Gallery. Rochester, New York, United States.
• The Chelsea International Fine Art Competition. Agora Gallery. New York, United States.

2018

• 2018 Florida Biennial. The Art and Culture Center/Hollywood. Florida. United States
• Made in Transit: A U.S. – Cuban Art Exchange and Intercultural Dialogue. (Curator: Katarina Wong) Macy Gallery, Columbia University. New York, United States.
• 2018-2019 Fellowship Finalists Exhibition. Lowe Art Museum. Miami, FL, United States.
• Delete Limits. (Curator: Loliett Marrero) NG Art Gallery. Panama City, Panama.

 

2017

• CINTAS Foundation 2017-2018 Fellowship Finalists Exhibition. Coral Gables Museum. Miami, FL, United States.
• Double play, Cuban photography today. (Curator: Juan Antonio Molina) Photo Museo Cuatro Caminos. DF, Mexico.
• The Museum of Machines, architecture of closed spaces in the 60’s and 70’s of the Cuban Revolution. (Curator: Abel González Fernández) Workshop of Los Carpinteros. Nuevo Vedado, Havana, Cuba

2016

• AUTOPIA: Road Trips Cold War to the Present. (Curator: Gabriela M Cabreras, Elvis Fuentes) Bakehouse Art Complex. Miami, Florida, United States.
• Non Places. (Curator: Yudinela Ortega) Photographic November. Gallery Villa Manuela. Vedado, Havana, Cuba.
• Welcome …… like my rug. (Curator: Solvei Font) Sometimes art space. Vedado, Havana, Cuba.
• The architecture, the mother of all arts. (Curated by Nelson Herrera Isla, Loliett Marrero) Contemporary Art Center Wifredo Lam. Old Havana, Cuba.
• Trade rescue. (Curated by Abel González Fernández) Servando Cabrera Gallery. Vedado, Havana, Cuba.

2015

• Last Works. Free Zone. Collateral Project to the XII Biennial of Havana. Military park Morro-Cabaña, Havana, Cuba.
• To run, to save and to keep running. (Nina Menocal’s Project. Curatorship: Elvia Rosa Castro) Collateral Project to the XII Biennial of Havana. Loft Havana. La Habana Vieja, Cuba.
• Which is your need . Collateral Project to the XII Biennial of Havana. La Habana Vieja, Cuba
• (Curatorship: Amed Aroche, Raquel Cruz), Collateral Project to the XII Biennial of Havana, L Gallery, Vedado, Havana, Cuba.
• Empty spaces. Project Cuba – Germany, Collateral Project to the XII Biennial of Havana attached to the Project Con lentes de contacto, University of Arts, Havana, Cuba.

2014

• Sixth Contemporary Cuban Art Hall, cl’2 (by the 2). Development Center of Visual Arts and Cuba’s Photohall. Old Havana, Cuba.
• DIE BURG VERBINDET. Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle University of Art and Design, Halle Saale, Alemania.
• DAS BLAUE VOM HIMMEL. Given Project by the artist and teacher Andrea ZAumseil. Cuba-Germany Project, intervention inside a Beauty Hall, Halle-Neustadt, Germany.
• The utility of History. ( Alejandro Machado y Concha Fontenla) Havana’s Factory Old Havana, Cuba.
• Legacy. Havana’s Factory . Old Havana, Cuba.
• The order of all things. Galiano Gallery, Old Havana, Havana, Cuba.
• Nio3, 3rd International video art shows, ¨ From lyrical to solid.» (Curator: Juan Gil Segovia), Technological University of Pereira, Pereira, Colombia.
• This Side of (Curated by Sandra Sosa, Daris Vásquez) Gallery The Kingdom of This World, José Martí National Library, Plaza, Havana, Cuba.
• Bread and Circus. (Curated by Anamely Ramos, Gretel Medina, Maria de Lourdes Mariño), Intervention in the ruins of the School of Ballet, Higher Institute of Arts, Havana, Cuba.
• Thirteen stories + one. Cuba’s Ludwig Foundation, Vedado. Havana, Cuba.

2013

• Vairoletto Foundation Award: I Fuorilegge. Mill’s Hall. Faena Art Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• Touch yourself. Collective exhibition of photography. (Recovery: Elvia Rosa Castro) Havana Gallery, Vedado. Havana, Cuba.
• Video art Festival in the Funny Room. ART ROOM experimental space, Madrid.
• L Gallery, Vedado. Havana, Cuba.
• Tasajo. Open Space Gallery. Revolution and Culture Magazine. Havana, Cuba.
• The space, the senses and the information. Provincial Center of Plastics Arts and Desing.
• The ned, Artistic Project of Pedagogy. Visual Arts Development Center. Old Havana. Havana, Cuba.
• Plan B, Cuba-Germany Project, intervention in the Ballet Faculty, Municipal of Culture and Turism. Bucaramanga, Colombia.
• Nature and Art. Great Classroom of ISA. Havana, Cuba.

2012

• 5th International Biennal of College’s Visual Art. Model Museum of Science and Industry, Autonomus College of Mexico State, Arts Faculty, Toluca, Mexico.
• (Nomad Cicle) Global Cicle of Videoart and Videoperformance. Projections Hall, La Tabacalera. Madrid, Spain.
• Septemberfilm 2012. Fifth International Exhibition of Independent Films. Puerto de Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico.
• VISUART 2012 “A New Age” DOR’s Exhibitions Hall. Cienfuegos, Cuba.
• ControlParty, Given Project by the artist Robert Brecevic, intervention in the Visual Arts Faculty, ISA. Havana, Cuba.
• Listen to the silence. Havana Collage Gallery. Central Havana. Havana, Cuba.
• Intervention in the Ruins of the Ballet Faculty. XI Havana’s Biennal. Given Project by the artist Gabriel Orozco. Ballet Faculty, ISA. Havana, Cuba.
• XI Havana’s Biennal, ISA Project, Collective Project, Visual Arts Faculty. ISA, Havana, Cuba.
• From .avi to .mpg. XI Havana’s Biennal, ISA Project, Collective Project, Visual Arts Faculty. ISA, Havana, Cuba.
• Arévalo’s Contemporary Art Fair. Saint Martin’s Church. Cultural Space of Caja de Ávila, of Arévalo, Ávila. Spain.
• Artenoesfacil, Links Hall, Chicago’s Center for Independent Dance and Performance Art, Chicago, USA.

2011

• ELA-ETNIA VII. International Fair of Latin American Contemporary Art. Itinerary Exhibition in Belgium (Espace Wallonie), Luxemburg and Holland.
• I International Biennal of Art in Bucaramanga FROM HERE. Municipal Institute of Tourism and Culture. Bucaramanga, Colombia.
• II Metropolitan Hall of Visual Arts, Mire. Culture Home Piedra del Sol, Floridablanca, Colombia.
• “Rubén Darío” National Theater, Managua, Nicaragua.
• XI Hall and Conference of Digital Art. “Pablo de la Torriente Brau” Cultural Center, Havana, Cuba.
• IV Camagüey’s Video Art International Festival. “Alejo Carpentier” Gallery, Camagüey, Cuba.
• Young Creator’s Home, Saíz Brothers’s Association. Ciego de Ávila, Cuba.
• The circular days. Young Creator’s Home, Saíz Brothers’s Association. Ciego de Ávila, Cuba.
• 18th Artistic Young People’s World Festival. Haolguín, Cuba.
• II Festival of Arts. ISA, Havana, Cuba.
• Value of use. Young Creator’s Home, Saíz Brothers’s Association. Ciego de Ávila, Cuba.
• What is been cooked? ISA, Havana, (Art and experience studio)

2010

• Internal walls gang. Arms Square, Havana (Art and experience studio).
• III Camagüey’s Video Art International Festival. “Alejo Carpentier” Gallery, Camagüey, Cuba.

 

 

Bibliography.

2015

• CUTTING EDGE ART IN HAVANA. ATLA Group, LTD, Philadelphia. Estates Unites.
• Read to the end. Abel González Fernández., Word from the exhibition catalog Front, side project to the XII Biennial of Havana.

2014

• Notes for archiving. By Gretel Acosta, Artecubano/1.2014 News Volume 2 / Monthly periodical published by Artecubano, Ediciones seal of the National Council of Plastic Arts.

2013

• Yanelys Núñez Leyva. Words from the Stocks’s Exhibition Catalogue. November of Photography.
• Everything is not said through forms. Magaly Espinosa, Magazine The mail of the number 5 file. Veigas Files, Cuban Art.
• Three political Works in the ISA during the XI Havana’s Biennal. Anamely Ramos González, Cúpulas Magazine. Cúpula Editions. 2012-2013, numbers 4-5.

2012

• Protocol: a space metaphor. (Words from the Catalogue) by Magaly Espinosa, Artecubano News/ Number 8/ Monthly Publication edited by the seal Artecubano Editions of the Plastic Arts National Council. Cuba
• Insertion or how to do a water space. . Arlén Llanio, , C de Cuba Magazine, number 12. (Novermber 2012) Valencia, Spain.
• The XI Havana’s Biennal and the “other” Biennal. Magaly Espinosa, published in latinart. http://www.latinart.com/newsletter/News_SEPT-2012-07.html