A N T U A N – CONTEMPORAY ARTIST
ANTUAN RODRIGUEZ ,Santa clara , cuba , 1972
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Antuan is an integral environmentalist, transdisciplinary and cosmogonic artist. From the beginning of his artistic training, in the 80s, environmental problems occupied a central place in his thinking, when the environmental art movement arose, resulting in a theme present throughout the course of his career. Likewise, his work gained high interest and visibility, in art biennials, art fairs, and museums
Antuan was born in Cuba 1972. In 1989, when he was just beginning to study, he created the ECO project of ephemeral art, at the age of 17 years. He obtained his degree in art at the ISP “Félix Varela” of Santa Clara, Cuba, in 1995. Achieving his research thesis, Art, Ecology, and Humanism, between 1995 and 1996. In it, Antuan already emphasizes the role of the artist as a social practitioner.
Antuan's creativity is a continuous and integral expression of environmentalist and cosmogonic consciousness, as a transdisciplinary search for human connection to his universe.
EDUCATION
2019 Fault Line Artist in residence. Landers,California , USA
2014 IPS Residency at the IBB Center for Contemporary Arts. Curacao
2006 Art Fellowship, University of Valencia, Spain
2001 Master in Iron and Resin, Atelier D’Art Ros Mari, Valencia, Spain
1998 Fine Arts Scholarship granted by Fundación Bancaja, Valencia, Spain
1997 Master in Bronze Casting under the direction of sculptor Joseph Castell, Perpignan, France 1996 B. A. Fine Arts., Universidad Félix Varela, Villa Clara, Cuba
1987 Graduated from San Alejandro National Academy of Arts, Habana, Cuba
1985 Graduate of Elemental Level in Art, Eva Olga Alonso, Villa Clara, Cuba
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITS
2020 Contemporary Art Lab, Mind-Works. Reshaping Art Series, Philadelphia, PA.
Building Bridges Art Exchange, Santa Mónica , CA.
Archipresente \ Colección Casa, Centro cultural El Tranque ,Santiago de Chile.
2019 DOX Center of Contemporary Arts in Prague.
Bombay Beach Biennale, CA.USA
Art Wynwood, Art fair, Mimai, USA.
Bloc Art, Espacios Experimentales ,Coleccion ALL.PERU
Yucca Valley Arts Center, The Hi Desert, CA, USA
Fault Line Artist in residence.Fusion of Art, Science, and Technology.Landers, CA.
2018 Power of art house. Amsterdan.NL
Texas Contemporary art fair. USA
Alvarez Gallery, opioid, Stamford , USA
18th Asian art biennale, Bangladesh
LA art show, Los Angeles, California , USA
Building Bridges art Exchange, Santa Monica, California, USA.
2017 Espacio Fundación Telefonica .Santiago, Chile.
Pinta Art Fair. Freijo Fine Art Gallery, Spain. Miami, FL.
C.A.S.A Collection. Santiago, Chile.
Art Palm Beach International, FL.
2016 MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, “The Other Fimension. Solo show, covering,
all Museum galleries. Miami, FL.
MDC Museum of Art + Design. Miami, FL.
Centro Cultural Matucana 100. Santiago, Chile.
Museo de Arte Moderno, Vibración 7.8. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic..
MPAC, MIAMI Institute Private Art Collection Project, Miami Beach, FL.
Cintas Fellows Awards, Finalist. 2016 – 2017. Cintas Foundation – MDC.Miami, FL.
Art Medellin 2016. Medellin, Colombia.
2015 Centro Cultural Matucana 100 Santiago de Chile, Chile.
Art.es.art magazine Arco madrid project. Madrid, Spain.
2014 Central Fine Art Contemporary. Cadiz, Spain.
IPS Residency at the IBB Center for Contemporary Arts. Curacao.
Centro Fine Art. Asturias, Spain.
Aluna Art Foundation. Walking in Someone Else´s Shoes: Identities in Transit. Miami, FL.
2013 Global Caribbean IV, Focus on Miami Contemporary Visual Arts Landscape.
Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance-Art Basel Miami Beach.FL.
Tenerife Espacio Arte. (TEA). Caanary Islands. Misterpink Art Gallery, digital video.
creation series. Miami selected artist.
Miramar Cultural Center. Americana| Arts Park, Miramar, FL.
Bienal Del Sur, Panama City, Panamá.
The 8th Floor-Stealing Base: Cuba at Bat. New York City-NY.
USF Contemporary Art Museum. Occupying Building, Thinking: Poetic and Discursive Perspectives
on Contemporary Cuban Video Art. Tampa. FL.
2012 Art Museum of the Americas –OAS. Transitional Bodies Foto Week.Washington DC.
Convento San Francisco de Asís, Faith Substitutes, Havana, Cuba.
2011 III Bienal Del Fin del Mundo, Argentina
entro Cultural Español Inhabiting, building, thinking.Centro Cultural Español, Miami, FL, USA
Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
Mocca, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
Cobra Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Base Paint, Miami, FL, USA
Wynwood Art Fair, Miami, FL, USA
Pinta Art Fair, New York, USA
2010 Scope Miami International Contemporary Art Show, Miami, FL, USA
Frost Art Museum, FIU, Miami, FL, USA
Base Paint, Epic, Miami, FL.
Museum of Modern Art. Trienal Internacional Caribe,Santo Domingo. Dominican Republic.
IKF – Latin America, Art Auction, Miami, FL.
The Freedom Tower – Past is history-future is mystery, Miami, FL, USA
Patria o Libertad, The Freedom Tower, Miami, FL, USA
Laboratorio Evolutivo de Arte Contemporáneo, Dominican Republic
Art Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, IL, USA
Fiart -Palacio de Bellas Artes, Dominican Republic
Miami International Art Fair, Miami, FL, USA
Art Palm Beach, Palm Beach, FL, USA
Los Ángeles Art Show, Los Ángeles, CA, USA
Arte Americas, Miami, FL, USA
Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Pinta Art Fair, London, UK
2009 Durban-Segnini Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
Bridge Art Fair- Miami, FL, USA
Red Dot Art Fair, Miami, FL, USA
Museum Of Latin American Art, Molaa, CA, USA
Art on Track, Chicago Art Track, Chicago, IL, USA
NOBE 67 ART, Miami, FL, USA
2008 Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Collective Cuban Artists, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
Arteamericas, Miami, FL, USA
First Art Fair Arte Al Limite, Santiago, Chile
Circa-Art- Fair, Puerto Rico.
2007 Sculpture Key West, Key West, USA
Art Fair, Valencia, Spain
Circa Art Fair, Puerto Rico
Art Fair – Photo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Arte Latex, University of Valencia, Spain
Aldo Castillo Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Arte américas, Miami, FL, USA
Sculpture Key West By Land, Sea and Sky, Key West, FL, USA
Art Miami, Miami, FL, USA
2006 Hard Core Art Gallery. Menu: Samples and Dishes, Miami, FL.
Dot 51 Art Space. Consuming Art, Miami, FL.
Alejandra Von Hartz Fine Arts, Miami, FL.
Palacio de Los Cristales. La Estampa, Madrid,Spain.
Valencia Art Fair, Valencia, Spain.
Art Miami art fair, Miami Beach, FL.
Galería Nina Menocal, D.F., México.
ZONAMACO, Contemporary Art Fair, México City. Mexico.
Art Fellowship, University of Valencia, Spain.
2005 Arte américas, Miami, FL, USA
Art Miami, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami, FL, USA
XIV Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporánea, Santander, Spain
2004 Palacio de Los Cristales. La Estampa, Madrid, Spain.
Masters’ Mystery Art Show, FIU, Miami, FL.
Galeria Argenta Arte, Valencia, Spain.
2003 Arte Digital Diáspora, Studio Soto, Boston, MA, USA
International Art Fair, New York City, NY, USA
Hollywood Biennale, Hollywood, FL, USA
Galeriargenta, Valencia, Spain.
2002 Bronxville Art Center, Bronx, NY, USA
2001 Valencia University, Valencia, Spain.
2000 Fundación Bancaja, Valencia, Spain
531 Central Fine Arts Gallery, Saint Petersburg, FL, USA
Gallery Nouveau, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1999 Florida International University, The Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA
1998 Contemporary Art Center Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba
Artistic Center “La Regenta”, Canary Islands, Spain
Panamericana Gallery Mariano Rodríguez, Havana, Cuba
National Union of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC), Havana. Cuba
National Gallery of Fine Arts, Matanzas, Cuba
Ridel Gallery , San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1997 Contemporary Art Center Joseph Castell, Perpignan, France
Gallery Albero, Canary Islands, Spain.
1995 Gallery Paisajes Fondo de Bienes Culturales de Cuba, Villa Clara, Cuba.
1994 UNEAC Exhibit of Artists from the Gallery Provincial of CAA, Cuba.
1993 First Center and Gallery Wilfredo Lam, Villa Clara, Cuba
Fourth Sculptural Encounter, Villa Clara, Cuba
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITS
2020 Viral Geometry ,Building Bridges Art Exchange, Los Angeles, CA; Arte Al Limite art .
magazine, Santiago, Chile; Contemporary Art Lab |Arts Incubator, Philadelphia.
2019 BBAX. Building Bridges Art Exchange. Los Angeles, CA.
2017 Freijo Gallery ,Madrid,Spain.
Antuanlab Miami .FL.
2016 The Other Dimension, Museum of Contemporary Art ,Miami , FL. HUBLOT Space Art Exhibition,
Miami Design District, FL
2015 MATUCANA 100 .centro de arte en Santiago de chile
Museo de la Fortaleza osama,Republica Dominicana
Museo de arte moderno , Republica Dominicana
2007 HIDES – The Silvana Facchini Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
2006 Gallery Matthei, Santiago De Chile, Chile
“Visions” Hardcore, Contemporary Art Space, Miami, FL, USA
2004 “The Right Eye”Galeriargenta, Valencia, Spain
2003 Galleries at the Interchurch Center, New York City, NY, USA
2002 Bronxville Art Center, Bronx, NY, USA
2001 531 Central Fine Arts Gallery, Saint Petersburg, FL, USA
Gallery Noveau - San Juan, Puerto Rico
2000 Contemporary Art Center Jose Castell, Perpignan, France
1999 Gallery Ridel, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1998 Center of Contemporary Art, Castle San Felipe, Canary Islands, Spain
Without Permit to Travel, Luis De Soto, Havana University, Arts and Letters Faculty Havana, Cuba
Memories of the Twentieth Century, Center for the Development of Visual Arts Havana, Cuba
1997 Arc of Memory, Canary Islands, Spain
1996 Origin, Perpignan, France
1995 Figure Three, Villa Clara, Cuba
HONORS AND AWARDS
2006 Sculpture Key West, Artist Award. Key West, FL.
2003 Cuban Artistic Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, New York City, NY.
1998 First Place Award, National Gallery of Fine Arts, Villa Clara, Cuba.
1997 First Place Award, Provincial Gallery of Fine Arts, Villa Clara, Cuba.
1995 Award, National Gallery of Fine Arts, Villa Clara, Cuba.
1994 Prize, Provincial Gallery of the CAA, Villa Clara, Cuba.
1993 Honorable Mention, First Center and Gallery Wifredo Lam, Cuba.
1993 Honorable Mention, National Gallery of Fine Arts, Villa Clara, Cuba.
1993 Honorable Mention, Galería de Caricaturas, Villa Clara, Cuba.
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Art. Miami. FL.
Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL.
Vatican Art Museum, Vatican City, Italy.
CASA Collection, Santiago, Chile.
Museum of Latin American Art,MoLAA. Long Beach, CA.
Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo. Dominican Republic.
Fundación Bancaja, Valencia, Spain.
Contemporary Art Center Joseph Castell, Perpignan, France.
Cintas Foundation Art Collection, Miami, FL.
Pepe Cabrera Collection, Valencia, Spain.
COUNTRIES OF EXHIBITIONS
Mexico, Greece, Chile, Spain, United States, Italy, Vatican City (Italy),Canada, Canary Islands, Argentina, France, Puerto Rico, Martinique, Panama, Netherlands, Dominican Republic, China, London, Cuba, Haiti.
ART IN PUBLIC PLACE
Samadhi project. Miami Design District , FL 2020
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL. 2016
The Force of a Universal Prayer, Venice Italy. 2015.
IBB Center for Contemporary Art .Curacao.2014
Apogee Beach 3951, Hollywood Beach, FL. 2013.
Wynwood Art Fair, Miami ,FL, 2011
Base Paint.Curated by Antuan. Placed in Florida International University, EPIC HOTEL --- . . Park, Miami,FL; and at L’atheletique d’Haiti, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.. 2010.
Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL. 2010.
Art on Track, Chicago Art Track, Chicago, IL 2009
Ermita de la Caridad del Cobre, Miami, FL. 2008.
Sculpture Key West, Key West, and FL. 2007.
Art Basel, Design District, Miami, FL. 2004.
Valencia University, Spain. 2001.
Bancaja Foundation, Valencia, Spain.1998.
Contemporary Art Center Josep Castell, Perpignan, France. 1998.
Hotel Faro Luna. Cienfuegos, Cuba 1996.
Universidad Félix Varela, Villa Clara, Cuba, 1996.
ondo de Bienes Culturales, Villa, Clara, Cuba.1995.
UNEAC, Villa Clara, Cuba.1994.