Since 2009 based in Berlin
Education
Diploma in Sculpture from the National Academy of Fine Arts San Alejandro, Havanna, Cuba, 1993-1997
Diploma in Digital Film & VFX at SAE Institute, Berlin, Germany, 2013-2014
Residences
2008 – USF Verftet Bergen, Norway
Fellowships
2024 -Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn im Förderprogramm „Kunstfonds_Publikation“ für Katalog
2011 – IFA-Exhibitions Stipendium, Germany
2010 – Fundação São Paulo
2006 – Stipendium Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Solo Exhibitions
2009 – Perpetuity, Gallery S12, Bergen, Norway
2007 – No Land, IKM (Interkulturelt museum), Oslo, Norway
Group Exhibitions
2024 – Experimentelle Filme in den Studio ID, Lichtenberg, Berlin
2023/24 – Anti-futurismo Cimarrón, Centre d’Arts Santa Mónica and Museo La Virreina, Barcelona, Spain
2022 – Now that we found freedom, what are we gonna do with it? | Narrativas sobre a pós-independência e processos de descolonização. HANGAR, Centro de Investigação Artística, Lisbon, Portugal
2021 – Between Personal Chronicles and Collective Memory, Instituto Cervantes, Berlin, Germany
2021 – A Rose is a rose, online exhibition organize by gallery Hohenthal und Bergen, Berlin
2020 – Hitze(frei), Gallery Hilleckes & Probst, Berlin, Germany
2017/16 – Wespe und Orchidee (marimbondo e orquídea) Internationales Ausstellungsprojekt in Kooperation dem Museu Casa das Onze Janelas in Belém, dem Museu de Arte Contemporânea – Dragão do Mar in Fortaleza sowie den Kulturgesellschaften/ DAAD-Lektoraten in Belém und Fortaleza und dem Centro Cultural Brasil-Alemanha (CCBA) in Recife. Brasil.
2016 – Call & Response. BE.BOP 2016. Volksbühne, Berlin. With the support of the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Germany
2015 – MED 15. International Art Encounter of Medellín, Museo Antioquia, Colombia
2014 – BEBOP 2014: Spiritual Revolutions and “The Scramble for Africa”, Black Diaspora, Narratives and Berlin Decolonial Narratives. Grüner Salon,
Volksbühne, Berlin. With the support of Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Germany.
2014 – Zeit Unzeit, Gallery Kunst Büro Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2013 – Wahala: On Representation, Authenticity, Expectations and Other Inflated Concepts. Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2012 – Aproximaciones a una poética del espacio, Librería de la sala Jesús Gallardo del ICl, CAVI, Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico
2012 – IN OTHER WORDS: The Black Market of Translations – Negotiating Contemporary Cultures. NGBK and Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2012 – XVII International festival of contemporary art in Leon, Mexico
2011 – VI Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Göteborg, Sweden
2011 – Other Possible Worlds Proposals on this side of Utopia, NGBK, Berlin, Germany
2010 – 29th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2010 – Confluence’s Inside 2. National Hispanic Center Museum, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
2010 – After the Light II, Radialsystem, Berlin, Germany
2010 – Erase una vez. Galeria Guillermo Núñez, El Bosque, Chile
2009 – Las Américas Latinas: Las fatigas del querer, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy
2009 – 9th Video and Media Arts Biennial Juan Downey. MAC (Contemporary Art Museum), Quinta Normal, Chile
2008 – Bowing to Lebow, Kaiskur 9, Tromsö, Norway
2008 – Arboleda, el cuerpo es cuerpo, Gallery Jesus Gallardo, Mexico
2007 – Landschaften der Sehnsüchte: Arte e Vita, 11. Internationales Künstlersymposium, Barth, Germany
2006 – Latido (hjertebank): Contemporary Cuban Art, Steinersen Museum, Oslo, RanaKunstforening, Norway
– National Museum Vilnius/Kaunas, Littauen Stord Kunstlag, Norway, Tromsø Kunstforening, Norway
– Lillesand kunstforening, Norway, Rogaland Kunstmuseum, Norway, Bodø Kunstforening, Norway
2005 – Input, Kunsthaus Essen, Germany
Awards
2008 – Medienpreis der Stadt Barth (Media Prize of the City of Barth), Arte Vita 11. Künstlersymposium, Barth, Germany
Performances
2023 – Anti-Futurismo Cimarrón, Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona
2010 – After the Light II: Performing the Image, Radialsystem, Berlin, Germany
Screenings
2018 – Black Cuba II, Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin, Germany
2016 – Critical Moves, Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Berlin, Germany
2012 – 10th SITAC (International Symposium on Art Theory). Teatro Julio Castillo, Mexico City, Mexico.
2010 – Bienal de Portugal Arte 10, Museu da Electricidade, Lisboa, Portugal
2009 – Kansk Video Festival, London, England Stories, UK
2008 – Director’s Lounge, Contemporary Media and Art, Berlin, Germany
2007 – International Kansk Video Festival, Russia
– Director’s Lounge, exhibition center Pyramide, Berlin, Germany
– Projection D’Art video, Le Lieu Unique Contemporary Art Center in Nantes, France.
2007 – Moving fast, Cuban Video Art, EMAF (European Media Art Festival), Osnabrück, Germany
2006 – Candela, Director’s Lounge, Berlin, Germany
2005 – International Student Forum, EMAF (European Media Art Festival), Osnabrück, Germany
Lectures
2014 – Round Table at BEBOP 2014. Spiritual Revolutions and The “Scramble for Africa” at Danish Art Workshop. Copenhagen, Denmark
2012 – 10th SITAC (International Symposium on Art Theory). Teatro Julio Castillo, Mexico City, Mexico
Articles and reviews (selection)
2024 – Yoel Diaz Vazquez, „Previsión. Recreating a Silenced Newspaper“, Revista. Harvard Review of Latin America. https://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/recreating-a-silenced-newspaper/
2022 – Ana Teixeira Pinto “Now That We Found Freedom, What Are We Gonna Do with It?” ARTFORUM, website
2021 – Hannah Katalin Grimmer, ‘Lateinamerika nachrichten’, in chapter Kunst. Zwischen Individueller und Kollektiver Erinnerung. Berlin: LN 565/566 2021, pp. 47-48
2014 – Alanna Lockward, BE.BOP 2012-2014: El Cuerpo en el Continente de la Conciencia Negra, in chapter Derrocando las esculturas sociales de la colonialidad. Buenos Aires: Ediciones del Signo, pp 123-128.
2010 – Dieter Lesage & Ina Wudtke, ‘Black Sound White Cube’, in Chapter VII. From the Black Atlantic to the Black Planet. Vienna: Löcker 2010, pp. 82-87.
2010 – Antejo Navas, Nuevas alas, New wings. Lapiz Art Magazine
Membership in Professional Societies
Berufsverband Bildender Künstler*innen Berlin e. V. (Professional Association of Berlin Artists)