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Opening
Reception: "ON GUARD (Con la Guardia en Alto)" 4/8/2016 Afro-Latin American
Research Institute, Harvard: Elio Rodriguez, curated by Alejandro de la Fuente
Elio
Rodriguez: Puzzled 4/1/2016 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel: "Join us next week
at 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel for the opening reception of Puzzled, Elio
Rodriguez’ first solo exhibition in New York City. The show is on view until May
9th and will coincide with his exhibition On Guard at Harvard University’s
Hutchins Center for Afro-Latin Studies and at our gallery’s booth at Context Art
New York at Pier 94, May 4-8, 2016."
EN VOZ ALTA 2/27/2016 532
Gallery Thomas Jaeckel: "We are pleased to present En Voz Alta (Aloud), an
exhibition of works by twelve Cuban-born artists: María Magdalena Campos-Pons,
Alberto Casado, Duvier del Dago, Meira Marrero & José Toirac, Liudmila & Nelson,
Yunier Hernandez, Joseph Michael Lopez, Armando Mariño, Douglas Pérez Castro,
Reynerio Tamayo, Carlos Rodríguez Cárdenas, and Elio Rodríguez – seven living in
Havana, four in the United States and one in Europe."
In Conversation: Elio Rodríguez 5/12/2015 Cuban Art News: "This month,
artist Elio Rodríguez completes a semester-long fellowship in Harvard
University’s Afro-Latin American Research Institute and Hutchins Center for
African & African American Research. In an email interview, he talks about the
experience and what comes next."
Cuban resilience shines at Harvard, heroes take flight at BU 5/5/2015 Boston
Globe: "Elio Rodríguez Valdés’s “Selva en las Paredes?/ Jungle on the Walls”
visits the same contradictions. Soft sculptures, abstracted figures made of
white leather, dance across the wall. Look closer, and you’ll see chains and
padlocks. Are they dancing now?"
At Crossroads: The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery 4/21/2015 Harvard Crimson: "The
first visible piece of artwork from the gallery’s current exhibit,
“Drapetomanía: Grupo Antillano and the Art of Afro-Cuba” is an intricate, white
leather sculpture called “Selva en las Paredes” by the Cuban artist Elio
Rodríguez Valdés. The foyer’s Entry Gallery is one of what Grant terms
“curatorial moments,” and it branches in one direction to the ensuing Ramp
Gallery and other artwork and in another towards the auxiliary ACT (Art,
Community, and Teaching) Room, which is a technology-enabled venue for community
events."
Spring Colloquium with Elio Rodriguez 12/21/2014 Afro-Latin American
Research Institute, Harvard University: On 2/11/2015, in Cambridge, MA - "My
goal is to continue to explore the complex relationships between being Cuban,
being black and, as both Cuban and a person of African descent, member of wider
diasporic communities that cannot be contained by the traditional geographic
boundaries of the nation state. How do these identities and labels evolve in
place(s) of residence that do not easily coexist with or sustain them?"
Elio Rodríguez exhibe 'Presión contenida' en Valencia 12/10/2014 Diario de
Cuba: "Elio Rodríguez (La Habana, 1966) reside actualmente en España. Entre sus
exposiciones personales recientes figuran: Corridas y venidas (2014) y
Cannival/Carnival (2009), junto a Douglas Pérez, ambas en la Breese Little
Gallery de Londres, Reino Unido; Selva en las paredes (2012), en el Centro de
Arte Contemporáneo Las Cigarreras de Alicante, España, y Ceiba negra (2009), en
el Centro de Arte L'Escorxador de Elche en Alicante, entre otras."
Y ahora… ¿qué
será lo que quiere el negro? Entrevista a Elio Rodriguez 7/1/2013 Noticias
de Arte Cubano
El Ojo del Curador, Parte 2: Más sobre "Cannibal/Carnival: Elio Rodríguez y
Douglas Pérez Castro" 6/13/2012 Cuban Art News
El Ojo del Curador, Parte 1: "Cannibal/Carnival: Elio Rodríguez y Douglas Pérez
Castro" 6/12/2012 Cuban Art News
Rafael
Lopez Ramos, "La Huella del Latigo" Los Lirios del Jardin 4/19/2011 ArtSlant: "A
propósito de la recién inaugurada edición del proyecto Queloides, dialogué vía
correo eléctronico con sus curadores Alejandro de la Fuente y Elio Rodríguez
Valdés acerca del tema en que se centra la exposición y otros detalles
relacionados con esta."
Sugerencias para una dermatología nacional 10/17/2010 Enuentros: "El
vocablo “queloide”, del discurso médico, alude a las marcas o verdugones que
quedan en la piel después de una herida mal cicatrizada, y que parte del
imaginario popular cubano —probablemente el mencionado señor pertenece a este
grupo— asocia sólo a las personas negras. Pero “Queloides” ha sido acuñado por
el artista plástico Alexis Esquivel en el contexto de otras cicatrices
(simbólicas, extracorpóreas), que marcan nuestro devenir nacional. Lo usó en
1997, para dar título a una primera exposición en la Casa de África (Queloides
Parte I), con curaduría suya y de Omar Pascual Castillo. Desde entonces el
término ha obrado como hilo conductor entre aquélla y dos exhibiciones más con
similar título: la que tuvo lugar en 1999 en el Centro de Desarrollo de las
Artes Visuales, con Ariel Ribeaux Diago como curador (Queloides), y la que se
inauguró en La Habana el 16 de abril del 2010 en el Centro Wilfredo Lam
(Queloides: Raza y racismo en el arte cubano contemporáneo), con curaduría
(censurada) de Alejandro De la Fuente y de Elio Rodríguez."
Art exhibit explores Cuba’s African heritage 5/25/2010 Repeating
Islands: "Artists participating in the show will include Belkis Ayán, Manuel
Mendive, Bernado Almoguea and René Peña. Ayón, a lithographer, explored
Afro-Cuban religion. Her worked combined the myth of Sikan and the traditions of
the Abakuá, a men’s secret society. She committed suicide at the age of 32.
Mendive, who also emerged from the revolutionary road, has received numerous
awards for his work. He has participated in many group and solo art exhibitions
in Cuba and Europe. Almoguea is known for painting brightly coloured,
politically probing works from his government-owned potato stand. A self-taught
photographer, Peña explores the problems of racial and social minorities in his
art. His works are part of private collections in Cuba, Italy, the United
States, Switzerland, Belgium and Argentina, among other countries. In all, 26
artists will participate in the exhibition, which will show about 80 works. They
include the internationally acclaimed artists Joe Bedía, Yoan Capote, Carlos
Garaicoa, Armando Mariño, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Elio Rodríguez, Douglas
Pérez and Roberto Diago. “The City is proud to be part of such an event that
will bring the Cuban touch to our doorstep, and that our citizens will be able
to share this wonderful and unique experience,” it said."
Queloides: más que una herida 4/17/2010 Jiribilla: "“La ceiba”, de Elio
Rodríguez ocupa una habitación entera del Centro. Conviven en ella escultura y
animación con acuarelas, dando vida a estructuras abultadas y blandas, imágenes
de la carne que invitan al tacto. La anchura y la frondosidad de la ceiba —árbol
que tiene un carácter especial para las religiones africanas— son la
representación de un universo inclusivo, anterior a cualquier proyecto político
de unidad. “Es una obra —entiende Rodríguez— que se puede leer como la búsqueda
de una imagen de la sensualidad, que incluya la religión, el misterio; que se
muestre como una cebolla: la primera capa es la más fácil, aporta los
significados más evidentes, pero mi intención es que la gente pueda seguir
destapando, y que vea mucho más allá”."
Blackness and Racism in Cuba: International Exhibitions Shows in Havana,
Pittsburgh, and Johannesburg 4/12/2010 Cuban Art Newsx: "Half a century
ago, the Cuban Revolution brought about immediate positive changes for Cubans of
African descent, as the country undertook the task of eliminating racial
discrimination at workplaces, social centers, educational institutions, and in
official policy. The government implemented concrete measures to more fully
integrate blacks into the island’s social and economic life, from which had they
had been more or less excluded since the turn of the 20th century. But lately,
debates held across the island have pointed up the contradictions in this stated
policy of equality, including the harsh realities of everyday racism and the
persistence of white dominance of official history."
Exhibit opening
,
11/22/05
Galeria 23 y 12, 11/22/05, 5PM
Until January '06
See poster at right ==>
Curriculum Vitae 2010
Born: La Habana, 1966
EDUCATION
1989 Higher Institute of Art (ISA), Havana, Cuba.
1984 "San Alejandro” Art Academic, Havana, Cuba.
RESIDENCIES
2010 Artist in Residency. Mattress Factory Art Museum, Pittsburgh, PA. USA.
2003 Artist in Residency. El Museo Diego Rivera & Francisco Oller, Buffalo, NY,
USA.
2002 Guest Professor. Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA.
Guest Artist. Ceramic Workshop. Harvard University. Boston, USA.
PERSONAL SHOWS
2009 Ceiba Negra L´Escorxador, Elche, Alicante, Spain
2007 Remakes Frick Fine Arts Gallery. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
USA.
2006 Elio Rodríguez/Mayra Alpizar. Cervantes Institute. London, United Kingdom.
Ceiba (with artist Susana Guerrero) IX Havana Biennial. Provincial Center of Art
Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
2005 Remakes Gallery 23 y 12, Havana, Cuba.
2003 Quilts & co. Open Studio, VII Havana Biennial. Casa Gaia, Teniente Rey #
157, H. Vieja, Havana, Cuba.
2001 El Macho: Made in Cuba El Museo Diego Rivera & Francisco Oller, Buffalo,
NY, USA.
2000 Vogue Ludwig Foundation of Cuba, Havana, Cuba.
Elio Rodríguez UNEAC/ Nicolás Guillén Foundation, Havana, Cuba
Elio Rodríguez/René Peña Galerie Winance-Sabre, Tournai, Belgium
1999 Mulatisímas “La Casona” Gallery, FCBC, Havana, Cuba.
1997 La Gran Salsa “23 y 12” Gallery, VI Havana Biennial Havana, Cuba.
1996 Las Perlas de tu Boca Gallery Serigraphy Workshop, Havana, Cuba.
1995 Paladares Alternative Gallery “Espacio Estudio”, Havana, Cuba
Paladares Student Union Gallery, Jersey City State University, NJ, USA.
1994 Tropical Gallery House of Young Creator, V Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba.
Recent Works Arts Space Gallery, Jersey City State University, NJ, USA.
1993 Morboutopías Centre of Development of Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba.
1991 El Macho Provincial Arts Center, Havana, Cuba.
¿Mami, qué será lo que quiere el negro? Facultad de Arte, Havana University,
Havana, Cuba
COLECTIVE SHOWS
2011 Ya se Leer. Imagen y Texto en el Arte Latinoamericano.
Wifredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba.
2010 Queloides. Raza y Racismo en el Arte Cubano
Contemporaneo. Mattress Factory Art Museum, Pittsburgh, PA. USA.
Gold Prints,
Cuban Contemporary Prints. London Print Studio, London, United Kindom.
Without Masks
Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Queloides.
Raza y Racismo en el Arte Cubano Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba
2009 Art Jaen 2009. International Art Fair, Jaen,
Andalucia, Spain
Genero
(Trans)Genero y los Degenerados X Bienal de la Habana. Cultural Center Bertold
Berth, Havana. Cuba
Proyecto
Banderas ExpoCuba, Havana, Cuba
Alta Tension.
Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2008 Arte Contemporáneo Español. Obra Gráfica Galeria
Espace Mercerie. Lausana, Suiza.
We are Porno,
Si! Aglutinador Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
Ghost
Posters. 23 y 12 Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
Terapia de
Grupo. Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
2007 Art and Satire, Subversion: The Power of Parody. 5
Iberoamerican Visions Casa de America. Madrid, Spain.
Christian
Walter, Dos Décadas de Serigrafía. Cultural Center Caja Granada San Antón,
Granada, Spain.
AfroCuba: Works on Papers, 1968-2003. Lowe Art Museum, FL, EUA. Estampa 2007
International Print Fair, Centro de Exposiciones, Madrid, Spain.
IVAM Electra
2007. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Valencia, Spain.
La Mirada
Perversa. Aural Gallery. Alicante, Spain.
2006 Enjoy! IX Havana Biennial. Performance and Video
International Event. Salon La Tropical, Havana, Cuba.
Estampa
2006 Internacional Print Fair Centro de Exposiciones, Madrid, España (Stand
Christian Walter).
2005 !LA CUBANIDAD! Cuban Posters 1940/2004 MAK Works on
Paper Room, Austria
AfroCuba:
Works on Papers, 1968-2003 San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery, San
Francisco, L.A. /
Kennesaw
State University, Georgia/ Indianapolis Museum of Art/ Lowe Art Museum, USA.
2004 Cuban Posters Track 16 Gallery, Santa Mónica, LA,
USA.
Labores
Domesticas Provincial Center of Arte, Pinar del Río/ Centre of Development of
Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba.
La Escuela de Columbia Gallery “Mariano Rodríguez”, Villa Panamerican, Havana,
Cuba.
2002 Arte Contemporáneo de Cuba Latin America Memorial,
Biennial of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo. Brazil.
Arte Cubano
Contemporáneo Centre of Development of Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba.
2001 III Salón de Arte Cubano Contemporáneo Center
Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba.
La Isla
Infinita Centro Cultural La Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Tenía que ser
Negro Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
2000 Arriba la Carpa VII Bienal de la Habana
(performances project), Plaza Vieja, Havana, Cuba. (curator)
Arte
Contemporánea Cubana Centro de Exposiciones Prefectura Santo Andrés, Sao Paulo,
Brasil.
Subasta de
Arte Cubano Contemporáneo VII Havana Biennial, Casa de las Américas, Havana,
Cuba.
La Tentación
Museo Nacional de Artes, Puerto Príncipe, Haití.
International
Young Art 2000 Sotheby's Tel Aviv, Israel / Sotheby's Chicago, EUA / Sotheby's
Viena, Austria
1999 Cinq Artistes de Cuba Musee Ianchelevici, La
Louviere, Belgium.
La Huella
Múltiple CENCREM. Havana, Cuba.
Queloides
Centre of Development of Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba.
1998 II Salón de Arte Contemporáneo Centre of
Development of Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba.
Arte Cubano
de Fin de Siglo Baluarte de la Candelaria. Iberoamerican Festival of Cádiz,
Spain.
El Cuerpo,
Poder y Carnaval en la Pintura Cubana de los 90s Afrocaribean Festival of the
Institute of Culture, Veracruz, México.
1997 Ni músicos ni deportistas Centro Provincial de
Artes Plásticas y Diseño, Havana, Cuba.
A mitad del
Sueño II Celaya Culture House Gallery, Guanajuato, México.
Havana/Newark’97 Sumei Multidisciplinary Arts Center, Newark, NJ, USA.
(Curator)
Queloides I
Parte. Africa House Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
Realidades
Virtuales Cuba Papillion. VI Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba. (Curator)
1996 Havana/Newark’96 Sumei Multidisciplinary Arts
Center, Newark, NJ, USA. (Curator)
¡Cuba! Art &
Revolution Southside Gallery, Oxford. MS, USA.
Cinque
Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
Latin
American Art in the 90’s St. John’s University, Queens, NY, USA.
Giros de
tuerca Gallery Workshop of SilkScreen “René Portocarrero”, Havana, Cuba.
I Salón de
Arte Cubano Contemporáneo Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba.
1995 El Tema Histórico en la Pintura Cubana National Art
Museum, Havana, Cuba.
La Boheme
Fine Arts Gallery, Miami, FL, USA.
1994 Bratton Gallery, New York, N.Y., USA.
II Bienal
Internacional de Pintura del Caribe y Centroamérica Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo
Domingo, Dominican Republic .
1992 Arte Cubano. Nuevas Tendencias, Nuevos Creadores
Gallery House Golferichs, Barcelona City Hall, Spain.
Cambio de
Bola Havana Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
1991 El Humor en la Plástica Joven VII Biennial del
Humor, San Antonio de los Baños, Havana, Cuba.
En sus
Marcos…Listos! Habana Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
La Huella del
Pulgar Habana Gallery, IV Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba.
Olor a Tinta
Habana Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
Plástica
Cubana Actual IV Havana Biennial, Panamerican Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
1990 El Objeto Esculturado Centre of Development of
Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba.
1er Salon National de Satire y Humor San Antonio de los Baños. Havana, Cuba.
1989 National Salon of Small Format Las Tunas, Cuba.
¿Arte Sexo?
Arts Faculty, Havana University. III Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
1988 Suave y Fresco National Museum of Arts, Havana,
Cuba.
Centro Havana
Salon. Galiano Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
1987 1st Festival of Creation and Artistic
Investigation, ISA, Havana, Cuba.
1986 Relevo II Havana Biennial. ISA, Havana, Cuba.
COLLECTIONS
Museo Nacional de Artes, Cuba.
Jersey City State University, USA.
Cuban Embassy, China.
Foundation AMBA, Brazil
Hainaut City Hall, Belgium.
Museo del Humor, San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba.
Bratton Gallery, New York, N.Y., USA.
Southside Gallery, Oxford, MS, USA.
La Boheme Fine arts Gallery, Miami, FL, USA.
Cinque Gallery, New York, N.Y., USA.
Center for Cuban Studies, New York, NY, USA.
Arte y Naturaleza, Madrid, Spain
Peggy Crafitz Collection, Washington DC, USA.
Chris Von Christierson Collection, London, UK.
The Shelley & Donald Rubin Collection, New York, NY, USA.
LECTURES
New York University, NYC, NY, USA. (Nov. 2010)
CUNY. Graduate Center. New York University, NYC. USA. (Nov. 2007)
Connecticut University, Hartford, Connecticut. USA. (Oct. 2007, Nov 2010)
Pittsburgh University, Pittsburgh. USA. (Oct. 2007, Nov 2010)
Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas y Diseño, Habana, Cuba (March. 1997)
Centre of Development of Visual Arts, Havana City, Cuba (Sept. 1998)
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. (Oct. 2001)
University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA (Nov. 2001/Oct.
2002/Nov 2007)
Hunter College, New York, NY, USA (Sept. 1995)
Rutgers State University, Newark, NJ. USA. (March. 1996)
Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ, USA (1995/96/97/2000/2002)
Mississippi University, Oxford, MS, USA (1998)
Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA. (Oct. 2001)
Sumei Interdisciplinary Arts Center, Newark, NJ, USA (1995/1996)
Arts University “Miguel Hernández”, Altea, Alicante, Spain. (Oct. 2005)
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