Carlos Estévez (artist)
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Estévez in 2013 | |
| Born | 1969 (age 55–56) Havana, Cuba |
| Education | Instituto Superior de Arte |
| Known for | Visual arts, ceramic art |
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Carlos Estévez (born 1969) is a Cuban visual artist known for his work in painting, sculpture, and ceramics. He received the Grand Prize in the First Salon of Contemporary Cuban Art in 1995, as well as The Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant in 2015.[1]
Early life and education
Carlos Estévez was born in Havana in 1969. Estévez graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana, Cuba, in 1992.
Career
He has done residencies at the Academia de San Carlos, UNAM, Mexico (1997), Gasworks Studios, London, England (1997), the UNESCO-ASCHBERG in The Nordic Artists' Center in Dale, Norway (1998), Art-OMI Foundation, New York, U.S. (1998), The Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. (2002), Cité internationale des arts in Paris, (2003–2004), Montclair University, New Jersey, U.S. (2005), and the McColl Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S. (2016).
His work La batalla permanente de la vida transitoria (The Permanent Battle of the Transitory Life), from 2010, is included in the permanent collection of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida.[2]
His work at the McColl Center in Charlotte formed the foundation for what would eventually become an extensive proficiency in ceramics. In the four months that he spent at the center, he made over 200 ceramic pieces. His plates, especially, have a unique elegance and concentrate on color, expressive shapes, and thematic abstractions that refer to architecture, astronomy, and anatomy.[3]
Selected exhibitions
Solo
- FIREWORKS, Kendall Art Center, Miami, Florida, U.S.
- Fine Arts Museum, Havana, Cuba[4]
- The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, Florida, U.S.
- Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Center of Contemporary Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
- Pan American Art Projects, Miami, Florida, U.S.
- LaCa Projects, Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.
- Denise Bibro Fine Art, Chelsea, New York, U.S.
- Havana Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
- JM' Arts Galerie, Paris, France
- Alva Gallery, New London, Connecticut, U.S.
- Enlace Arte Contemporáneo, Lima, Peru
- Promo-arte Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
- Taylor Bercier Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
- UB Galleries, University at Buffalo, U.S.[5]
Group
- VI and VII Havana Biennial, Cuba[6]
- Contemporary Art from Cuba: Irony and Survival on the Utopian Island, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, U.S.
- Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection[7]
- Of Cuban Invention, Lesley University College of Art and Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. (2012)[8]
References
- ^ Bermejo, M. Roxana (2018). "Across Time". Contemporary Cuban Art Exhibition Catalogue.
- ^ "La batalla permanente de la vida transitoria (The Permanent Battle of the Transitory Life)". Pérez Art Museum Miami. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
- ^ Ballate, Henry (2016). "Carlos Estévez FIREWORKS". Fireworks Exhibition. Kendall Art Center.
- ^ Leyva-Pérez, Irina (1 December 2017). "Carlos Estévez and the Theatrum Mundi Destiny or Will?". ART OnCuba.
- ^ Gracia, Jorge J.E. (2015). Carlos Estévez: Bottles to the Sea. SUNY Press Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture. State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-1-4384-5798-7.
- ^ "Portfolio: Botellas al Mar" [Portfolio: Bottles to the Sea]. South Writ Large.
- ^ "Carlos Estévez". Art Vitam. Archived from the original on 5 April 2018. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
- ^ Smithson, Aline (19 February 2016). "Andrew Mroczek and Juan Jose Barboza-Gubo: Virgenes de la Puerta and Fatherland". Lenscratch. Retrieved 1 November 2025.