artist statement - Humberto Castro
BIO:
Humberto Castro was born in Havana, Cuba in 1957. He is a graduate from the San Alejandro National School of Fine Arts and the Higher Institute of Art in Havana.
EDUCATION:
San Alejandro National School of Fine Arts - Havana, Cuba
Higher Institute of Art - Havana, Cuba
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Humberto Castro - Paintings and Drawings 1990-2005, Art Space/ Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables, Florida
Humberto Castro - paintings, Naomi Silva Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
2004 Humberto Castro, Panamerican Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2003 Main in Detresse, Mosquera Orthodontics, Miami
The Hunter, the House and the Bait, Gallery of the Miami-Dade Community College at Kendall Campus, Miami
2002 Fuga, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami
2000 Galerie Got, Saint Paul de Vence
Galerie Fardel, Le Touquet.
Humberto Castro The Paris Years: 1989-1999 (retrospective exhibition), Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
1999 Traversée (in memory of his deceased friend and art dealer Raphael Doueb),
Le Monde de L’Art, Paris
New Works, Galerie Got, Barbizon
New Works, Galerie Fardel, Le Touquet
1998 Retrospective exhibition 1989-1998, Chapelle de Jésuites, Nîmes Paintings and drawings, Sicardi-Sanders Gallery, Houston
1997 Le Monde de L’Art, Paris Pan American Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Madrid art fair Arco’97 presented by Le Monde de L’Art, Madrid
1996 Minotauro en su Laberinto, National Gallery of Jamaica, Jamaica
Galerie Got, Barbizon
1995 Le Radeau de Ulises, Le Monde De L’Art, Paris
Minotaur in his labyrinth: seven forms of escape, seven forms of entrapment,
Ambrosino Gallery, Miami
Minotauro en su Laberinto: siete formasde encierro, siete formas de escape,
Galería Nina Menocal, Mexico City
Minotauro, Galería Corinne Timsit, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Art Chicago fair (presented by Ambrosino Gallery), Chicago
Art Miami fair (presented by Ambrosino Gallery), Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami
1994 Erótica (performance Adam and Eve), Ambrosino Gallery, Miami
Minotauro, Galerie Got in Barbizon, France
1993 L’envol d’Icare, Galerie Le Monde de l’Art, Paris
Temporalidad y el Teatro del cuerpo, Centro de Arte Euro-Americano, Caracas- Venezuela
Art Chicago fair (presented by Ambrosino Gallery), Chicago
Art Miami fair (presented by Ambrosino Gallery), Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami
1992 Humberto Castro Paintings, Le Monde de L’Art, Paris
Temporalidad y el Teatro del cuerpo, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami
New works, Le Monde de L’Art, Paris
Paintings and drawings, Espace CIO, Limousin
1990 Le Cercle Lucas Carlton, Paris
1989 Poder y Existencia, Castillo de la Real Fuerza, Havana
1985 Etchings and lithographs, Galería Habana, Havana
1982 Blanco y Negro,Galería Galiano, Havana
1980 Hallazgos,Teatro Mella, Havana
GROUP SHOWS
2007 Arte Americas Art Fair, Art Space/ Virginia Miller Galleries, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach, Florida
Important Cuban Artworks Volume Five, Cernuda Arte Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida
Panorama Latinoamericano, Art Space Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables, Florida
Witches, Bitches and Saints: Myths and Misconceptions, Kendall Campus Art Gallery, Miami, Florida
Open Studios and Group Show, Juvenal Reis Studios, Long Island City, New York
Killing Time, Exit Art Gallery, New York
Cuban Avant-garde, Contemporary Cuban Art from Faber Collection, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida
IKF Latinamerican Art Auction, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundations, Miami, Florida
Auction Exhibition 2007, Contemporary Latin American Art, MOLAA, Museum of Latinamerican Art, Long Beach, California
2006 Artistas Cubanos al Auxilio: An Exhibition and Silent Auction of Contemporary Cuban Art
in Exile, Biltmore Hotel, Coral Gables, Florida
Arte de Cuba, Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Brasil
Arte America Art Fair, Cernuda Arte Gallery, Miami, Florida
Arte Cubano 2006, Cernuda Arte Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida
2005 Important Cuban Artworks, volume three, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida
La Barbacoa Group Show 2005, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida
27 Artistas Cubanos al Auxilio: An Exhibition and Silent Auction of Contemporary Cuban Art in Exile, Biltmore Hotel, Coral Gables, Florida
2004 Art Miami Fair, Frederic Got Fine Art, Miami Beach Convention Center,
Miami Beach, Florida
The Soul of Latin American Art, Lurie Fine Art Gallerie, Boca Raton, Florida
Miguel D’Arienzo, Humberto Castro & Lionel Matheau, Lurie Fine Art Gallerie,
Boca Raton, Florida
La Barbacoa Group Show 2004, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida
First Internacional Human Form Show, Kent Gallery, Key West, Florida
2003 Art Miami Fair (presented by Galerie Got), Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami
Auction 2003, Latin American Graphics and Works on Paper,
Museum of Latin American Art, California
Contemporary Cuban Art in New York (silent auction) Bill Maynes Gallery, New York
Abre los Ojos! Arte de Cuba 1982-1992, Hans der Kunst, Graz, Austria
31 Artistas Cubanos Contemporáneos en Chile, Galeria BordeRio, Santiago de Chile
2001 Visiones Contemporáneas, Gallery Lyle O. Reizel, Santo Domingo
2000 Hidden Images, Lehigh University Art Galleries, Pennsylvania
Gary Nader Latin American Auction 2000, Miami
Art Miami Fair (presented by Ambrosino Gallery), Miami Beach Convention Center,
Miami Beach
1999 Visiones Contemporáneas, Galería Lyle O. Reitzel, Dominican Republic.
1998 Pour Regarder le Siècle en Face (organized by Anick T. Melssan),
Cultural Center Zac Bouillée, Martinique
In and Out of Cuba, Pan American Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Far From Cuba, Musée des Tapisseries, Aix-en-Provence
Recent Works, Galerie Got, Barbizon
1997 Latin American, Carré Sainte Anne, Montpellier
1996 The Other Journey (installation Out of Africa) Kent Hall Kermes, Austria,
Au Tour d’Aimée Cesair (traveling exhibition through French-speaking countries)
UNESCO, Paris
Salón de pintura Latinoamericana y del Caribe (organized embassy of Colombia), Paris
1995 Gary Nader Latin American Auction ’95, Gary Nader Gallery, Miami
Petit Format, Galerie Akié Aricchi, Paris
1994 Art Miami Fair (presented by Ambrosino Gallery), Miami Beach Convention Center,
Miami Beach
Operamanía, Gran Hotel de L’Opera, Toulouse
Art Animal et compagnie..., the Musée d’ Art Moderne, Troyes
Roma, Le Monde de L’Art, Paris
1993 Saga’93, Gran Palais, Paris
Galerie Akié Aricchi, Paris
Notre Amérique Latine, Le Monde de L’Art, Paris
La Vendetta, (sponsored by Valentino) Le Monde de L’Art, Paris
Journal de Corps (book of erotic lithographs with poems by the Greek poet
Dimitri T. Analis), Galerie Akié Aricchi, Paris
1992 Visa pour un Nouveau Monde: 62 Artistes d’Amérique Latine, Espace Chevreuil, Nanterre
L’eau, Galerie Akié Aricchi, Paris
Pinturas y Dibujo, Museum of Art and History, Río de Janeiro
1991 Auctions Latin American Art, the Hotel Drouot, Paris
Auctions Latin American Art, Neuilly, Paris
La Spirale Eternelle, Salon de la Jeune Peinture, Paris
Salon Fundation Battistoni, Paris
Tate Tate Gallery, Madrid.
Exposición Papier et Volupté, Galerie Akié Aricchi, Paris
1990 Salon de la Jeune Peinture, Paris
Salon de Novembre, Vitry
Le Cercle Lucas Carlton, Paris
Galerie Akie Aricchi, Paris
Galería Almirante, Spain
1989 Trayctoire Cubaine, (organized by the Cuban delegation at UNESCO in collaboration with art critics Giovanni Joppolo, Hélène Lassalle, and Pierre Gaudibert and the Fundation France Liberté, directed by France’s first lady, Danielle Mitterrand) Centre d’Art Contemporain Pablo Neruda and Galerie Nesle, Paris,
Museo Cívico de Gibellina, Comuna de Orvieto
1988 Signs of Transition 80`s: Art from Cuba, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, NYC
Arte Cubano, Palacio de la Recoleta and Galería CAYC, (directed by Jorge Glusberg), Buenos Aires
Changing Opinion, (cultural exchange project which he organizes with Canadian artists Ron Benner y Jamelie Jassan), Ontario Museum of Art, at The Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario and at 76 Gallery, Toronto.
1987 Cuatro Artistas Cubanos, Galería Realidades, Río de Janeiro and in the Palacio de la Cultura, Bello Horizonte
La Joven Imagen, Casa de Las Américas, Havana
XIX International Festival of Painting, Cagnes-Sur-Mer
4 en 1, Galería Habana, Havana
Blue Life Gallery, Sao Paulo
1986 Pintores Cubanos, Schwerpn Gallery, Berlin
Arte con La Sonrisa, Rome and Milan.
Decollages, joint project with the Italian artist Mimo Rotella, Second Havana Biennial, Havana
Installation Caida de Icaro II, Second Havana Biennial, Havana
Paintings and prints, Museo de Santa Clara, Cuba
1985 Etchings, Center for Radio and the Press in Warsaw, Berlin
Etchings, Home of New Talent, Berlin
1984 Joan Miro Competition, Spain
VIII Graphic Arts Biennial, Bradford
Pintores Contemporáneos, Galerie Place de La Defence, Paris,
IFA Gallery, Bonn
La Caída de Ícaro, Salon UNEAC, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana
Forum Gallery, Sttugart
First Havana Biennial, Havana
1983 Siete Artistas Contemporáneos, Museo De Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid
Plástica Contemporánea, Museo Nacional in Bogota, Colombia
Encuentro Michoacano de Textil, organized by Marta Palau, México City
Hexagon Group, Galería Habana, Havana
1982 Retrospectiva de Arte Joven, Havana
Landscape, Salon at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana
5+1, Galería Espacio Latinoamericano, Paris
Grandes Maestros y Jóvenes Pintores, Galería Universitaria and Museo Ayacucho in Venezuela
1981 Traveling exhibition of graphics through Latin America
Exhibition of graphics, XIV Lujbliana Biennial, Yugoslavia
La Generación de La Esperanza Cierta, Taxco Museum, Mexico City
1977 Alumnos de San Alejandro, Sala Talía, Havana
Arte en Madera, Museo de Artes Decorativas, Havana
PRIX
1994 Wins the prize Toison d’Or (sponsored by Nina Ricci), Art Jonction fair, Cannes.
1987 First prize in printmaking, Casa de Las Américas, Havana
1986 First Prize in printmaking, VII San Juan Print Biennial, Puerto Rico
1984 National prizes in drawing in the Salón Trece de Marzo, Havana
National prizes in drawing in the Salón Provincial de Artes Plásticas, Havana
First international prize in drawing at the Trienal Intergrafic, Berlín
First international prize in printmaking at the Trienal de Arte Contra la Guerra, Lublín, Polond
Prize in installation at the Salón UNEAC, Havana.
1983 First prize in printmaking, Encuentro de Grabado`83, Havana
1982 First prize in printmaking at the Salón Trece de Marzo, Havana
First prize in graphics at the Concurso Literatura en la Plástica, Havana
1981 First prize in printmaking at the Salón de Pequeño Formato, Havana
First honorable mention in printmaking in the Salón Trece de Marzo, Havana
First honorable mention for printmaking in the Raúl Gómez Garcia Competition, Havana
1979 First honorable mention for painting in the Raúl Gómez Garcia Competition, Havana
First honorable mention First Drawing Triennial Arístides Fernández, Havana
IPUBLIC COLLECTIONS CONTAINING CASTRO'S WORK
Permanent collections of Cuban art of the National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana.
Museum of Latin American Art, Krakov, Poland
Museum of Art Against the War, Lublin, Poland
Museum of Modern Art of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Fundation France Liberté, France
Fundation Batistoni, France
Rhône Poulenc Collection, France
Museum of Arts of Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Frost Museum Florida International University, Florida
MOLAA, Museum of Latinamerican Art, Long Beach, California
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Arte al Dia Internacional Magazine 118, p.114, “Humberto Castro/ Virginia Miller Galleries,” by Manuel Alvarez Lezama, 2007
Art Nexus No.64 Vol6 Año 2007, p. 133, “Humberto Castro / Virginia Miller Galleries,” by Irina Leyva
Infinio Intimo: El espacio de las obras recientes de Humberto Castro, 2007 by Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Venue Magazine Marzo/Abril 2007, Humberto Castro La mirada interior por Abel Ibarra
“Freedom trail: from Cuba to Paris to US,” by Fabiola Santiago, The Miami Herald, Nov 12, 2006,
“Humberto Castro Del Erotismo al Hermetismo” por Carlos M. Luis, El Nuevo Herald, 17/12/2006
“Un espacio alternativo para el Arte,” por Ivonne Gomez, The Miami Herald, mar 9, 2004,
“El hombre nuevo ante el otro futuro,” by Ivan de la Nuez, La Habana Elegante, Summer 2003
“Arte Cubano en New York, 2003,” Magali Iglesias, Socialite, septiembre 2003
“Inauguran en Miami exposición del pintor Humberto Castro,” Cultura/Noticias, CubaEncuentro.com Nov 20, 2003
“Humberto Castro at the Miami Dade Collage,” by Nadia Cabrera, Arte al Dia Online, Miami 2003
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dic, 28, 2003
“Ojos Abiertos,” por Carmen Paula Bermudez, CubaEncuetro.com, nov 10, 2003
“Humberto Castro: The Hunter, the house and The Bait,” Text by Roni Feinstein Catalog Exhibition at Kendall Campus Art Gallery.2003
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