ERNESTO LEAL
Education
1987-90, San Alejandro Academy, Cuba.1983-86, Paulita Concepción, vocational school of visual arts, Cuba.
Individual Exhibitions
2006 -"Higher Institute of Doubleagents (Audiovisuals Department)", Cultural center, ICAIC,Havana, Cuba
2004 -“Document” (with Luis Gómez), La Casona Gallery. Havana, Cuba
2003 -Foto Septiembre. “Styrofoam Words”, Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico City.
2001 -“Civilians in Shock” (with Manuel Piña), Habana Gallery, Havana, Cuba
1999 -“With Silencer”. Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba.
1998 -“Chemical Screens”. Sicardi-Sanders Gallery, Houston, USA
-“Ten days without speaking”. Project “Obsessions”, Wifredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba
1997 -“The stone falls”. Sicardi Gallery, Houston, USA
-“Discussion with Betara Desa” (with Juan José Olavarría), Farish Gallery, Rice University,
Houston, USA
-“Title: Ernesto Leal”. Teodoro Ramos Blanco Gallery, Havana, Cuba
1996 -“The uncreated”, Aglutinador Space, Havana, Cuba
1995 -“The Double (17 exercises)” (with Juan José Olavarría). CDAV, Havana, Cuba
1990 -“Revolution is involution”. Artist’s home, Cerro, Havana, Cuba
Group exhibitions
2008–¨The First Collection¨, Ad Hoc Gallery. Ontario, Canada
–¨V.I.P.¨ La Casona Gallery. Havana, Cuba
-¨100¨, CISAS Bolonia, Managua, Nicaragua
–¨Ghost posters¨, 23 y 12 Gallery , Havana, Cuba
2007 -¨Homing devices¨, Contemporary Art Museum, University South Florida, Tampa, USA
-¨Vostok¨ Centro de artes plásticas y diseño, Havana, Cuba
-"Arth-goth", La Casona Gallery. Havana, Cuba
2006 - "The Doubtful stait", Limits, MADC, San José, Costa Rica
- "Stop & forward", Havana Gallery, Havana, Cuba
- "The missing word", Rum museum, Havana, Cuba
- "Personal project", Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
- "Off line", Hispano-American Culture Center, Havana, Cuba
2005 -"Contact and mediation: Poetics of the digital in Cuban art.", Dunlop art Gallery.
Regina, Canada
-"Barro de América", Marta Traba Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brasil
-Havana Auction. Online photographic Project. Habana Gallery. Havana, Cuba
-4th Contemporary Art Salon, CDAV. Havana, Cuba
2004 -Biennial “Barro de América”, Maracaibo Art Center Lía Bermúdez, Venezuela.
-“Update & download”, Mexico House, Havana, Cuba
-“Havana inside-out” Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, USA
-“Sin embargo”, Fluid image, Grenoble, France
-“Cuba untitled”, Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, USA
2003 -“Virus”, San Francisco de Asis Convent, Havana, Cuba
-“Suspended habits”, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba
-“Utopia/post-utopia”, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New York
-“Re-unión+in-tornada=888” (with Aldo Menéndez), 8 and Línea # 211, Vedado.
Havana, Cuba
-“Double seduction”, Sala Amadís, Madrid, Spain
-“From a black hole”, Spanish Cultural Center, Havana, Cuba
-“Common sense”, Havana Gallery, Havana, Cuba
2002 -“From a black hole”, Son Espace, Pals, Girona, Spain; De Miguel Gallery, Munich, Germany
-“No place”, IFA gallery Bonn; IFA gallery Stuttgart; IFA gallery Berlin, Germany
-“Línea, Oh línea”, Someca building, 17th floor, Vedado, Havana, Cuba
-“Made in Cuba”, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, , USA.
-“Copyright”, Spanish Cultural Center, Havana, Cuba
2001 -7th International Istanbul Biennial, “Egofugal”, Istanbul, Turkey.
-“Fragments of some islands”, Spanish Cultural Center, Havana, Cuba
-“The end of the eclipse”, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain. Caja de Granada, Spain
Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain
Salamanca University , Spain. Museo de Arte Moderno (MAM), Mexico City.
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MARCO), Monterrey, Mexico.
Museo de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Salas de la Fundación Telefónica
Santiago de Chile, Chile. Museo de San Marcos y Salas de la Fundación Telefónica, Lima,
Perú.
-“CD Room”, CDAV, Havana, Cuba
-“Shifting Tides”, LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Arts, CA, USA; The Museum of
Contemporary Photography, New York, USA.
2000 -“Esta es tu casa Vicenta”, 11 and 8, Vedado, Havana, Cuba
-“The last drawing of the millenium”, Havana Biennial, National Theatre, Havana, Cuba
-“Art Cologne 2000”. Cologne, Germany.
-“From the Negative”. Parts gallery, Minneapolis, USA.
-“EV+A 2000. Friends and neighbours”. Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland.
-“The conjunction of nothingness”. CDAV, Havana, Cuba
1999 -“Ambient”. Aglutinador Space, Havana, Cuba
1998 -“From one island to another island”, CDAV, Havana, Cuba
-“Arte’BA 98”, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1997 -“The art that never stops”. Wilfredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba
-“The concealment of the souls”. CDAV, Havana, Cuba
-“A temporary misery”. Aglutinador Space, Cuba.
1996 -“Giro de tuerca”. Taller de serigrafía Gallery, Havana, Cuba
-“Las otras escri (p) turas”, CDAV, Havana, Cuba
-“5th International Cuenca Biennial of painting , " Modern Art Museum, Cuenca, Ecuador.
1995 -“Contemporary Cuban Visual Arts”. Belém Cultural Center, Portugal.
1993 -“The Other Space. Video art”. National Museum of Fine Arts. Havana, Cuba
1991 -“Born in Cuba”. Ateneo de Valencia, Venezuela.
1990 -Joins the HACER project working team.
1988 -“9 alchemists and a blind”. L Gallery, Havana, Cuba
-“No por mucho madrugar amanece más temprano”. Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba
-“Ojo pinta”, L Gallery, Havana, Cuba
1987 -“S.A.”. San Alejandro Academy, Havana, Cuba
1986 -“Untitled”. San Alejandro Academy, Havana, Cuba
Public art and performance
(With the group Arte Calle(Street Art)).
1987-89 -“There is nothing” (mural), Víbora, Havana, Cuba
-“Art at the cemetery gates”. Zapata Street, Havana, Cuba
-“Building for growing”. Plaza Vieja, Havana, Cuba
-“At the other side of the street”. Taller de serigrafía, Havana, Cuba
-“Easy shopping” (performance). Havana harbour, Havana, Cuba
-“From Cuba, its nature” (performance). Prado Street, Havana, Cuba
-"Street Art Laboratory", Sala Villena, UNEAC, Havana, Cuba
Publications
1994-97- Co-editor of the Cuban visual arts publication LOQUEVENGA, in which he also had
articles published.
2004- "Mythologies personnelles. L’art Contemporain et l’intime". Isabelle de Maison Rouge,
Editions Scala.
Awards
1996 - Second prize, 5th International Cuenca Biennial of painting , Drawing section, Cuenca,
Ecuador.
Collections
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA. USASamuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz Foundation, New York. USA
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis. USA
Fine Arts Museum. Havana, Cuba
Private collections in United States, France, Belgium, Spain, Brazil.