Born in 1958 in Havana, Cuba
Lives and works in Vancouver, Canada
Mosquera, Gerardo. Arte desde América Latina (y otros pulsos globales). Foreword by Nikos Papastergiadis. Madrid, Ediciones Cátedra, 2020.
Art x Cuba. Contemporary perspectives since 1989 = Kunst x Kuba. Zeitgenössische Positionen seit 1989 = Arte x Cuba. Perspectivas contemporáneas desde 1989. Exhibition catalogue, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany, September 8, 2017 - February 18, 2018, curated by Andreas Beitin, and Tonel. With texts by Luis Camnitzer, Elsa Vega, Sujatha Fernandes, Jacqueline Loss, Roberto Zurbano (et al.). Cologne, Wienand, 2018.
Adiós utopia. Art in Cuba since 1950. Exhibition catalogue, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 5 - May 21, 2017, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA, November 11, 2017 - March 18, 2018. Edited by Ana Clara Silva, and Eugenio Valdés Figueroa, with texts by Rachel Weiss, Elsa Vega, Beatriz Gago Rodríguez, Tonel, René Francisco, Gerardo Mosquera, and Iván de la Nuez. Miami, CIFO - Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, 2017.
Adiós utopia. Arte en Cuba desde 1950. Exhibition catalogue, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 5 - May 21, 2017, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA, November 11, 2017 - March 18, 2018. Edited by Ana Clara Silva, and Eugenio Valdés Figueroa, with texts by Rachel Weiss, Elsa Vega, Beatriz Gago Rodríguez, Tonel, René Francisco, Gerardo Mosquera, and Iván de la Nuez. Miami, CIFO - Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, 2017.
Relational undercurrents. Contemporary art of the Caribbean archipelago. Exhibition catalogue, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA, USA, September 16, 2017 - March 4, 2018. With texts by Tatiana Flores, Michelle A. Stephens, Tonel, Laura Roulet, Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Nelson Maldonado Torres (et al.). Long Beach, CA, Museum of Latin American Art, 2017.
Iconocracia. Imagen del poder y poder de las imágenes en la fotografía cubana contemporánea = The image of power and the power of images in contemporary Cuban photography. Exhibition catalogue, Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, June 26 - October 4, 2015, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, January 29 - May 22 , 2016. With texts by Iván de la Nuez, and Omar-Pascual Castillo. Madrid, Turner, 2016.
Caderno de exercícios pedagógicos. Cuba - Ficción y Fantasía. Art education booklet. With texts by Bia Jabor, Luis Camnitzer, María del Carmen González, Sofía Quirós. Rio de Janeiro, Casa Daros, 2015.
Cuaderno de ejercícios pedagógicos. Cuba - Ficción y Fantasía. Art education booklet. With texts by Bia Jabor, Luis Camnitzer, María del Carmen González, Sofía Quirós. Rio de Janeiro, Casa Daros, 2015.
Cuba - Ficción y Fantasía. A selection of Cuban art form the Daros Latinamerica Collection. Exhibition catalogue, Casa Daros, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, September, 9 - December 13, 2015. Edited by Katrin Steffen, with texts by Hans Michael Herzog, Eugenio Valdés Figueroa, Tonel, Orlando Britto Jinorio, Luis Camnitzer, Orlando Hernández, and Juan Antonio Molina. Zürich, Daros Latinamerica, 2015.
Cuba - Ficción y Fantasía. Uma seleção de arte cubana da coleção Daros Latinamerica. Exhibition catalogue, Casa Daros, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, September, 9 - December 13, 2015. Edited by Katrin Steffen, with texts by Hans Michael Herzog, Eugenio Valdés Figueroa, Tonel, Orlando Britto Jinorio, Luis Camnitzer, Orlando Hernández, and Juan Antonio Molina. Zürich, Daros Latinamerica, 2015.
Cuba - Ficción y Fantasía. Una selección de arte cubano de la colección Daros Latinamerica. Exhibition catalogue, Casa Daros, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, September, 9 - December 13, 2015. Edited by Katrin Steffen, with texts by Hans Michael Herzog, Eugenio Valdés Figueroa, Tonel, Orlando Britto Jinorio, Luis Camnitzer, Orlando Hernández, and Juan Antonio Molina. Zürich, Daros Latinamerica, 2015.
Dark Mirror. Art from Latinamerica since 1968. Works from the Daros Latinamerica Collection. Exhibition catalogue, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany, September 26, 2015 - January 31, 2016. Edited by Ralf Beil and Holger Broeker. Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 2015.
Dark Mirror. Lateinamerikanische Kunst seit 1968. Werke aus der Daros Latinamerica Collection. Exhibition catalogue, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany, September 26, 2015 - January 31, 2016. Edited by Ralf Beil and Holger Broeker. Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 2015.
Notebook of pedagocical exercises. Cuba - Ficción y Fantasía. Art education booklet. With texts by Bia Jabor, Luis Camnitzer, María del Carmen González, Sofía Quirós. Rio de Janeiro, Casa Daros, 2015.
Berger, Sebastiaan A.C.. Cuba. Arte contemporáneo = Cuba. Contemporary art. La Habana, Ceiba / Madrid, Turner, 2012.
Weiss, Rachel. To and from utopia in the new Cuban art. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Changing the Focus: Latin American Photography 1990-2005. Exhibition catalogue, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California, February 14 - May 2, 2010. With texts by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill (et al.). Long Beach, California, Museum of Latin American Art MoLAA, 2010.
León, Glenda. La condition de performance. Quebec, Editions Nota bene, 2010.
Cuba. Art and history from 1868 to today. Exhibition catalogue, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, January 31 - June 8, 2008. Edited by Nathalie Bondil, with texts by Aylet Ojeda Jequin (et al.). Munich/London/New York, Prestel; Montreal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, 2008.
Cuba. Arte e historia desde 1868 hasta nuestros días. Exhibition catalogue, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, January 31 - June 8, 2008, Groninger Museum, May 17 - September 13, 2009. Edited by Nathalie Bondil, with texts by Aylet Ojeda Jequin (et al.). Munich/London/New York, Prestel; Montreal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, 2008.
Pabellón Cuba. 4D - 4 Dimensions. 4 Decades. Exhibtion catalogue, La Habana, Cuba, 8th Biennial 2003. With texts by Eugenio Valdés Figueroa, Tonel, Manuel Piña (et al.). Berlin, b_books, 2008.
Surrounded by water. Expressions of freedom and isolation in contemporary Cuban art. Exhibition catalogue, Boston University Gallery, February 8-April 5, 2008. WIth a text by Natania Remba. Boston University Art Gallery, 2008.
Cuba Avant-Garde. Contemporary Cuban art from the Farber collection / Cuba Avant-Garde. Arte contemporáneo cubano de la colección Farber. Exhibition catalogue, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida, USA, May 9 - September 9, 2007. With texts by Magda Gónzalez-Mora Alfonso, Kerry Oliver-Smith (et al.). Gainesville, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, 2007.
Certain encounters. Daros-Latinamerica Collection. Exhibition catalogue, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, April 7 - June 4, 2006. With texts by Keith Wallace, Tonel, and Juan A. Gaitán. Vancouver, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 2006.
Fernandes, Sujatha. Cuba Represent!: Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures. Durham/London, Duke University Press, 2006.
Espinosa, Magaly. El nuevo arte cubano. Antología de textos críticos. Santa Monica, Perceval Press, 2006.
Unbroken ties. Dialogues in Cuban art. Exhibition catalogue, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California, November 12, 2006 - March 4, 2007, drawn fro the permanent collection of Cuban art, Museum of ARt, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. With a forword by Gregorio Luke. Long Beach, California, Museum of Latin American Art MoLAA, 2006.
Las Horas. Artes Visuales de América Latina contemporánea = The Hours. Visual arts of contemporary Latin America. Exhibition catalogue, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, October 5, 2005 - January 15, 2006. With texts by Sebastián López, Eugenio Valdés Figueroa and Hans-Michael Herzog. Zürich, Daros Latinamerica / Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz, 2005.
Díaz Bringas, Tamara (ed.). Situaciones artísticas latinoamericanas. With texts by Virginia Pérez-Ratton, Ticio Escobar, Mari Carmen Ramírez, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Ivo Mesquita (et al.). San José, Costa Rica, TEOR/e?Tica, 2005.
Fotofest 2004. Participating spaces. Fotofest H2O 04. Celebrating water.Tenth international biennial of photography and photo-related art. Exhibition catalogue, 10th International Biennial of Photography and Photo-Related Art, Houston, Texas, 2004. Edited by Wendy Watriss and Frederick Baldwin. Houston, Texas, Fotofest Inc., 2004.
Island nations. New art from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and the diaspora = Islas naciones. Arte nuevo de Cuba, la República Dominicana, Puerto Rico, y la diáspora. Exhibition catalogue, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, October 29, 2004 - January 30, 2005. With texts by Judith Tannenbaum and René Morales. Providence, Rhode Island, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 2004.
«Nous venons en paix…». Histoires des Amériques. Exhibition catalogue, Musée d'art contemporain, Montréal, Canada, May 28 - September 5, 2004. With texts by Pierre Landry, Johanne Lamoureux, José Roca (et al.). Montréal, Musée d'art contemporain, 2004.
Cuba on the Verge. An island in transition. Exhibition catalogue, International Center of Photography, New York, June 6 - August 31, 2003. With a text by Cynthia Fredette. New York / Midtown, International Center of Photography, 2003.
Mapas abiertos. Fotografía latinoamericana. 1991-2002. Exhibition catalogue, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Palau de la Verreina, Barcelona, November 2003 - January 2004 (simultaneous exhibitions). Edited by Alejandro Castellote, with texts by Alejandro Castellanos, Rubens Fernandes Junior, Juan Antonio Molina and Iván de la Nuez. Barcelona, Lunwerg, 2003.
Sentido común. Exhibition catalogue, Galería Habana, La Habana, Cuba, March 2003. With texts by René Francisco (et al.). La Habana, Galería Habana, 2003.
Utopia, Post Utopia. Conceptual photography and video from Cuba. Exhibition catalogue, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY, July 12 - August 10 and September 17 - December 14, 2003. With texts by Helaine Posner and Eugenio Valdés Figueroa. New Paltz, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art; State University of New York, 2003.
Montes de Oca Moreda, Dannys. Cincuenta artistas plasticos cubanos. La Habana, Ediciones Unión, 2002.
Diarias impermanencias. Exhibition brochure, Museo de las Artes de la Universidad de Guadalajara, México, November 30 - December 25, 2002. With a text by Frency Fernández. Guadalajara, Museo de las Artes de la Universidad, 2002.
La Mirada. Looking at photography in Latin America today. Exhibition catalogue, Daros Exhibitions, Löwenbräu, Zurich, October 25, 2002 - March 29, 2003. Edited by Hans-Michael Herzog, with an essay by David Levi Strauss, interviews with the artists by Hans-Michael Herzog. Zurich, Edition Oehrli, 2002.
No Place. Kuba. Tania Bruguera, Luis Gómez, Quisquieya Henriquez, Ernesto Leal, Manuel Piña. Exhibition catalogue, ifa Galerie, Bonn, April 10 - June 9, 2002, ifa-Galerie, Stuttgart, September 6 - October 20, 2002. Edited by Beate Eckstein , with texts by the artists. Stuttgart, ifa Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., 2002.
Macrì, Teresa. Postculture. Rome, Meltemi Editore, 2002.
Block, Holly. Art Cuba. The New Generation. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 2001.
Atmosfere metropolitane. La generazione delle immagini VI. Exhibition catalogue, conferences and related events and exhibitions, held at the Triennale, Milan, 2001. Edited by Roberto Pinto, with essays by Eugenio Valdés Figueroa (et al.). Milan, Comune di Milano, 2001.
Memoria. Cuban Art of the 20th century. By José Veigas (et al.). Los Angeles, California International Arts Foundation, 2001.
Shifting tides: Cuban photography after the revolution. Exhibition catalogue, published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum, April 15 - July 1, 2001, Grey Art Gallery, New York, August 28 - October 27, 2001, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, November 18, 2001 - February 10, 2002. Edited by Tim B. Wride, wtih an essay by Cristina Vives and a foreword by Wim Wenders. Los Angeles, County Museum of Art; London, Merrell Publishers, 2001.
Tirana Biennale 1. Escape. Exhibition catalogue, 1st Tirana Biennial, National Gallery & Chinese Pavilion, Tirana, September 15 -October 15, 2001. Edited by Giancarlo Politi, with contributions by Francesco Bonami (et al.). Milan, Giancarlo Politi, 2001.
Works. Manuel Piña. Exhibition catalogue, FIAC Paris, 2001, Nina Menocal Galería, Mexico City. With a text by Mark Sanders. Mexico City, Nina Menocal Galería, 2001.
América foto latina. La fotografía en el arte contemperáneo. Exhibition catalogue, Museo de las Artes, Guadalajara, 2000. With texts by Rejane Cintrao (et al.). Guadalajara, Museo de las Artes de la Universidad, 2000.
From the negative. Conceptual photography from Cuba. Exhibition catalogue, Parts Photographic Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2000. With texts by Christina Vives and Vance Gellert. Minneapolis, Parts Photographic Arts, 2000.
Cuba. Los mapas del deseo = Landkarten der Sehnsucht = Maps of desire. Exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle , Vienna, March 19 - May 30, 1999. With texts by Gerald Matt (et al.). Vienna, Kunsthalle; Folio Verlag, 1999.
II salón de arte cubano contemporáneo. Exhibition catalogue, II. Salon de Arte Cubano Contemporáneo, La Habana, 1998. With texts by Caridad Blanco (et al.). La Habana, Centro de Desarollo de las Artes Visuales, 1998.
Provisorische Utopien. Exhibition catalogue, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, May 17 - July 26, 1998. Edited by Wolfgang Becker , with texts by Dosdanys M. García Aguilera (et al.). Aachen, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, 1998.
1990s Art from Cuba. A national residency and exhibition program. Exhibition catalogue, Hallways Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, New York, September 27 - November 15, 1997, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, Cal., March 6 - April 25, 1998, Art in General and Longwood Arts Project/Bronx Council on the Arts, May 9 - June 27, 1998, Betty Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, August 28 - October 14, 1998. Edited by Holly Block and Betti-Sue Hertz, with texts by Lupe Alvarez ( et al.). New York, Art in General Inc., 1997.
Utopian territories. New art from Cuba. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and six other galleries in Vancouver, 1997. With texts by Eugenio Valdés Figueroa (et al.). Vancouver, Contemporary Art Gallery, 1997.
Cuba Siglo XX. Modernidad y sincretismo. Exhibition catalogue, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, April 16 - June 9, 1996, Fundació La Caixa, July 2 - September 1, 1996, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, October - December 1996. With essays by Maria Lluïsa Borràs, Antonio Zaya (et al.). Las Palmas, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, 1996.
Mundo soñado. Joven plástica cubana. Exhibition catalogue, Casa de América, Madrid, February - March 1996. With a text by Helmo Hernández. Madrid, Casa de América, 1996.
Fotofest '94. The fifth international festival of photography. Exhibition catalogue, 5th International Biennial of Photography, Houston, Texas, November 10 -30, 1994. Edited by Fred Baldwin and Liz Branch. Houston, Texas, Fotofest Inc., 1994.
Quinta Bienal de la Habana. Arte, Sociedad, Reflexión. Exhibition catalogue, 5th Habana Biennial, Centro Wifredo Lam, May 1994. With texts by Nelson Herrera Ysla (et al.). Madrid, Tabapress S.A., 1994.