José Luis Fariñas (La Habana, 1972), Cuban-Spaniard painter, draftsman, poet and narrator, member of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) and of the International Writers and Artists Association (IWA), was honored with the ministerial Distinction for Cuban National Culture and awarded with the National Prize of Illustration Raúl Martínez in two editions, the Illustration's NOMA Medal of UNESCO and the First Prize XXX Aniversario de la Gaceta de Cuba, UNEAC. Some of his works are conserved in Denver Mizel Museum; Las Américas Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado, and in Museum of the Jewish Centre of Pittsburgh. He has had 50 personal exhibits and 153 collective expositions in Havana, Buenos Aires, Ciudad de México, Pamplona, Madrid, New York, Miami, Pittsburgh, Denver, West Palm Beach, Köhln, Paris, Brussels, Tel Aviv and Tokyo. Illustrator of several Cuban editorial labels. Two of his illustrated art's books for bibliophiles created by the featured publishing house Liber Ediciones, Pamplona, were awarded with the First Prize of the annual Spaniard National Edition Prize of High Bibliophily. His works figure at private collections around the world and at the institutional patrimony of The Cuban Book Institute, the Rachel Jewish Hotel, the Inglaterra Hotel and of the Cathedral of Havana, among others. He has created the central image of the Alicia Alonso's homage ballet for the Lezama Lima's Centennial and too many other images for cinema, TV and theatre. Author of the books El resto más blanco, Ediciones Unión, El alma y la Piedra, Editorial Letras Cubanas, and Regresiones inestables, Ediciones Unión, his poetry and narrative figure, among others, in the anthologies Post-novísimos narradores cubanos, Salvador Redonet, University of Zaragoza; Heridos por la luz, J. Souza, University of Guadalajara, and Jewish Latin American Literature, Stephen Sadow, LAWI, New York. He received the literary awards Cuba Fiction 2003, Prometheus of Poetry 2001. Graduated by San Alejandro Plastic Arts Academy with Gold Distinction, he continued studies at the Cuban University of Arts and coursed piano studies in his early years at the Manuel Saumell School of Music. Some of his texts was translated to the English, Italian, French and Dutch. He has been jury in national and international awards of art and of literature. As painter and writer, his work was studied by specialized critics in articles and essays.     

CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

University of Arts, Plastic Arts studies, Havana (1991-1995)

San Alejandro Academy of Plastic Arts, graduated with Gold Title (1987-1991)

Bachelor in Letters by San Alejandro Academy (1990)

Plastic Art School Paula Conception (1980-1983)

Conservatory Emmanuel Saumell, piano studies (1979-1982).

PERSONAL EXHIBITS

·         Farinas’s watercolors, Embassy of Cuba, Consulate, Angers, France, 2018

·         Farinas’s drawings, Maison de Cuba, La Vendée Mayor's Office, France, 2017

·         Cervantes (engravings), Ars Liber, Baluarte, government Palacio, Pamplona, 2016

·         Fausto (serigraphies), Ars Liber and Embajada of Germany, Fundación Goethe, Madrid, 2016

·         Quixote and Cervantes. Book Fair of Guadalajara. Three big panels of the Trade Union of Spanish Editors’s stand, 2016.

·         Borderline Dysfunction (oil paintings and watercolors). Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, Chelsea, New York, 2015

·         Martiana (serigraphy). José Martí and Our America, Université Catholique of l'Óuest, Angers, France, 2015

·         Fariñas: Personal sample (watercolors), Center Cultural Dulce María Loynaz, Havana, 2014

·         Soul's documents (watercolors), Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, Chelsea, New York, 2013

·         The secret ways, Gallery of the Center Cultural Dulce María Loynaz, Havana, 2013

·         Vicissitudes of a library, Rubén Martínez Villena Gallery, OHC, Old Havana, 2012

·         Skirting the Apocalypse II, Miyako Yoshinaga Art Prospects Gallery, Tokyo, 2012

·         Skirting the Apocalypse, Miyako Yoshinaga Art Prospects Gallery, Chelsea, New York, 2011

·         Images of the Quixote, National Library Joseph Marti and Spanish Embassy, Havana, 2009

·         Kabbalah: Fariñas watercolors, he turns for galleries and museums of Jewish Centers of USA, guardianship Kate Kalmbach, 2008-9

·         Cervantes, the soldier that taught us to talk. International Fair of the Book of Havana, 2008

·         Cervantes, the soldier that taught us to talk (engravings and serigraphies). National Library, Madrid, 2007

·         The fine brush (watercolors), the Marcus Jewish Community Center's gallery of Atlanta, Georgia, Society of Advancement of Latin American Art, SALA, 2005

·         The Chaos Beasts, Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, Chelsea, New York, 2005

·         Between Quixotes (oil paintings, watercolors, nibs), Gallery of the National Advice of Plastic Arts, Havana, 2005

·         Don Quixote's Centennial, Cultural Spanish-American Center, Havana, 2005

·         Murals of the Brown G, 23 and Avenue of the Presidents, Havana 2005

·         Mural of the Literary Coffee of the Havana University, Miramar, 2006

·         The guardian of the city. OPUS HAVANA, Convent of San Francisco of Asís, Office of the Historian of the City, Old Havana, 2004

·         Sacred images, Saloon of Conventions of the Hotel Cohiba, Havana 2004

·         Black fire on white fire, Society of Advancement of Latin American Art (SALA), Old School Museum, West Palm Beach, 2003

·         The writing of chaos, Galería Raúl Martínez, Old Havana, 2001

·         Broken Recipients, Simmons Gallery and American Jewish Museum and SALA, Pittsburg, 2000

·         Tikun, American Jewish Community Center and SALA, Pensylvania, 2000

·         From Keter to Malkhut, Art Gallery, Cornell University, SALA Ithaca, New York, 2000

·         Cuban Jewish Art, Mizel Museum of Jewish, SALA, Denver, 1999

·         Cuban Jewish Art Today, The Americas Museum, SALA, Colorado, 1999

·         Permutations, Gallery Hotel England, Havana, 1999

·         Babel Traces, SALA, Margate Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida, 1999

·         Judaic Themes, Cornell Museum of Art and SALA, Ithaca, N. York, 1999

·         Babel Traces, Governors Club Gallery, Jay D. Hyman, SALA, Palm Beach, 1998

·         Fonseca, Fariñas and Torres, SALA, 93th South Gallery, New York, 1997

·         Ubiquitous light, C. I. Press Gallery, La Rampa, Havana, 1997

·         Fariñas in Origins, Galería Orígenes, Havana, 1997

·         Fabelo, Fariñas and Towers, Bernheim Gallery, Panama, 1995

·         Fariñas, Bernheim Gallery exposes in Smolin Gallery, New York, 1995

·         Orbis Textus, Nefeli Gallery, Berkeley, California, 1995

·         Fariñas in Art, Gallery Art, San Juan of Puerto Rico, 1994

·         Knight-errants, Galería Paulita Concepción, Havana, 1986

·         Divine Hell, Gallery Teodoro Ramos, Havana, 1986

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITS

·         Team UNEAC IV, Galería Teodoro Ramos Blanco, Havana. 2018

·         Ad Libitum, Homage to Mozart, Los Oficios Gallery, Old Havana, 2017

·         Marian themes, Cultural Center Félix Varela Gallery, 2017

·         Liber Ediciones, Feria Guadalajara, UNAM, Mexico DP, 2017

·         Team UNEAC III, Galería Teodoro Ramos Blanco, Havana, 2017

·         Team UNEAC II, Galería Teodoro Ramos Blanco, Havana. 2016

·         Blessed them that Peace, Galería look for Occupations, Havana, 2015

·         Collection Fernando Ortiz, Biennale collateral exhibit, Spanish-American Cultural Center, Old Havana, 2015

·         Black inks, Miami Dade College Gallery, Miami, Florida, 2015

·         Team UNEAC I, Galería T. Ramos Blanco, Cerro, Havana, 2014

·         Angel Gaztelu's centennial, Cultural Center Félix Varela Gallery, 2013

·         The color of the sound, Servando Cabrera ICAIC Gallery, International Festival of Chamber Music Leo Brouwer, 2013

·         Giselle, Homage to Alicia Alonso, Gallery of Nelson Dominguez, Old Havana, 2013

·         For love it is seen, Homage to José Marti, Center Félix Varela Gallery, 2013

·         Illustrated slippers, National Theatre of Cuba, 2013

·         Fans forever, (Lam, Cundo, Mariano, Peter P. Oliva, Mendive, Fabelo...) Freedom Tower, Museum of Art and Design, MDC, Miami, 2012

·         Contemporary Cuban artists (Manuel Mendive...) Rainhart Gallery, Brussels, 2012

·         Creating one and two, three, a lot of Che, the DAWN House, Havana, 2012

·         Illustrated slippers, Los Oficios Gallery, 2012

·         Watercolors II (Pedro Pablo Oliva, Osvaldo Garcia and José Luis Fariñas), Lombillo Palace Gallery, Old Havana, 2012

·         Look to the past, Lombillo Palace, Gallery, Old Havana, 2012

·         For love, Los Frailes Gallery, Old Havana, 2012

·         Till all is green, (Yoko Ono, Nakamura, Fariñas...), Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York, 2011

·         Einstein in Havana (Carlos Guzmán, Adigio Benítez, Fariñas...) Carlos Guzmán's Gallery, Old Havana, 2012

·         Collective exhibit (Pedro of Oraá, Adigio Benítez, J. L. Fariñas...) House of Poetry, Havana, 2011

·         Peregrinatio, Juan Ramón Llavorí collection, House of Culture Alondegia, Zumaia, Navarra, 2011

·         Watercolors I (Pedro Pablo Oliva, Nelson Dominguez, J. L. Fariñas...) Lombillo Palace Gallery, Old Havana, 2011

·         X Anniversary of the French Union (Montoto, Moreira, Santos Serpa, Ever Fonseca, José Luis Fariñas...). 2011

·         La cantidad hechizada, Homage to José Lezama Lima, National Council of Plastic Arts, Gallery of the National Library of Cuba, 2010

·         Marti in Contemporary Cuban plastic arts (18 painters Cubans: Pedro Pablo Oliva, Eduardo Abela, José L. Fariñas...), Gallery of the Center of Martian Studies Gallery, 2010

·         Airs of wit, Lombillo Palace Gallery, Old Havana 2010.

·         Contemporary Cuban Painting (Wifredo Lam, Víctor Manuel, Mijares, Pedro Pablo Oliva, Servando Cabrera, Moisés Finalé, José Luis Fariñas...), Museo Pérez Comendador Leroux, Hervaz, Extremadura, 2010

·         Juan R. Llavorí's photos and contemporary paintings collection, Cuban, Sociedad Photographic of Gipuzkoa, San Sebastián, 2010

·         Rejoining, French Union Gallery, Havana, 2010

·         Artists for Ethiopia, auction, Plaza of Seville, Seville, 2010

·         For a sincere man, Universidad of Buenos Aires Gallery, 2010

·         For a sincere man, Central Northwestern Universidad, Junín, 2010

·         For a sincere man, National University of Cordoba, 2010

·         For a sincere man, National University of The Pampa, 2010

·         For a sincere man, National University of the Seaboard, Santa Fe, 2010

·         The infinite island, collection Vitier, Oficina of the Historian, Havana, 2010

·         Darwin, a different look, Museum of Natural History, Havana, 2010

·         In the cosmos, an island, Casa Museo José Lezama, Havana, 2009

·         A lively legend, House of the Poetry, Havana, 2009

·         Contemporary painting (Peter Pablo Oliva, Omar Torres, J. L. Farinas.) WeilArt Gallery, Panama, 2008

·         The Cuban Painting XIX, XX and XXI, Gustavo Orta and Esther Orta Collection,, Miami Dade College, Florida, 2008

·         To tell the story of memory (26 teachers of the painting Cuban), Galería Orígenes, Great Theatre of Havana, 170 anniversary, 2008

·         Touring exhibition, International XIII Festival of Poetry of Havana, 2008

·         Promotion of the Palms, International Institute of Journalism, Havana, 2008

·         With the ashes of your wings, Juventud Rebelde Journal Gallery, Havana, 2008

·         With the ashes of your wings, Granma Journal Gallery, Havana, 2008

·         Havana in poems and watercolors, Cuban Institute of Book, Gallery, 2008

·         Eleven Contemporary Cuban Paintres, Fundación Schlegel, Museo Pérez Comendador

·         Leroux, Estremadura, Cáceres, 2007

·         Moons of winter, Casa of the Poetry Gallery, Old Havana, 2007

·         Common souls, (Raúl Martínez, Peter Pablo Oliva...) Spanish-American Center of Culture Gallery, Havana, 2007

·         Hindsight of the painting Cuban, Gustavo's and Esther Orta's collection, Hialeah Mayor's Office, Florida, 2007

·         Art contemporary Cuban: New Millennium, Gallery Alovera, Guadalajara, Spain, 2007

·         Panoramic exposition of the Cuban graphic design. House of The Americas, Havana, 2007

·         A designing Decade. Anthological exposition. Center of Advanced of the Visual Arts, Havana 2007

·         Gold shoeshine boys, UNEAC, Calixto García Gallery, 2007

·         The Acacia Catalogue (Ponce, Olive, Fabelo, Fariñas...), Havana, 2006

·         Cuban Art in Madrid (Fabelo, Kcho, Peter Paul Olive...), Gallery Zero, Madrid, 2006

·         Einstein in Havana, Humboldt House, Havana, 2006

·         Anniversary of The Jiribilla, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, 2006

·         Blue that I want your Blue, 135 years of Cuban Painting, Governor Center, Orta's collection, Hialeah, 2006

·         5 x 5, Memorial José Martí (Fabelo, Kcho., Fariñas…), Havana, 2006

·         Mosaics of Cuban Art, Cienfuegos, Provincial Center of Plastic Arts, 2006

·         Mosaics of Cuban Art, Matanzas, ACAA, Provincial Center of Plastic Arts, 2006

·         Mosaics of Cuban Art, Pinar del Rio, Art Gallery Contemporary, 2006

·         Mosaics of Cuban Art, Villages, Center Provinical of Art, 2006

·         Mosaics of Cuban Art, Cifuentes, Art Gallery Contemporary, 2006

·         Mosaics of Cuban Art, Santiago de Cuba, Provincial Center of Art, 2006

·         Mosaics of Cuban Art,, Holguin, Provincial Center of Plastic Arts, 2006

·         Mosaics of Cuban Art, Camaguey, Provincial Center of Plastic Arts, 2006

·         Mosaics of Cuban Art, Havana, Provincial Center of Plastic Arts, 2006

·         Summer Collection, Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, Chelsea, New York, 2005.

·         Six painters Cubans (Peter Pablo Oliva,...) Saint Elizabeth Gallery, Historic Center of Old Havana, 2005

·         International exposition, Southern Festival. St. Francisco.'s Convent, Havana, 2005

·         Touring exhibition, Seminary of San Carlos and the church of San Juan of Letrán, - 2005

·         Marti and Bolivar, Gallery the Martí’s House Museum, Old Havana, 2005

·         Genesis, 13 Cuban Painters (Adigio Benítez, Nelson Dominguez...) Hotel Raquel, Havana, 2005

·         Homage to the French Poetry, Inauguration of the Victor Hugo House, Havana, 2005

·         Biennial Art,  Convent ‘s San Francisco of Asís, Salón Blanco, Havana, 2005

·         The Stray Fair, M. Y. Art Prospects, Chelsea, (Thomas Blackman Asoc.) Chicago,  2004

·         Approximations to their kingdom, Raúl Martínez Gallery, Old Havana, 2004

·         Homage to Carpentier, Workshop of Graphic, Plaza of the Cathedral of Havana, 2004. (turn for 10 Cuban cities.)

·         Cuban Art, Gallery, SALA, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA, 2004

·         Cuban Art in OPUS HABANA, Galería Casa Lamm, Mexico, 2004

·         Sacred Images, Hotel Raquel. Anniversary. 2004

·         Collective Exhibit, Calixto García Librery, 2004

·         Sacred Cuban Art, St. Carlos's Seminary, Archdiocese of Havana, 2004

·         International exposition. Southern Festivity, Luz y Oficios Gallery, Havana, 2004

·         SALA Cuban Art Collection, Art Gallery, Cornell University, New York, 2003

·         Interlineation, WeilArt. Gallery of the Embassy of France, Panama, 2003

·         Spirit of Havana, M. Y. Art Prospects, SALA, New York, 2003

·         No to War, Palace of the Conventions, Havana, 2003

·         No to War, collective Mural in Prado and Malecón, Havana, 2003

·         Auction of Havana, Gallery Havana, FNBC and CNAP, 2003

·         Regards to Miss Universe, WeilArt Gallery, Hotel Panama, 2003

·         Mural, Hotel England, permanent exhibition, Havana, 2003

·         Marti in 25 Cuban Masters. UNEAC, Convention’s Palace, Havana, 2002

·         Mirrors, Kate Kalmbach curator, tour to Rome, 2002-2003

·         43 Painters Cubans, Memorial Joseph Marti, Havana, 2001

·         Cultural Britges, Michael Berger Gallery, SALA, Jewish Center, Pittsburg, 2000

·         Broken Recipients, SALA, American Jewish Museum, Pittsburg, 2000

·         The writing of chaos, Galería Raúl Martínez, ICL, Old Havana, 2001

·         Erotic Art I, Gallery The Acacia, Havana, 2000

·         Broking Barrel 2000, Jewish Community Center Museum, Youngstown, Ohio, 2000

·         Cuban Painting,  La Acacia Gallery, La Habana, 1999

·         Cuban Masters Past, Present and Future, Cornell Museum and SALA, Delray, 1999

·         Cuban Art, Feria ARTEBA, Buenos Aires, 1999

·         Letter of the Millennium, Hotel Inglaterra, La Habana, 1999

·         Culture Cubana, Galería Villena, C. C. Dulce M. Loynaz, Habana, 1999

·         Invierno's,  Imago Gallery, auction, Havana, 1999

·         Invierno's,  Imago Gallery, auction, Havana, 1998

·         Building Cultural Bridges, SALA, Art Gallery, Cornell University, New York, 1998

·         Building Cultural Bridges, SALA, Art Gallery, Paterson University, New Jersey, 1998

·         Building Cultural Bridges,, SALA, Art Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, 1998

·         Art 7, Juan David Gallery, collateral exhibit, Biennale of Havana, 1997

·         Invierno's auction, Imago Gallery, GTH, Havana, 1997

·         22 Master of the Cuban Painting, permanent ceramics at Paseo del Prado, 1997

·         Art Forum, Concurso NOMA, UNESCO, Ikebukura, Tokyo, 1996

·         Art Miami 96, Bernheim Gallery, Miami, 1996

·         Biennial of El Salvador, Bernheim Gallery, 1996

·         Biennale of Illustration, UNESCO, Bratislava, 1996

·         International Mail Art Show, Palace of Fine Arts, Havana, 1996

·         Homage to Kurt Schwitters, Associació of Artists and Poetes, Barcelona, 1996

·         Cuban Painting, Bernheim Gallery, National Bank of Panama, 1995

·         National Saloon of Plastic Arts, Gallery Juan David, Havana, 1995

·         Bernheim Gallery’s Cuban Paintings, Lufl Gallery, Miami, 1995

·         LATOF exposes, Spitalfield Market, London, 1993

·         Breaking barriers, Weekend Art College, London, 1993

·         Cuban Painting, Canning House, London, 1993

·         Latin American Art Market, Tower Hamlet Business, London, 1993

·         Cuban Night, Visitors Center, London, 1993

·         Cuban Painting (miniatures) Shaufenster Gallery, Cologne, 1993

·         Biennial IV of Havana, ISA’s collateral exhibit, 1993

·         The illustrated popular saying, Center Wifredo Lam, Havana, 1993

·         The Dulce María Loynaz Collection, National Library, Havana, 1992

·         The St. Alejandro exhibit, Culture House, Camaguey, 1990

·         Beach Saloon 90, Servando Cabrera Gallery, Havana, 1990

·         Homage to Charlot, Festival of the Latin American New Cinema, Havana, 1989

·         National II Saloon of Little Format, MINCULT, Camaguey, 1989

·         Contest Thirteen of March, L Gallery, Havana, 1988

·         III Salón Mirtha Cerra, Mirtha Cerra Gallery, Bejucal, 1989

·         XXX Anniversary of the L Gallery, Havana, 1988

·         170 St. Alexander Academy Anniversary, Concha Ferrant Gallery, Havana, 1988

·         The St. Alejandro’s Art exhibit, Karl Marx Theatre Gallery, Havana, 1988

·         Little format Expo, L Gallery, Havana, 1987

·         National Saloon of Plastic Arts, ISA Gallery, Havana, 1987

1.      International Art Professor’s encounter, ENA Gallery, Havana, 1987

MUSEUMS COLLECTIONS

Sitra Ahra, (oil/canvas) Mizel Museum of Jewish, Denver

The sleep of the chrysalid, (oil/canvas) Museo of the Americas, Colorado

Of Keter to Malkhut, (oil/canvas) American Jewish Museum, Pittsburgh

Illustrated amphora (ceramics) Museum of Water, Havana

PROJECTS AND EXPOSITIONS

·         Farinas oil crayons on kraft, Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, Chelsea, New York, 2021

·         Inferno, Dante, illustrated edition of bibliophily, Ars LIBER, Pamplona, 2020-2024

ILLUSTRATION WORKS:

The uncountable books since 1991 for editorials Cubans and foreigners, make impossible its mention detailed in this curriculum. His fundamental editors are: Ars Liber Editions, Pamplona; Letters Cubans, Art and Literature, Havana, and Union Editions, UNEAC, Havana.

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

·         National First Prize of the Ministry of Spanish Culture to LIBER EDICIONES (Ars Liber) for the best book of art for bibliophily published in Spain in 2010: Apocalypse or revelation of San Juan the Theologian, illustrated for José Luis Fariñas.

·         Gitana Tropical's distinction for the prominent work and exposition of the Young Contemporary Art in Havana. Provincial Center of Plastic Arts and Design of Havana, XXXV anniversary, 2016

·         Commemorative Medal of the Pope Francisco Pastoral Visit (oil on canvas in the Cathedral of Havana)

·         Distinction to painter expositor at Cuban Painting S.XIX, XX and XXI, curator of Ester and Gustavo Orta, Miami Dade College, 2008

·         National First Prize of the Ministry of Spanish Culture to Liber Ediciones, for the Best book of art for Bibliophiles published in Spain in 2007, Cervantes, the soldier that taught us to talk, of María Teresa León, illustrated for José Luis Fariñas.

·         National Prize of Illustration Raúl Martínez, Institute of the Book, Havana, 2007

·         National Prize of Illustration Raúl Martínez, Institute of the Book, Havana. 2005

·         Artist in Residence, Cornell University, New York

·         Butterfly Prize, Havana, 2005

·         First Prize of Illustration, National Contest of Design Raúl Martínez, Institute Cuban of the Book, Havana, 2004

·         First Prize of Illustration, National Contest of Design Raúl Martínez, Institute Cuban of the Book, Havana, 2003

·         Letter of Recognition, Academia Montessori, Pittsburgh, 2000

·         Letter of Recognition, William Paterson University, New Jersey, 1999

·         Medal of Contest of illustration NOMA, UNESCO, Tokyo, 1995

·         Special Prize Arte 7, collateral exhibition, Biennale of Havana, 1997

·         First Prize XXX Anniversary of The Gazette of Cuba, UNEAC, 1993

·      Gold Title, St. Alexander, 1991

·      Distinction of the Union of Architects of Cuba for oil painting and mural, 1990

Participation in Jury of National Prizes of Plastic Arts:

National Price of Design 2018

Prize of Design Art of the Book 2017

National Prize of Edition 2016

Better Reward Stand, International Fair of the Book, Havana 2013

Private collections (selection)

Narciso's death, Alicia Alonso and Pedro Simon collection

The guardian of the city, Eusebio Leal Spengler collection

Misfortune's horn, John Le Carré collection

Watercolor, Mang Ke collection

The Magic flute, oil, Anita Hyman collection

Watercolors and oil/kraft, Ester and Gustavo Orta collection

Manuscript (diptych), Leo Brouwer collection

Watercolor, Anton Arrufat collection

Watercolor, Julio Ramos collection

Watercolor, Alexander Pérez-Heredia collection

Oil and inks in the collection of Michael Berger

Watercolor, Carlos Acosta Collection

Watercolor, Desiderio Navarro collection

Oil and watercolors in the collection of Carlos Weil

Watercolor, David Taube and Marisue HOLT collection

John Lennon, Abel E. Prieto collection

Absolution, Gabriel García Márquez collection

Rising, Dulce María Loynaz collection

Apocalypse, Fausto, Cervantes (series), Juan J. Izquierdo collection

Equestrian Quixote, collection of Fernando Pérez

Watercolor, Carlos Fariñas collection

Harold Gramatges, collection

Oils in the collection of J. Ramón Montfort

Jorguines, collection of Carlos M. Luis

Archeologies, Chucho Valdés collection

Ángel, Fina García Marruz collection

Watercolor Cintio Vitier collection

Metamorphosis, Tomás Sánchez collection

Watercolor, Roberto Fabelo collection

Watercolor, Roberto Fernández Retamar collection

Amoríos, Silvio Rodríguez collection

Monsters of the vigil, Luis Eduardo Aute collection

Station of the En Sof, Steven Spielberg collection

Watercolors, Enrique Pineda Barnet collection

The witty nobleman, Joaquín Sabina collection

Cervantes, Aitana Alberti León collection

Quixote bogante, Thiago de Mello collection

Oils and watercolors José Luis Busto collection

Watercolors, Alfredo Guevara collection

The Illustrate Evil, Fidel Díaz collection

Martí portrait, Pedro Pablo Rodríguez collection

Birth, Patricia Peuaud collection

Sacrificial Games, collection of Arne McDonald

Watercolor, Pedro José Fariñas collection

Fan, Giselle Fariñas collection

Oils, Juana García Abás collection

Martí portrait, Jose Massip collection

Watercolors, Motoko Hirai collection

Ouroboros, collection of Stanley Cohen

Watercolor, José L. Díaz Montero

Watercolors, Erick Estevanell collection

Watercolors, Leonardo Cuervo collection

Peregrinatio, Juan Ramón Llavorí collection

Babel, Esther Bondareff collection

Mephisto, collection of Winfred Wünsch

Insomnia, Carlos Regueiro collection

LITERARY WORK

AUTHOR OF BOOKS:

Unstable regressions, Southern Editions, 2013

The soul and the stone, Letras Cubanas, Havana, 2012

The whitest rest, Southern Colección Unión, Havana, 2007

Carelessness, Editions Z, Havana, 1993

ANTHOLOGIES (selection)

Post-very new narrators Cubans, Salvador Redonet (University Of Saragossa, 1999)

One hundred Cuban Poets, Alex Pausides (Southern Collection, Havana)

Anthology of poetry Cuban, Waldo Leyva (published in Italy in 2017)

The Devil's flask, Cuban narrators, Salvador Redonet (Latin Americans, Guatemala)

Rewards of poetry of the Gazette of Cuba, Norberto Codina (Editions Unión)

Entremiradas, Maribel Longueira (Galician Xunta)

Poems of love, Luis Rafael (Letras Cubanas, Havana)

The Cuban Issue (The Lawrel Review, New Orleans, 2001)

Wounded for the Light, George Souza (University of Guadalajara, 2002)

Jewish Latin American literature, Stephen Sadow (LAWI, CUNY, New York, 2008)

Powerful yellow pianos, poems to Gastón Baquero, Luis Yuseff (anthologist)

OTHER PUBLICATIONS (selection)

Essay on Posada’s art, The Gazette of Cuba.

Poems in The Gazette of Cuba, Cubadebate, The Jiribilla, OPUS Havana.

LITERARY REWARDS (selection)

First Prize, Dragon of Science-Fiction 2004

Prometheus Poetry Prize, UNEAC, 2003

Mentions in the Poetry Contest The Gazette of Cuba, 1999

OTHER DISTINCTIONS LIKE WRITER:

The Profesional Elite of The Contemporary Who's Who, American Biographical Institute, North Carolina, 2004-2006

Member of the Cathedra of Japanese Culture, University of Havana, 2001 

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