Ernesto Leal

Ernesto Leal Basilio
Born in 1971, Havana

Graduated from San Alejandro Academy of Plastic Arts, Cuba in 1990 and from Paulita Concepción Vocational School of Arts, Cuba in 1996.His works have been exhibited in Cuba, Mexico and United States. He has fulfilled group exhibitions in Cuba, Canada, United States, Germany, Spain, Nicaragua and Brazil among other countries. In addition, he has participated in Havana Biennials as well as in several performances and public interventions. He was part of the group Arte Calle. His works are part of private collections in Cuba, United States, France, Belgium, Spain and Brazil.

19871990San Alejandro Academy, Havana

19831986Paulita Concepción Vocational School of Arts, Havana

Solo Shows

2009 Language Disorders, Habana Gallery, Havana

2006Higher Institute of Double Agents (Audiovisuals Department), ICAIC Cultural Center, Havana

2004 Document (with Luis Gómez), La Casona Gallery, Havana

2003 Foto septiembre. Words in Styrofoam, Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico F.D

2001Civils in shock (with Manuel Piña), Habana Gallery, Havana

1999 With silencer, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana

1998Chemical Screens, Sicardi Gallery, Houston / Ten days without talking, Obsesiones Project, Wifredo Lam Center for Contemporary Arts, Havana

1997The stone falls, Sicardi Gallery, Houston / Arguing with Betara Desa (with Juan José Olavarría), Farish Gallery, Rice University, Houston / Title: Ernesto Leal, Teodoro Ramos Blanco Gallery, Havana

1996 The uncreated, Espacio Aglutinador, Havana

1995 El doble (17 exercises),(con Juan José Olavarría), CDAV, Havana

1990Revolution is Involution, Casa del Artista, Cerro, Havana

Group Shows

2009La perra subasta (The great auction), Espacio Aglutinador, Havana / Dubai 2015, Casa Simón Bolívar, Havana / HB, Pabexpo, Havana

2008Red (Net), Valle 70, Havana / V Salón de Arte Contemporáneo, CDAV, Havana / Show Off, Pierre Cardin Space, Paris / The First Collection, Ad Hoc Gallery, Ontario / V.I.P., La Casona Gallery, Havana / 100, CISAS Bolonia, Managua / Ghost posters, 23 y12 Gallery, Havana

2007Homing devices, Contemporary Art Museum, University South Florida, Tampa, USA / Vostok,Center of Plastic Arts and Design, Havana / Arthgoth, La Casona Gallery, Havana

2006Estrecho Dudoso, Limits, MADC, San José, Costa Rica / Stop & forward, Habana Gallery, Havana / The missing word, Museum of Rum, Havana / Personal Project, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana / Off line, Hispano American Center for Culture, Havana

2005Contacts and Mediations. Digital poetics in Cuban art, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Canada / Barro de América, Marta Traba Gallery, Sao Paulo / Subasta Habana. Proyecto Online Photography Project, Habana Gallery, Havana / Cuarto Salón de Arte Contemporáneo, CDAV, Havana

2004 Bienal Barro de América, Lia Bermudez Maracaibo Center of Arts , Venezuela / Update and Download, Casa de México, Havana / Havana insideout, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans / Sin embargo (However), Fluid image, Grenoble, France / Cuba untitled, Heidi Cho Gallery, New York

2003 Virus, San Francisco de Asís Convent, Havana / Hanging Habits, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana / Uthopy/postuthopy, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New York / Reunión+intornada=888 (with Aldo Menéndez), 8street and línea 211, Vedado, Havana / Doble Seduction, Amadís Exhibit Hall, Madrid / From a black hole, Cultural Center of Spain, Havana / Sentido común (Common Sense), Habana Gallery, Havana

2002From a black hole, Son Espace, Pals, Girona, Spain; De Miguel Gallery, Munich / No place, IFA Bonn Gallery; IFA Sttutgart Gallery; IFA Berlin Gallery, Germany / Línea, oh línea, Someca Building, 17 floor, Vedado, Havana / Made in Cuba, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, USA / Copyright, Cultural Center of Spain, Havana

20017th International Biennial of Istambul, Egofugal, Turkey / Fragmentos de algunas islas (Some islands fragments), Cultural Center of Spain, Havana / El final del Eclipse (The end of the eclipse), Telephonic Foundation, Madrid; Caja Granada, Spain; Extremadura and Iberian American Museum of Contemporary Art (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain; University of Salamanca, Spain; Museum of Modern Art, Mexico F.D; Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey; Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Exhibit Halls of the Telephonic Foundation, Santiago de Chile; San Marcos Museum, Lima / CD Room, CDAV, Havana / Shifting Tides, LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Arts; The Museum of Contemporary Photography, New York

2000This is your house Vicenta, 11 and 8, Vedado, Havana / The last drawing of the millennium, Havana Biennial, National Theater, Havana / Art Cologne, Germany / From the negative, Parts Gallery Minneapolis / EV+A. Friends and neighbours, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland / La conjunción de la nada (The conjunction of the nothingness), CDAV Havana

1999Ambiente, Espacio Aglutinador, Havana

1998De una isla a otra isla (From one island to another), CDAV, Havana / Arte ´BA 98, Buenos Aires

1997El arte que no cesa (The art that doesn´t stop),Wifredo Lam Center fo Contemporary Arts, Havana / El ocultamiento de las almas (The hiding of the souls), CDAV, Havana / Una miseria temporal (A provisional misery),Espacio Aglutinador, Havana

1996Giro de tuerca (Screw turn),Serigraphy Workshop, Havana / V Bienal internacional de pintura de Cuenca, Museum of Modern Art, Ecuador

1995 Contemporary Cuban Art, Bélem Cultural Center, Portugal

1993El otro espacio (The other space) Video Art, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana

1991 Born in Cuba, Ateneo de Valencia, Venezuela

1990 He is part of the working team of HACER project

19889 alchimists and a blind, L Gallery, Havana / No por mucho madrugar amanece más temprano(No matter how early you get up, you can't make the sun rise any sooner), Fototeca de Cuba, Havana / Ojo pinta, L Gallery, Havana

1987 S.A., San Alejandro Academy, Havana

1986 Sin título (Untitled), San Alejandro Academy, Havana

1996Second Prize, V International Painting Biennial of Cuenca, Drawing section, Ecuador