Jorge Wellesley

Jorge Wellesley- Bourke Marín
Pinar del Río, Cuba, 1977

Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts San Alejandro and the Higher Institute of Arts (ISA), Havana. Professor of Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the ISA. Member of Public Interventions Department Project (DPI). His works have been exhibited in Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Spain, Germany and the USA. He has participated in the Salon of Contemporary Cuban Art and in collateral exhibitions to the VII, VIII and X Biennial of Havana. He received the Batiscafo Residence (Triangle Art Trust, Gasworks in England in Havana). His works are in private collections in Cuba, U.S. and Mexico.

1999-2004Higher Institute of Arts (ISA), Havana

1994-1998San Alejandro Academy, Havana

1994 Taller de Manero

Solo Shows

2009Word, Centro de Arte La Casona, collateral to the Tenth Havana Biennial

2006TRUTH 0028, The weight of the idea I, performance-tour of the city, Havana

2005TRUTH, reality and language. No. II, Provincial Center of Visual Arts and Design, Havana

2004 TRUTH No. I. reality and language, Havana Club Rum Museum, Havana

2003TRUTH 0014, Prophet in the land, performance on Experience of Action: 30 days (DIP Interventions), Eighth Biennial of Havana / TRUTH 0011, Real Numbers, posters intervention in Action Experience: 30 days (DIP speeches), Eighth Biennial of Havana / TRUTH 0008, The examined life is the only one worth living, intervention, Havana (DIP), Havana

2002TRUTH 0007, Barrera, Intervention (DIP), Meeting of Young Art, Santa Clara, Cuba / TRUTH 0006, Memory Direct, intervention, Encounter of Young Art, Santa Clara, Cuba / TRUTH 0002, False, intervention, Mayabeque , Havana

Group Shows

2009 Preview, collateral to the Tenth Havana Biennial, Space 08, La Habana / Pulse-Art Fair, Galería Nina Menocal, Miami / V Salon de Arte Cubano Contemporáneo, Development Center for the Visual Arts, Havana / Embedded, Museum Convento de San Francisco de Asis, La Habana / Interface, Residence Batiscafo, Triangle Arts Trust and Gasworks, Havana / Arboleda. The body is bodies,photographs and videos of Cuban artists, Gallery Jesus Garcia de Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico / KUNST, Hispanic-American Center of Culture, Havana

2006 Sobrevivir la Utopía desde el arte, City Hall, Provincial Center of Visual Arts and Design, Havana / UP, Fresa y Chocolate Gallery, Havana

2004 Cuban Arts, Wissenschaftspark, Gelsenkirchen, Germany / A is B, between art and science, Galería Habana, Havana

2003Eighth Havana Biennial, Dept. of Public Interventions, Havana / Double Seduction. Videos on demand of Cuban artists (Department of Public Interventions), Sala Amadis, Madrid / Unmarked, Latin American sample videos, Buenos Aires / Common Sense (Department of Public Interventions), Galería Habana, Havana

2002Copyright, exhibition of videos of young Cuban artists, Gallery of the Cultural Center of Spain, Havana

2001Llega y pon, collateral to III Salon de Arte Contemporáneo, Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana

2000 International Plastic Arts Salon IV, UNEAC-International Gallery, Varadero, Matanzas, Cuba / Havana-ISA-Club, collateral to the VII Bienal de La Habana, Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana / Winter Hall, Second Meeting Graduate Academy San Alejandro, Casa Simón Bolívar, La Habana

1999 Painting for Peace, First National Competition of Fine Arts, Havana / Today we celebrate big dreams, Frida Kahlo Gallery, Havana / Paradise of all, Imago Gallery, Great Theater of Havana

1998Fayad Jamis at the new century, Gallery Emir Abdel Kader, V Edition, Unity, Identity and Culture, Havana / Workshop Manero, Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad, Havana / The feast of the fairies, Jose Antonio Diaz Pelaez Gallery, San Alejandro, Havana

199720 years is nothing, Gallery Emir Abdel Kader, Arab Union of Cuba, Havana

2008Batiscafo Residence, Triangle Art Trust and Gasworks, England in Havana

2006 Award, City Hall, Development Center for the Visual Arts, Havana