Reynerio Tamayo

1987-1992Higher Institute of Arts (ISA). Havana

1983-1987National School of Arts (ENA). Havana

1980 -1983Elementary School of Arts. Isle of Youth, Cuba

Solo Shows

2008 Magma mía!!!, Villa Manuela Gallery, Havana

2003The happy whims, Pedro Torres Logroño Gallery, La Rioja, Spain

2002 Cuban Art San Juan 2002, Las Americas Museum, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

2001 The Eden hides in Paradise, Majadahonda Exhibit Hall, Pablo de la Torriente Brau Cultural Center, Havana

2000The home of the painter, Pedro Torres Logroño Gallery, La Rioja, Spain / The Great Game, (With Ruben Alpizar) Collateral to the Seventh Havana Bienial, 23 y 12 Gallery, Havana

1997The grape of Cuba, Pedro Torres Logroño Gallery, La Rioja, Spain

1996Myths, geniuses and legends, La Acacia Gallery, Havana

1994The family of the hurricane, Drawings and paintings, collateral to the Fifth Havana Biennial, Plaza Vieja Gallery, Cuban Fund of Cultural Property, Havana

1992Heartfelt Museum of passion, Graduation thesis, 23 y12 Gallery, Havana / The orgasm belongs to the performer, II Ibero-American Cartoonists Meeting Juan David Gallery, Yara Cinema Cultural Center, Havana

1991The world is not cruel, collateral to the Fourth Havana Biennial Juan David Gallery, Yara Cinema Cultural Center, Havana

1989Reinerio Tamayo, Tele-Cristal, Holguín, Cuba / Manuel Aguilera Dositeo House of Culture, Graphic Humorists Meeting, Banes, Holguín, Cuba

1988Gótico, neogótico y estrambótico (Gothic, neogothic and bizarre), Wifredo Lam Center for Contemporary Arts, Havana

1987Penicilina para los cheos y la tristeza (Penicillin for the old-fashioned and the sadness), Juan David Gallery, Yara Cinema Cultural Center, Havana / UNEAC Exhibition Hall, Nueva Gerona, Isle of Youth, Cuba

Group Shows

20093rd International Watercolor Triennial, Bolivarian Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation, Santa Marta, Colombia / Illusions of landscapes, Piece Unique Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon / Buque Petrolero (Tanker), Guest artist, Tenth Havana Biennial (with Eulises Niebla), Havana / Alas con puntas… Take 2, Collateral to the Tenth Havana Biennial, José Martí Memorial, Revolution Square, Havana / Tomorrow will be too late, Collateral to the Tenth Havana Biennial, International Press Center, Havana / Pure Coincidence (The abstracts), Collateral to the Tenth Havana Biennial, Expocuba, Pavillion 24, Havana / Crisis (The flags), Collateral to the X Havana, Biennial Expocuba, Pavillion 23, Havana

2008Illusions, in small format, Pedro Torres, Logroño Gallery, La Rioja, Spain / III National Exhibition of Cartoon and Illustration, Library of Santiago de Chile, Chile / Ghost Posters, 23 y 12 Gallery, Havana / Posters of the 90´s rare journeys, common dreams, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon

2007 Cosmos, Habana Gallery, Havana / Alas por la Vida (Wings for Life), Dr. Peter M. Baeza Vega Gallery, Collegiate Extension, Victoria de Girón Institute of Basic and Preclinical Sciences, Havana / En la misma cuerda, XV International Biennial of Graphic Humor, San Antonio de los Baños, Gallery of the Territorial Polygraph and General Suárez, Plaza, Havana / Taxi-Shark, Guest artist, Ninth Havana, Biennial, Havana / Play Ball, Espacio Abierto Gallery, Revolution and Culture magazine, Havana / Manual of Instructions, Collateral to the Ninth Havana Biennial, CENCREM, Santa Clara Convent, Havana / Energy Eating Monsters, Casa de America, Madrid / Cuban Cold, AloveraGallery, Guadalajara, Madrid / Energy eaters, Bovisa Triennale, Milano / Energy Eating Monsters, Grand Palais, Paris

2006Auge o decadencia del arte cubano (Rise or Decline of Cuban art), Flavio Garciandía Collective Project, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana / Martí de todos (Everyone´s Marti), Las Americas Museum, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

2005IV Cuban Salon of Religious Art dedicated to La Caridad del Cobre, Trinidad Holy Parish, Claretian Missionaries, Santiago de Cuba / IV Salón de Arte Cubano Contemporáneo, Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Fototeca de Cuba, Provincial Center of Plastic Arts and Design, Havana / The art of appropriation (Postmodern Art), Servando Cabrera Gallery, Havana / III Salón de Acuarela, Domingo Ravenet Gallery, Havana

2004 Elegía cubana, Nicolás Guillén Foundation, Veranda L, Havana

2003Ways of inventing a smile, Special Project, Eighth Havana Biennial, Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana / Arte Santander, Pedro Torres Logroño Gallery, Santander Palace of Festivals, Cantabria, Spain (Shared showroom with the artists José Hernández and Juan Genovés)

2002Words in the tropics, CENCREM, Santa Clara Convent Havana

2001 Post-medievals in Puerto Rico, Las Américas Museum, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico / II Erotic Art Salon, La Acacia Gallery, Havana

1999 Arte Santander, Pedro Torres Logroño Gallery, Santander Palace of Festivals, Cantabria, Spain

1998 Arte Santander (Santander Art), Pedro Torres Logroño Gallery, Santander Palace of Festivals, Cantabria, Spain/ ARCO, La Acacia Gallery, Juan Carlos I Ferial Fairground, Madrid

1997 ARCO, La Acacia Gallery, Juan Carlos I Fairground, Madrid / Views about Che, twelve contemporary Cuban artists, Kulturunea Mitxelena, San Sebastian, Hika Ateneo, Bilbao, Euskadi / Exhibit 95th anniversary of the birth of Nicolás Guillén, Ignacio Agramante Museum, Camagüey / La Acacia Gallery, Havana

1996 Almendares River: neither strawberry, nor chocolate, CENCREM, Santa Clara Convent, Havana / Spring Auction, El Centro Exhibit Hall, Melia Cohiba Hotel, Havana / Let´s reflect SI DA, Casa Benito Juarez, Havana / Los buenos al cielo, Los malos al suelo (The good ones go to heaven, The bad ones to the ground), Imago Gallery, Great Theater of Havana, Havana / The Contemporary World of Art and Medicine, International Images, Itd Pennsylvania / Cuban posters, UQAM, University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada / Young Cubans II, International Images, Itd Pennsylvania, USA / Caribbean and Latin American Fine Art, Jorge M, Sory associated with Chelsea Fine Art Galleries, Coral Gables, Florida

1995Illumination, Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana / I Salón de Arte Cubano Contemporáneo, National Museum, Palace of Fine Arts, Havana / Exposición Centenario o Diecisiete instantes de una primavera( Centennial Exhibition or Seventeen moments of a spring), Imago Gallery, Great Theater of Havana, Havana / Posters of artists, Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana / Design Alternatives I, Peter Ludwig Foundation of Cuba, Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana / Palimpsestos, Citas y apropiaciones (Palimpsests, quotes and appropriations), Habana Gallery, Havana / Muestra Colectiva de Humorismo (Collective Exhibition of Humor), Espaco Mascarene, Minas Gerais, Brazil / Overview (Cuban painting Exhibit), Headquarters, National Bank of Panama, Panama City / Newest Cuban Artists, Cuban Cultural Week in Mexico, House of the Lake, Former Chapultepec Woods, Mexico City, Mexico,  / XVII Festival of New Latin-American Cinema, Imago Gallery, Great Theater of Havana, Havana / Contemporary Cuban Fine Arts, Fortnight of Cuban Culture in Portugal, Belem Cultural Center, Portugal

1994 Illustrations for book covers, Pinos Nuevos Project, VI Havana International Book Fair, Havana / Nenhum Homen é uma Ilha, Today´s Cuban Humor, Casa do Benin, Salvador Bahia, Rio de Janeiro / Young Cubans, Images International Ltd, Pennsylvania

1993 Born in Cuba, Mexican Cultural Center Ex Farm La Pila, San Buenaventura Way, Toluca, State of Mexico / Inter- American of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico / Misa por una mueca, VIII Bienal Internacional de Humorismo, Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana / VIII Bienal Internacional de Humorismo, Eduardo Abela Gallery San Antonio de los Baños, Havana / Overture, Plaza Vieja Gallery, Cuban Fund of Cultural Property, Havana

1992 The Unknown Face of Cuban Art, Northern Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA), Sunderland, Newcastle, Great Britain / 6 Cuban artists, Northern Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA), Sunderland, Newcastle, Great Britain / The Cuban Round, Van Apeldoorn Reekum Museum, Netherlands / The Cuban Round, Dominican Convent Gallery San Juan de Letrán, Havana / Humor as ever, Eduardo Abela Gallery, San Antonio de los Baños, Havana

1991VII Bienal Internacional de Humorismo, Eduardo Abela Gallery San Antonio de los Baños, Havana / Humor in today´s plastic art, Municipal History Museum, San Antonio de los Baños, Havana / Born in Cuba, Rectorate, University of Carabobo Foundation, Venezuela / Some humorous stories, Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana / II Bienal de Cerámica de Pequeño Formato Amelia Peláez, Castillo de la Real Fuerza, Havana / TELARTE VII, Plastic artists design for textile printing, Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana

1990 Sin Chistar (Without mumbling), Guerrero Gallery, Acapulco Promoter Center of Humor, Havana / II Festival del Humor Seña 90, Matanzas, Cuba / I Salón Nacional de Humorismo y Sátira, San Antonio de los Baños, Havana / Humor en Cuba, First History Exhibit in Quadrinnos and Cartuns Cuba, Brazil / Humor-ismo, International Awards of Cuban Graphic Humor 1980-1990, Provincial Center of Plastic Arts and Design, Havana / Humor in Cuba, 10 Mostra de Historia em Quadrinhos e Cartunes de Cuba, State Library, Rio de Janeiro / Primer Salón Nacional de Ilustraciones para libros, Havana

1989 IX Bienal Internacional del Humor y la Sátira en el Arte (IX International Biennial of Humor and Satire in Art), House of Humor and Satire, Gabrovo, Bulgary

1988II Encuentro de Jóvenes Artistas Plásticos / Second Meeting of Young Plastic Artists / II Salon of the Young Plastic Art of Cuba, Provincial Museum of Villa Clara, Santa Clara, Cuba

1987Veintitantos abriles, Habana Gallery, Havana

1986International Salon of Political Satire The External Debt, 23 y 12 Art Center; Juan David Gallery, Havana / International Biennial of Humor and Satire in Art, House of Humor and Satire, Gabrovo, Bulgary

1985Group exhibition, Máximo Gómez Library, Havana; Atilano Armenteros Art Gallery San Luis, Pinar del Rio, Cuba

2001First Prize, II Erotic Art Salon, La Acacia Gallery, Havana

1995Mention, First Contemporary Cuban Art Salon, National Museum, Palace of Fine Arts, Havana / Prize of the Faculty of Arts and Letters of Havana University, I Salon of Contemporary Cuban Art, Havana

1994EGREM Prize (shared with Ruben Alpízar) for the design of the Year Best CD for The Incomparable Bola de Nieve, Havana / EGREM Prize (shared with Ruben Alpízar) for the Best Design of the Year Cassette for Llegaron los compadres, Havana

1992 EGREM Prize (shared with Ruben Alpízar) for the LD Best Design of the Year A la hora que me llame voy, by the Orquesta Original de Manzanillo, Havana / First Prize in the category of comic strips and Third Prize shared on the theme Friendship granted by UNEAC, VII International Biennial of Humor, San Antonio de los Baños, Havana

1990First Prize in Graphic Humor Melocatus Matanzanus, II Humor Festival Seña'90, Matanzas, Cuba / Special Mention, First National Salon of Illustrations for Books, Havana / First Prize, I National Salon of Humor and Satire, San Antonio de Baños, Havana

1989 Grand Prix Esopo de Oro, IX International Biennial of Humor and Satire in Art, Gabrovo, Bulgary