Roberto Diago

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Ciudad de la Habana, 1971

He has accomplished a great number of oneman exhibitions in Cuba, Spain, France, United States and Puerto Rico and some other countries. He has partaken in group exhibitions, in International Public Sales and Fairs in Cuba, Spain, United States, France, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Greece, Italy and Argentina. He has participated in Contemporary Cuban Art Salons, as well as in Havana Salons and Biennials.He owns several awards, to be mentioned the Order for the Cuban National Culture.His works are part of private and institutional collections in Cuba, France, Panama, Spain, Portugal, Mexico and United States.

1990 San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts

Solo Shows

2008 Roberto Diago, The Torco Gallery, Suances, Cantabria, Spain

2006 What I want is to live (e)spacios Gallery, Madrid / ARCO 2006, Solo Show Joie de vivre, Juan Carlos I Ferial Park, Madrid / Lisbon Art Fair, Portugal (Sacramento Gallery) / Drawings, Roberto Diago, Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad, Camagüey, Cuba

2005 Roberto Diago, Pan American Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas / Joie de vivre, Habana Gallery, Havana / A bit of me, SPATIVM Gallery, Caracas / Joie de vivre, Brownstone Foundation, Paris

2004 Carte Menu, Inglaterra Hotel, Havana

2003 Moments, XII International Book Fair of Havana, Onelio Jorge Cardoso Exhibit Hall, Cultural Complex Morro-Cabaña / Here, what you can´t do is to die, Wifredo Lam Center for Contemporary Arts, Havana

2002 Juan Roberto Diago, Recent works, Arteconsult Gallery, Panama / Eating knife, Juan Roberto Diago Exhibit, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana

2001 Roberto Diago, Paintings, National Council of Plastic Arts, Havana / Roberto Diago, Paintings, Benito Ortiz Art Gallery, Trinidad, Cuba / My story is your story, Cernuda Art Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida / Diago in Puerto Rico, Space 304, Puerto Rico

2000 The black and the pure, Espacio Abierto Gallery, Revolution and Culture Magazine, Havana / There’s no need to fly to make a dream, La Guarida, Location of the film Strawberry and Chocolate, Havana / Paintings by Roberto Diago, XIX Jazz Festival, Riviera Hotel, Havana

1999 Roberto Diago, Peintre Contemporain Cubain, Mairie du 3eme arrondissement, Lyon, France / Roberto Diago, Amédée Maratier Prix 1999, Galerie d'Art et Fondation Etats Kikoïne, France

1998 Issues, La Acacia Gallery, Havana / Aller / Retour (Return), Théatre de Luneville, France

1997 After Venice, Domingo Ravenet Gallery, Havana / Black tears, Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana

1996 Paintings by Roberto Diago, 23 y12 Art Center, Havana

1995 Mural Project, Sassari, Sardinia, Italy

1994 Motives of the Forest, Pabellón Cuba, Havana / Landscapes, Olorón, France

 

Group Shows

2008 Confluences -Inside, Contemporary Cuban Art, Zapopan Museum of Art, MAZ, Mexico / Contemporary Project, Palm Beach County Convention Center, Florida (Cernuda Art Gallery & Habana Gallery) / Identify yourself, Habana Gallery, Havana

2007 Afrocuba: Works on Paper, 1968-2003, Itinerant exhibition, Lowe Art Museum,University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida; Indianapolis Art Museum, USA; Espacios Project , Alcalá Theater, Madrid,(e) spacios)Gallery / Sotheby's auction, Latin American Art, New York / Christie's auction, Latin American Art, New York / From one and other, Cuban Plastic Art Today, Carrion Vivar, Bogotá Cultural Center, Colombia / Confluences -Inside, Contemporary Cuban Art, Contemporary Cuban Art, León Cultural Institute, Guanajuato; Juárez Institute, V Ceiba Tabasco Cultural Festival; Jose Luis Cuevas Museum, Conaculta, Mexico FD, Museum of Modern Art of Toluca, Mexico / Water world, Sacramento Gallery, Aveiro,Portugal / Infinite Island, Contemporary Caribbean Art , Brooklyn Museum, New York / Energy eating monsters, Grand Palais of Paris, Elysian Fields, Paris; Triennale di Milano, Milano, Italy; Casa de America, Madrid (Area 61 Gallery) / The ones and the others, Palace of Conventions, Havana (5th International Congress Culture and Development) / Onze artistes cubains, Le Manoir Cultural Center, Cologne, Switzerland / Cuban cold, Alovera Gallery, Guadalajara, Madrid / Art Miami Fair, Miami Beach Convention Center, Florida (Cernuda Art Gallery) / Arteaméricas Fair, Coconut Grove Convention Center, Miami, Florida (Cernuda Art Gallery & SPATIVM Gallery) / O outroladodo Atlântico, Porto City, Portugal (Por Amor à Arte Gallery & Sacramento Gallery) / ARCO 2007, Ferial Park Juan Carlos I, Madrid (Habana Gallery)

2006 4 painters on board, Havana-Merida flight, La Luz Gallery, Mérida, Mexico / The cat from your look, Collateral to the 1st Regional Salon of Small Format, Camagüey, Cuba / Reencounter, Homage to the 20th anniversary of the Fototeca de Cuba, San Francisco de Asís Convent, Havana / Confluences -Inside, Contemporary Cuban Art, Clavijero Morelia Palace, Michoacán / Spaces: Architecture, Art and Design (e)spacios Gallery, Madrid / Here and Now, Intemporel Gallery, Paris / That side of the Atlantic, Sacramento Gallery, Aveiro, Portugal / Show Off Fair, Pierre Cardin Space, Paris (Habana Gallery) / The utility of virtue, Solidarity Exhibition, Miramar Trade Center, Havana (OIKOS, NGDOs Association) / That side of the Atlantic, Galerias da Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal (Sacramento Gallery) / Permanent Collection, SPATIVM Gallery, Caracas / Caracas Ibero American Fair, Venezuela (SPATIVM Gallery) / CIRCA Fair, San Juan, Puerto Rico (SPATIVM Gallery) / San Francisco Photo Fair, Fort Mason Center Festival Pavilion San Francisco (Pan American Art Gallery) / New York Photo Fair (Pan American Art Gallery) / Shared Spaces, Havana Club Gallery, Museum of Rum, Havana ((e)spacios Gallery) / Sala Retiro Auction, Caja Madrid, Madrid (e) spacios Gallery / Contemporary Cuban Art, Planetta of Courvete Institution, Beirut, Lebanon / Ninth Havana Biennial, The Power of presence, Morro-Cabaña Cultural Complex, Havana / Manual of Instructions, Collateral Exhibit to the Ninth Havana Biennial, Santa Clara Convent, Havana (Area 61 Gallery) / ARCO Fair 2006, Ferial Park Juan Carlos I, Madrid (Habana Gallery) / Art Miami Fair, Florida Miami Beach Convention Center (Pan American Art Gallery) / Arteaméricas Fair 2006, Coconut Grove Convention Center, Miami, Florida (SPATIVM Gallery) / Contemporary Project, Beach County Convention Center, Florida (Pan American Art Gallery & Galería Habana)

2005 Subastahabana, Fourth Edition, National Hotel, Havana / Islands, (e)spacios Gallery, Madrid / FIAC 2005, Paris (Habana Gallery) / Neuf Peintres Contemporains Cubains, Exhibit Hall of Antoine 1er, Princehood of Monaco, France / V Anniversary of Havana Club Gallery, Havana Club Gallery, Museum of Rum, Havana / Art Chicago Fair, Navy Pier, Chicago (Pan American Art Gallery) / Arteamericas Fair 2005, Coconut Grove Convention Center, Miami, Florida (Pan American Art Gallery) / Afrocuba: Works on Paper, 1968-2003, Itinerant Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University / ARCO, Juan Carlos I Ferial Park, Madrid (Habana Gallery) / Contemporary Project, Palm Beach County Convention Center, Florida (Habana Gallery)

2004 …social, intelectuar y chic…, Museum of Contemporary Art in Macedonia, Greece; Athens School of Fine Arts The factory, Athens, Greece / New York Photo Fair, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York (Pan American Art Gallery) / Off the Main Fair, The Show of Contemporary African, Caribbean and Latin American Art, The Puck Building, New York (Pan American Art Gallery) / San Francisco Photo Fair, Festival Pavilion Fort Mason Center, San Francisco (La Casona Gallery) / XIII Roberto Diago Querol Provincial Salon, Peter Esquerre Provincial Gallery, Matanzas, Cuba / Two in Colón, Colón Art Gallery, Matanzas, Cuba / Art Chicago Fair, Navy Pier, Chicago (La Cason Gallery) / ARCO, Juan Carlos I Ferial Park, Madrid (La Casona Gallery) / Art Miami Fair, Miami Beach Convention Center, Florida (Pan American Art Gallery)

2003 Household Shores, Versions for another story about visuality in Cuba, Gender, Race and Class, Visual Arts Center, Pinar del Rio, Cuba / Subastahabana Second Edition, Club Habana, Havana / A Selection of Cuban Artists, Cernuda Arte Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida / Humanitarian Auction, Casa de las Américas, Havana / Eighth Havana Biennial, Isaroko Project, La California, Havana / FIAC 2003, Paris (La Casona Gallery) / Art Forum, Berlin (La Casona Gallery) / …social, intelectuar y chic…, International Festival of cinematographic graphs and Latin American cultures, Municipal Casino, Biarritz, France / Latest tendencies in Contemporary Cuban Art, Culture and Development, Conventional Palace, Havana / Artists: Summer Group Show, Cernuda Art Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida / Art Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago (La Casona Gallery) / Barbed Wire Exhibit and Presentation of the Book Rodar el Coco by Lazara Menendez, Faculty of Arts and Letters, Luis de Soto Gallery, Havana / Arteamericas Fair, Coconut Grove Convention Center, Miami, Florida (Cernuda Art Gallery) / ARCO, Futuribles 9 pavilion, Madrid (Catálogo Gallery) / Art Miami, Miami Beach Convention Center, Florida (Cernuda Art Gallery & Panamerican Art Gallery) / Important Cuban Artworks, Cernuda Arte Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida

2002 The museum increases, National Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Cuban Art, Havana / Contemporary Cuba, Holland Area Arts Council, Michigan / Art Miami Fair, Miami Beach Convention Center, Florida (Cernuda Art Gallery)

2001 Revolution and Culture, 40th Anniversary, Espacio Abierto Gallery, Havana / Hamburg Elb Art Fair (Arts Cuba), Hamburg, Germany / Kubanische Kunst heute (Cuban Art Today), Norden Kunstkreis; Städtsche Landau Galerie Villastrecelus d, Pfalz, Wollhalle; Galerie Städtsche Güstrow, Germany / Twentyfive Cuban Artists from here and there, of yesterday and today, Cernuda Art Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida / Tenía que ser negro, I had to be black, Rush Arts Gallery, New York

2000 Tone by Tone, Abstract Art Exhibition, Habana Libre Tryp Hotel, Havana / Humanitarian Auction of Contemporary Cuban Art, Casa de las Américas, Havana / Warming up engines, Cernuda Arte Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida / …social, intelectuar y chic…, Havana Club Gallery, Distillery Foundation, Museum of Rum, Havana / The Fellowship of Art, Los Oficios Gallery, Havana / The Conjunction of nothingness, Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana

1999 FIAC 99, Pavillon du Parc, Paris / Cuba… art of another island, Jurisdiction of Sassari, Sardinia, Italy / Cuban Imaginations, La Mercé Cultural Center, Gerona, Spain / First Meeting on Culture and Development, Pabexpo, Havana

1998 International Festival of Cinematographic and Latin American Culture, Biarritz, France / Cubanias from the Caribbean island 52 years later, La Plata Buenos Aires Museum / Regino Botti Festival, City Museum, Guantanamo, Cuba / Agada Umbo Omode, The strength comes from all, Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana / Vancouver International Fair, Vancouver Trade and Convention Center, Canada

1997 Evoking the Cuban Cinema, ICAIC Gallery, 19 International Latin American Film Festival, Havana / Art Periphery, Week of Cuban Culture, Domingo Ravenet Gallery, Habana / Africa in the Plastic Cuban Art, Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana / La Biennale di Venezia, XLVII Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, Italy / Presence of Cuban Art in the end of a century, Santander, Pamplona, Spain / Keloids I, Africa House, Havana

1996 Four Times, Thalia Exhibit Hall, Havana / Académica 96. Exhibition of Latin American Professors and Artists, Domingo Ravenet Gallery, Havana / Almendares river: neither strawberry nor chocolate, Santa Clara Convent, Havana

1995 The Monsters of Reason, Provincial Center of Plastic Arts and Design, Havana / First Exhibition of Contemporary Cuban Art, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana / Horror Vacui, La Madriguera, Quinta de los Molinos, Havana / Juan Francisco Elso National Prize in Contemporary Painting , National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana / From P to P and vice versa, International Press Center, Havana

1994 A falta de pan, camellos. In want of bread, camels, Pabellón Cuba, Havana / Those who are, Domingo Ravenet Gallery, Havana

1993 Small Format Exhibition, Thalia Exhibit Hall, Havana / 13 de Marzo Contest, Thalia Exhibit Hall, Havana / ECO Group Exhibition, Guerrero Gallery, Havana

1990 Mirta Cerra Salon, Bejucal Municipal Gallery, Havana

1989 Scientific Meeting of San Alejandro Plastic Arts Academy, Havana

1988 Big City Love, Pabellón Cuba, Havana

1987 Big City Love, House of the Young Creator, Havana

2002 Distinction for the National Culture, Issued by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Cuba

1999 Prix Amédée Maratier 1999, Remis par la Fondation sous l'Kikoïne aegis of the Fondation du Francais Judaism, Awarded for the first time to a Latin American artist / Raul Martínez Special Award, Granted, for the first time by the National Directorate of the Hermanos Saiz Association, to highlight the career of an artist under 35 years

1995 III Award, Juan Francisco Elso, National Prize in Contemporary Painting, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana

1993 Mention, 13 de marzo Contest, Thalia Exhibit Hall, Havana

1990 Mention, Mirta Cerra Salon, Bejucal Municipal Gallery, Havana

roberto diago, contemporary cuban art, latin american art, installation
roberto diago, contemporary cuban art, latin american art, cuban painting