Ruslán Torres

Julio Ruslán Torres Leyva
Born in Holguín, Cuba, 1976

Graduated from the Higher Institute of Arts (ISA), Havana. Master in Arts. Head of the Painting Department of the ISA Plastic Arts Faculty. Member of UNEAC and DUPP. Since 2001 he has developed the project L-Conduct-Art with students from the Higher Arts Institute. Head of the Public Interventions Department project (DIP). His works have been exhibited in Cuba, Switzerland, Brazil, Lebanon, China, Colombia, Spain, Germany and United States. He participated in the Contemporary Cuban Art Salon and in the Havana Biennial. His works are part of institutional and private collections in Cuba, United States, Mexico, Switzerland, Germany and Peru. He has conducted lectures and workshops in Cuba and abroad.

1996-2001Higher Institute of Arts, Havana

1991-1995El Alba Professional School for the Arts, Holguín

1988-1991Raúl Gomez García Vocational School of Arts, Holguín, Cuba

Solo Shows

2007José Emilio Fuentes, Ruslán Torres (Two-man exhibition), Havana Galerie, Zurich / L.CONDUCT-A-RT. Misconduct series, 23 y 12 Gallery, Havana

2004L.CONDUCT-A-RT. Technical Documents section. Feed Back Series, José Martí Cultural Society, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba

2003L.CONDUC-A-RT. Technical Documents section, Faculdade das Artes Visuais Gallery, Goiás, Brazil / L.CONDUCT-A-RT. Association Exercise No. 01 (DIP), Provincial Art Center, Holguín, Cuba

2001L.CONDUCT-A-RT. Registration section, Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana / L.CONDUCT-A-RT. Theory and Thesis space section, Fifth Criminal Court, Provincial Court of Justice, Havana / L.CONDUCT-A-RT. Political Anatomy of the Body Section, Provincial Art Center, Holguín, Cuba

2000 L.CONDUCT-A-RT. Archive Photos section, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana

1998 Impossibility of the Interior, Ludwig Foundation of Cuba, Havana

1996X-Free or Impossibility of the Interior, Provincial Art Center, Holguín, Cuba

1994 The worst blind, the man who does not see the object, Provincial Art Center, Holguín, Cuba

Group Shows

2009Preview, Collateral to the X Havana BienniaL. Espacio 08, Havana / Embedded,San Francisco de Asís Convent, Havana, (Espacio 08) / Visions of an Island, ArteactuaL. Quito, Equator / Kunst, Hispanic-American Center for Culture, Havana, (Espacio 08)

2007Platform for Urban Research, Island Arts Center, Shanghai

2005 The built place, Eberhard Schlotter Foundation, Altea, Spain / Wet Paint, José Martí National Library, Havana

2004Cuban Arts, Wissenschaftspark, Gelsenkirchen, Germany / E.C.R.O., Kunstlersiedlung, Gelsenkirchen, Germany / Heterodoxy, Latin American Edition, Marta Traba Gallery, Memorial da América Latina, Sao Paulo / 50 x 70, Havana Galerie, Zurich

2003 Artists from Holguín, Havana Galerie, Zurich / Latest Tendencies in Contemporary Cuban Art, Conference Center, Havana / Double Seduction, Cuban artists´ clips à la carte (DIP), Amadis Exhibit HalL. Madrid / Common Sense (DIP), Habana Gallery, Havana

2002Remake, Faculty of Arts and Letters, Havana University / 16 Cuban artists in Beirut, UNESCO Palace, Lebanon / Art and Ecology, Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana / Contemporary Art from Cuba, Memorial da America Latina, São Paulo / ISA graduates, Havana Galerie, Zurich / Creation of the Public Interventions Department (DIP), Faculty of Fine Arts, Higher Institute of Arts, Havana

2001III Contemporary Cuban Art Salon, Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana / Hello Cuba / Breaking Barriers, DUPP Gallery, The Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science, Tallahassee, Florida / XVII Fidelio Ponce de León Salon, Theoretical event, Camaguey, Cuba / Contemporary Cuba, DUPP Gallery, Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Goiás, Brazil / Restlessness, Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana

2000Seventh Havana BienniaL. DUPP Gallery, Morro-Cabaña, Havana / ZOOM… dupp@hablar.abstraerse.cu (DUPP Gallery), Andrés Bello Cultural Center, Bogota / With an Abstract Thinking(DUPP Gallery), Habana Gallery, Havana / Romerías de Mayo Festivities, (DUPP Gallery), Holguín, Cuba

1999Painting, Havana Galerie, Zurich / The Pavilion of emptiness (DUPP Gallery), II Ana Mendieta Performance FestivaL. Pabellón Cuba, Havana / With an Abstracted Look (DUPP Gallery), La Rampa, Havana / La Época (DUPP Gallery), La Época Commercial Center, Havana

1998Drawing, Havana Galerie, Zurich / II Contemporary Cuban Art Salon, Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana / Pizza-Pizza postimpossibility, Meeting with students of the Paris School of Fine Arts, Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana / I Ana Mendieta Performance Festival (DUPP Gallery), UNEAC, Havana

1997Before the rain, Collateral to the Sixth Havana BienniaL. Higher Institute of Arts, Havana

2005Mention, Curatorial Award,A is B Between art and science, Havana

2003Romerías de Mayo Award , Holguín, Cuba

2001Raul Martínez Award, Higher Institute of Arts, Havana, Curatorial Award for the exhibit With an Abstracted Thinking, DUPP Gallery, Havana

2000UNESCO Prize for the Encouragement of the Arts, DUPP Gallery, Seventh Havana Biennial