Douglas Argüelles

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

1994-1998 San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts, Havana

Solo Shows

2009 Los esquimales no tienen poesía (Eskimos have no poetry), collateral to the Tenth Havana Biennial, La Casona Gallery, Havana

2008 Fisonomía del silencio (Physiognomy of Silence), La Luz Gallery, Mérida, Mexico

2007 Variaciones Goldberg (Goldberg Variations), La Casona Gallery, Havana

1998 Utopía (Uthopy), Exhibition and Thesis discussion , San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts, Havana

Goup Shows

2009HB, Collateral to the Tenth Havana Biennial, Pabexpo, Havana / Preview, Collateral exhibit to the Tenth Havana Biennial, Espacio 08, Havana / V Salón Arte Cubano Contemporáneo (V Contemporary Cuban Art Salon), Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana / Embedded, San Francisco de Asís Convent, Havana (Espacio 08) / Kunst, Hispano- American Center for Culture, Havana (Espacio 08)

2007 ARTH-GOTH, La Casona Gallery, Havana

2006 El Añadido Falaz (The fallacious added), Eberhard Schlotter Foundation, Alicante, Altea, Spain / Trans- it, Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana

2005 Update & download, Benito Juárez House of Mexico, Havana / 46th Annual Arts and Art Riverwood Show, Chicago, Illinois

2004 Aes B, entre arte y ciencia (A is B, between art and science), Habana Gallery, Havana

2003 Doble Seducción, Videos a la carta de artistas cubanos (Double Seduction, Cuban artits clips à la carte)(Public Interventions Department), Amadís Exhibit Hall, Madrid / Sentido Común (Common Sense) (Public Interventions Department), Habana Gallery, Havana / XIV Salón de la Ciudad, Provincial Center of Plastic Arts and Design, Havana / Inmersos en el tiempo, Cultural Center of Spain in Cuba, Havana

2002 Espacio vital I (Vital Space I)(Public Intervention Department), Havana Sea wall

Espacio vital II (Vital Space II), Attention addressed to object, (Public Intervention Department), Week of Juvenile Art, Santa Clara City, Cuba

2001 Llega y Pon (Squatter), collateral to the III Salon of Contemporary Cuban Art, Higher Institute of Arts Havana / Desasosiego (Restlessness), Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana

2000 HAVANA-ISA- CLUB,  Higher Institute of Arts, Seventh Havana Biennial

1998 Académica 98, San Alejandro Academy , Havana

1995 Académica 95, Drawing Techniques, Perspectiva, San Alejandro Academy, Havana

2008 Mention in Curatory, Individual Exhibit Variaciones Goldberg (Goldberg Variations), National Curatorial Award

2003 Prize of the Center for the Development of Visual Arts, XIV City Salon

Douglas Arguelles Cruz
Born in Havana, Cuba, 1977

Graduated from San Alejandro Academy of Plastic Arts and from the Higher Institute of Arts (ISA) in Havana. Professor of drawing and from the Painting Department of the Faculty of Plastic Arts of the ISA. Member of the Public Interventions Department project (DIP).His works have been exhibited in Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, Spain, Germany and United States. He participated in the Contemporary Cuban Art Salon and in collateral exhibitions in the Seventh, Eighth and Tenth Havana Biennials. He was awarded the 2007 National Curatorship Prize. Batiscafo Residence (Triangle Art Trust, Gasworks of England in Havana). His works can be found in private collections in Cuba, United States and Mexico.

2000 Professor of the Painting Workshop at “San Alejandro”  National Academy of Fine Arts. Cuba.
 At present, he is professor of Drawing and at the Painting Department of the School of Plastic Arts of the Higher Arts Institute in Havana, Cuba.
 

WORKS WITH THE PUBLIC INTERVENTIONS DEPARTMENT (DIP)

2003   Member of the Organizing Committee Experience of Action: 30 días, Public Interventions Event 8th Havana Biennial./ Challenge, intervention in the Fire-Station of Old Havana/ / Ver donde otros miran II, X Mayflower Festivities, Holguín. / Ver donde otros miran, National Colloquium of Plastic Arts,
          Matanzas. / Participation in Fe de Erratas, of Nelson Mulet. XII International Book Fair, Cabaña, Havana, Cuba.
2002 Participation in “The Diary” (El Diario)of Heidi García, Havana City. / Participation in “8 more hours” (8 horas más), of Tatiana Mesa and María Victoria Portelles.Havana City. / Participation in “The drama of becoming someone else: Paranoia” (El drama de convertirse en otro: Paranoia), of  L.CONDUCT-A-RT, Obispo street, Havana. / Participation in “From North to South (and from South to North)”; De Norte a Sur (y de Sur a Norte), of María Victoria Portelles,(North Coast )(South Coast) tour, (Havana (April) / Spring (Muelle) (group action), South Coast, Havana. / Participation in “50 chairs” (50 sillas), of Fidel E. Álvarez and L.CONDUCT-A-RT, Central Park, Havana. / Participation in “Fraternity” ( Fraternidad), of Humberto Díaz, Parque de la Fraternidad, Havana.

COLLECTIONS

 His works can be found in collections of different countries such as: France, England, Spain, Switzerland, Mexico and United States.