Eduardo Rubén García

1982Graduated of Architecture in Havana City

Solo Shows

2008Colors of Cuba, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana / Fade Out, Villa Manuela Gallery, Havana

2007 Se Acabó (It is over), Photoimagen, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

2005 Diálogos da Cidade (City Dialogues), FP Gallery, Lisbon

2004City Dialogues, Fernado Pessoa Art Gallery, Coral Gables, Miami

2002 Eduardo Rubén. Paintings, Raúl Martínez Gallery, Havana / City Dialogues, La Factoría del Perroverde Gallery, Madrid

2001 Dos más que uno (Two more than one), La Acacia Gallery, Havana / Paisaje Inconcluso (Unconcluded Landscape), ICAIC Gallery 23 and 10, Havana

1996 El Sonido del Silencio (The Sound of Silence), Los Oficios Gallery, Havana

1994 Recent Work, Nouveau Centro de Arte, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

1992 Paintings, Center of Arts Proposal, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

1990 Paintings, Castillo de la Real Fuerza, Havana

1989 Eduardo Rubén, Palacio de los Príncipes Pomeranos, Szczecin, Polland

1988Eduardo Rubén, Habana Gallery, Havana

1985Painting, L Gallery, Havana

1983 Segundo Concepto Espacial (Second Space Concept), Habana Gallery, Havana

1981Concepto Espacial (Space Concept), National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana

Group Shows (selection)

2008 Exhibit of the Collection, Museum of Contemporary Cuban Art, Topes de Collantes, Sancti Spiritus / Exhibit of Contemporary Art, Choy León Collection, San Antonio María Claret Cultural and Missionery Animation Center, Santiago de Cuba / 47 Artists and Writers in the VII Congress of the UNEAC, Palace of Conventions, Villa Manuela Gallery, Havana / V Salon of Contemporary Art, CDAV, Havana

2007Puente para las Rupturas (Bridge for Ruptures), National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana City / La Fuerza del Guerrero(The strength of the warrior), Homage Exhibit to Juan F Elso, Provincial Center of Plastic Arts and Design, Havana / Se Acabó + Píxel (It is over + Píxel), Havana Maquette

2006 Se Acabó (It is over), Ninth Havana Biennial, Cabaña Fortress / Sombras que sólo yo veo (Shades that only I see), L Gallery, Havana / 1st Malaysia World Art Tourism Expo, MITC Ayer Keroh, Melaka / Reencuentro (Rencounter), XX Anniversary Fototeca de Cuba, San Francisco de Asís Convent, Havana

2005 III Contemporary Art Fair, Estoril, Portugal / Subasta Habana.com, 23 y 12 Gallery, Havana / Mar Portugués, Homage to Fernando Pessoa, FP Gallery, Lisbon

2004Memory, Present and Uthopy: Havana 485 years later, San Francisco de Asís Convent, Havana / Architectural References, II Biennial of Architecture, Havana

2003Invading Territories. Cuban Contemporary Art, Museum of Gravina, Alicante / 31 Contemporary Cuban Artists, Borderío Gallery, Santiago de Chile / Two years and two continents, La Factoría del Perroverde Gallery, Madrid

2002ARCO, International Fair of Contemporary Art of Madrid / 16 Cuban Artists in Beirut, Palais de l’ UNESCO, Lebanon

2001 Cuba in Umbria, Arrone Exhibition Center, Terni, Italy / Collective Exhibition, La Factoría del Perroverde Gallery, Madrid / Expressions in paper, La siempre Habana Graphic Workshop, Mexico FD.

2000Toys for Icarus. Fans of two seas, González Martí National Museum of Ceramics and Sumptuary Arts, Valence, Spain / La gente en casa, Cuban art from the 60´s to the 90´s, National Museum, Havana / Tono a Tono. Abstract Art Exhibition, Habana Libre Hotel

1999 International Painting Exhibition, Tabacalera SA, Havana´s Capitol / Cuban Art Exhibition, Cultural Foundation Abu Dhabi, UAE / Cuban Looks of Three Centuries, Sa Nostra Center of Culture, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

1998ArteBA, 7th Fair of Art Galleries, Buenos Aires / Contemporary Cuban Artists, Rio de Janeiro National Museum of Fine Arts / Contemporary Cuban Art, Urasoe Museum, Okinawa; Hillside Forum Daikanyama, Tokyo; Iwaki City Cultural Hall, Japan

1997Paintings of Silence, Sixth Havana Biennial, La Acacia Gallery, Havana / Hidden Art of the Revolution, Contemporary Cuban Art, Toronto / Collective Exhibition 6 Cuban Artists, Metropolitan Museum of Tokyo, Japan / Young Cuban Art, Museum of the Americas, San Juan, Puerto Rico / El arte que no cesa (The art that doesn´t stop), Proposal of Contemporary Cuban Artists Wilfredo Lam Center for the Contemporary Arts, Havana

1996Cuban Art Exhibition, Orleáns Cultural Center, France / Ni Fresa ni Chocolate (Neither strawbery nor chocolate), Río Almendares Project, CENCREM, Havana

1995XLVI Bienal de Venecia (XLVI Venice Biennial) / Primer Salón de Arte Contemporáneo (First Salon of Contemporary Art), National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana / Contemporary Cuban Art, HUSET House of Culture, Copenhagen, Denmark

1994Fifth Havana Biennial, Wilfredo Lam Center for the Contemporary Arts, Havana / Today´s Vision of the Cuban Painting, Czechowska Gallery, Santiago de Chile / II Bienal de Pintura del Caribe y Centro América , Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo Dominican Republic / Cuba, the last 60 years, Pan American Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas

1993Carib Art. Caribbean Contemporary Art (itinerant), Curacao, Aruba, I Cayman Islands, Bermuda / Poliscopio Cubano II, Heller Gallery, Madrid

1992Meeting with Cuba, Palace of Ingá, Niterói, Río de Janeiro / Color of Cuba, Pavillon of the Arts, Sevilla / La Década Prodigiosa: Cuban Plastic Art of the 80´s, Chopo College Museum, Mexico FD. / I Bienal de Pintura del Caribe y Centro América, Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

1991 Nuevas Adquisiciones Contemporáneas (New Contemporary Acquisitions). Cuban Art Exhibition, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana / José M. Fors, Carlos García y Eduardo Rubén, L Gallery, IV Havana Biennial / Cuban Painting, Poliforum Siqueiros, Mexico FD

1990Salón Nacional de Artes Plásticas UNEAC`90, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana / Today´s Ar.,3, Buda Palace, Budapest, Hungary / Contemporary Cuban Painting, Schoelcher Library, Fort de France, Martinique

1989 Cuban Painters, Zpa Mig Gallery Torún, Poland / Cuban Painting, Xeito Gallery, Madrid

1988Contemporary Cuban Graphic, Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo / III International Biennial of Cairo, Egypt

1987I Bienal de Pintura, Museum of Modern Art, Cuenca / Five Contemporary Cuban Artists, Museum of Costa Rican Art, San José, Costa Rica

1986 Salón de la Ciudad, Provincial Center of Plastic Arts and Design, Havana / VII Bienal del Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe, San Juan, Puerto Rico

1985 Collective Exhibition: Carlos González, Tonel, Gelabert y Eduardo Rubén, Provincial Center of Plastic Arts and Design, Havana / Contemporary Cuban Art, Museum Exhibit Halls, Ankara, Turkey

1984First Havana Biennial, National Museum of Fine Arts / Twenty Cuban Painters, Gallery of the esplanade of the Defense, París

1983 Encuentro de Artistas Jóvenes Latinoamericanos, Casa de las Américas, Havana / Contemporary Cuban Plastic Art, National Museum of Bogotá, Colombia

1981-Prize in Painting, 13 de Marzo Contest, Havana

1984 Amelia Peláez Mention in Painting, First Havana Biennial

1990Prize in Painting, National Salon of Plastic Arts UNEAC`90, Havana

1994 Distinction for the National Culture, Ministry of Culture of Cuba

2003Special Recognition Award, Mural at the Telégrafo Hotel in Havanal Spectrum International, Orlando, Florida

Eduardo Rubén García Herrera
Born in Havana in 1958

Graduated of Architecture in 1982 and member of the League of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC). He has fulfilled one-man exhibitions in Cuba, Poland, Spain, Portugal, United States and Dominican Republic and he has also participated in group exhibitions in Spain, Chile, Colombia, France, Turkey, Portugal, Hungary, Mexico, United States, Denmark, Canada, Japan and Brazil among other countries. It worth to quote his participation in the National Contests of Plastic Arts, Contemporary Art Salons, the I, V and IX Havana Biennials, the I Painting Biennial of Cuenca, Equator in 1987, and so in the III International Biennial of Cairo City, Egypt in 1988, in the I Biennial of Painting of the Caribbean in Santo Domingo in 1982, in the XLVI Venice Biennial, Italy in 1985, in the ArteBA Fair´98 in Argentina, in the ARCO Fair of Madrid in 2002 and in the event Photoimagen 2007 in Dominican Republic.He has been awarded several times, for example: Mention in Painting in the I Havana Biennial in 1984, Prize in Painting at the National Plastic Arts Salon UNEAC´90 and the Distinction for the National Culture in 1994.

He has accomplished important murals and sculptural projects such as:

1991 -  Pirámides Virtuales( Virtual Pyramids). Sol Palmeras Hotel. Varadero.
1982 - Concurso Internacional de Dibujo (Drawing International Contest). “Joan Miró” Foundation. Barcelona, Spain.
1981 - Salón Nacional de Artes Plásticas (National Salon of Plastic Arts). National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana. Cuba.
1991 – Mural en el Hotel Santiago de Cuba (Mural at the Santiago de Cuba Hotel). Santiago de Cuba.
1994 – Mural en el Hotel Meliá Las Américas (Mural at the Meliá Las Américas Hotel). Varadero.
2000 – Mural en el Hotel Telégrafo (Mural at the Telégrafo Hotel). Havana City.

WORKS IN COLLECTIONS

 National Museum of Fine Arts.Museo Havana. Cuba.
 “La Tertulia” Museum of Modern Art. Cali. Colombia.
Museum of Costa Rican Art. San José. Costa Rica.
National Museum. Szczecin. Poland.
Museum of Modern Art. Santo Domingo. Dominican Republic
“Panamerican” Art Gallery. Dallas, Texas. USA.
“FP” Gallery. Lisbon. Portugal
“Zeit Photo” Gallery. Tokyo. Japan.
Museum of Finest Cuban Arts. Vienna. Austria.
“Cristobal Gabarrón” Foundation. Spain.