René Peña

Self-taught photographer. Diploma in English Language at the Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages, University of Havana.

Solo Shows

2008 Black Album, (Opening Day of FOTOLOGIA 6), Santa Fe Gallery, Bogota / Icon, Alternate Room, Santa Fe Gallery, Bogota

2007Territories and cartographies in black and white, René Peña, Fran Herbello, C-5 Gallery, Santiago de Compostela, Spain / Negative relationships [with Marta Maria Perez], Habana Gallery, Havana / René Peña, Photographic Exhibition, 23 y 12 Gallery, Havana

2006 René Pena, Photography as a ritual, Casa Benito Juárez, Havana / Icon, Ninth Havana Biennial, Casa de Asia Gallery, Havana / René Peña, Photographs, [With Marta Maria Perez Bravo, Juan Carlos Alom], Fototeca de Cuba, Havana / Territories and cartographies in black and white, René Peña, Fran Herbello, C-5 Gallery, Santiago de Compostela / International Engraving and Editions Fair of Contemporary Art, Madrid

2005 Descartes,Espacio Abierto Gallery, Havana / René Peña, Photographs of the body, Casa de Mexico Gallery, Havana

2004René Pena, Photographs of the body, Romerías de Mayo Festivities, Holguín, Cuba / Public Duty, Wifredo Lam Center for Contemporary Arts, Havana / René Peña, Photographs, Intemporel Gallery, Paris

2003Inside and Outside, Concha Ferrant Gallery, Havana / The skin as a metaphor of the world, UPEC Gallery, Pinar del Rio / René Peña: Photographs, Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Miami / Suru, Casa de la Poesía Gallery, Eighth Havana Biennial

2002 Rene Peña, Photographs, Joan Guaita Art, Palma de Mallorca, Spain / René Peña, Introspective, Casa de los Tiros, Granada, Spain / René Peña, Photographs, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana

2001 Black Skin, white things, Espacio Abierto Gallery, Havana / Man made materials, Suyama Space, Seattle / Rencontres-Photographiques in Caraïbe, Habitation, Saint Etienne, Martinique  / From Man Made Materials to White Things, La Casona Gallery, Havana / René Peña, Photographies, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana

2000 René Pena, Photographs, Art Guaita Joan, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

1999Letters, Ludwig Foundation of Cuba, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana / Rituals, Galerie Bourbon-Lally, Péntionville, Haiti

1998 Burden and Blessing, Art Beat Gallery San Francisco, California / Two sides of a coin, [René Peña / Eduardo Santos], Week of Cuban Photography, Monachil City Hall, Spain

1997Man Made Materials, Rene Portocarrero Artistic Serigraphy Workshop, Havana / Memories of the flesh, Sixth Havana Biennial / Contemporary Image from Cuba, Absolute La Internacional Biennial Art Invitational, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles

1996 Doctrines of 10 Improper, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana / Dakota Blue, Rituals and Self-portrait, The fickle face of reality, Ludwig Foundation, Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana

1995 The Cook, the thief, his wife and her lover, Yara Cultural Complex, Havana

1993Photography Exhibition, La Madriguera Gallery, Havana / Caribbean Limbo, Photographs [Rogelio Alvarez, René Peña, Manuel Piña], Domingo Ravenet Art Gallery, Havana

1991 Chronicles of the City, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana

Group Shows

2008 Group Therapy, Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid / Identify yourself, Habana Gallery, Havana / Sutil Violento, National Museum of Visual Arts, Montevideo / Cuba! Art and History from 1868 to the present, Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada / We are porno, yes, First International Art Porno Annual, Espacio Aglutinador Gallery, Havana / The temporary forms, Salle Zero, Alliance Française, Havana / Balelatina Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland (La Casona Gallery, Havana) / Meetings, 22 Cuban photographers, Villa Manuela Gallery, Havana / Sutil Violento, Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires / Grove, the body is bodies, International Contemporary Art Festival 08, León Cultural Institute, Mexico / Homo Nudi, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana / From here and there, Provincial Center of Plastic Arts and Design, Havana / Introspective, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana / Erotic, Museum of Fine Arts, Havana

2007Energy eaters Monsters, Casa de América, Madrid / Cuba Avant-Garde, The Faber Collection, Samuel P. Harn Museum, University of Florida, Gainesville / Liste Köln 2007, Cologne, Germany (C-5 Gallery, Santiago de Compostela) / Of one and other, Contemporary Cuban plastic art, Carrion Vival Gallery, Bogota / Berliner Liste, Berlin, Germany (C-5 Gallery, Santiago de Compostela) / Sutil Violento, 1st Latin American Photography Forum, Sao Paulo / Bridge Art Fair Miami (C-5 Gallery, Santiago de Compostela)

2006 Manual of Instructions, Collateral Exhibit to the IX Havana Biennial, Santa Clara Convent, Havana / With no consideration, Today´s Iberian-American art, collateral to Ninth Havana Biennial, Havana / Collateral, Havana Galerie, Zurich / Light and Shadow, Frêle House, New York / Transmirada, Son Espace Gallery, IV Xavier Miserachs Photography Biennial, Palafrugell, Spain / From the other side of the Atlantic, Sacramento Gallery; University of Aveiro, Porto, Portugal / Ici et maintenant, Intemporel Gallery, Paris / RENCONTRES, San Francisco de Asís Convent; Fototeca de Cuba, Havana / Estampa 2006, Madrid, Spain (C-5 Gallery, Santiago de Compostela, Spain)

2005 Views, Pomigliano Festival, Naples / Art Basel, Diana Lowenstein Fine Art Gallery, Chicago / Fotoseptiembre, Annual Salon of Photography, Privacy Mexico-Cuba, Historical Center, Mexico / Entrópicos, Paiz Festival Foundation, Antigua, Guatemala / National Black Fine Arts Show, New York, Bourbon-Lally Gallery (NYC, USA)  / National Black Fine Arts Show, New York, Intemporel Gallery (Paris, France)  / Art Off the Main, Bourbon-Lally Gallery, New York / Spaces Project, Espacios Gallery, Madrid

2004 ARCO (Joan Guaita Art, Spain; La Casona Gallery, Havana), Madrid / Armory Show, Nina Menocal Gallery, New York  / New Route of Cuban Art, National Art Gallery Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia / Cross Currents, Refugium Gallery, Berlin

2003 Utopia Post Utopia, State University of New York at New Paltz, New York / Digging Alone: Five Cuban Photographers, Gallery 106, Austin, Texas / Art Chicago, La Casona Gallery / The other of the Soul, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana / Diaspora, 5th African Photography Meetings, Bamako, Mali / Drives, National Library of Cuba, Eighth Havana Biennial, Cuba / Scope, Bourbon-Lally Gallery, Miami

2002 International Art Fair 2002, Caracas Hilton Hotel, Joan Guaita Gallery, Caracas / ARCO, Joan Guaita Art, Madrid / Words in the Tropics, Contemporary Cuban Artists, Santa Clara Convent, Havana / From the Back Hole, Barcelona / NFBAS, Bourbon-Lally Gallery, New York

2001 From Man Made Materials to White Things, La Casona Gallery, Havana / Passionately Cuban, University Art Museum in Albany, New York / Paris International Art Fair, Joan Guaita Art, France  / International Art Fair 2001, Toronto / IV Caribbean Biennial, Dominican Republic / Entrópicos, Cultural Center of Spain, Havana / III Contemporary Art Exhibit Fototeca de Cuba, Havana / Art is not to be understood, CDAV, Havana / Contemporary Cuban art, Metropolitan Cultural Center, Quito, Equator / Chicago Art Fair, Diana Lowenstein Fine Art Gallery, Chicago  / Cologne International Art Fair, Joan Guaita Art Gallery, Germany / Latin American Artist Photographers from the Lehigh University Art Gallery Collection, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania

2000 The conjunction of the nothingness, CDAV, Havana / ARCO, Joan Guaita Art Gallery, Madrid / Palm Beach International Art Fair, Joan Guaita Art Gallery, Palm Beach / Borders elusive, Dialogues about the body, 47 International Photography Salon Damian Bayon Center, Gijon, Spain / Anthology of female nudes in Cuban photography, 23 y 12 Art Center, Havana / Caracas International Art Fair, Joan Guaita Art Gallery, Venezuela / From the negative, Parts, Photographic Art Gallery Minneapolis, USA / Passionately Cuban, University Art Museum in Albany, New York, USA / Paris International Art Fair, Joan Guaita Art Gallery France / II Salon of Photography, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana

1999Miami Contemporary, J.G.M. Gallerie, Miami / Metaphors - commentary: Artists from Cuba, The San Francisco State University Art Department Gallery, California  / Cinq Artistes de Cuba, Musee Ianchelevici, The Louveira, Belgium / While Cuba Waits, Track 16 Gallery, Bergamon Station, Los Ángeles / Surface, Art in General, 6 Gallery, New York / Cuban Art, Beyond the paper, Conde Duque Cultural Center, Madrid / Keloids, Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana / The real indefatigable, Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana

1998Comment Peut-on être Cubain?, Maison de la Amerique Latine, Paris, France / Havana-San Francisco, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, California / On Cuba, Concept Eleven Photographers, Generous Miracles Gallery, New York / Caribbean. Fragmentation, exclusion and paradise, Extreme Ibero- American Museum, Extremadura, Spain / Defiace Ourselves, Pro Art Gallery, Oakland / A imaxe or Labirinto, 10 Cuban artists of the '90s, Palacio de Congresos e Exposicións de Pontevedra, Galicia / Provisional Utopias, New Cuban Art, Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany / The body in photography, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, San Jose, Costa Rica / International Contemporary Art Fair, J.G.M. Gallerie, Paris / Caraibes: an elan contemporain, Festival des 3 Continents, Chapelle de L'Oratoire, Nantes, France / Space and Time. Current Cuban Photography, Casa de las Américas, Havana / Insular Caribbean, Exclusion, fragmentation and paradise, Extremadura & Iberian American Museum of Contemporary Art, Badajoz; Casa de America, Madrid / Cuba: 100 Years of Photography, Casa de America, Madrid / II Salon of Cuban Contemporary Art, Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana

1997Contemporary Photography from Cuba, Museum of the Americas, Denver, Colorado / Havana-Newark '97, Sumei Multidisciplinary Art Center, Newark / Hidden Art of The Revolution, Sintiempo Fine Arts Inc, Toronto / The concealment of souls, HADC, Havana / 3e Manifestation Internationale Vidéo et Art Electronique, Foufoune Electriques, Montreal, Canada / Neither musician nor athlete, CPAP, Havana / Cuban Arts, Antiguo Instituto Jovellanos Cultural Center, Gijón / The art that never stops, Wifredo Lam Center for Contemporary Arts, Havana / Utopian Territories, New Art From Cuba, Charles H. Scott Gallery. Vancouver

1996Dreamed world, Young Cuban plastic art, Casa de América, Madrid / First Exhibit-Contest of Photography of the Human Body, NUDI'96, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana / Twist (Screw nut turn), First Edition, René Portocarrero Gallery Workshop,Havana / Let´s reflect, Si da, Casa Benito Juárez, Havana

1995 I Contemporary Art Exhibition, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana / Vestiges, Ego: A possible portrait, HADC, Havana / Dream world, Casa de América, Madrid / First Exhibition of Photography of the Human Body, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana / Cuba, Always alive, Contemporary Photography from Cuba, Antioch University, Ohio / Cuban Photography in the Nineties, 15 Days of Cuban Culture in Portugal, Belem Cultural Center, Belem, Portugal

1994 The New Generation, Contemporary Photography from Cuba, Photo-Fest Richmond Hall, The Menil Collection, Houston / Cuba the expectant reality, X April Month of Photography, Merida, Yucatan / 45 Years of Cuban Photography, Arts Gallery Joao Do Monte, Valinhos; Biblioteca da FURB, Alceu Amoroso Lima Auditorium, Sao Paulo / Inconsolable Memories, Gallery Zone, Browerg Art Center; The Queen's Hall Arts Center; Untitled Gallery, London; Zone Gallery, New Castle; Brewery Arts Center, Kendal; The Queen's Hall, Hexham, U.K. / The new generation, Contemporary Cuban photography, Fifth Havana Biennial, Fototeca de Cuba / Young Anthology of Cuban photography, Galiano Art Gallery, Havana / Contemporary Cuban photography, School of Art, Oviedo, Spain / II Abelardo Rodriguez Ante International Exhibition of Photography, Havana / Vestiges: Ego, A possible portrait, HADC, Havana

1993 Breaking the Margins, Latin American Meeting of Photography, Alejandro Otero Museum of Visual Arts, Caracas / 150 Years of Cuban Photography, Jaime Torres Bodet Cultural Center, Zacatenco, Mexico / Fotografi Cubani Dieci, Un'immagine Contemporanea, Oratorio di San Ambrogio, Prato, Italy / Graphic picture of Cuba, Cuba in Michoacan, Michoacan Professors Gallery, Morelia, Mexico

1992Cuban Photography, New Gallery, Berlin / Nine photographers of the new generation, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana / Contemporary Cuban Photography (150th anniversary), Mexican Athenaeum of Photography, Mexico FD / 150 years of Cuban photography, Jorge Martinez Gallery, School of Plastic Arts Autonomous University of Guadalajara, Mexico / America & Americhe: 110 immagini di fotografi americani, The Centro Culturale Cascina Grande, Rozzano (Milan), Italy / Kubanische Fotografie 1959-1992, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin / City Salon ´92, Provincial Center of Plastic Arts and Design, Havana / Cuban contemporary photography, Pistoiesi fotoamatori Group, Pistoia; Fotoclub Lucchese, Lucca; Il Flessibile, Firenze; Societa Operaia Sez, Photo Cascina, Cascina, Italy / Memory of the fire, 500 Years Stop, Latin American´ 92, Odense; Copenhagen; Arhus, Denmark

1991 Contemporary Cuban Photography in 150 images, International Workshop of the Photographic Image, collateral to Fourth Havana Biennial, Center of International Press, Havana / 13 de Marzo Contest, L Gallery, Havana / Tributaries, New Cuban photography, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana; Gallery Arts, Matanzas, Cuba / Fotocaza'91, UNESCO Headquarters, 25 and J Vedado, Havana

1990 III Arístides Fernández Plastic Arts Salon, Universal Art Gallery, Guines, Havana / IV Mirta Cerra Plastic Arts Salon, Universal Art Gallery, Guines, Havana

1989 II Arístides Fernández Plastic Arts Salon, Universal Art Gallery, Guines, Havana / III Mirta Cerra Plastic Arts Salon, Universal Art Gallery, Guines, Havana,  / New Image Salon, Hermanos Saiz Association, Marianao House of Culture, Havana

1988 13 de Marzo Contest, L Gallery, Havana / IV Festival of Amateur Photographers, Flora House of Culture, Mariano, Havana

1987 IV Provincial Salon of Photographic collectives, Domingo Ravenet Art Gallery, Havana

René Peña González

Self-taught photographer. Graduated from the Higher Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages, majored in English Language in Havana. He has fulfilled one-man exhibitions of importance in Cuba, United States, Spain, Colombia, Mexico, France, and Martinique as well as a great deal of group exhibitions including international fairs and in selected photography shows in Cuba, United States, Spain ,Malaysia, Costa Rica, Switzerland, Italy among other countries.He has participated in bids of Subastahabana auctions, Havana Biennials and in Contemporary Cuban Art Salons.His works are part of private collections in Cuba, Italy, United States, Switzerland, Belgium, Argentina and some other countries.

COLLECTIONS
National Museum of Fine Arts. Havana, Cuba.
Nuestra América Collection, Casa de las Américas. Havana, Cuba.
Photolibrary of Cuba. Havana, Cuba.
Ludwig Foundation of Cuba. Havana, Cuba.
Reinhard Schultz Collection. Germany.
Photographic Archive Toscano. ltaly.
Southeast Museum of Photography Daytona, USA
Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Houston, USA
Zuhr Contemporary Art Gallery New Mexico, USA
Throckmorton Fine Arts. New York. USA
Collection of the Province of Hainaut. Belgium.
Lehigh University Pennsylvania, USA.
Beatrice Liaskowski Collection. Zurich, Switzerland.
Reynald Lally Collection. Haiti / USA.
Farber Collection. Florida, USA.
Malba (Buenos Aires Museum of Latin American Art). Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Andreas Winkler. Zurich, Switzerland /Havana, Cuba.