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Antonia Eiriz

Antonia Eiriz (Havana, 1929) is, without any doubt, one of the greatest names of Cuban art and the most prominent artist that has emerged in the midst of the revolutionary process’ challenges. Her work is visceral, sustained, committed to her time and country and did not arise a priori; it was the result of a transcendental transformation born inside the Cuban society of the 1960s. Away from wasted avant-garde and obsolete languages, Antonia’s painting is unique, irrevocable, full of a lyrical expressionism and a black and acid humor of questioning and critical nature. While the official instances stimulated a banal art according to the aesthetics of socialist realism on the Island, Antonia established ruptures and preferred the sincerity of a speech committed on the reflection on the errors of the new Cuba that was been molded. Extraordinary and prodigious, our Antonia has not found yet any equivalent on the threshold of the national art and she is inserted, without exaggeration, among the best examples of universal art.

 

EDUCATION

  • 1958   San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts, Havana

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1995

  • Antonia Eiriz: tributo a una legenda, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

1993

  • Antonia Eiriz se expone, Weiss Sori Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida
  • Tintas, Dutchess County Art Association, Barrett House, Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York

1991

  • Reencuentro, Galiano Gallery, Havana

1987

  • 25 grabados de Antonia Eiriz, San Miguel del Padron Municipal Museum, Havana

1986

  • Tintas, Fondo Cubano de Bienes Culturales (FCBC) Gallery, Havana

1985

  • Tintas, Latin American Cultural Space, Paris

1967

  • Treinta poemas africanos ilustrados, Galiano Gallery, Havana

1964

  • Pinturas, Galería del Lago, Mexico D. F.
  • Ensamblajes, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana
  • Pinturas y ensamblajes, Galería Habana, Havana

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1997

  • Rompiendo barreras (Selection from the permanent Contemporary Cuban Art Collection), Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

1996

  • Cuba siglo XX: modernidad y sincretismo, Atlantic Modern Art Center, Las Palmas, Canary Islands; La Caixa Foundation, Palm of Majorca; Santa Monica Art Center, Barcelona
  • Rings: Five Passions in World Art (Global art exhibition in connection with the Cultural Olympiad of the Centennial of the Modern Olympic Games), Museum of Fine Arts, Atlanta

1994

  • Paper Visions V (Biennial exhibition of works on paper by thirty contemporary Latin American artists), Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, Connecticut

1989

  • La Habana en Madrid, Madrid

1969

  • Litografías cubanas contemporáneas, Havana
  • Homenaje al 26 de julio, Havana
  • VIII Premio Internacional Joán Miró, Barcelona
  • Pintura cubana de hoy, United Nations, New York

1968

  • Salón homenaje a los 100 años de la lucha por la libertad, Havana
  • Pintura cubana, Rome

1967

  • Cuba en Londres, London
  • Pintura contemporánea, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana
  • Pintores y guerrillas, Casa de las Américas, Havana

1966

  • Pintura contemporánea, Rome
  • Homenaje a Escardó-Baragaño, Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), Havana
  • 10 Pintores cubanos exponen (Print Biennial), Warsaw

1965

  • Salón Nacional de Dibujos, José Martí National Library, Havana
  • Bienal de grabados, Santiago de Chile
  • Exposición en saludo al XIII aniversario del 26 de julio, Havana
  • Salón Nacional de Dibujos, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana
  • Exposición 26 de julio, Galería Habana, Havana

1964

  • Salón Nacional de Pintura y Escultura, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana
  • Salón Nacional de Dibujos, Havana
  • Homenaje a Venezuela, Havana

1963

  • 7ma Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
  • VI aniversario de la Revolución, Galería Habana, Havana
  • Expresionismo abstracto, Galería Habana, Havana
  • Cincuentenario del Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana
  • Bienal de grabados, Tokyo

1962

  • Exhibición de dibujos, Matanzas Gallery, Matanzas, Cuba
  • Ocho pintores y escultores, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana
  • Primer concurso de grabado latinoamericano, Casa de las Américas, Havana
  • Dibujos, Oriente Gallery, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
  • Pintura de Cuba por los países socialistas (Itinerant exhibition)

1961

  • 6ta Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
  • Salón de grabados con temas de la Revolución, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana
  • Congreso de escritores y artistas cubanos, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana
  • Libertad para Alfaro Siqueiros, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana

1960

  • Salón Nacional de Pintura, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana
  • Exposición en galería Hotel Habana Libre, Habana Libre Hotel, Havana
  • Exposición en Palacio de Bellas Artes, Palace of Fine Arts, Caracas
  • Exposición en Palacio de Bellas Artes, Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico D. F.
  • Seis nuevos valores, Lyceum, Havana

1959

  • Arte cubano de hoy, La Rampa Art Gallery, Havana
  • Concurso Guerlain, Lyceum, Havana
  • Arte para Oriente, Lyceum, Havana
  • Trece artistas cubanas, Lyceum, Havana

1957

  • Exposición en la antigua Iglesia de Paula, Paula Church, Havana
  • Exposición de estampas cubanas de navidad, Editorial Lex Art Gallery, Havana

1952

  • Exposición, CTC Gallery, Cuba

 

AWARDS

1994

  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, New York

1989

  • Félix Varela Medal (Awarded by the Minister of Culture), Havana

1983

  • Alejo Carpentier Medal (Awarded by the Minister of Culture), Havana

1982

  • Raúl Gómez García Medal [Awarded by the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC)], Havana

1981

  • Medal distinction for Culture (Awarded by the Minister of Culture), Havana

1963

  • First Award of Xylography, First Contest of Latin American Engraving, Casa de las Américas, Havana

1961

  • Honor Mention, 7th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo

1960

  • First Award, Contest Apuntes sobre la Revolución, Havana

 

COLLECTIONS

  • National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana
  • Avistamientos Collection, Havana
  • Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
  • Kcho Collection, Havana
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