Donis Dayán Llago (Havana, 1985) is a young Cuban artist, who has become well-known within the panorama of Cuban visual arts due to his particular way of working on transparencies. After graduating from the Art Instructors’ School and San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts, the novel painter began to outline his very own visual poetry in which the city, considered as a space that contains a story and configures the individuals who inhabit it, became the essential topic. Havana has therefore come to be protagonist of his artworks and he has recreated it in a fragile, aching way, a weightless metaphor of the relentless, merciless years that passed by it… Without any doubt, Donis’ particular way of working have already assured him an important place in the history of Cuban art.
EDUCATION
- 2004 – 2008 San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts, Havana
- 2000 – 2004 Art Instructors’ School, Havana
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015
- Transparencias, Galiano Gallery, Havana
- Mapas de alta tensión, Collateral to the 12th Havana Biennial, Fortress San Carlos de la Cabaña, Havana
2012
- Fachadas, Center for the Development of Visual Arts (CDAV), Havana
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
- Trascendental, más allá del malecón, Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico D. F.
- Ram Rom Run, Collateral to the 12th Havana Biennial, Fortress San Carlos de la Cabaña, Havana
- Cuál es tu necesidad, Collateral to the 12th Havana Biennial, Fortress San Carlos de la Cabaña, Havana
- Lost and Found, Collateral to the 12th Havana Biennial, Fábrica de Arte Cubano (FAC), Havana
- The Light in Cuban Eyes, Robert Mann Gallery, New York
2014
- Fundamentos, Fábrica de Arte Cubano (FAC), Havana
- Art Fest@Doral, Carlos Alvizus University, Miami
- Post it, Galiano Gallery, Havana
- De lo sublime a lo ridículo, Fábrica de Arte Cubano (FAC), Havana
- Laboratorio vivo, Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Center for the Development of Visual Arts (CDAV), Havana
2013
- Post it, Galiano Gallery, Havana
- Tócate, Galiano Gallery, Havana
2012
- ARTMIAMI, Nina Menocal Gallery, Miami
- Itinerancias, Detrás del muro, Collateral to the 11th Havana Biennial, Havana’s Malecón, Havana
- Homenaje a René Portocarrero, Teodoro Ramos Gallery, Havana
2011
- Salón de arte digital, Pablo de la Torriente Brau Gallery, Havana
- Curso de fotografía de la UNEAC, Villena Hall, UNEAC, Havana
2010
- Salón Playa, Servando Gallery, Havana
2009
- Salón de Instructores de Arte, Cultural House of Plaza, Servando Gallery, Havana
2008
- Concurso Nacional de Salud y Medio Ambiente, Rubén Martínez Villena Gallery, Havana
2007
- Salón municipal de Instructores de arte, Romerillo Gallery, Havana
- Festival Provincial de Instructores de Arte, University Spa, Havana
- Salón Provincial de Instructores de Arte, Cultural House of 10 de Octubre, Havana
2006
- Salón Municipal de Instructores de Arte, Romerillo Gallery, Havana
- Salón Provincial de Instructores de Arte, Servando Gallery, Havana
- Salón Habana, International Press Center, Havana
2005
- Homenaje a Wifredo Lam, Wifredo Lam Gallery, Marianao, Havana
- Salón de Arte Erótico, Villa Panamericana Gallery, Havana
2004
- National Graduation of Art Instructor School, Villa Clara, Cuba