Jorge López Pardo (Trinidad, Cuba, 1976) is a recognized contemporary Cuban artist, and he is even considered one of nowadays great landscapists. His oeuvre, of great technical virtuosity and metaphorical depth, explores the very essence of the spaces and gives them an introspective and metaphysical character. To do so, the artist makes use of graphite, a technique he exploits with elegance to create environments in which black and white melt to create an expressionist and even gloomy atmosphere. Sometimes he prefers to get away from rural landscape, and then he crafts artifacts of deceptive nature, and locates them in isolated, forgotten places, so they are testimonies of the trace left by man. López Pardo is, without any doubt, one of contemporary Cuban visual arts’ great figures, a bold and intrepid artist who does not fear to explore universal topics and to reinvent the world in his image and after his likeness.
EDUCATION
- 1992 Oscar Fernández Morera Professional School of Plastic Arts, Trinidad, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015
- Capital humano, PanAmerican ArtProjects, Miami
2014
- Enfoques, Lombillo Palace, Havana
- Iluminaciones, Salt Fine Art Gallery, California
- Enlaces, Enlace Gallery, Lima, Peru
2012
- Caja negra, Villa Manuela Gallery, Havana
- Capital humano, Collateral to the 11th Havana Biennial, Fortress San Carlos de la Cabaña, Havana
2010
- Capital humano, La Casona Gallery, Havana
2007
- Reaching Beyond, PanAmerican ArtGallery, Miami
2006
- Avistamientos, La Casona Gallery, Havana
2004
- Autorretratos, La Casona Gallery, Havana
- Oscuridad en la luz, Fayad Jamis Gallery, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
- El alma, como una casa sin puertas ni ventanas, Galería Habana, Mexico D. F.
2001
- Un mismo horizonte, Rubén Martínez Villena Library, Havana
- La deuda, Inglaterra Hotel, Havana
1998
- Más allá, Casa del Joven Creador, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
- Ecocardiograma, Center for the Development of Visual Arts (CDAV), Havana
1993
- Dibujos, UNAICC, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
1992
- Ecodestrucción, Cultural House of Arroyo Naranjo, Havana
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
- El blanco más oscuro, Casa 8 Gallery, Havana
2014
- Permutations, PanAmerican ArtProjects, Miami
- 10 años de Villa Manuela, Villa Manuela Gallery, Havana
2013
- The City, La Acacia Gallery, Havana
2012
- Cuba, Salt Fine Art Gallery, California
- Pensando desde el paisaje, Oswaldo Guayasamín House, Havana
2011
- Salón de paisaje, La Acacia Gallery, Havana
- Migración, PanAmerican ArtGallery, Miami
- Siniestros, Galería Habana, Havana
- 50 en los 50 [Tribute to the 50th anniversary of the foundation of The Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC)], La Acacia Gallery, Havana
2010
- Subasta Habana, Galería Habana, Havana
- Encuentros, Sala Retiro de Caja Madrid, Madrid
- ARTEAMERICA, PanAmerican ArtGallery, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami
- Paisaje en la Acacia, La Acacia Gallery, Havana
- Monomanías, Galería Habana, Havana
2009
- PINTA, PanAmerican ArtGallery, New York
- Cuban Collective, PanAmerican ArtGallery, Dallas
2008
- ARCO’08, La Casona Gallery, Spain
- Circa, PanAmerican ArtGallery, Puerto Rico
- ARTORONTO, PanAmerican ArtGallery, Toronto
- ARTEAMERICAS, PanAmerican ArtGallery, Miami
2007
- Proyecto, Espacio Gallery, Madrid
- ARTMIAMI, PanAmerican ArtGallery, Miami
- ARTEAMERICAS, PanAmerican ArtGallery, Miami
- Art Basel, PanAmerican ArtGallery, Basel
- PINTA, PanAmerican ArtGallery, New York
2006
- Proyecto Espacios, Architecture Biennial, Museo del Ron, Havana
- El tercer entorno, La Casona Gallery, Havana
- Artistas cubanos en el Líbano, Villa Manuela Gallery, Lebanon
- Verde que te quiero verde, Saint Francis of Assisi Convent, Havana
2005
- II Salón Nacional de Paisaje Víctor Manuel, Saint Francis of Assisi Convent, Havana
- Subasta Habana, Galería Habana, Havana
- La noche, Pinar del Río Museum of Arts (MAPRI), Pinar del Río, Cuba
2003
- Lo que ves no es todo lo que hay, Galería Habana, Mexico D. F.
- Pre FIART 2003, Galería Benito Ortiz, Trinidad, Cuba
- Subasta Habana (Online), Havana
- Sobre la desertificación, Conventions Palace, Havana
- Salón de poesía ilustrada, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
- Arte cubano contemporáneo, Getafe Art Center Gallery, Madrid
- I Salón Nacional de Paisaje, Víctor Manuel Gallery, Havana
- III Salón de paisaje, UNEAC, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
2002
- VI Salón de la cuidad, Oscar Fernández Morera Gallery, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
- VIII Salón de Premiados, Center for the Development of Visual Arts (CDAV), Havana
- II Salón provincial de paisaje, Oscar Fernández Morera Gallery, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
2001
- XIX Salón provincial de artes plásticas Oscar Fernández Morera, Oscar Fernández Morera Gallery, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
- V Salón de la ciudad, Oscar Fernández Morera Gallery, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
- 1ra Bienal de arte popular, Benito Ortiz Gallery, Trinidad, Cuba
- VII Salón de Premiados, Center for the Development of Visual Arts (CDAV), Havana
- IX Salón de pequeño formato de la UNEAC, Oscar Fernández Morera Gallery, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
2000
- Salón de marinas, Leopoldo Romañach Gallery, Caibarién, Villa Clara, Cuba
- XVIII Salón provincial de artes plásticas Oscar Fernández Morera, Oscar Fernández Morera Gallery, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
- Ecoarte 2000, Leopoldo Romañach Gallery, Caibarién, Villa Clara, Cuba
- Entorno 2000, UNEAC, Ciego de Ávila, Cuba
- Pintores espirituanos, Silverio Blanco Gallery, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
- XVIII Salón de pequeño formato de la UNEAC, Oscar Fernández Morera Gallery, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
1999
- Retrospectiva de fin de siglo, Oscar Fernández Morera Gallery, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
- XVII Salón provincial de artes plásticas Oscar Fernández Morera, Oscar Fernández Morera Gallery, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
- Homenaje al pintor de la ciudad, Fondo Cubano de Bienes Culturales (FCBC), Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
- Consagración de la resistencia, Luz y Oficios Gallery, Havana
- II Salón de la cuidad, Oscar Fernández Morera Gallery, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
- I Salón Nacional Pararte, Casa del Joven Creador, Trinidad, Cuba
- Éxtasis tropical, Polltana Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
1998
- Salón Nacional sobre el Che, Santa Clara Art Gallery, Santa Clara, Cuba
- Somos lo que hay, Biennial of Theory and Critic, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
- Artistas cubanos, Hator Gallery, Gijon, Spain
- XVI Salón provincial de artes plásticas Oscar Fernández Morera, Oscar Fernández Morera Gallery, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
1997
- Salón Nacional de Estudiantes de Escuelas de Artes, Benito Ortiz Gallery, Trinidad, Cuba
1996
- La verdad de la inocencia, IV Salón de graduados, Benito Ortiz Gallery, Trinidad, Cuba
- XIV Salón provincial de artes plásticas Oscar Fernández Morera, Oscar Fernández Morera Gallery, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
- La verdad de la inocencia, IV Salón de graduados, Benito Ortiz Gallery, Trinidad, Cuba
1995
- XIII Salón provincial de artes plásticas Oscar Fernández Morera, Oscar Fernández Morera Gallery, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
1994
- XII Salón provincial de artes plásticas Oscar Fernández Morera, Oscar Fernández Morera Gallery, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
- Seis ases de un tiro, Oscar Fernández Morera Gallery, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
- Cantos de luces y colores, Oscar Fernández Morera Gallery, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
- 4ta Bienal Municipal de Artes Plásticas, Oscar Fernández Morera Gallery, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
- II Salón de pequeño formato de la UNEAC, Oscar Fernández Morera Gallery, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
1993
- XI Salón provincial de artes plásticas Oscar Fernández Morera, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
- I Salón de pequeño formato de la UNEAC, Oscar Fernández Morera Gallery, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
AWARDS
2011
- First Award, National Salon of Digital Art, La Habana
2004
- Award, Opus Habana magazine, II Víctor Manuel Landscape Salon, Havana
- Award, II Víctor Manuel Landscape Salon, Havana
2001
- First Award, 1th Popular Art Biennial, Benito Ortiz Gallery, Trinidad, Cuba
- First Award, XIX Oscar Fernández Morera Provincial Salon, Oscar Fernández Morera Gallery, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
2000
- First Award, I Landscape Salon, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
- First Award, Oscar Fernández Morera Provincial Salon, Oscar Fernández Morera Gallery, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
1999
- Mention, I Pararte National Salon, Casa del Joven Creador, Trinidad, Cuba
- First Award, III City Salon Juan A. Rodríguez Paz, Oscar Fernández Morera Gallery, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
- Award, XVII Oscar Fernández Morera Provincial Salon, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
- Culture Municipal Award, Oscar Fernández Morera Provincial Salon, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
- First Award, Salon of Small Format, Oscar Fernández Morera Gallery, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
1998
- Second Award, II City Salon, Oscar Fernández Morera Gallery, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
1996
- First Award, XIV Oscar Fernández Morera Provincial Salon, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
1993
- First Award, 4th Municipal Biennial of Plastic Arts, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
COLLECTIONS
- Avistamientos Collection, Havana
- Armando Amorim Soares Collection, Portugal
- Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA), Long Beach, California
- National Council of Visual Arts (CNAP), Havana
- Fondo Cubano de Bienes Culturales (FCBC), Havana
- International Financier Bank, Havana
- Arte del Pacífico Foundation, USA