Belkis Ayón
Sin título, 1993
Width: 25 inches
Height: 36 3/4 inches (Edition 5/6)
Medium: Prints/Editions - Colografia
EXHIBITIONS:
1995 Belkis Ayón, Unterstutze Mich, Halte mich hoch, im Schmerz, Pfarrkirche St. Barbara, Breining, Germany.2003 (Apr 4-19) Belkis Ayón: Early Works, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA.
2007 (May 29-Sep 9) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2007 (Oct 7-Dec 31) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
2009 (Oct 3-Jan 4) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Jordan Schnitzer Museum, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
2010 (Oct 15-Jan 10) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2010 (Feb-Apr 4) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
2010 (Jun 27-Sep 19) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
REFERENCES:
Catalogue, Belkis Ayón: Early Works, Illust. p. 7 and listing p. 25. Abelardo Mena Chicuri, Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection (University of Florida Press, 2007). Center for Cuban Studies, 40th Anniversary Calendar, August 2012, illus.
Sin título numero 3, 1996
Width: 36 1/2 inches
Height: 27 Inches (Edition 4/15)
Medium: Prints/Editions - Colografia
EXHIBITIONS:
1997 (May 3-31) Grand Pas de Trois (with Norberto Marrero and J.C.Menéndez), Sixth Havana Biennial, Cuba.1998 (Mar 6-Apr 11) Belkis Ayón: Desasosiego/Restlessness, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2001 Para un regreso: colografías de Belkis Ayón (For a Return: Collographs by Belkis Ayón), Provincial Center for Design and the Visual Arts, Santiago de Cuba.
2005 (Jul 14-Aug 14) Siempre vuelvo: colografías de Belkis Ayón (I Always Come Back), Villa Clara Province Gallery of Art, Santa Clara, Cuba.
2007 (May 29-Sep 9) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2007 (Oct 7-Dec 31) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
2009 (Oct 3-Jan 4) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Jordan Schnitzer Museum, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
2010 (Oct 15-Jan 10) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2010 (Feb-Apr 4) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
2010 (Jun 27-Sep 19) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
REFERENCES:
Catalogue, Belkis Ayón: Desasosiego/Restlessness (Los Angeles: Couturier Gallery, 1998), illust. Abelardo Mena Chicuri, Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection (University of Florida Press, 2007).
Desobediencia / Disobedience, 1998
Width: 78 inches
Height: 101 inches,( 8 pieces, Edition 4/4
Medium: Prints/Editions - Colografia
EXHIBITIONS:
1998 Desasosiego/Restlessness: Belkis Ayón . Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo).1999 ¡Cuba Presente! Trabajando pa´l inglé, Barbican Centre, London, UK.
1999 Arte cubano, más allá del papel, Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, Salas Pedro de Ribera y Juan de Villanueva, Madrid, Spain.
2000 Siempre vuelvo. Colografías de Belkis Ayón. VII Bienal de La Habana, Havana, Cuba.
2001 Imágenes desde el silencio: Colografías y matrices de Belkis Ayón, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba (solo).
2009 Nkame. Belkis Ayón (1967-1999), Convento de San Francisco de Asís, Havana, Cuba.
REFERENCES:
Catalogues of cited exhibitions. John Dorfman, “Southern Exposure,” Art & Antiques (Nov 2011), p, 84, illus.
About Belkis Ayón
1967-1999, resided in Cuba
While studying at the San Alejandro art school in Havana, Belkis Ayón discovered the writings of Lydia Cabrera and Enrique Sosa about the secret society of the Abakuá. . . .
