DOUGLAS ARGüELLES cruz

Cuban- American Artist

Live and work in New York, United States.

darguellesc@gmail.com / www.douglasarguelles.com / @douglas_arguelles_cruz / @acpwartfactory / www.acpwartfactory.com 

EDUCATION

1999-2004/ MFA at Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), Havana, Cuba. 1994-1998/ BFA at Academia San Alejandro, Havana, Cuba.    

TEACHING WORK

2003 - 2011/ Professor in the Painting Professorship at Instituto Superior de Arte (I.S.A), Havana, Cuba. 

2000 - 2001/ Professor in the Painting Professorship at Academia San Alejandro, Havana, Cuba.    

SOLO SHOW

2015/ Reveal. The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, FIU, Miami, Florida, United States.

Momentum. Havana Gallerie, Zürich, Suiza.

A Hunger Artist. Galería Habana. Havana. Cuba.

2013/ Surface. Galería Villa Manuela,  Havana, Cuba.

2009/ The Eskimos have no poetry. Collateral to the X Biennial Havana. Galería La Casona. Havana, Cuba.

2008/ Physiognomy of silence. Galería La Luz. Merida, México.

2007/ Goldberg Variations. Galería La Casona. Havana, Cuba.

2003/ Desafio. performance at “Action Experience: 30 days” (DIP), 8th Art Biennial of Havana, Cuba.

1998/ Utopia. Thesis- Presentation and discussion. Academia San Alejandro. Havana, Cuba.  

GROUP SHOWS

2022/ On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Perez Art Museum Miami. Frist Art Museum. Nashville, Tennessee. United States. January 28- May 21.

2020/ Adrenaline No. 1. 25 Kent Ave Wallplay. january- february. Brooklym. NY.  

2019/ The Beirut Art Fair. South Border Gallery & Abroyan Factory, Beirut , Lebanon.

Cuba in Columbus. Brandt-Roberts Galleries. Columbus, Ohio, United States.  

2018/ kindred spirits. Ten artist by  the Hudson. Coral Gables Museum. Miami. FL. UNited states.

On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection. The third chapter of this exhibition, Domestic Anxieties. PAMM. Peréz Art Museum of Miami. Miami, FL. united states.  

2016/ Blank space. Centro Hispanoamericano de Cultura, Havana, Cuba.  

2015/ A Sense of Place from The Jorge M. Pérez Collection. Mana Wynwood Convention Center, Miami, Florida. United states.  

2013/ HB. 10 th Art Biennial of Havana, Cuba. Lo indecible. Galería Habana. Havana. Cuba.         

Gulliver. Freies Museum Berlin. Potsdamer Str 91, 10785 Berlin.  

2012/ Daiquiri sin azucar. Galería Habana. Havana. Cuba.           

Estrictamente impersonal. Collateral XI  Havana Biennial. Morro-Cabaña. May 11 to June 11. Havana. Cuba.

Parcela. Collateral  XI Havana Biennial. El Trasgu Gallery. Asturian Federation of Cuba. May 10 to 28 June. Havana. Cuba.            

HB. PABEXPO Cuban Contemporary Art. 9-25 May. Havana. Cuba.  

2011/ Pinta. Latin American Art Fair. New York. United States.            

Ninart-Havana. Exhibition Space 08. Asturian Center. Havana. Cuba.   

Art-Position. Eleventh Contemporary Art Festival, Bern, Switzerland.        

YA se leer. Centro de Arte Contemporaneo Wilfredo Lam. Havana, Cuba.  

2010/ Serendipity. Pavilion East. Portugal Art 10, First Biennial. Lisboa, Portugal.

Pieza única. Delegación Príncipe de Asturias. Madrid, Spain.     

Monomania. Galería Habana. Havana, Cuba.  

2009/ First International Festival of Contemporary Art of Algeria. National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Algeria (MAMA).

Confluencias inside II. NHHC Art Museum, Albuquerque. New Mexico, United States.           

Topologías. Galería Excelencia. Madrid, Spain.           

From the Biennial. Connection with the Tenth Havana Biennial. Havana Gallery. Zurich, Switzerland.           

Preview, 08 Space. Collateral to the Tenth Havana Biennial, Cuba.

V Salón de Arte Cubano Contemporaneo. Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales (CDAV). Havana, Cuba.          

Contemporary Art from Cuba. The Honor City Hall, Nuremberg, Sala Lam, Diplomatic Office in Bonn, Germany.  

2008/ Embedded, 08 Space. St. Francis Convent. Havana, Cuba.           

Kunst, 08 Space. Hispano-American Cultural Center. Havana, Cuba.  

2007/ ARTH-GOTH. Casona Gallery. Havana, Cuba.

2006/ El falso añadido. Eberhard Schlotter Foundation. Alicante, Altea, Spain. 

Trans-it. Development Center for the Visual, Arts (CDAV). Havana, Cuba.

2005/ Update & download. Mexico House "Benito Juarez". Havana, Cuba.    

46th Annual Arts and Art Riverwood Show. Chicago, Illinois, USA.  

2004/ A is B. Between Art and Science. Galería Habana. Havana, Cuba.  

2003/ Double Seduction. Video on demand of Cuban artists. Departamento de Intervenciones Públicas, (DIP). Amadis Room. Madrid, Spain.           

Common Sense. Departamento de Intervenciones Públicas, (DIP). Galería Habana. Havana, Cuba.           

XIV Salón de la Ciudad. Centro provincial de Artes y Diseño. Havana, Cuba.

Immersed in time. Cultural Center of Spain in Cuba. Havana, Cuba.    

2002/ Living space I. Departamento de Intervenciones Públicas, (DIP). Malecón, Havana, Cuba.            

Living space II.  A direct attention to the object. Departamento de Intervenciones Públicas, (DIP). Semana de Arte Joven. Santa Clara, Cuba.

2001/ Llega y pon. Collateral to III Salon de Arte Cubano Contemporaneo. Higher Institute of Art. Havana, Cuba.          

Desasosiego. Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, (CDAV). Havana, Cuba.     

2000/ HAVANA-ISA-CLUB. Higher Institute of Art, Seventh Biennial of Havana, Cuba.    

WORKS WITH DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INTERVENTIONS- (DIP)

2003/ Member of the Organizing Committee of Action Experience: 30 days. Public interventions event, the VIII Havana Biennial / Defiance, intervention in the firehouse of Old Havana / See where others look II, X Romerías de mayo, Holguín / See where others look, National Arts Colloquium, Matanzas / Participation in Errata, Nelson Mulet. XII International Book Fair. La Cabaña, Havana, Cuba. 2002 /  Participation in The Journal of Heidi Garcia, Havana / Participation in 8 hours,  Tatiana  Mesa and Maria Victoria Portelles. Havana /Participation in The drama of becoming another: Paranoia, of L.CONDUCT-A-RT, Obispo street, Havana / Participation in From north to south and from south to north, Maria Victoria Portelles, North Coast, South Coast: travel. Havana / Dock (collective action), South Coast, Havana / Participation in 50 chairs, Fidel E. Alvarez and L.CONDUCT-ART, Central Park, Havana / Participation in Fraternity, Humberto Diaz, Fraternity Park, Havana / Founding member of the Department of Public Interventions.   LECTURES  DELIVERED 2009  Panel: Spaces, participation and legitimation, art opportunities, creating young, mass media, alternative media, marginality, Casa de las Americas. Havana. Conference:  08 Space.  Coffee Arteamérica, Casa de las Americas. During the X Biennial of Havana, Cuba.   2003  Theoretical Event: Experience of action: 30 days, VIII Havana Biennial, Higher Institute of Art. Havana, Cuba.    

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2022/ Individual Artist Fellowship. The New Jersey State Council on the Art.

2018/ Residency Unlimited. Cuban Artist Fund. New York, United States.  

2008/ Personal exhibition, "Goldberg Variations”. Mention of curators. Curatorial National Prize.

Residence Batiscafo. Triangle Art Trust and Gasworks of England in the Havana.  

2003/ Premio del Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales. XIV Salón de la ciudad, Havana, Cuba.    

COLLECTIONS

- Pérez Art Museum. Miami, PAMM, Florida, USA.

- Valdes-Fauli / Boren Collection, Miami, Florida, United States.

- Galila Barzalai Collection. Belgium.

- Museo de Bellas Artes, Habana, Cuba.

- Genesis Collection. Havana, Cuba.

- Ron Brasch Collection. Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. United States.

- Marc Le Baron Collection, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.

- Jennifer & Veit Wagner, Zurich, Suiza. - Amy Dean & Alan Kluger Collection. Florida, United States.

- Leslie & Russ Robinson Collection. Florida, United States.

- Nina Menocal Collection. D.F., Mexico. - Mayi Martinez Collection. D.F. México.

- Lincoln & Damian Fontanills collection, Florida, United States.

- Carmen Barone Collection. Ciudad de Mexico.

- Havana Galerie Collection. Beatrice Liaskowski. Zurich, Switzerland.

- Andreas Winkler Collection. Havana, Cuba / Zurich, Switzerland.

- Armando Manuel de Lima Amorim Soares Collection, Havana / Portugal.

- Mauricio Mello Collection. Sao Paulo. Brazil.    

BIBLIOGRAPHY

-Douglas Argüelles: “No creo en banderas, ni en escudos” - François Vallée (hypermediamagazine.com)

-ACPW ART FACTORY: Four cuban american artist in New Jersey. Dossier sobre arte cubano americano. Hypermedia Magazine. April-2020. https://www.academia.edu/42510530/DOSSIER_SOBRE_ARTE_CUBANO_AMERICANO_HYPERMEDIA_MAGAZINE_ANTONIO_CORREA_IGLESIAS_ACPW_ART_FACTORY_FOUR_CUBAN_AMERICANS_IN_NEW_JERSEY

-Residency Unlimited 2018 http://www.residencyunlimited.org/residencies/duglas-arguelles/

-A giant silence Orlando Victores Gattorno / 28 May, 2015. http://artoncuba.com/blog/un-gigante-silencio

-Reveal / Revelar 2015 at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU https://worldredeye.com/2015/11/reveal

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-"Pintura Embedded". Hernandez, Agnieszka. Boletin digital, Galería Geneisis  No 0, 2008. Havana. Cuba.

-“Razones de lo invisible”. Cabrera Salort, Ramón. Embedded Catalogue, October, 2008.

-"Interview Espacio 08". Hernandez, Isabel. Noticias de Arte Cubano 10/08, December 2008.

-Caballero, Rufo: What are you getting Cuban art?. Juventud Rebelde newspaper, 27 December, 2008.

-“Un proyecto que creció al compartir”, Cabrera Salort, Ramón. http://arteamerica.cu/8/dossier/salort.htm, accessed in July, 2007.

-"A benefit of the viewer”. Matamoros, Corina. Douglas Arguelles BWV 988" catalog   Goldberg Variations, Havana, 2007.

-"Asfixia". Fernandez, Frency. Tabloid Noticias de Arte Cubano, # 11, year 6, October- November, 2005, p 5.

-"Art after Art?". Anton Castillo, Hector. Tabloide Noticias de Arte Cubano, # 5, Year 5, May-June 2004, p. 9.

-"Laboratorio de metáforas y convite de imágenes". Correa, Antonio. Pensamiento Complejo, april, 2004.

-"Towards a new dimension of entertainment". Lopez, Delilah. Magazine Arte Cubano,  Havana, 1 / 2004, p. 10-11 (Dossier).

-"La probable cita". Hernandez, Agnieszka. La Gaceta de Cuba, No. 4, July- August 2004, p. 57-58.

-"The 8th Havana Biennial: Two perspectives on two collaborations". Papararo, Jenifer and Demkiw, Janis. C magazine, International Contemporary Art Issue # 80, Canada, Winter 2004, p. 26-29.

-Gopnik, Blake, "In Havana, an Air of Possibility", in Washington Post Staff writer, november 16, 2003.

-"A biennial encrypted in hope". Rodriguez, Hilda Mary. Eighth Havana Biennial, 2003 (Special Bulletin).

-“Departamento De Intervenciones Públicas”. Tabloide Noticias de Arte Cubano, # 8, year 3, August 2002, p. 3.