Evening at AMoA

Friday, February 21

6:30pm - Cocktails with Hors d’oeuvres by Ruthie at Black Fig Food

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Cuba has a rich history of women artists who have made significant contributions to the country’s vibrant and diverse art scene.  The artworks on view in this exhibition were created during the past 30 years and feature a selection of nine contemporary artists: Ariamna Contino, Aimee Garcia Marrero, Rocio Garcia de la Nuez, Alejandra Glez, Elsa Mora, Mabel Poblet Pujol, Sandra Ramos, Adislen Reyes, and Linet Sanchez Gutierrez.  These women have explored various artistic mediums, styles, and themes, often breaking boundaries and challenging societal and political norms.  Through different strategies and symbolism, they convey their anxieties, dreams, and visions, often quite literally weaving together histories about themselves and their homeland.

Adislen Reyes

Adislen Reyes is a Cuban artist born in Havana, 1984.

She is graduated from San Alejandro Fine Arts Academy in 2005 and later obtained a Bachelor from Higher Institute of Art (ISA) with the highest grades in 2010. Actually work as a professor in San Alejandro Academy.

Her works have been showed in many solo exhibitions like: 2019/ Obras en colección, Artemorfosis Gallery, Zúrich. 2018/ Tras la línea de plata, Villa Manuela Gallery, La Habana. 2015/ Crisis, San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress, XII Havana Biennial.

She had participated in several group exhibitions all over the world, many in important Art Museums as: Art Museum of the Americas, Washington DC. Freies Museum, Berlín. Taipei Fine Art Museum, China Taipei. Contemporary Art and Design Museum (MADC), San José; and in Cuba have been part of collective shows in the X, XI, XII and more recently, in the XIII Havana Biennial.

She had also work with art galleries as: Habana Gallery. Pan American Art Projects, Miami. Artemorfosis Gallery, Zurich. Lois Lambert Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans. GX Gallery, London. Xin Dongcheng Gallery, Beijing and has been represented in Art Fairs as: Zona Maco, Mexico City. Art Miami. Texas Contemporary Art Fair, Houston. Seattle Art Fair. Art on paper, New York. Art International Zurich.

In the year 2012 she obtained the Scholarship granted by the project of support to the artistic production of Havana- Cultura.

Her works are in collections in the United States, England, Belgium, Mexico, Spain, Germany, China, Switzerland, Principality of Liechtenstein and Cuba.

Alejandra Glez

Alejandra Glez (1996) is a self-taught Cuban visual artist based in Madrid. Her work has focused on the deconstruction of stereotypes and stigmas associated with the female body. Through photography, video art, digital art and performance, Alejandra works with topics associated with Afro-Caribbean religions, collective memory and the spirituality that emanates from the relationship between human beings and the sea.

Recently, her performance “Rezos Rituales y Altares” curated by David Barro, took place at Museu da História e da Cultura Afro-Brasileira on march 2023. She also produced “Daughter” in Tel Aviv the same month. She presented her performance “Volver a nacer” at the Thyssen-Bornemisza national museum, in February 2023 as part of the program “Visión y presencia” Curated by Semíramis González. In March 2022 she exhibited at ARCOmadrid 2022 at the stand of Fundación ENAIRE as a Young Photography Award. As the winner of the IV Fundación ENAIRE Young Photography Award, she also exhibited her work at the opening of the PHotoESPAÑA 2021 Festival together with JustMad 2021. She recently obtained the PHotoESPAÑA Master Scholarship in Photography, Theories and Artistic Projects. Alejandra is the first Cuban artist to have a drop completely dedicated to promote her work within the NFTs market. In 2020 she was a finalist in the XIV edition of the Arte Laguna Prize in the video art category, which allowed her to exhibit her award-winning work at the Arsenale venue of the Venice Biennale.

Her work has been part of numerous personal and collective exhibitions in America and Europe, among the personal ones we can mention "El camino recorrido: Obras de Alejandra Glez 2018-2021" (Aurora Vigil-Escalera Gallery, Madrid), "La vida es inmortal cuando se acaba" (Acacia Gallery, Havana, Cuba, 2020). Group shows include "Una Partitura Feminista Radical, virtual exhibition of MIA Art Collection" (2021), "Un viaje de ida y vuelta", Luciano Méndez Collection, DA2 Museum, Salamanca, Spain (2019) and "Detrás del Muro", XIII Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba. She has been artist in residence at FUGAZ, Arte de Convivir (Lima, Peru) and Clorofila Digital (Madrid, Spain). Her work is in private collections in the United States, Spain, Peru, France, Portugal, Belgium, Israel, Mexico and Cuba.

Ariamna Contino

Ariamna Contino, born in Havana, Cuba, in 1984 is a prominent figure of the young Cuban contemporary art scene. A visual artist, she gained International recognition with her meticulous hand-cut paper technique, mixed media and installation works.

Ariamna Contino is particularly interested in history and social phenomena which she explores in depth by collecting data on her subjects before translating them into beautiful and carefully crafted artworks, often contrasting with the themes explored. Contemporary topics such as drug trafficking, Cuban private economy and evironmental issues among others are investigated by the artist to compose visual narratives.

Ariamna Contino has had several solo exhibitions around the world and participated in numerous collective shows and majorinternational art fairs. In 2019, she represented Cuba at the Venice Biennial with her installation PENITENCIA. Institutions including the National Fine Arts Museum in Havana, the Perez Art Museum in Miami and the CIFO-Cisnero Fontanals Foundation have acquired some of her artworks for their permanent collection.

Elsa Mora

Elsa Mora is an artist and curator. A recipient of the UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists, she was born and raised in Cuba and moved to Los Angeles in 2001, where she lived until 2014. Mora currently resides between upstate New York and New Jersey.

Elsa’s art has been exhibited worldwide in art galleries and museums. She taught at the Vocational School of Arts in Camagüey, Cuba, and has been a visiting artist at the Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco State University, the Art Institute of Boston, the MoMA Design Store, and the National Gallery of Art, among others.

Her work is in the permanent collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.; the Long Beach Museum of Art, California; and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon. Mora has collaborated as an illustrator with such organizations as the Museum of Modern

Art, Chronicle Books, The New York Review of Books, Penguin Random House,

The Oprah Magazine, Cosmopolitan, and teNeues, among others.

Mora is one of the founding members of ArtYard, a contemporary art center based in Frenchtown, New Jersey, where she is artistic director and curator.

Linet Sánchez Gutiérrez

Linet Sánchez Gutiérrez was born in Santa Clara, Cuba in 1989. She currently lives and works in Havana. Graduated in Visual Arts at the University of the Arts (ISA) in Havana. Graduated from the Elementary Level of Classical Ballet at La EVA Olga Alonso, Santa Clara, Cuba. The artist's work has been exhibited in several countries in America, Europe and the Caribbean in places such as the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana, Cuba in 2023; the CC Mechelen Museum, Mechelen, Belgium in 2022; the Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida, United States in 2018; Photo Museo Cuatro Caminos, Mexico City, Mexico in 2017; The Annemberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, United States in 2017; among many others. His work moves mainly within photography, sculpture and video art. Among the awards and residencies she has obtained are: Second Prize in the First Edition of the Latin American Contemporary Photography Award, Monterrey, Mexico in 2018; Residence of EL Espacio 23, Miami, Florida, in 2023; Flora ars+natura Residency in collaboration with Artista X Artista, Bogotá, Colombia; the New York Culture and Society Foundation Grant and the Los Angeles Annemberg Foundation for Portfolio Reviews of the 2018 International FotoFest Biennial, Houston, Texas, United States; Habana Cultura Residency (3rd edition) of Havana Club International, Havana in 2013; First Prize in Post-it (3rd Edition), Havana in 2015, among others. His works are part of public and private collections in several countries.

Mabel Poblet PUJOL

(Cienfuegos, Cuba, 1986)
Resident in Havana. Graduate from the Higher Institute of Arts, Havana (ISA, 2012) and from San Alejandro National Art Academy (2007). Part of the Project-Workshop Conducta (Behavior) by the Cuban artist Tania Bruguera. Member of Cuba’s National Union of Artists and Writers (UNEAC). She has participated in more than 20 solo exhibitions and in more than 100 group exhibitions.

In 2018, she was awarded for an Exceptional Career by the Embassy of Mexico in Cuba. During an internship, she received the Noemi Award of the Brownstone Foundation (Paris, 2014). In 2017, she was invited to be part of the Cuban Art Pavilion at Venice Biennial. She has participated in the group exhibitions: Kunst Cuba (Ludwig Forum, 2017, Aachen, Germany), ARTXIOMAS (Art Museum of the Americas, Washington DC, United States, 2016), Complicated Beauty: Contemporary Cuban Art (Tampa Museum, Florida, United States, 2016), 4ta Bienal Del Fin del Mundo (Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2014), After de Void (Ministry of Nomadads, Edison House, London, 2013), Art de la Grande ile des Caraibes (Le Manoir de Cologny Cultural Center, Ginebra, Switzerland, 2013) 50 in the 50’ (La Acacia Gallery, Habana, 2011), Knowing how to shoot, and shooting well (Villa Manuela Gallery, Habana, 2011), Cuban women artists (Center for Cuban Studies, New York, 2010).

Her most recent events and exhibitions were:
Fragments of Memory (Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Regensburg, Germany 2021).
Islas Apothiki Art House and Islad Cultura (Paros, Greece, 2021).


In 2020 she participated in an Artist talk to students at Fairfield University Museum Connecticut. She was part of the 2019 Residency at Djerassi Resident Artists, Woodside, California, United States.


As a Cuban artists she was selected for the residence Habana Cultura sponsored by Havana Club (2012). Her most relevant solo exhibitions among others are: Flashback in collaboration with Andres Levin (ArteMorfosis Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland, 2018), Flotabilidad – Buoyancy – (Habana Gallery, Cuba, 2018), Marea Alta – High Tide – (Mitte Gallerie, Callao, Peru, 2017), Diario de viaje – Voyage Diary – (CO Gallery, Santiago de Chile, Chile, 2017), Patria – Homeland –, 12th Biennial of Havana (Villa Manuela, Cuba, 2015), Reverso – Reverse – (Tomás y Valientes Art Center, Madrid, Spain, 2013), Disappearance (Enlace Gallery, Lima, Peru, 2013), Situación Límite – Limit Situation – (Raquel Ponce Gallery, Madrid, Spain, 2013), Reunificación Familiar – Family Reunion –, Collateral to the 11th Biennial of Havana (Morro- Cabaña, 2012), Today my voice has sound (Villa Manuela Gallery, Havana, 2012). Her work is part of important public and private collections like: the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Tampa’s Museum of Contemporary Art, the United States, CIFO Foundation. Cisnero Fontanals, the United States, the Gilbert Brownstone Foundation, France, the Ministry of Nomads, the United Kingdom.

Rocío García de la nuez

Rocío García de la Nuez is a major female Cuban painter who is based in Havana. Stemming from a strict academic background, her practice has evolved, almost unchanged, over the last three decades. Her distinct language conjugates passions and experiences from her childhood, bringing together comics, cinema, literature, love and eros. For 35 years she also taught painting San Alejandro Fine Arts Academy.

Her work is exhibited worldwide. Select solo exhibitions include El Gran Chef (alias Patica de Pollo) at EL APARTAMENTO, Havana, Cuba (2023); Bellas Flores del Mal at Thomas Nickels Project, New York, NY (2021) and Sakura at Atelier NG Havana, Havana, Cuba (2020). Other recent group shows and art fair exhibits include A mí me manda Carmen at MOCAA, Miami, Florida (2023); Untitled. ArtBasel International Art Fair, Miami Beach, Florida (2022); Art on Paper Fair, New York, NY (2022); International Contemporary Art Fair ARCO Madrid, Spain (2022). Over the years Rocío has received various national and international awards including the National Culture Distinction from the Ministry of Culture in Cuba (2005) and National Award of Illustration from the Cuban Book Institute (2000).

Sandra Ramos

Sandra Ramos is a multimedia visual artist who achieved international recognition in the 90s for exploring critical themes touching on political and social issues tied to the complexities of identity, nationality, and emigration. She uses a diverse array of mediums, materials, and techniques, including video, photography, paintings, installations, and etchings.

Ramos has exhibited for over thirty years, among her solo: “Entropydoscopes. Sandra Ramos”. Lowe Art Museum. University of Miami (2023). “Both Sides Now” DRCLAS Harvard (2022); “Déjà vu” PAAP, Miami (2018); “Watertight” ASU Museum, (2016); “Bridging the Past, Present, and Future” American University Museum, Washington DC (2014); “Puentes” National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana (2012)
Her work was shown at Venice Biennial (2013) & Havana Biennial (1994) (2012). Phoenix Art Museum (2023) Artyard. NJ (2022); MFA Boston (2020). PAMM, Miami (2018). Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2017).

Ramos received Prizes and art residences such as the OOLITE-ARTPACE Home Away Residency, San Antonio, TX (2023). Ellis Creator Award, Miami (2021), Cleveland Foundation (2017), The Studios of Key West (2016), The Fountainhead Miami (2011), and Fuchu Art Museum. Tokyo (2003); Provincetown Fine Arts Center (2002); Barbican Center in London (1999)
Ramo's work is in the collections: MOMA NY, MFA Boston, The San Diego Museum of Art, PAMM; National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana; The Bronx Museum, ASU Museum; The Ludwig Forum Aachen; TBA21 Vienna; Fuchu Art Museum in Tokyo.

Ramos obtained an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute; she graduated from the Higher Institute of Art (ISA) and San Alejandro Art Academy in Cuba.