ANGEL DELGADO

Born in Cuba in 1965. Lives and works in Las Vegas, NV. Visual artist including performances in his practice, Angel Delgado centres his work on the issue of individual liberty, or the lack thereof. This focus is the result of having been sent to prison for six months in the early 1990s, for a scandal due to a public performance that he presented in Havana, Cuba. It was in a Cuban prison that Delgado found his main technical and instrumental resources, developing a kind of artwork closely linked to the living conditions in jail, including soap sculptures and paintings of religious images on fabric. His work consequently is based on the limitations, restrictions, prohibitions, controls and other losses of freedom that are constantly imposed on the human being within society. At the moment his interest is to take personal experiences towards a collective experience, speaking about the imprisoned condition that the collective psyche suffers as it confines the individual. Born in Cuba in 1965. Lives and works in Las Vegas, NV. Visual artist including performances in his practice, Angel Delgado centres his work on the issue of individual liberty, or the lack thereof. This focus is the result of having been sent to prison for six months in the early 1990s, for a scandal due to a public performance that he presented in Havana, Cuba. It was in a Cuban prison that Delgado found his main technical and instrumental resources, developing a kind of artwork closely linked to the living conditions in jail, including soap sculptures and paintings of religious images on fabric. His work consequently is based on the limitations, restrictions, prohibitions, controls and other losses of freedom that are constantly imposed on the human being within society. At the moment his interest is to take personal experiences towards a collective experience, speaking about the imprisoned condition that the collective psyche suffers as it confines the individual.

The VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK 2014 shows a video of selected performances by Delgado realized between 1990 and 2011, including the works:

  • La esperanza es lo último que se está perdiendo (1990) El Objeto Esculturado, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, La Habana, Cuba.
  • Sin título. (1242900) (1996) Espacio Aglutinador, La Habana, Cuba.
  • Señales de adentro (1999/2002) Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, La Habana, Cuba (1999). Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, USA (2002).
  • Dolencia propia (I) (1999) Segundo Festival de Performance Ana Mendieta, Pabellón Cuba, La Habana, Cuba.
  • Desgaste (2001) Segunda Jornada de Performance de Cienfuegos, Cuba.
  • Gotas como días (2002) La Huella Múltiple, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, La Habana, Cuba.
  • Espacio Restringido (2004) Festival de performance, Puente Sur, Mayabeque, La Habana, Cuba.

Ausencia (2010) TRANSMUTED Festival Internacional de Performance, Centro de las Artes, San Luis PBorn in Cuba in 1965. Lives and works in Las Vegas, NV. Visual artist including performances in his practice, Angel Delgado centres his work on the issue of individual liberty, or the lack thereof. This focus is the result of having been sent to prison for six months in the early 1990s, for a scandal due to a public performance that he presented in Havana, Cuba. It was in a Cuban prison that Delgado found his main technical and instrumental resources, developing a kind of artwork closely linked to the living conditions in jail, including soap sculptures and paintings of religious images on fabric. His work consequently is based on the limitations, restrictions, prohibitions, controls and other losses of freedom that are constantly imposed on the human being within society. At the moment his interest is to take personal experiences towards a collective experience, speaking about the imprisoned condition that the collective psyche suffers as it confines the individual.

The VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK 2014 shows a video of selected performances by Delgado realized between 1990 and 2011, including the works:

  • La esperanza es lo último que se está perdiendo (1990) El Objeto Esculturado, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, La Habana, Cuba.
  • Sin título. (1242900) (1996) Espacio Aglutinador, La Habana, Cuba.
  • Señales de adentro (1999/2002) Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, La Habana, Cuba (1999). Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, USA (2002).
  • Dolencia propia (I) (1999) Segundo Festival de Performance Ana Mendieta, Pabellón Cuba, La Habana, Cuba.
  • Desgaste (2001) Segunda Jornada de Performance de Cienfuegos, Cuba.
  • Gotas como días (2002) La Huella Múltiple, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, La Habana, Cuba.
  • Espacio Restringido (2004) Festival de performance, Puente Sur, Mayabeque, La Habana, Cuba.
  • Ausencia (2010) TRANSMUTED Festival Internacional de Performance, Centro de las Artes, San Luis Potosí, México.
  • Llevado al Límite (of the series Cuerpo-Objeto-Obra) (2010) Festival Sinergiarte, San Pancho, Mexico.
  • Afuera también (2011) Galería Omar Alonso, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
  • Digerir la Noticia (2011) Ahora o Nunca, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
  • otosí, México.
  • Llevado al Límite (of the series Cuerpo-Objeto-Obra) (2010) Festival Sinergiarte, San Pancho, Mexico.
  • Afuera también (2011) Galería Omar Alonso, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
  • Digerir la Noticia (2011) Ahora o Nunca, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

 

The VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK 2014 shows a video of selected performances by Delgado realized between 1990 and 2011, including the works:

La esperanza es lo último que se está perdiendo (1990) El Objeto Esculturado, Centro Born in Cuba in 1965. Lives and works in Las Vegas, NV. Visual artist including performances in his practice, Angel Delgado centres his work on the issue of individual liberty, or the lack thereof. This focus is the result of having been sent to prison for six months in the early 1990s, for a scandal due to a public performance that he presented in Havana, Cuba. It was in a Cuban prison that Delgado found his main technical and instrumental resources, developing a kind of artwork closely linked to the living conditions in jail, including soap sculptures and paintings of religious images on fabric. His work consequently is based on the limitations, restrictions, prohibitions, controls and other losses of freedom that are constantly imposed on the human being within society. At the moment his interest is to take personal experiences towards a collective experience, speaking about the imprisoned condition that the collective psyche suffers as it confines the individual.

The VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK 2014 shows a video of selected performances by Delgado realized between 1990 and 2011, including the works:

  • La esperanza es lo último que se está perdiendo (1990) El Objeto Esculturado, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, La Habana, Cuba.
  • Sin título. (1242900) (1996) Espacio Aglutinador, La Habana, Cuba.
  • Señales de adentro (1999/2002) Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, La Habana, Cuba (1999). Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, USA (2002).
  • Dolencia propia (I) (1999) Segundo Festival de Performance Ana Mendieta, Pabellón Cuba, La Habana, Cuba.
  • Desgaste (2001) Segunda Jornada de Performance de Cienfuegos, Cuba.
  • Gotas como días (2002) La Huella Múltiple, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, La Habana, Cuba.
  • Espacio Restringido (2004) Festival de performance, Puente Sur, Mayabeque, La Habana, Cuba.
  • Ausencia (2010) TRANSMUTED Festival Internacional de Performance, Centro de las Artes, San Luis Potosí, México.
  • Llevado al Límite (of the series Cuerpo–Objeto–Obra) (2010) Festival Sinergiarte, San Pancho, Mexico.
  • Afuera también (2011) Galería Omar Alonso, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
  • Digerir la Noticia (2011) Ahora o Nunca, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
  • de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, La Habana, Cuba.
  • Sin título. (1242900) (1996) Espacio Aglutinador, La Habana, Cuba.
  • Señales de adentro (1999/2002) Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, La Habana, Cuba (1999). Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, USA (2002).
  • Dolencia propia (I) (1999) Segundo Festival de Performance Ana Mendieta, Pabellón Cuba, La Habana, Cuba.
  • Desgaste (2001) Segunda Jornada de Performance de Cienfuegos, Cuba.
  • Gotas como días (2002) La Huella Múltiple, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, La Habana, Cuba.
  • Espacio Restringido (2004) Festival de performance, Puente Sur, Mayabeque, La Habana, Cuba.
  • Ausencia (2010) TRANSMUTED Festival Internacional de Performance, Centro de las Artes, San Luis Potosí, México.
  • Llevado al Límite (of the series Cuerpo-Objeto-Obra) (2010) Festival Sinergiarte, San Pancho, Mexico.
  • Afuera también (2011) Galería Omar Alonso, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
  • Digerir la Noticia (2011) Ahora o Nunca, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

 

Angel Delgado (1965 Havana)
Lives and works in Mexico

Solo exhibitions
2010
Inside / Outside, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2009
A puerta Cerrada, nina menocal Gallery, Mexico City Límite Continuo / Continous Limit, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles
2007
Wake Up, Artane Gallery, Istanbul
2006
Constancias, nina menocal gallery, Mexico City
2004
Memorias Acumuladas, Galería Fúcares, Madrid
2003
Sombra Interior, nina menocal gallery, Mexico City; Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas y Diseño, Havana
1999
Batey II, Coordenada Arte Sur, Cienfuegos, Cuba
1998
Batey, Castillo de los Tres Reyes del Morro, Havana
1996
1242900, Espacio Aglutinador, Havana
1994
Dos Heterodoxos, with Ezequiel Suárez, Galería Khalo, Havana
1993
Con Todo mi Amor-Agonizando, Galería Habana, Havana

Group exhibitions (selection)
2010
Video Cubano, www.vieocubano.org, curated by Rubin Museum of Art, New York
Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Katonah Museum, New York
Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Lowe Art Museum, The University of Miami, Miami
2009
2 maletas, nada que declarar, Centro Cultural de Calí de la Secretaría de Cultura, Calí, Colombia Hablando Alto, Galería Luz y Oficios, Havana Making Connections: Contemporary Cuban Printmakers, Laconia Gallery, Boston
Arte (no es igual) vida, actions by artists of the americas, 1960-2000, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico.
Arte (no es igual) vida, actions by artists of the americas, 1960-2000, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
HC Collage, Museo del Ron, Havana
La Perra Subasta, Espacio Aglutinador, Havana
Pura coincidencia (los abstractos), ExpoCuba, Havana
Crisis (Las banderas), ExpoCuba, Havana
2008
The P.1 PROJECTS, A Prospect.1 Biennial Satellite Exhibition, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans
Arte (no es igual) vida, actions by artists of the americas, 1960-2000, Museo del Barrio, New York City
Cuba. Artists experience in their country, Hunterdon Museum of Art, curated by Kristen Accola, New Jersey
A Photographic Perspective, Heidi Cho Gallery, New York City

2007
Killing Time, Exit Art, New York City
Cuba Avant Garde: Arte Contemporáneo cubano de la Colección Farber/
Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber collection, Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida, Florida; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, FL

2006
Waiting List, Mestna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Primera Bienal de Canarias Arquitectura, Arte y Paisaje, Canary Islands
Close up I, Muestra audiovisual, Pasagüero, Mexico City
artistas citados, nina menocal gallery, Mexico City
Chou Taim, with The Unknown Artist group, Laboratorio de Arte Contemporáneo Museum, Mexico City
La huella múltiple, Convento San Francisco de Asis, collateral IX Bienal de la Habana, Havana
2005
Draw, Son Space, Girona, Spain
Wunderkammer I, nina menocal gallery, Mexico City
2004
Cuba Untitled, Heidi Cho Gallery, Nueva York City
Havana: Inside-out, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans
New Installations, Artists in Residence Cuba, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh
2003
Sentido Común, Galería Habana, Havana
From a Black Hole, Centro Cultural de España, Havana
2002
From a Black Hole, Christian Dam Gallery, Copenhague, Denmark; Son
Space, Molì de Pals, Girona, Spain
La Huella Múltliple, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana
Made in Cuba, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans
Copy Right, Centro Cultural de España, Havana
2001
Políticas de la Diferencia, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires
2000
Esta es tu Casa Vicenta, Casa 11 y 8, colateral to the VII Bienal de La
Habana, Havana
1999
La Huella Múltliple, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana
Banderas y Colores, Lanchelevici Museum, La Louviere, Belgium
1998
La Dirección de la Mirada, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Zurich
La Isla de Sueños, Christian Zeller Fine Arts, Bern
Jao Moch, Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas y Diseño, Havana
1997
Para Quebrar los Moldes, Galería Taller de Serigrafía René Portocarrero, collateral to the VI Bienal de La Habana, Havana
1995
Relaciones Inconexas, Galería-Taller de Serigrafía René Portocarrero, Havana
1993
Salón Juan David, Galería Juan David, Havana
1991
La Huella del Pulgar, Galería Habana, parallel to the IV Bienal de La Habana, Havana
Salón de la Ciudad’91, Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas y Diseño, Havana
Maestros de la Pintura Cubana, Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas y Diseño, Havana
1989
Salón de la Ciudad’89, Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas y Diseño, Havana
Salón Provincial de Artes Plásticas, Casa del Joven Creador, Havana
1988
El Arte un Arma de la Revolución, Salón Provincial de Artes Plásticas, Galería de Matanzas, Matanzas, Cuba
1987
12, Casa del Joven Creador, Havana
Salón Playa’87, Galería Servando Cabrera, Havana
Suave y Fresco, Museo Nacional, Havana
1986
10 Años del Instituto Superior de Arte, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Museum), Havana
Tres, Galería Wifredo Lam Museum, Havana
1985
Salón Playa’85, Galería Servando Cabrera, Havana
1983
Salón de Nivel Medio’83, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana

Performances
2010
Ausencia, Primer Festival de Performance de San Luis Potosí, Mexico
2004
Espacio Restringido, Festival de Performance Puente Sur, Mayabeque, Cuba
2003
Abrir un espacio, Expo Sentido Común, Galería Habana, Havana
2002
Gotas, Como Días, La Huella Múltiple, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana
Señales de Adentro (II), Jonathan Ferrara Galery, New Orleans
2001
Aquí estuvo, Presidio Modelo (intervention), Isla de la Juventud, Cuba
Desgaste, Segunda Jornada de Performance, Cienfuegos, Cuba
2000
Dolencia Propia (II), Primera Jornada de Performance, Cienfuegos, Cuba
1999
Dolencia Propia, Segundo Festival de Performance, Pabellón Cuba, Havana
Señales de Adentro, La Huella Múltlipe, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana
1996
Sin Título (1242900), Espacio Aglutinador, Havana
1990
La Plástica Cubana se Dedica al Baseball, Círculo Social José A. Hechevarría, Havana
La Esperanza es lo Último que se Está Perdiendo (independent performance in El objeto esculturado, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana

Residencies and Awards
2008
MOLAA 08 Award, winner in the Sculpture and tridimensional works on mix media category, Long Beach, CA
2003
Mattress Factory, Pittsburg

Other activities

2007
Curator of the video presentations CLOSE UP, Laboratotio Arte Alameda Museum, Mexico City
Curator of the video presentations CLOSE UP, Festival de Video Creación Strobe, Amposta, Spain.
2006
Curator of the exhibition artistas citados, nina menocal gallery, Mexico City
Curator of the exhibition Close up, Pasagüero; Casa Vecina, Mexico City
2004
Curator of Group Exhibitions, Casa México, Ninart Havana, Havana
Jury of the XI Salón de la Ciudad, Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas, Havana
Workshop Arte recluído, in the context of the workshop Arte de conducta given by Tania Brugueral, Havana
2003
Curator of the exhibition Convergencia, Casa Fichú Menocal, Ninart Havana, Havana

Selected Public Collections
Prins Claus Fonds, Amsterdam
Farber collection, New York/Miami Beach
EFC Holdings, Inc., Miami
Fine Arts Conservation, Inc., Vancouver
International Sculpture Center, New Jersey
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver B.C.

Selected Private Collections
Alain Servais, Bruselas, Bélgica
Amy Dean & Alan Kluger, Miami, USA
Karen & Robert Duncan, Lincoln, NE, USA
Dr. Raúl Cervantes, México, D.F.
Marco Antonio Beteta, México, D.F.

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Arte Cubano at Spot 5, 2003: p.74-79
Antón Castillo, Héctor. Angel Delgado, galería nina menocal., ArtNexus, No. 64 Vol. 6 Año 2007, p. 129-130
Block, Holy. Art Cuba: The new generation, New York, 2001. published by Abrams
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Devina, Peter. “Unique Art From Cuba In New Orleans” at La Prensa Daily, March 2002: p.24-26
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