Biography

Humberto Castro


Born in Havana, Cuba in 1957


Solo Exhibitions:

2006-07 “Humberto Castro: First 15-Year Retrospective,” ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables (Miami), Florida
2000-01 “The Paris Years: 1989-99,” Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
1994 “Minotaure,” Got Gallery, Barbizon, France
“El Minotauro en su Laberinto,” Galeria Nina Menocal, Mexico, DF
The Minotaur in it’s Labyrinth, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, Florida
1993 “L’Envol d’Icare, Le monde de l’Art,” Centro de Arte Euroamericano, Caracas, Venezuela, and Paris, France
“Art 93, The New Pier Show,” Chicago, Illinois, represented by Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, Florida
1992 Espace CIO Gallery, Limoges, France
Le Monde de l’art Gallery, Paris, France
“Temporality and the Theater of the Body,” Ambrosino Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida
1991 “The Eternal Spiral,” Espace Latinoamericain, Paris, France
1990 “Live Nature,” Le Cercle Lucas Carton, Paris, France
1989 “Power and Existence,” Castillo de la Real Fuerza, Havana, Cuba
1988 Santa Clara Museum, Santa Clara, Cuba
1985 “Calcografias,” Habana Gallery, Havana, Cuba
Installations,” Habana Gallery, Havana, Cuba
“Calcografias,” Radio and Press Center, Warsaw, Poland
“Calcografias,” House of the Young Talents, Berlin, Germany
“Lithographs,” Impulse Gallery, Berlin, Germany
1982 “Blanco y Negro,” Galiano Gallery, Havana, Cuba
1980 “Hallazgos,” Espacio Mella, Havana, Cuba

Selected Group Exhibitions:

1994 Groupe Roma, Le Monde de l’Art, Paris, France
1993 “Saga 93,” Arichi Gallery, Paris, France
“Notre Amerique Latine,” Le monde de l’Art, Paris, France
Art 93 Miami, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida
“Erotica,” Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, Florida
1992 “Visa pour un nouveau Monde,” Espace Chevreul, Nanterre, France


1991 IV Biennial, Havana, Cuba
“Made in Cuba,” Tate Gallery, Madrid, Spain
“The Other Vision,” Strasbourg, France
1990 Arichi Gallery, Paris, France, and Vitry sur Seine, France
Almirante Gallery, Madrid, Spain
1989 Center of Contemporary Arts, Corbeil-Essonnes, France
“Trattoria Cubana,” Gibellina Museum, Comune di Orvietto, Italy
“Cuban Painting,” Nesle Gallery, Paris, France
“Capo d’Orlando Museum,” Sicily, Italy
1988 “Signs of Transition,” Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Arts, New York, NY
“Art From Cuba,” Centro Cultural de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
“Changing Opinion,” Museum of Contemporary Arts, Ontario; Forest City Gallery, Ontario; and 76 Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1987 “Four Cuban Artists,” Realidade Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Palacio de la Cultura,
Belo Horizonte, and Blue Life Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil
XIX International Festival, Cagnes sur Mer, France
“La Joven Estampa,” Casa de las Americas, Havana, Cuba
1986 VII Biennial of Etching, San Juan, Puerto Rico
II Biennial, Havana, Cuba
1984 Salon de Artes Plásticas, Havana, Cuba
Triennial Intergraphic, Berlin, Germany
Triennial of Lublin, Poland
IV International Biennial of Etching, Rijeka, Yugoslavia
VIII Biennial of Etching, Bradford, Great Britain
“20 Contemporary Artists,” Galerie de la Defense, Paris, France
“20 Contemporary Artists,” IFA Gallery, Bonn, Germany
First Biennial, Havana, Cuba
National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
1983 Salon de Grabado, Havana, Cuba
“Seven Contemporary Artists,” Museum of Contemporary Arts, Madrid, Spain
National Museum, Bogota, Colombia
Joan Miro Contest, Barcelona, Spain
Zagreba Gallery, Zagreb, Yugoslavia
Arghezi Gallery, Bucarest, Romania
1982 “Literatura in Arts,” UNEAC, Havana, Cuba
“05+1,” Espace Latinoamericain, Paris, France
Picasso Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
“Young Art,” Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
1981 IV Biennial of Lublin, Yugoslavia
Taxco Museum, Taxco, Mexico
Salon RGG, Havana, Cuba
1980 Museum of Decorative Arts, Havana, Cuba
1978 First Triennial of Drawing, Havana, Cuba
Salon RGG, Havana, Cuba



Awards and Honors:

1994 Prix of Painting, “Toison d’Or,” Art Jonction 94, Cannes, France
1987 First Prize, “La Joven Estampa,” Casa de las Americas, Havana, Cuba
1986 First Prize, VII Biennial of Etching, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1984 First Prize, Drawings, Salon Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Havana, Cuba
First Prize, Triennial Intergraphic, Berlin, Germany
First Prize, Etching, Lublin Triennial, Poland
1983 First Prize, Salon de Grabado 83, Havana, Cuba
1982 First Prize, Etching, Salon 13 de Marzo, Havana, Cuba
First Prize, Etching, “Litterature in Arts,” UNEAC, Havana, Cuba
1981 First Prize, Etching, Salon de Pequeno Formato, Havana, Cuba
First Prize, Etching, Salon RGG, Havana, Cuba
1978 First Prize, Painting, Salon RGG, Havana, Cuba

Public Collections:

National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana
Cuba Fondo de Bienes Culturales, Havana
Cuba Lublin Museum, Lublin, Poland
Museum of Latinoamerican Art, Cracovy, Poland
Gibellina Museum, Gibellina, Italy
Capo d’Orlando Museum, Sicily, Italy
Museum of Contemporary Arts, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Education:

Experimental Graphics Studio, Havana
Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana
San Alejandro National Academy of the Visual Arts, Havana

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