Alejandro Aguilera
Born in 1964, Holguin, Cuba
Lives and works in Atlanta, USA
Education
1990 Postgraduate fellowship, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, USA
1983-89 Master of Fine Arts, Instituto Superior de Arte [Higher Institute of Art], Havana, Cuba
1975-83 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Escuela de Arte [School of Art], Holguin, Cuba
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007 A Brief History of Usage, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, USA
2006 <<Forty Yards of Lines>>, Milledgeville College and State University, USA
2004 << The Art of Making Art>>, Ty Stokes Gallery, Atlanta,
USA
A.A Recent Work, Gallery Sklo,
Atlanta, USA
2003 A.A. A Decade of Assemblages, University of Georgia, Athens, USA
2002 Artesanías del Sur, Contemporanea, Coconut-Grove Convention
Center, Miami, USA
A.A. Obra reciente,
Brickell Village Gallery and ALPHA International Galleries, Miami, USA
Objetos de uso, Ramis Barquet
Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico
Dibujos y arabescos, Jorge
Murillo, Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico
Black Drawings, Atlanta International
Airport Main Gallery, Atlanta, USA
2001 Micaela, ALPHA International Galleries, Miami, USA
Ornamentos, ALPHA International
Galleries, Miami, USA
1999 Black Drawings (Craftsmen, Theologians and Buffoons), Hammonds House,
Atlanta, USA
Drawings and Accessories,
Florana, Miami, USA
A.A. Years in Mexico,
Mexican Center of Atlanta, Atlanta, USA
1998 Projects, Drawings and Shadows, T-C, H.S., Atlanta, USA
A.A. Recent Works, AIRI, Atlanta,
USA
1997 Objetos muertos, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, USA
CV/Aguilera
1996 Héroes de uso y otras reliquias, Ramis Barquet Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico
1995 La Colonia, Manolo Rivero Gallery, Merida, Mexico
1992 Los Buenos y los Malos, Ramis Barquet Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico
1989 Proyecto Castillo de la Fuerza, Castle of the Force, Havana, Cuba
1986 De los Real-Irreal a lo Irreal-Real, Gallery L, Havana, Cuba
1984 A.A., Library of the Higher Institute of Art, Havana, Cuba
Selected Group Exhibitions
2005 Traveler, The Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, USA
2004 Re-defining Georgia, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, USA
2003 Atlanta Biennial, The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, USA
2001 Belonging-Pertenecer, City Gallery East, Atlanta, USA
1999 New Art Off Cuba, Jose Alonso Fine Art, Miami, USA
Paper-Papel, Jose Alonso Fine Art,
Miami, USA
1996 Movimiento e Inercia, Polytechnic University, Valencia, Spain
Premio MARCO, Museum of Contemporary
Art, Monterrey, Mexico
Cuba Siglo XX. Modernidad
y Sincretismo, Atlantic Center of Modern Art, Grand Canaries, Spain
Primer Festival Internacional
de Tattoo, C.F., Monterrey, Mexico
1995 Premio MARCO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey, Mexico
La isla posible, Contemporary
Art Center, Barcelona, Spain
1994 Premio MARCO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey, Mexico
1991 15 Artistas Cubanos, Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
Colonización y descolonización, Fourth Havana Biennial, National
Museum Palace of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
CV/Aguilera
1990 Nuevas adquisiones contemporáneas. Muestra de arte cubano,
National Museum Palace of Fines Arts, Havana, Cuba
International Art Forum, Collection
Peter Ludwing, Cologne, Germany
Kuba Construye, Euskal Fonda,
Bilbao, Spain
No Man is an Island, Pori
Taidemuseo, Pori, Finland; Mucsarnock, Budapest, Hungary; and Palffy Palace,
Vienna, Austria
The Nearest Edge of the World. Art and Cuba Now, Massachusetts College
of Art, Boston; Nexus, Atlanta; Bronx Museum of Art, New York, USA
Kuba OK, Düsseldorf, Germany
1989 Tradición y contemporaneidad, Third Havana Biennial, National Museum Palace of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
1987 El ISA en el Segundo Simposio de Escultura, Oriente Gallery, Santiago
de Cuba, Cuba
Collective Exhibition, Gallery
L, Havana, Cuba
1986 Relevo, Second Havana Biennial, Higher Institute of Art, Havana, Cuba
1984 Salón de la Ciudad, Center of Art and Design, Havana, Cuba
El ISA Saluda a la Bienal,
Gallery L, Havana, Cuba
Teaching Experience
2006 Visiting Artist at Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, USA
2005- 2003 Instructor of Intermediate Drawing and Painting, Lamar Dodd School of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens, USA
1999 Visiting Artist at Tri-Cities High School, Atlanta, USA
1989- 1990 Instructor of Drawing, Instituto Pedagogico Superior [Higher
Pedagogical Institute], Havana, Cuba
Instructor
of Sculpture, Instituto Superior of Art [Higher Institute of Art], Havana,
Cuba
Public Collections
Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, USA
CEMEX, Monterrey, Mexico
Hammons House Galleries, Atlanta, USA
CV/Aguilera
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, MARCO,Monterrey, Mexico
National Museum Palace of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
National Council for the Arts, Havana, Cuba
Peter Ludwing, Aachen Museum, Germany
Ramis Barquet Public Collection, New York, USA
The Columbus Museum, Columbus, USA
Atlanta International Airport Art Collection, USA
Fulton County Arts Council Collection, Atlanta, USA
Selected Bibliography
Bazzano-Nelson, Florencia. Belonging-Pertenecer. Atlanta: City Gallery East, 2001.
Camnitzer, Luis. New Art of Cuba. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.
Craven, David. Art and Revolution in Latin America 1910-1990. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002.
Cullum, Jerry. “Dipping a Brush in Two Cultures.” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (March 14), 2004.
Fernández, Ana M. “Alejandro Aguilera” Art Nexus, No. 61 (Junio), 2006.
Fox, Catherine. “Art as a Multilayer Conversation.” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (November 21), 2004.
Gess, Richard. “A.B.” Art Papers (July-August), 2003.
Jones, Kellie and Rachel Weiss. The Nearest Edge of the World. Art and Cuba Now. Massachusetts: Polarities, Inc., 1990.
Sullivan, Edward. “El poder percivido.” Los Buenos y los Malos. Monterrey: Ramis Barquet Gallery, 1992.
Veigas, José, Cristina Vives, Adolfo V. Nodal, Valia Garzón and Dannys Montes de Oca. Memoria Cuban Art of the 20th Century. California: International Arts Foundation, 2002.
Weinstein, Joe. “Ornamentos.” Art Nexus (February), 2002.