Armando de Armas Romero

He studied between 1957 and 1959 at the School of Arts and Crafts in Havana.

He is considered a self-taught artist who developed his work in painting and scenography. He worked between the 1930s and 1950s as a postal employee and construction worker in the Cuban capital. Between 1957 and 1959 he was a set designer, with Manolo Roig, at the Teatro Martí in the Cuban capital.

Group Exhibitions
Among the most relevant group shows, the "III Triennial of Insito Art (Naif)" in 1972 at the Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava (then Czechoslovakia) and during 1972 and 1973 the major exhibition "8 Primitive Painters" that toured several European countries and was shown in Copenhagen (Denmark), Belgrade (Yugoslavia), Prague (former Czechoslovakia), Warsaw (Poland), at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow (USSR), at the Szépmúvészeti Museum in Budapest (Hungary), at the Galeria de Artâ Naivâ in Bucharest (Romania) and in Sofia (Bulgaria).

He was also part of two important exhibitions such as "11 Ingenuous Painters of Cuba" in the lobby of the Museum of the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City and in 1981 "Popular Artists of Cuba" at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana.

Solo Exhibitions
He achieved two important solo exhibitions, one of them in 1975 "Exhibition of Landscapes by Armando de Armas", at the La Rampa Gallery of the Hotel Habana Libre and the other in 1978, "Cuban Landscapes by the painter Armando de Armas", at the Casa de la Cultura de Plaza, Havana.

Collections
His work is part of the collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana.