Carlos Martiel

Martiel was born in Havana, Cuba. He identifies as queer and afrolatinx, with Haitian and Jamaican ancestry. He graduated from the National School of Fine Arts "San Alejandro" of Cuba in 2009. Additionally, he studied at the Chair of Conduct Art (School of Behavioral Art) with Tania Bruguera from 2008 to 2010. Martiel lives and works in both Havana and New York.

Martiel's work can be characterized as art of resistance. His artistic practice uses his own body, often nude, to call attention to the embodied experience of blackness under systems of violence and exploitation.

In his long-duration performances, Martiel frequently subjects himself to physical pain and self-harm. This includes piercing his skin with a miniature pole bearing an American flag, having a pest exterminator spray his body with insecticide, compressing his legs under the weight of a pear wood log, sewing the collar of a blue shirt to the skin around his neck, and having a piece of his own skin surgically removed and preserved in a gold medal that he himself had designed.

Thematically, his works explore racism and racialization, gender, immigration, and the legacy of European colonialism in the United States.

He lives and works in New York. Graduate of the National Academy of Fine Arts "San Alejandro" in Havana, 2009. Between the years 2008-2010, he studied at the Chair of Conduct Art, directed by artist Tania Bruguera.

His works have been included in the Lanzarote Biennial, Spain; Biennial of the Americas, United States; Vancouver Biennial, Canada; Sharjah Biennial, UAE; Cuenca Biennial, Ecuador; 57th Venice Biennial, Italy; Casablanca Biennale, Morocco; "La Otra" Biennial, Colombia; Liverpool Biennial, United Kingdom; Pontevedra Biennial, Spain; Havana Biennial, Cuba. He has performed at The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York; United States, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York; United States, El Museo del Barrio, New York; United States, The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia; Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Quito, Ecuador; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, United States; The Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH), Houston, United States; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia (MACZUL), Maracaibo, Venezuela; Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy; Museo Nitsch, Naples, Italy.

He has received various awards such as Franklin Furnace Fund in New York, United States, 2016; "CIFOS Grants & Commissions Program Award" in Miami, United States, 2014; "Arte Laguna" in Venice, Italy, 2013. His work has been exhibited at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo, Brazil; The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach, United States; Zisa Zona Arti Contemporanee (ZAC), Palermo, Italy; Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, United States; Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba; among others.

His work is present in public and private collections, including: The Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami; Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro.

Education:
2008-2010 Chair of Conduct Art directed by artist Tania Bruguera, Havana, Cuba.
2005-2009 National Academy of Plastic Arts "San Alejandro", Havana, Cuba.

Solo Exhibitions and Performances:
2023.
Carlos Martiel, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, United States. (forthcoming)
Punzada, LLANO, Mexico City, Mexico. (forthcoming)
Carlos Martiel, Verve Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil. (forthcoming)
Human Remains, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Panama City, Panama. (forthcoming)
Possession, Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.
Material Fair, with Steve Turner, Mexico City, Mexico.

2022.
Architecture for a Body, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, United States.
Weight, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, United States.
People of Color, Instituto de Visión, Bogotá, Colombia.
Alter Ego, The 8th Floor, New York, United States.
No Man's Land, Galleria Continua, Paris, France.

2021.
Spectrum, Hangar, Barcelona, Spain.
Monument II, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States.
Cuerpx, Museo de las Artes de la Universidad de Guadalajara (MUSA), Guadalajara, Mexico.
Pink Death, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, United States.
Two Insignias, OCDChinatown, New York, United States.
Monument I, El Museo del Barrio, New York, United States.

2020.
The Shadow of the Color Line, Lux Art Institute, San Diego, United States.
Third Person, The Armory, Daniels & Fisher Tower, History Colorado Center, RiNo, Denver, United States.
Black Bodies – White Lies, K Contemporary Gallery, Denver, United States.
Dark Wound (online exhibition), Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, United States.

2019.
Southern Body, 5th Biennial of the Americas, Denver, United States.
Death to Oblivion, University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, United States.
Statute, Vancouver Art Gallery, 4th Vancouver Biennale, Vancouver, Canada.
Under Occupation, Hinge Park, 4th Vancouver Biennale, Vancouver, Canada.
Taste of Tears, Bait Obaid Al Shamsi, 14th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Intruder, Gilda Lavia Gallery, Rome, Italy.

2018.
Charrúa Ancestry, Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo, Uruguay.
People of Color, XIV Biennial of Cuenca, Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno, Cuenca, Ecuador.
People of Color, XIV Biennial of Cuenca, Plaza Cívica, Cuenca, Ecuador.
Yanga Blood, Peana Projects, Monterrey, Mexico.
Intruder (America), AC Institute, New York, United States.
Encomienda, CCK, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
America, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA Performance Art Festival, Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach, United States.

2017.
Line of Fire, Havana Art Weekend, Factoría Habana, Havana, Cuba.
Continent, Y Gallery, New York, United States.
Memory Fragments, Factoría Habana, Havana, Cuba.
Lost Bullet, Cais do Valongo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Kayapó Lament, Despina, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Mediterranean, Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti, Venice, Italy.
Spilled Blood, Villa Vertua Masolo, Nova Milanese, Italy.

2016.
Living in Your Body, Galleria Rossmut, Rome, Italy.
Foundation, CIFO Art Space, Miami, United States.
Intersection, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia (MACZUL), Maracaibo, Venezuela.
Maze, The 8th Floor, New York, United States.
Mule, Denniston Hill, Fallsburg, United States.
Black Piranhas: The Route of Pain, Proyecto Poporopo, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Lineage, Y Gallery, New York, United States.
Appeared, Historic Center, Guadalajara, Mexico.

2015.
Segregation, Samsøn Projects, Boston, United States.
Legacy, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, United States.
Isolated, Steve Turner, Los Angeles, United States.
Foundation, Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, United States.
Ascension, MAAS | Mandragoras Art Space, New York, United States.
Ruins, CentralTrak, Dallas, United States.

2014.
Condemnation, Cannonball Residence, Miami, United States.
Silent Prayer, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, United States.

2013.
Acid Rain, Axeneo7, Gatineau, Canada.
Point of Escape, Museo Nitsch, Naples, Italy.
Prodigal Son, Galería Lux, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

2012.
Simulation, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba.

2011.
Delusional, Salle Zero, Alianza Francesa de la Habana, Havana, Cuba.

2010.
Prodigal Son, House Witch, Liverpool, United Kingdom.

2009.
Black Adam and More, Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro", Havana, Cuba.

Group Exhibitions:

2023.
VERBO, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil. (forthcoming)
AMIGXS Radicals, The Clemente, New York, United States.
What Is, Is What Has Been, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, United States.
Fate. The Borrowed Powers of Water, Tropiques Atrium, Fort-de-France, Martinique.

2022.
Caribbean-yet-to-come: On the Coastlines of Antillean Performance, VisArts Center, Rockville, United States.
Cuba Introspettiva: Intermedia Practices and Video Art, Flashback, Turin, Italy.
Term of Belonging, Avlak Gallery, Los Angeles, United States.
Entre/Between, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, United States.
Like the Hare in the Páramo, XI Lanzarote Biennial, International Museum of Contemporary Art, Canary Islands, Spain.
Breathe into the Past: Crosscurrents in the Caribbean, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado, United States.
In the Mind's Eye: Landscape of Cuba, Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, United States.
My Own Past / My Own Past: Afrodescendant Contributions to Cuban Art, Ethelbert Cooper Gallery for African & African American Art, Harvard University, Boston, United States.
Indecency, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, United States.
Breathe into the Past: Crosscurrents in the Caribbean, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado, United States.
Press Release, Storage, New York, United States.
Empires of the Plural: A Sample of the CIFO Collection, Museo de Arte Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico.
ITUTU: Diddy Didn't Invent the Remix, Tone, Memphis, United States.
It is Here, Never Elsewhere, Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, France.
Trilogy of Ashes (v.2) "Next Time, Fire", Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France.
Queer Zagreb, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia.
Havana Forge of the South, Dakar Biennale, Museum of African Arts IFAN, Dakar, Senegal. (forthcoming)
Articulating Activism, The 8th Floor, New York, United States.
LA BRÈCHE, Galleria Continua, Paris, France.
Standing Wave, Caleta, Mexico City, Mexico.

2021.
The Little Thing That Counts, MARRANOSCO Gallery, Belgium, Brussels.
RAIZ, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Quito, Ecuador.
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Somerset House, London, United Kingdom.
Shadow of Paradise, Maëlle Galerie, Paris, France.
Plural Domains, The Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, United States.
Counterflags, Abrons Art Center, New York, United States.
Visualizing / Performing Blackness in the Afterlives of Slavery (online exhibition), The Afterlives of Slavery, Chicago, United States.
WE ARE WELL – THE TRIENNIAL, El Museo del Barrio, New York, United States.
I Am: New Afro-Latinx Narratives (online exhibition), Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach, United States.

2020.
Witness: Afro Perspectives from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, El Espacio 23, Miami, United States.
LIVE ACTION 15 (online exhibition), Gothenburg, Sweden.
Stage Out (online exhibition), Escenix, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
At Times I Think That…, Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Lucca, Italy.
Adolescence – Between Departure and Nightmare, Kunstraum Hase29, Osnabrück, Germany.
10 of 500: Squaring the Circle, Factoría Habana, Havana, Cuba.

2019.
Challenge to Power II, Justice Hotel, Chicago, United States.
Please Leave This World, Maëlle Galerie, Paris, France.
Afro Syncretic, The King Juan Carlos Gallery, New York, United States.
Keep Dancing (Wake Up the Neighbor), BienalSur, Casa Museo Torre del Reloj, Cúcuta, Colombia.
Concert for Birds, Goethe-Institut, Salvador, Brazil.
Broken Idols, Maëlle Galerie, Paris, France.
11th Meeting of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Museo San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico.
Manifestation Ephemeral Arts, FLUX, Maison Blanche, Marseille, France.
Zero Gravity International Performance Art Festival, Latitude 53, Edmonton, Canada.
Nothing Personal, 13th Havana Biennial, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba.
Behind the Wall, 13th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba.
Mother, In Your Eyes I See Myself, Concrete Space, Miami, United States.
Look for Me All Around You, 14th Sharjah Biennial, Bait Obaid Al Shamsi, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Queer is Not a Manifesto, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2018.
FREE, Brickell City Centre, Miami, United States.
The Persistence of the Body: Traces of Performance Art in Latin America, Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Resilience and Resistance in African Diaspora, Musée des Civilisations Noires, Dakar, Senegal.
Loop Barcelona, with Gilda Lavia Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
Living Structures, XIV Biennial of Cuenca, Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno, Cuenca, Ecuador.
Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, United States.
Drifting Bodies Actions in Liquid Contexts, (BOX)Videoart Project Space, Milan, Italy.
Damned of the Postwar, Espacio Aglutinador, Havana, Cuba.
Code Art Fair, with Gilda Lavia Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Road to the Sea, Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia.
Inheritance, SACO – Contemporary Art Festival, Fundación Minera Escondida – Arte Hall, Antofagasta, Chile.
Utopias, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Quito, Ecuador.
New Generation Performance Artists, Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt, Germany.
Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Wallach Art Gallery, New York, United States.
Habeas Corpus Ad Subjiciendum: The Mystique of the Body, Museo Nacional de Arte, La Paz, Bolivia.
Monuments: Poetics of Disclosure, MIAMI Contemporary Practices, Bogotá, Colombia.
Supermarket Art Fair, with Kunstverein Familie Montez, Stockholm, Sweden.
Habemus Korpus, Galerie Knoerle & Baettig Contemporary, Winterthur, Switzerland.
Bio Pix, Steve Turner, Los Angeles, United States.
Live Artists Live: Simultaneity, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA Performance Art Festival, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States.

2017.
Untitled Art Fair, with Y Gallery, Miami, United States.
ON/OFF, Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP), Paris, France.
Goodbye Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, United States.
Self-Organize / Auto-Organizar, Bronx Art Space, New York, United States.
ARTBO, with Y Gallery, Corferias, Bogotá, Colombia.
Stories of Sexuality, Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo, Brazil.
Ch.ACO, with Galleria Rossmut, CV Galería, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
Cure History, Fábrica de Arte Cubano, Havana, Cuba.
Delicacy, Solar dos Abacaxis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
This Same Body, Despina, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach, United States.
Immigrancy, Samsøn Projects, Boston, United States.
Wake Festival, Performance Space, Folkestone, United Kingdom.
Art x Cuba – Contemporary Perspectives Since 1989, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany.
Deconstructing Liberty: A Destiny Manifested, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Muzeo Museum and Cultural Center, Anaheim, United States.
Thinking Practice, Ex Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Performance Show #2, Sesc, Santos, Brazil.
Twenty-three, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisbon, Portugal.
Habeas Corpus Ad Subjiciendum: The Mystique of the Body, Cuba Pavilion, Havana, Cuba.
Indelible Memories: Art and Words in Movement, 58th Edition of the Bice Bugatti Award, Villa Vertua Masolo, Nova Milanese, Italy.
ON/OFF, Casa Victor Hugo, Havana, Cuba.
BP.17, Performance Box – arteBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Time of Intuition, Cuba Pavilion – 57th Venice Biennial, Palazzo Loredan, Venice, Italy.
Goodbye Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH), Houston, United States.
Independence Pop, Museo Fortaleza San Felipe, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.
Art Fair, with Gallerie Rossmut, BolognaFiere, Bologna, Italy.
Sonique, Centro Hispanoamericano de Cultura, Havana, Cuba.
Our Anxious Times, Express Newark – Rutgers University, Newark, United States.
LA Art Show, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, United States.

2016.
All Perception is an Interpretation: You are Part of It, CIFO Art Space, Miami, United States.
Bridges, Hacienda La Trinidad, Caracas, Venezuela.
Pierce, Mark, Morph, Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, United States.
We The People, Casablanca International Biennial, The Mezquita Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco.
Art Verona, with Galleria Rossmut, Verona, Italy.
Language Product, Boston Arts Academy, Boston, United States.
CUBA. Tattooing History, Zisa Zona Arti Contemporanee (ZAC), Palermo, Italy.
Swab Barcelona with Galleria Rossmut, Barcelona, Spain.
Enacting Stillness, The 8th Floor, New York, United States.
The Cuban Woman and Man, The Copley Society of Art, Boston, United States.
Live Action 11, Bältespännarsparken, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Quiebre: International Performance Festival, Paseo de Diego, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Lima Photo 2016, with Y Gallery, Centro de la Imagen, Lima, Peru.
Xth Hemispheric Meeting, DETUCH, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
CUBA. Tattooing History, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea (PAC), Milan, Italy.
Scope Art Show, with Kir Royal Gallery, Clarahuus, Basel, Switzerland.
New World: Violence Remains, Teatterikorkeakoulu, Helsinki, Finland.
New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA), with Samsøn Projects, Basketball City, New York, United States.
Low-grade Euphoria, Pfizer Building, New York, United States.
(AS ONE) Durational Works From IMMATERIAL, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece.
An Island Apart: Cuban Artists in Exile, Miller Gallery / Frank Museum of Art / Fisher Gallery; Westerville, United States.
Barthes, My Love, La ONG, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2015.
Time Sensitive Pinta Miami, Mana Wynwood, Miami, United States.
Celebration Videoplay, Espaço Phosphorus, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Crossing Boundaries, Court Square Studios, New York, United States.
Action Art Festival Decadence Performance, Galería Espacio, Valencia, Spain.
The Island That Dreamed of Lions – Artwork in Cuba, Museo Tornielli, Ameno, Italy.
A Beautiful New World, The Second Nanjing International Art Festival, Nanjing International Exhibition Center, Nanjing, China.
Happy Hour, Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, United States.
4th Performance Festival Thessaloniki, 5th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Studio Vix Motrix, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Latin American Performance Meeting, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Argentino (MACA), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Performing, Glasshouse ArtLifeLab, New York, United States.
Video in Action, Museo de Arte Valencia (MUVA), Carabobo, Venezuela.
The Third Shore, Kir Royal Gallery, Valencia, Spain.

2014.
Encounters, La Brise Glace, Annecy, France.
The New [New] Corpse, Sector 2337, Chicago, United States.
Challenge to Power, Lugar Común, Caracas, Venezuela.
Celebration Videoplay, (BOX)Videoart Project Space, Milan, Italy.
Traveling Imaginations, CIFO Art Space, Miami, United States.
Pinta London, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, United Kingdom.
III International Biennial of Contemporary Art ULA-2014, Merida, Venezuela.
30th Anniversary Havana Biennial, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba.
Behind the Wall, The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, New York, United States.
Celebration Videoplay, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Argentino (MACA), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Rapid Pulse International, Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, United States.
Dextrocardia, Factoría de Arte y Desarrollo, Madrid, Spain.
Rolling Together, Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China.
The In-Tension, Institut Supérieur des Beaux Arts de Besançon, Besançon, France.
Think Twice, New Latin American Jewelry, Museo Arocena, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico.
International Performance Art Biennale, Art League Houston, Houston, United States.

2013.
To Break Down Walls, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba.
Video in Action, Alianza Francesa en Maracay, Maracay, Venezuela.
Central American and Caribbean Video Art "The Other Biennial", La Macarena, Bogotá, Colombia.
The In-Tension, Beton7, Athens, Greece.
Labyrinth, Fonderie Darling, Montreal, Canada.
Perpendicular Struggle, SESC Palladium, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Behind the Wall, The 8th Floor, New York, United States.
VIVA! Art Action, Bain St-Michel, Montreal, Canada.
Think Twice, New Latin American Jewelry, Centro de las Artes, Monterrey, Mexico.
Incorpora, Espacio Xisto, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.
Beyond Fragility, Video Art Festival Miden, Kalamanca Historic Center, Greece.
Road Maps, Officine Creative Ansald, Milano, Italy.
Sovereign Acts, Spazio 13, Warsaw, Poland.
Think Twice, New Latin American Jewelry, Estonian Museum of Art and Design, Tallinn, Estonia.
Exhibition of Awarded Artists 2012, Haus Der Kunst, Guadalajara, Mexico.

2012.
International Multimedia Art Festival, Institut Français de Birmanie, Yangon, Myanmar.
IV Deformed Biennial, Universidad de Chile "Facultad de Teatro", Santiago de Chile, Chile.
On Sincerity, Boston University, Boston, United States.
N.N. International Performance Exhibition, Espacio Quina, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Body to Body II, La Multinacional Espacio de Dialogo, Quito, Ecuador.
FLYERS, Collateral to the Eleventh Havana Biennial, Morro – Cabaña, Havana, Cuba.
A Vintage Story, Alcalå 273, Madrid, Spain.
New Political Video Realities, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Medellín, Colombia; Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (MAMbA), San Juan, Argentina; Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito (CAC), Quito, Ecuador; Centro Cultural España Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina; Cooperativa tramallol, Seville, Spain; Centro Cultural Los Fundadores, Manizales, Colombia; La Mandorla, San Juan, Argentina; Fundación Bilbao Arte, Bilbao, Spain; Perifèries (La Nau), Valencia, Spain; Antic Teatre, Barcelona, Spain.
Art Is Not Easy: Temporal Lapses and Artistic Translation, Links Hall, Chicago, United States.
Wakes, Espacio Intermitente, Cartagena, Colombia.

2011.
Five Years, Salle Zero, Alianza Francesa de la Habana, Havana, Cuba.
Pink Noise, Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas y Diseño, Havana, Cuba.
Friendly Takeover, Artlab21 zu Gast bei E105 Studio, Bonn, Germany.
Think Twice, New Latin American Jewelry, Bellevue Museum of Arts, Seattle, United States.
Spray, Das Hochhaus Kokerei Hansa Museum, Dortmund, Germany.

2010.
Images, Imageres, Imaginaries, Biscuiterie de Medina, Dakar, Senegal.
The Atmosphere: Poetic Section, Festival de Arte +, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wilfredo Lam, Havana, Cuba.
Touched, Visitor Centre, 6th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
The Extreme of the Bullet, A Decade of Cuban Art, Cuba Pavilion, Havana, Cuba.
Omitted Subject, Cátedra Humboldt, Havana, Cuba.
Think Twice: New Latin American Jewelry, Museum of Art and Design (MAD), New York, United States.
American Night, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba.
Utropicos, Universidad de Bellas Artes de Pontevedra, XXXI Biennial of Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain.

2009.
Strong is the Morro WHO I AM, Espacio Aglutinador, Havana, Cuba.
Just for Short Films, Transfusión Cultural Cubana Festival, Barcelona, Spain.
State of Exception, Galería Habana X Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba.

Awards and Residencies:

2022.
Grants to Artists, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, United States.
2021.
Artist-in-Residence, AFRICA MOMENT'21, Graner, Barcelona, Spain.
Latinx Artist Fellowship, US Latinx Art Forum, United States.
2020.
FCA Emergency Grants COVID-19 Fund, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, United States.
Artist-in-Residence, Lux Art Institute, San Diego, United States.
2019.
Vancouver Biennale International Artist Residency, Vancouver, Canada.
2018.
Visiting Artist Lecture-Project Residency, University of Maryland, College Park, United States.
Persona | Residency Exchange Program, Peana Projects, Monterrey, Mexico.
Montez Performance Residency, Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt, Germany.
2017.
Despina Residency (Art and Activism in Latin America), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2016.
Franklin Furnace Fund, New York, United States.
Artist-in-Residence, Denniston Hill, Fallsburg, United States.
2015.
Artists-in-Residence, Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, United States.
2014.
Artist-in-Residence, Immigrant Movement International, New York, United States.
Artist-in-Residence, Cannonball Residence, Miami, United States.
CIFOS Grants & Commissions Program Award, Cisneros Fontanals Foundation (CIFO), Miami, United States.
2013.
Arte Laguna Award, Venice, Italy.
Short-Term Residency, La Multinacional, Quito, Ecuador.
2012.
Close Up Vallarta Award, Jalisco, Mexico.

Public Collections:

The Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts (AEIVA), Birmingham, United States.
ASU Art Museum, Tempe, United States.
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, United States.
Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France.
Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States.
Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba.
The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, New York, United States.