Eduardo Sarmiento Portero

Graduated from the Instituto Superior de Diseño Industrial in 2004.

He worked as a designer at the Instituto Cubano del Libro and as a professor of illustration and poster design at the Instituto Superior de Diseño Industrial, and designed and illustrated the cultural magazine La Jiribilla de papel.

He collaborated with children's illustrations for the Cuban publishing house Gente Nueva.

He has obtained several national and international awards.

The Museo de Arte Latinoamericano (MOLAA), based in California, has added three works by Cuban-American painter Eduardo Sarmiento to its permanent collection.

"It is an honor to be part of the only museum in the USA dedicated to modern and contemporary Latin American art," the artist said in a statement.

The MOLAA will exhibit the pieces in early 2014.

Eduardo resides in Miami and expresses: "My work is a reflection of life, where beauty and the grotesque coexist. An impulse to make ourselves present and question imposed codes," he said in a recent interview published by Mexican magazine Ambiance.

Sarmiento has held several solo exhibitions in Miami and participated in group shows in that Florida city, Los Angeles, Oaxaca, London, Kiev, Munich, Quito, and La Habana.