Ernesto Mateo Rancaño Vieties

One of the most renowned figures in contemporary Cuban art, member of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) and member of the International Association of Plastic Artists (A.I.A.P).

Studied at the National School of Plastic Arts from 1987 to 1991, where he graduated in the specialty of Painting and Drawing. 

Obtained First Prize in the Poster Contest sponsored and called by CETSS, La Habana, Cuba. 

His works are found in permanent collections in Panamá, México, Jamaica and España. He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions and has done installations. Since 1995 he is a member of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC).

1987-1991 School of Fine Arts of San Alejandro, specialty of Painting and Drawing. 

Since 1995 he is a member of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba.

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

1986 KARMA, Cuba Pavilion, La Habana. 

1994 El Jardín de Rancaño, Karl Marx Theater, La Habana. 

1996 La mano ciega, IMAGO Gallery, La Habana. 

Group Exhibitions (selection)

1986 ESPEJOMAQUIA, Casa de la Cultura de Plaza, La Habana. 

1987 Children's Mural in collaboration with painters Ulises González, Pedro Socorro and José M. Pérez Fernández. 

1989 Exhibition 170th Anniversary of San Alejandro, La Habana. 

1990 Collective Mural, Palacio de los Pioneros Ernesto Che Guevara, Parque Lenin, La Habana. 

1991 Second collective exhibition of teachers and students, Leopoldo Romañach Gallery, La Habana. 

1993 Desde el dibujo, La Acacia Gallery, La Habana. Art Cuban Now, Chelsea Gallery, Jamaica. Cuban Art in the Pampas, Provincial Art Museum of the Pampas, Argentina. 

1994 Founding Week, traveling exhibition, España. 

1995 ONE LOVE Jamaican and Cuban artists on the theme of love in honor of Bob Marley´s 50th birthday, Chelsea Gallery, Jamaica. 

1996 Twelve Wandering Tales, twelve Cuban painters, Museum of Contemporary Art of Bogotá, Colombia. 

Other Activities

1986 Illustration of a compilation of poems by Jorge Luis Borges. 

1989 Installation for the short fiction film Para subir al cielo, by Colombian Andrés Manoquin. 

1992 Installation for the Sol Palmeras Hotel of Meliá, Varadero (15 drawings). Creation of advertising posters from the 1950s for the setting of the Cuban soap opera De tu sueño a mi sueño. 

1993 Design of cover of the facsimile of Habanero Elegante. 

Awards

First Prize of the poster contest sponsored by CETSS.

 

Solo Exhibitions 

1986

 

KARMA, Cuba Pavilion, La Habana.

1994

 

El Jardín de Rancaño, Karl Marx Theater, La Habana.

1996

 

La mano ciega, IMAGO Gallery, La Habana.

2011

 

La carta que nunca te escribí

2012   La mitad de mi vida, Bóveda D3 (La Cabaña, XI Havana Biennial), Cuba.        

2011  La carta que nunca te escribí, Gallery 23 y 12, La Habana. Cuba. 

De tus ojos la sal, Sacramento Gallery. Portugal. 

Recent Works, The Cuban Art Space. Center For Cuban Studies, New York. 

2009 Forbidden Embraces, Habana Gallery, City of La Habana

2008 All the Time of the Cedars,  UNESCO Headquarters, París, Francia 

 

Group Exhibitions

2011 Living in Havana, Marlborough Chelsea Gallery. New York, United States. 

Cuban Art Exhibition, The Cuban Art Space of the Center for Cuban Studies. New York, United States. Cuban Art Exhibition, Korean Fine Association Daejeon Metropolitan City Branch, Korea. 

A Minute of Silence, Casa Guayasamín. City of La Habana, Cuba 

2010  Remake, Villa Lita Room of the Servando Cabrera Museum. City of La Habana, Cuba 

Simply Korda, Municipal Archives. Vila Real Sto. Antonio. Portugal 

Cuba Paints Guayasamín Guayasamín Foundation. City of Habana

Unique Piece. Contemporary Cuban Art, Auditorium of the Delegation of the Principality of Asturias. Madrid.

2009 Cuba Paints Guayasamín, Quito, Ecuador 

Signals in the Sea, Puerto Avenue, Historic Center, City of La Habana

Tomorrow Will Be Too Late. International Press Center. Tenth Havana Biennial  

2008 Tribute to Carlos Enríquez, 70th Anniversary The Abduction of the Mulattoes, Hispano-American Cultural Center, City of La Habana 

This is the Place of Art, Fifth Anniversary of the television program Art Place, La Casona Gallery, City of La Habana

2007 Light of Your Absence, Tribute to Celia Sánchez Manduley, Convent of San Francisco de Asís, City of La Habana

Mural, together with Eduardo Abela, Chelsea Arts Club, London 

Auction Expo, Funds for the Cause of the 5, Geneva, Switzerland 

Art and Fashion, National Museum of Fine Arts, City of La Habana

Square One Gallery, London (with Águedo Alonso and Flora Fong)

 

2006

 

Instructions Manual. IX Havana Biennial. Santa Clara Convent Headquarters, La Habana.

4 at the IX Havana Biennial. Mano Ciega Studio. From March 27 to April 27.

 

Naked with an Umbrella

Group Expo. España, La Castellana Headquarters, May 18.

Number Expo 5 x 5 = 25. For the 5th anniversary of the digital magazine La Jiribilla, José Martí Memorial, La Habana.

Do You Want More Gallery? Copa 42, La Habana.

2005

 

ArtCuba 2005. Together with plastic artist V. Bonachea. UN Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland.

2004

 

One, Two and Three, What a Cool Line. Together with plastic artists Vicente Bonachea and Eduardo Abela, Servando Gallery, 23 y 10, City of La Habana.

2002

 

Time to See. Together with artists Rubén Alpízar and María del Pilar Reyes, Space 304 Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico, February.

Mirrors Happen. Museum of Mexico City.

How Young is My Baseball Team. Latinoamericano Baseball Stadium, La Habana, Cuba.

2001

 

Mirrors Happen. Transitory Room of the José Martí Memorial, La Habana.

Visions of the Charity of Copper. Ballajá Barracks, Museum of the Americas, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November/December.

Kaleidoscope. 22 Cuban plastic artists on the occasion of the twelfth anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, National Theater of Cuba, November/December.

2000

 

Brushes on Point. Gallery of the Trades of Nelson Domínguez. Participates with a work on the occasion of the Havana Ballet Festival. The works of this exhibition became part of the heritage of the Dance Museum.

Postmedieval Cuban Painting. VII Havana Biennial, Convent of San Francisco de Asís, November.

 

"Martí"

1996

 

Twelve Wandering Tales, Twelve Cuban Painters, Museum of Contemporary Art of Bogotá, Colombia.

1995

 

ONE LOVE Jamaican and Cuban artists on the theme of love in honor of Bob Marley´s 50th birthday, Chelsea Gallery, Jamaica.

1994

 

Founding Week, traveling exhibition, España.

1993

 

Desde el dibujo, La Acacia Gallery, La Habana. Art Cuban Now, Chelsea Gallery, Jamaica. Cuban Art in the Pampas, Provincial Art Museum of the Pampas, Argentina.

 

Commander's Degrees, 2007

1991

 

Second collective exhibition of teachers and students, Leopoldo Romañach Gallery, La Habana.

1990

 

Collective Mural, Palacio de los Pioneros Ernesto Che Guevara, Parque Lenin, La Habana.

1989

 

Exhibition 170th Anniversary of San Alejandro, La Habana.

1987

 

Children's Mural in collaboration with painters Ulises González, Pedro Socorro and José M. Pérez Fernández.

1986

 

ESPEJOMAQUIA, Casa de la Cultura de Plaza, La Habana.

 

Awards:

2007 Diploma for Artistic Merit, Superior Institute of Art (ISA), La Habana, Cuba. 

2001 Djerassi Resident Artist Program. One-month residency for the creation of a mural painting, San Francisco, California, United States.

First Prize of the poster contest sponsored by CETSS.

 

Art Fairs:

2012 Art Fair ArtMónaco, Mónaco.  

2011 Art Fair JustMad, España.  Art Fair of Lisbon, Portugal. Art Fair ArtMoscow 2011, Moscow. 

Collections:

National Museum of Fine Arts, Cuba; Cernuda Arte, Miami; Nina Menocal. DF. México; Sting and Trudy Stayle. London; José Saramago. Valencia; State Council. Cuba; CNAP. Cuba; Alicia Alonso; Marlborough Gallery. New York; Sean Penn; Miraflores Government Palace. Venezuela; Che's Birthplace House Museum, Rosario, Argentina, Andrés Bello Project Collection. Colombia; Djerassi Foundation, San Francisco, California; UN Headquarters, Geneva; ICAIC, Cuba, Memory Museum Vilma Espín Birthplace House, Santiago de Cuba; Luciano Méndez. Banco Sabadell, representation in Cuba, La Habana.