Lázaro Reynaldo Rodríguez

Cuban painter based in Mexico since 1991, the year he arrived in this country invited to hold a three-person exhibition at a gallery called Qualy. It was the first time he exhibited his work in Mexico, and from then on his life began to happen between Mexico and Cuba, because from that year on he discovered very favorable situations in the world of creation, in the world of everyday life and in life itself, to consider staying for a long time in that country.

Mexico, a country with a millenary culture and tradition, in everything, in architecture, in painting, in environments; it is a land that has enjoyed an important cultural structure. So, the artist who arrives from elsewhere, the artist who has the opportunity to live and produce in Mexico, receives a very favorable, very positive influence in his work. Mexico City is a city that has so many things for the sensitivity of the artist, of Mexican culture, of Mexico City.

Thus he had the opportunity to perfect and enrich all the things he had learned and translates them into paintings, drawings, objects.

He achieves a healthy coexistence of what is traditionally or conventionally known as figurative painting and abstraction; that is, if you go from one painting to another you can discover a work that you can consider as totally abstract, although there is an element that you associate directly with some aspect of urban landscape. Furthermore, we find harmony within the paintings, especially in the characters that are shown in profile, either looking toward the upper edge on the left or right of the painting that connect perfectly with the planimetry of the geometric elements he uses in his work. Everyone looks upward, everyone is, so to speak, grazing in the universe permanently.

He uses the colors red, blue and white for a very patriotic feeling, for the colors of his country's flag.

He studied at the El Alba School of Plastic Arts in his hometown, Holguín, Cuba. He graduated in 1983 in painting and drawing at the intermediate level.

He has completed curatorial studies in a joint program of the University of Havana and the Higher Institute of Art. He has held exhibitions in Cuba, Mexico, Russia, Venezuela and Puerto Rico. He has participated in several Cuban Plastic Arts Salons in Mexico.

1984
-Graduate Studies in Curatorship at the University of Havana and Higher Institute of Art.

1988
-First solo exhibition. Graphic Workshop of Holguín.
1988
-Third Salon of Award Winners. National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana.
-Award in drawing for the work Myth and Reality. Manech Hall, Moscow Leningrad, international meeting of young creators.
-Gallery of the Máximo Gómez Museum, exhibition Seed Journey, Havana.

1989
-Second National Small Format Salon. Alejo Carpentier Gallery, Camagüey, Cuba.
-Award in sculpture. National Salon of UNEAC, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana.
-Participated as a jury member in different national events. The sculpted object. Center for Visual Arts. Havana.

1990
-First prize. National Competition of sculptural projects for the commemoration of the Fifth Centennial of the Encounter between two cultures, Holguín, Cuba.

1991
-Three-person exhibition Qually gallery Federal District, Mexico.
-Collective exhibition of young Cuban art, Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico City.
-Traveling Exhibition of Cuban Painting; Valencia, Carabobo, Mérida, Venezuela.

1992
-Warm Spaces Gallery, contemporary Cuban art, Ateneo de Caracas, Venezuela.
-Personal exhibition The Other City. Ville Gallery, Mexico City.

1993
-Inter-American University of Puerto Rico, young Cuban art. San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1994
-Museum of Modern Art, young Cuban art, Toluca, Mexico.

1995
-Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros, International art auction, Mexico City.
-Embassy of the Republic of Cuba, contemporary Cuban art, Mexico City.

1996
-José Martí Cultural Center. Cuban plastic arts, Mexico City.

1998
-Personal exhibition, Distilling Lighthouses, Los Portales Cultural Center, Córdoba, Veracruz, Mexico.
-Club of Journalists of Mexico City, Cuban Painting.

1999
-Personal exhibition To the Wheel, Zaloren. Contemporary Art, Mexico City.

2000
-Second National Desert Festival of the Potosino, Matehuala, San Luis Potosí.

2001
-Personal Exhibition "II Ritorno", Gallery of the Ambos Mundos Hotel, Havana.
-Personal exhibition, The fixed idea, Tea & Espresso, Art Gallery, Mexico City.

2002
-Filiberto Solís Gallery. Plaza del Ángel, Mexico City.
-Personal exhibition Under My Skin, Anáhuac University, Mexico City.

2003
-Personal exhibition Architecture Times, Chapingo University, State of Mexico.
-Personal exhibition Times of Staircases and Circles, Zaloren, Contemporary Art, Mexico City.

2004
-Personal exhibition, Cathedral Times, Museum of Cultures, Matehuala, S.L.P. Mexico.

2005
-Personal exhibition. Equilibrium in Ascent, Gerard, Art Division, Mexico City.

2006
-Individual exhibition "Architecture of Light" Chamber of Deputies, Mexico City.

2007
-Lisboa 60 Gallery, Collective Exhibition Five Visions. Tribute to Tongolele. Mexico City.

2008
-Filiberto Solís Gallery, Permanent exhibition.

His works are found in important private and state collections in Cuba, Mexico, United States, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Colombia and Europe.