Cuban painter and printmaker. She received the National Curatorship Award for her intense work at the Casa de las Américas. In 2019 she received the National Prize for Visual Arts.
Lesbia was born in Cruces, Villa Clara. She studied painting, drawing, sculpture, lithography and pedagogy. In 1961 she was a founding member of the International Association of Visual Artists (AIAP) and the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC).
Personal and Group Exhibitions
In 1958 and 1960 at the I and II Inter-American Biennial of Painting and Printmaking. National Museum of Visual Arts, Mexico City (Mexico).
In 1961 at the VI São Paulo Biennial Museum of Modern Art. Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo (Brazil).
In 1963 and 1965 at the First and Second American Biennial of Printmaking. Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Chile, Santiago de Chile (Chile)
In 1983 at the I Havana Biennial. National Museum of Fine Arts.
Works in Collection
From the Disparate series, work by Lesbia Vent Dumois
Her main collections are exhibited in:
Casa de Las Américas, Havana, Cuba.
Print Cabinet, Berlin, Germany.
National Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Bacardí Museum, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
Museum of Solidarity, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba.
Awards Received
First Latin American Woodcut Competition Award, Argentina, 1960.
Mention. First Latin American Printmaking Competition, Latin American Gallery, Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba, 1962.
Acquisition Award. International Print Biennial Cracow 1972, Krakow, Poland.
Chile Today Chile Tomorrow, National Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1974.
National Curatorship Award 2000. [1]
Plaza Medal, awarded by the government of this capital municipality, on the occasion of Culture Week, 2018.
National Prize for Visual Arts 2019.
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