René Francisco Rodríguez Hernández

This person from Holguín has distinguished work in collective art projects, outstanding pedagogical service, and above all, remarkable artistic work throughout a career with broad recognition in Cuba and internationally. In his professional trajectory, he has accumulated 24 personal exhibitions in Cuba, Europe, North America, and the Middle East, and has completed artistic residencies in Spain, the United States, Germany, Israel, Switzerland, and Canada.

Currently, he is a professor at the Instituto Superior de Arte and a member of the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba

Studies
1982 Nacional, Escuela de Arte (ENA), Ciudad de La Habana.
1987 Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), Ciudad de La Habana.

Artistic Residencies
2008 Artist in residence. Centro de Arte de Mataró. Barcelona. España.
2004 Artist in Residence, Cuban Artists Found. Artist in Residence, Pittsburgh mattress factory, EE.UU..
2003 Artist in Residence, Wiepersdorf Schloss, Germany.
1999 Artist in Residence, Hersliya. Artist in Residence, Israel.
1997 Artist in Residence, the Fine Arts Museum of La-Chaux-De-Fonds, Switzerland.
1996 Artist in Residence, Ludwig International Art Forum, Germany.

Professional Activity
Professor, Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), Ciudad de La Habana.
Members, the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC), Ciudad de La Habana.

Individual Exhibitions
2008 Projection of the new VideoWorks trilogy. Frills Community Garden 38 Charles Street, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
2008 Crossed Stories. PanAmerican Art Projects, Miami, USA
2006 Patio de Nin (9th Havana Biennial), Miramar Trade Center, Ciudad de La Habana.
2005 Waiting List. Galería Nina Menocal, México DF
Cut Pasta. MA Contemporary Galerie, Berlin.
Social Work (Collateral Exhibition of the Matanzas Art Salon). Centro Provincial de Arte de Matanzas.
2003 Little Loose Things. Wiepersdorf Schloss, Germany.
Ca (sz) a Beuys character. Foto Graphik Galerie Käthe Kollwitz, Berlin.
Settling Accounts (8th Havana Biennial). Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Ciudad de La Habana.
2002 All Use is an Abuse of the United Nations. Casa de las Américas. Ciudad de La Habana
Down René Francisco. Gallery 106, Austin, TX.
2001 Tubosutra. Museo Goch, Germany.
2000 Human, Too Human. Galería Casa de Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel.
1999 Tubosutra. Galería de La Habana, Ciudad de La Habana.
1997 Self-portraits (with Tonel and Eduardo Ponjuán). Galería O, Vancouver, Canadá.
1996 Call Malevich (with Eduardo Ponjuán). Kunshtalle, Dusseldorf and Kunstverein Lingen, Germany.
Malevich's Birthday. Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, La Habana.
1994 Flight (with Eduardo Ponjuán). Ifa-Galerie Friedrichstrase, Berlin.
Exhibition of the Month (with Eduardo Ponjuán). Aglutinantes Espacio, Ciudad de La Habana.
1993 Art and Comfort (with Eduardo Ponjuán). Galería Nina Menocal, México DF
1992 Come and Give Me a Hand. Centro de Arte 23 y 12, Ciudad de La Habana.
1989 Melodramatic Artist (with Eduardo Ponjuán). Castillo de La Real Fuerza, Ciudad de La Habana.
1988 Reading II (with Eduardo Ponjuán). Centro Provincial de Arte Plásticas y Diseño, Ciudad de La Habana.
1985 Confluences. Centro de Arte de Pinar del Río, Holguín, Pinar del Río / Biblioteca Alex Urquiola.

Group Exhibitions
2008 Cartographies of an Overseas Island. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. La Habana. Cuba.
2008 Common Places. The Collective Experience in Latin American Video. Centro José Guerrero. Granada, España.
Territories. Latin American Contemporary Art. Otranto, Italia.
Put it in International Cities. CCCM. Barcelona. España
2007 New Technologies. The Spaces of Contemporary Art. Universidad de Salamanca. España.
Balelatina 2007. Basilea Foundation. Dreinlandereck, Basilea, Suiza.
52nd Venice Biennial. Venecia. Italia.
Killing Time (second version of the waiting list). Exit Art. Nueva York, EE.UU..
2006 As in a Pharmacy. Salón de la Plástica Mexicana (Zócalo Book Fair) México DF, México.
Waiting List. Mestna Galerija Ljubljana. Eslovenia.
Rising Stars: Latin Americans of the North. Art Loves Design Program 2006. Art Basel Miami Beach 2006. Miami. EE.UU.
Art Forum. Nina Menocal Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
From the Other Side of the Atlantic. Galería Sacramento, Aveiro, Portugal.
Fantastic Frameworks. Architectural Utopias + Designs for Life. Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada.
Fast Forward. Centro Cultural Fresa y Chocolate, Ciudad de La Habana.
Internal Cities: Havana-Berlin (9th Havana Biennial). Centro Provincial de Artes Plástica y Diseño, Ciudad de La Habana.
The Multiple Mark. Convento of San Francisco de Asís, Ciudad de La Habana.
2004 Just in Time. Galería de La Habana, Ciudad de La Habana.
26 Biennial. Sao Paulo, Brasil
Unknown Sister, Unknown Brother. Kunsthaus Dresde, Germany.
Climbing Mountains Unites Men. Taller René Francisco with Kit and Khit Bergen, Noruega.
Cuban Artists in Residencies. Installations. Mattress Factory. Pittsburg, Philadelphia, EUA
Massa Dammata. Dammata Massa. Galeria Refugium, Berlin, Germany.
Art Cologne. Refugio Galeria. Colonia, Germany.
2003 Common Sense. Galería de La Habana, Ciudad de La Habana.
Ways to Invent Yourself a Smile. Centro de Desarrollo de Artes Visuales (CDAV), La Habana.
Art Fair Basel, Miami. USA EE.UU.
4D. Rain of Projects. Pabellón Cuba, Ciudad de La Habana.
2002 With Eyes of Stone and Water. Museo de Arte de Helsinki, Finlandia.
2:12. San Francisco Art Comission Gallery.
Openings over Water. Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
2001 Transform: 8 Artists in Trieste, Italia.
Contemporary Cuba. Galería DUPP, MAC, Brasil.
Hello Cuba Breaking Barriers (with Galería DUPP). Tallahasse, USA.
2000 Havana Nagila. Cuba - Israel: Dialogue. Tel Aviv, Israel.
Seventh Havana Biennial. Castillo de los Tres Reyes, Ciudad de La Habana. (With Galería DUPP)
International Sculpture Forum CODEMA 2000. Ciudad de La Habana.
1999 Rio Grande. Workshop. Grand Riviere, Trinidad y Tobago. Museo Nacional. Trinidad Tobago. Trinidad y Tobago.
48th Venice Biennial. Italia.
1998 Irony and Survival on the Utopian Island. Museo de Bellas Artes, Arizona, EE.UU.
The Direction of the Gaze. Zurich, Suiza.
1997 Repair Workshop. Sixth Havana Biennial. Ciudad de La Habana.
I Iberoamerican Biennial. Lima, Perú.
Utopian Territories: New Art from Cuba. Morris & Helen Belkin Gallery, (British Columbian University), Vancouver, Canada.
1996 International Contemporary Art Fair ARCO´96. Recinto Ferial Juan Carlos I, Madrid.
- Inside-Outside. Walter Phillips Gallery de Canadá.
1995 International Contemporary Art Fair ARCO´95. Recinto Ferial Juan Carlos I, Madrid.
One of Each Kind. Centro Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museología, Fundación Ludwig de Cuba, Ciudad de La Habana.
1994 Dream, Art and Market. 5th Havana Biennial. Complejo Morro-Cabaña, Ciudad de La Habana.
1992 Avant-garde and Campaign. Centro Cultural de Dusseldorf, Germany.
From There: Cuba. Ludwig Forum for International Culture, Aachen, Germany.
The Prodigious Era. Museo del Chopo, México DF
1990 The Sculpted Object. Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales. Ciudad de La Habana.
1988 It's Not Just What You See. Escuela de Artes y Letras, Universidad de La Habana, Ciudad de La Habana.
1985 Joan Miró Salon. Barcelona, España.

Plastic Actions
2002 The Lender and the Debtor (concert). Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), Ciudad de La Habana.
2001 Homage to San Francisco. San Francisco, California, EUA (with Felipe Dulzaides).
2000 From an Abstract Thinking. Galería de La Habana, Ciudad de La Habana (with Galería DUPP).
1998 The Return of Joseph Beuys. First Ana Mendieta Performance Festival, Ciudad de La Habana.
1997 Revive the ReVoltaire. Action Group of Cuban Artists at Spiegelgasse 1, Zürich, one-time location of the Voltaire cabaret, the place where Dadaism held its meetings.
Joseph Beuys, 7 Days in Holguín. Holguín, Cuba.
1996 Malevi Silly, Daddy Silly. Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, La Habana.
1987/1988 Cuban Plastic Art Dedicates Itself to Baseball (performance). Círculo Social. Círculo Social. José A. Echevarría, Ciudad de La Habana.
1987 If I Leave I'll Arrive... Fototeca de Cuba, Ciudad de La Habana (with Francisco Lastra).

Integration of Social Work
2004/05 Patio de Nin. El Romerillo Quarter, La Habana.
2003 At Rosa's House, El Romerillo Quarter, La Habana.
1997 From a Pedagogical Pragmatics. Third Edition. Galería DUPP, Instituto Superior de Arte, Ciudad de La Habana.
1992 From a Pedagogical Pragmatics. Second Edition. Department of Debates and Exhibitions, Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), Ciudad de La Habana.
1990 Commissioned Paintings Free. Santa Cruz del Valle, Ávila, España.
1989-1990 From a Pedagogical Pragmatics. First Edition, April-May, Ciudad de La Habana.

Awards and Recognition
2010
2008 Order for National Education
Order for National Culture
2001 Doctor Honoris Causa in Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.
2000 UNESCO Prize With Galería DUPP, 7th Havana Biennial, Ciudad de La Habana.