Antonio Eligio Fernández Rodríguez (Tonel)

Cuban artist. Born in Havana (1958). Graduated from the Facultad de Bellas Artes y Humanidades, University of Havana (1982). Founded the Hexágono group of artists with five fellow students (1983). Co-curator of the Kuba o.k. exhibition (1990). Fellow of the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen (1992). Decorated by the Ministerio de Cultura de Cuba for his contribution to national culture (1994). Fellow of the Simon R. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation International, New York (1995), Rockefeller Foundation, Latin American and Latino Art Research Program in Texas and the Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin (1997). Lives and works in Havana. Contributed to Yo lo que quiero es ser feliz at the Proyecto Castillo de La Fuerza, Consejo Nacional de las Artes Plásticas and Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana (1989), No Man is an Island. Nuorta taidetta Kuubasta at the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales in Havana, Porin Taidemuseo in Pori, Finland, Mücsarnok and Museo Ernest in Budapest and the Palffy Palace in Vienna (1990), Kubanische Kunst aus der Sammlung Ludwig at the Kunsthalle Brandts Klaedefabrik in Odense, Denmark (1992), XXII São Paulo Biennale (1994), Una de cada clase at the Fundación Ludwig de Cuba in Havana (1995), Cuba. La isla posible at the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea in Barcelona (1995), Cuba siglo XX: modernidad y sincretismo at the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno in Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Fundación La Caixa in Palma, Majorca and the Centro de Arte Santa Mónica in Barcelona (1996), Mundo soñado at the Fundación Ludwig de Cuba in Havana and the Casa de América in Madrid (1996), Territorios utópicos at the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery (British Columbia University) Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver (1997), Contemporary Art from Cuba. Irony and Survival on the Utopian Island at the Arizona State University Museum in Tempe and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco (1998), Hedendaagse Cubaanse Kunst uit de Verzameling van het Ludwig Forum at the Museum Oud-Hospitaal in Aalst, Belgium (2000) and one-man shows Tonel at the Kunsthalle in Düsseldorf (1991), La felicidad at the Casa privada del artista in Havana (1991) and Tonel at the Galerie Krings-Ernst in Cologne (1996).