Alexandre Jesús Arrechea Zambrano

Cuban artist. Born in Trinidad (1970). Graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana (1992). Member of Los Carpinteros (1990s). Fellow of the Ludwig Forum für International Kunst, Aachen (1998). Awarded the UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts in honour of the VI Biennale in Havana (2000). Lives and works in Havana. Contributed to Para usted at the Tabaquería Partagás in Havana (1991), V Havana Biennale (1994), Una de cada clase at the Fundación Ludwig de Cuba in Havana (1995), New Art from Cuba at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London and the Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery in Carlisle, Cumbria (1995), Los Carpinteros: Obra reciente at the Galería Ángel Romero in Madrid (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), Construimos eodensel puente para cruce la gente, construimos paredes para que el sol no llegue at the Galería Ángel Romero in Madrid (1997), Utopías provisionales at the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst in Aachen, Kunsthalle in Berlin and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York (1998), Contemporary Art from Cuba: Irony and Survival on the Utopian Island at Arizona State University Museum in Tempe and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco (1998), VII Havana Biennale (2000), Ciudad transportable at the PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York and the LA County Museum of Art in Los Angeles (2001) and Los Carpinteros at the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco (2001).