José Ángel Toirac Batista

Cuban artist. Born in Guantánamo (1966). Graduated from the Escuela de Artes Plásticas San Alejandro in Havana (1984). Collaborated with Tanya Ángulo (1988–91). Founded the ABTV group of artists with Tanya Ángulo, Juan Pablo Ballester and Ileana Villazón. Graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana (1990). Special prize of the Cuban branch of the International Association of Art Critics for curating the Nosotros. Exposición antológica de la obra de Raúl Martínez exhibition. Contributed to the ABTV exhibition. Fellow of the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen (1996). Studied at the Institute for Studies in the Arts in Arizona and Arizona State University (1998–2000) and the Rhode Island School of Design (2001). Lives and works in Havana. Contributed to The Nearest Edge of the World. Art and Cuba Now at the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales in Havana, Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, Nexus Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta and the Bronx Museum of Art in New York (1989), Kuba o.k. Aktuelle Kunst aus Kuba. Arte actual de Cuba at the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales in Havana and the Kunsthalle in Düsseldorf (1990), Von dort aus: Kuba at the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst in Aachen (1992), Kubanische Kunst aus der Sammlung Ludwig at the Kunsthalle Brandts Klaedefabrik in Odense, Denmark (1992), V Havana Biennale (1994), Una de cada clase at the Fundación Ludwig de Cuba in Havana (1995), Mundo soñado at the Fundación Ludwig de Cuba in Havana and the Casa de América in Madrid (1996), VI Havana Biennale (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), III Kwangju Biennale in Korea (2000) and the one-man show in José Ángel Toirac Batista at the Centro Povincial de Artes Plásticas y Diseño in Havana (1989).