Lázaro Saavedra Gonzáles

Cuban artist. Born in Havana (1964). Graduated from the Escuela de Artes Plásticas San Alejandro in Havana (1983). Joined the Puré group of artists (1986). Graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana (1988). Fellow of Diverseworks in Houston, Texas (1991), ProHelvetia Foundation in Valais, Switzerland (1992) and Fukuoka City Museum, Fukuoka, Japan. Decorated by the Ministerio de Cultura de Cuba for his contribution to national culture. Fellow of the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen (1996). Founded the Enema group as part of his teaching activities at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana (2000). Lives and works in Havana. Contributed to the III Havana Biennale (1989), 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), Los hijos de Guillermo Tell: artistas cubanos contemporáneos at the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales in Havana, Museo de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero in Caracas and the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango in Bogotá (1991), La década prodigiosa: plástica cubana de los 80 at the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales in Havana and the Museo del Chopo in México DF (1992), Von dort aus: Kuba at the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst in Aachen (1992), V Havana Biennale (1994), Cuban Art Today at the L’Uqam Gallery in Montreal (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), Altered States at the Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Center for the Arts in Alberta, Canada (1996), VI Havana Biennale (1997), Trabajando pa’l inglé at the Barbican Centre in London (1998) and the one-man shows Muriendo libre at Diverse Work in Houston (1997), Masaje mental at the Rice Media Center, Rice University in Houston (1997) and Mi dossier, el descaro y la representación at the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales in Havana (1998).