Ricardo Rodríguez Brey

Cuban artist. Born in Havana (1955). Graduated from the Escuela de Artes Plásticas San Alejandro (1974) and Escuela Nacional de Arte (ENA) in Havana (1978). Fellow of College Old Westbury, State University of New York (1985). Decorated by the Ministère de la Culture of Flanders (1991). Emigrated to Belgium. Lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. Contributed to Volume 1 at the Galería de Arte Internacional in Havana (1981), I Havana Biennale (1984), II Havana Biennale (1986), XIX São Paulo Biennale (1987), 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), documenta IX in Kassel (1992), 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), Kubanische Kunst aus der Sammlung Ludwig at the Kunsthalle Brandts Klaedefabrik in Odense, Denmark (1992), V Havana Biennale (1994), The Spirit of the Earth at the Watari-UM Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo (1994), 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), XLVIII Venice Biennale (1999) and the one-man shows El origen de las especies at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana (1980), Ricardo Rodríguez at the Amelie Wallace Gallery in New York (1985) and Ricardo Rodríguez at the Centro Wifredo Lam in Havana (1987).