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Ernesto Oroza is a Cuban

Cubans

Cubans or Cuban people are the inhabitants or citizens of Cuba. Cuba is a multi-ethnic nation, home to people of different ethnic and national backgrounds...

 contemporary artist and designer

Designer

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Biography

He earned a degree at the Havana Superior Institute of Design. He was visiting professor in Les Ateliers, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Creation Industrielle (ENSCI) in Paris (1998), and professor of the Polytechnic Institute of Design of Havana from 1995 to 2000.
His work has been exhibited in museums, galleries and cultural spaces such as Haute Definition Gallery, in Paris (France), The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada, The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, in NY (USA), LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial is an exhibition centre in Gijón, Spain, for art, science, technology and advanced visual industries...

, in Spain and the Groninger Museum

Groninger Museum

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, The Netherlands.
Oroza was co-founder (1999) of Laboratory Maldeojo (with Fabian Martinez and Nelson Rossell), member until 2004 (Havana

Havana

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, Cuba

Cuba

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) and co-founder (1995) of Ordo Amoris Cabinet (with Diango Hernandez

Diango Hernandez

Diango Hernández is a Cuban contemporary artist.- Biography :Hernandez was born in 1970 in Sancti Spíritus, Cuba. He earned a degree in industrial design at the Havana Superior Institute of Design...

, Juan Bernal, Abel Francis), member until 1996 (Havana, Cuba)

Awards

- Artist in residence, Karl Hofer Gessellschaft, Universitat der Kunst, Berlin. 2011.
- Harpo Foundation Grant http://www.harpofoundation.org/recipients/2010/Ernesto_Oroza/index.html, Los Angeles. 2010.
- Here and There, Berlin Residency, Bass Museum. 2010.
- Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, FL. 2010.
- Cintas Foundation Fellowship, 2008, NY.http://www.cintasfoundation.org/fellows_artists_o.htm
- Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowship

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http://www.gf.org/fellows/11004-ernesto-oroza, 2007 NY.
- Artist in Residence, Christoph Merian Stiftung

Christoph Merian Stiftung

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, Basel, 2006. http://www.iaab.ch/iaab-e-121.asp?id=54&status=2
- Danish Center for Cultural Development. http://www.dccd.dk/dccd/cku.nsf/Bevillinger/2DE05C38AA5E6881C1256F9700109B6D(with Maja Aasa, Greta Garcia and Mira Kongstein, 2005.
- Ludwig Foundation Fellowship, Cuba, 2001-2004.
- Direction aux Arts Plastiques (DAP) FIACRE

Fiacre

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 (with Penelope de Bozzi). France, 1999-2000.

Books by Ernesto Oroza

-Editing Havana- Stories of Popular Housing Maja Asaa, Mira Kongstein and Ernesto Oroza with photographs by Frederikke Friderichsen, 2011. ISBN:9788791984174. Published by Aristo Bogforlag.

-"RIKIMBILI. Une étude sur la désobéissance technologique et quelques formes de réinvention." Ernesto Oroza, 2009. Préfacier: Marie-Haude Caraës Traducteur: Nicole Marchand-Zanartu. ISBN : 978-2-86272-527-7. Publications de l’Université de Saint-Étienne, 2009. Cité du design.
-Statement of Necessity. Ernesto Oroza. 2008. Alonso Art, US.

-Pentagram Paper no. 32 “NO WASTE.” Ernesto Oroza and Laboratory Maldeojo, 2003. With an introduction by Alex Marashian and design by Fernando Gutierrez

Fernando Gutiérrez

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. London, Pentagram Design.

-Objets Réinventé. La création populaire a Cuba. http://documentation.ensci.com/Record.htm?idlist=1&record=346712416499 Ernesto Oroza and Penélope de Bozzi, 2002. Paris: Ëditions Alternatives.