List of Cuban painters
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Colonial Period
- Miguel Arias BardouMiguel Arias BardouMiguel Arias Bardou was a Spanish born Cuban painter. He is best remembered for colorful landscapes such as Pueblo Campesino and Bohío y Palma con Riachuelo which mainly depicted harmonious rural themes....
- Valentín Sanz Carta
- Guillermo CollazoGuillermo CollazoGuillermo Collazo Tejada was a Cuban painter. His first studies took place in his native city; in 1868, his parents sent him to the United States, as the family's support for Cuban independence was thought to be endangering his life...
- Augusto Chartrand Dubois
- Esteban Chartrand Dubois
- Vicente EscobarVicente EscobarVicente Escobar was a Cuban painter. A native of Havana, he was initially self-trained as an artist, though he later graduated from the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. He then undertook a voyage through Spain, Italy, and France, before becoming painter to Queen Maria...
- Víctor Patricio de LandaluzeVíctor Patricio de LandaluzeVíctor Patricio de Landaluze was a Spanish-born painter active for much of his career in Cuba. He is the best-known Cuban practitioner of costumbrismo. He opposed Cuban independence, an attitude reflected in his work; nevertheless his paintings provide a valuable view of nineteenth-century Cuban...
- Miguel A. Melero
- José Abreu MorellJosé Abreu MorellJosé Abreu Morell was a Cuban painter. A native of Havana, he studied from 1877 until 1886 at the San Alejandro Academy in that city. He also traveled to Madrid to study at the Real Academia de San Fernando. There he worked as an apprentice to Manuel Domínguez.-Reference:* at Cernuda Arte...
- José Joaquín TejadaJosé Joaquín TejadaJosé Joaquín Tejada was a Cuban painter. A native of Santiago de Cuba, which served as his base for the rest of his life, his initial studies were funded by a scholarship from that city's government, which allowed him to visit Spain, Italy, France, and the Netherlands...
Early Republic
- Antonio Sanchez AraujoAntonio Sanchez AraujoAntonio Sánchez Araujo was a Cuban costumbrista painter, during the early years of the Cuban republic. His paintings have been admired for their strong colorful and definite techniques. He was born in Santa Lucía, Oriente Province, in 1887...
- Armando MenocalArmando MenocalArmando Menocal was a Cuban painter. He first studied at the Academy of San Alejandro in his native city, before going to Spain in 1880 for further study with Francisco Jover; there he also became acquainted with the work of Joaquín Sorolla and the thinking of Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo...
- Eduardo Morales
- Antonio Rodriguez Morey
- Domingo RamosDomingo RamosDomingo Antonio Ramos , is a former professional baseball player who was an infielder in the Major Leagues from 1978-1990.-External links:...
- Leopoldo RomañachLeopoldo RomañachLeopoldo Romañach y Guillen was a well-known Cuban painter. He was a professor of color theory at San Alejandro, won a number of awards...
- Carlos Sobrino
The Vanguard
- Eduardo AbelaEduardo AbelaEduardo Abela was a Cuban painter and comics artist. Born in San Antonio de los Baños, he studied at the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 1921. For the next decade he lived abroad, first in Spain and then in France...
- Jorge Arche
- Cundo BermúdezCundo BermúdezCundo Bermúdez , born Secundino Bermúdez y Delgado, was a Cuban painter. Born in Havana, Cuba, he died of a heart attack in his Westchester home on October 30, 2008....
- Mario Carreño
- Mirta Cerra
- Roberto Diago
- Carlos EnríquezCarlos EnríquezCarlos Enríquez was an Uruguayan - Argentine actor. He starred in the 1950 film Arroz con leche under director Carlos Schlieper.-External links:. ....
- Aristides Fernandez
- Víctor Manuel García
- Antonio GattornoAntonio GattornoAntonio Gattorno was the first Cuban artist of his generation to achieve an international reputation as a universal contemporary that transcended his ethnicity. He is one of the founders of Cuba's Modernist Movement, yet he is also one of the most underrated major painters of the 20th...
- Wifredo LamWifredo LamWifredo Óscar de la Concepción Lam y Castilla , better known as Wifredo Lam, was a Cuban artist who sought to portray and revive the enduring Afro-Cuban spirit and culture...
- Fidelio Ponce de LeónFidelio Ponce de LeónFidelio Ponce de León was the pseudonym of Alfredo Fuentes Pons, a Cuban painter. A native of Camagüey, he studied at the San Alejandro Academy in Havana from 1913 until 1918...
- Luis Martínez Pedro
- Amelia PeláezAmelia PeláezAmelia Peláez del Casal was an important Cuban painter of the Avant-garde generation.-Biography:Amelia was born in 1896 in Yaguajay, in the former Cuban province of Las Villas...
- Marcelo PogolottiMarcelo PogolottiMarcelo Pogolotti was a Cuban painter. Born in Havana, he spent his childhood between Cuba and Europe, beginning his artistic study in Italy. He briefly studied engineering and philosophy in the United States before entering the Art Students League to study painting. He was attracted to...
- René PortocarreroRené PortocarreroRené Portocarrero was a Cuban artist recognised internationally for his achievements.-History:...
- Domingo Ravenet
- Mariano Rodriguez
The Moderns
- José BernalJosé BernalJosé Bernal was a Cuban-American artist. He was born in Santa Clara, Cuba, in the former province of Las Villas and became a naturalized U.S.A. citizen in 1980....
- Hugo ConsuegraHugo ConsuegraHugo Consuegra was a Cuban-American architect and artist specializing in graphic design, painting, and engraving.-Education:...
- Agustín CárdenasAgustín Cárdenasthumb|250px| Without Title , sculpture by Auguste Cardenas in the area above the Roman quarry in [[Sankt Margarethen im Burgenland]] near [[Lake Neusiedl]]....
- Antonia EirizAntonia EirizAntonia Eiriz Vázquez was a Cuban painter whose work was exhibited throughout Latin America during her life. She received a National Culture Award in 1981, and in 1983 received the Alejandro Carpenter Medal. In 1989 the Cuban government awarded her the Félix Varela Order; in 1994 she was the...
- Agustín Fernández
- Ángel Acosta LeónÁngel Acosta LeónÁngel Acosta León was a Cuban painter. His style owes much to surrealism, and expresses the pain he felt through much of his life. Animal, human and mechanical forms abound in his paintings, along with wheels, a reference to his lifelong fantasy of being a bus driver...
- Guido Llinas
- Raúl Martínez
- José María Mijares
- Raúl Milian
- Servando Cabrera MorenoServando Cabrera MorenoServando Cabrera Moreno was a Cuban painter. A supporter of the Cuban Revolution, many of his paintings depict the Cuban peasantry. Stylistically, his paintings are rooted in the tradition of vanguardia, and are especially indebted to the work of Carlos Enríquez Gómez.Servando Cabrera Moreno was...
- Rafael Soriano
- Emilio Sánchez
- Fernado Tarazona
Contemporary
- Gustavo Acosta
- Jose Acosta
- Carlos Alfonzo
- Aristides Arencibia
- Reinaldo Pagan Avila
- José Bedia
- Mario BencomoMario BencomoMario Bencomo Pinar del Río, Cuba) is a Cuban-American artist.His work is in the collection of numerous museums, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Detroit Institute of Art; Norton Museum of Art; Denver Art Museum, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba; Art Museum of...
- Miguel Angel Botalin
- Joherms Quiala Brooks
- Antonio Ferrer Cabello
- Los CarpinterosLos CarpinterosLos Carpinteros is the name of a group of young Cuban artists that specializes in creating humorous installations and objects. In 1991 Marco Antonio Castillo Valdes, Dagoberto Rodriguez Sanchez, and Alexandre Arrechea formed Los Carpinteros—however they didn’t adopt the name until 1994, “deciding...
- Consuelo Castañeda
- Humberto CastroHumberto CastroHumberto Castro is an important Cuban painter.He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro" and at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, Cuba...
- Alfredo Rodriguez Cedeno
- Jorge Rodriguez Cedeno
- Miguel CerejidoMiguel CerejidoMiguel Cerejido is a Canadian artist, born in Havana, Cuba on February the 26th of 1960.Graduated of Drawing and Painting from the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro" in 1980...
- Xavier CortadaXavier CortadaXavier Cortada is a Cuban-American painter residing in Miami, Florida. His work has been exhibited in museums, galleries and cultural venues across the Americas, Europe, and Africa....
- Arsenio Perez Cruz (Anthony)
- Arturo Cuenca
- Carlos CárdenasCarlos CárdenasCarlos Cárdenas Rodriguez is a former Bolivian football striker. During his professional career he played for Wilstermann, Blooming, Aurora and Universitario....
- Ana Albertina Delgado
- Nelson Domínguez
- Ofill Echevarria
- Tomás Esson
- Marcos Pavon Estrada
- Roberto FabeloRoberto FabeloRoberto Fabelo is a contemporary Cuban artist. He is both a painter and illustrator.Born in Guáimaro, Camagüey, Fabelo studied at The National Art School and at the Superior Art Institute of Havana. He was a professor and a jury member for very important national and international visual arts...
- Emilio FaleroEmilio FaleroEmilio Falero is a Cuban artist residing in Florida, U.S.A. since 1962.He is mostly a painter. He studied painting, sculpture and ceramics with artists Rafael Soriano, Rafael Consuegra, Duane Hanson and Mark Wethley, Miami, Florida, U.S.A. between 1966-1969. He graduated at Miami Dade Community...
- Yurian Hilders Falls
- Flora Fong
- Ever Fonseca
- José Rodríguez FusterJosé Rodríguez FusterJosé Rodríguez Fuster is a Cuban naïve artist specializing in ceramics, painting, drawing, engraving, and graphic design.-Career:From 1963 to he studied at the Escuela Nacional de Instructores de Arte in Havana...
- Fernando García
- Ahmed Gomez
- Ruben Beltran Guerra
- Rigoberto Antonio Guerrero
- Eddy Ochoa Guzman
- Diango HernandezDiango HernandezDiango 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...
- Alfredo Sanchez Iglesias
- Zurama L. Johnston
- JosignacioJosignacioJose Ignacio Sanchez Rius, known as Josignacio for artistic name, was born in Havana, Cuba on October 24, 1963. He is a contemporary Cuban Artist , neo-figurative, mostly abstract, who has resided in the USA since 1989 and he is notably known for the creation of the plastic paint medium in 1984...
- KchoKchoKcho , Born Alexis Leyva Machado on the Isla de Pinos is a contemporary Cuban artist. Kcho has had art showings around the world. He first attracted international attention by winning the grand prize at South Korea's Kwangju Biennial in 1995.Kcho was born in Nueva Gerona, Cuba, in 1970...
- Julio LarrazJulio LarrazJulio César Ernesto Fernandez Larraz is a Cuban painter, sculptor, printmaker, and caricaturist known for his mastery of realism.-Personal life:...
- Nicolas Leiva
- Eldys N. Lima
- Roel Caboverde LlacerRoel Caboverde LlacerRoel Caboverde Llacer was born in Baracoa, Cuba on November 20, 1947. He grew up in the towns of La Poa and Moa. Llacer started his painting career as a house painter followed by work painting signs. He even painted murals during his service in the military...
- Rubén Torres LlorcaRubén Torres LlorcaRubén Torres Llorca is a Cuban-American artist specializing in painting, drawing, sculpture, collages, and photography. He studied from 1972 to 1976 at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes “San Alejandro” in Havana and from 1976 to 1981, studied at the Instituto Superior de Arte , also in Havana...
- Laura Luna
- Juan T. Vázquez MartínJuan T. Vazquez MartinJuan T. Vázquez Martín, is an abstract painter who was born on December 23, 1941 in Caibarién, Cuba.A Cuban painter who lives and works in Havana.Member of the Writer and Artists Union of Cuba .Member of International Association of Art ....
- Manuel MendiveManuel MendiveManuel Mendive is one of the leading Afro-Cuban artists to emerge from the Revolutionary Period-Biography:Mendive was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1944. His family practiced La Regla de Ocha, or Santería. A mulatto, he cherishes his Yoruba roots from the West Coast of Africa...
- Clara Morera
- Glexis Novoa
- Jardiel Diaz Nunez
- Pedro Pablo Oliva
- Tomás Oliva
- Pedro Carlos Ortiz
- Miguel Padura
- Adrian Pellegrini
- Gina PellónGina PellónGina Pellón is a Cuban painter who lives in France. She is known for her abstract expressive paintings in strong colours, usually depicting women...
- Orlando Piedra
- Jorge Hernández Pouyu
- Carlos Quintana
- Ciro Quintana
- Eduardo Rich
- Jesse Rios
- Luis Miguel RodriguezLuis Miguel RodríguezLuis Miguel Rodríguez is a baseball player for Cuba. He was pitcher in the Cuban team which won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-References:...
- Arturo RodríguezArturo RodríguezThis article is about the boxer, not the president of the United Farm Workers.Arturo "El Mono" J. Rodríguez Jurado was an Argentine boxer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics and in the 1928 Summer Olympics.In 1924, he lost his first fight against Thyge Petersen and was eliminated in the...
- Juan Andrés Rodríguez (El Monje)Juan Andrés Rodríguez (El Monje)Juan Andrés Rodríguez better known by his artistic name El Monje in was a Cuban artist specializing in painting and drawing.-Education:...
- Zaida Del Río
- Edgar SoberónEdgar SoberonEdgar Soberón is a Cuban born painter and printmaker, born in Cienfuegos, Cuba in 1962. Soberon studied at Parsons School of Design in New York City, where he later taught Drawing and Printmaking with the Foundation and Fine Arts Departments from 1992 through 2002...
- Alfredo Sosabravo
- Tomás SánchezTomás SánchezTomás Sánchez is a Cuban painter specializing in stately and often idealized landscapes. He studied at the San Alejandro School of Plastic Arts and the National School of Art in Havana, Cuba. His accolades include the Joan Miró Prize in 1980 and the Amelia Peláez Award in 1984. In 1989 he...
- Urbizo
- Pedro Vizcaino