Paola Martinez

I am a Cuban artist who started becoming passionate about photography around 2009. Using photography as a way to communicate my ideas became a fascinating concept. I am a 2011 graduate of the National Academy of Fine Arts San Alejandro, and am currently studying at the University of Arts in Havana, Cuba.  
Recently, I received an invitation to display my work in a personal exhibition in the Basilical Hudson Gallery of New York in July 2017. I’m also invited for a one week scholarship in September 2017 offered by San Francisco Cara & Cabezas Gallery, because I was one of the artists of the Cuban Female Voices and Poetic project shown at that same gallery and others around San Francisco like the Mission Cultural Center for Latin Arts and the Arc Studio and Gallery, United States.  I have also displayed my work in Casa Frisac in Mexico City, México. Espace Saint-Rémi in Bordeaux has also held exhibitions of my photographs in France.  Also, Nelson Dominguez Gallery in Old Havana invited me to showcase my work. 

In addition, since a few years ago, I found a different way of complementing my creative photography. It began when the Italian Gallery “Continua” contacted me for a few photography works I would do for some important artist...

I am a 2011 graduate of the National Academy of Fine Arts San Alejandro, and am currently studying at the University of Arts in Havana, Cuba. I took clases with the profesor Ricardo Viera who came to Cuba this june 2017 with FOOTOFEST Organization.

Exposiciones Personales
2016
- HOLD BACK. Galería de Nelson Domínguez. La Habana, Cuba.
2015
- Territorios de la Mirada Femenina: espacios de experimentación y diálogo. Casa Frisaac, CDMX, México.
- Estudio Abierto. Colateral a 12 Bienal De La Habana. La Habana, Cuba.
2011
- Artificial. Sede: Fundación Ludwig de Cuba. La Habana, Cuba.
2010
- Mientras tenga Memoria. Galería: Antonio Díaz Peláez. Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro. La Habana, Cuba.


Exposiciones Colectivas (reducido)
2016
- L´alose et le Huachinango. L´art du voyage. PUCEART/Collectif Mémorie. Diciembre 2016. Bordeaux, Francia.
- “CRONICA FACURADA”. Centro de Negocios de Miramar. La Habana, Cuba.

2015
- Simulacros. Pared Negra, Fábrica de Arte Cubano. La Habana Cuba.
- Arte Cubano. Voces y poéticas femeninas (1990-2003). Cara & Cabezas Gallery. San Francisco Foundation. Mission Cultural Center Gallery. San Francisco, Estados Unidos.
- Identidades. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. La Habana, Cuba.
- Les Insoumises/ Las insumisas. PUCEART/Collectif Mémorie, Bordeaux, Francia.

2014- Habana de siempre. Centro de Negocios Miramar, Edificio Habana. La Habana, Cuba.

2013- “Post-it”. Expoventa de Arte Contemporáneo Cubano. Centro...