Rubert Quintana

My work is experiential and socially engaged, organized in series that function as chapters of a single story. Identity, memory, and the dissection of social paradigms are translated into objects, landscapes, and everyday language. I work from lived experience — Cuba and the diaspora — but I want each piece to operate beyond the autobiographical: as a device for observing social mechanisms, paradigms, and ideological contradictions of my time. My training spans eight years — three in traditional academic foundations and five dedicated to art history, visual communication, and the theoretical structure of artistic discourse. My references are Warhol, Kruger, Holzer, Haacke, Los Carpinteros, and José Ángel Toirac. I choose the medium according to the idea. The tone shifts: sometimes ironic as in Nothing Personal, sometimes poetic as in Mogotes, sometimes Pop as in Made in Cuba. That oscillation is not dispersion — it is method.

2005 MA Visual Art. Higher Institute of Art. Havana, Cuba
2000 BA Fine Art Academy El Alba, Holguin, Cuba

2024 Nothing Personal Version. ManKind, Coral Gables. Miami
2016 Autopia: Road Trips from the Cold War to the Present. Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami
2010 Basic Rhetoric. Fausto Cristo Gallery (UNEAC), March, Holguín
2008 Cuba: Artists Experience Their Country. Hunterdon Museum of Art, New Jersey
2007 Killing Time. Exit Art, New York

2005 Reflections. Higher Institute of Art, December. Havana
2004 Palmas Reales (Royal palms). Gallery Servando Cabrera Moreno, Havana

2001 Donations. Romerías de Mayo, May, Holguín

2000 At noon. Holguín. June, Engraving work