Aimee Perez

Aimee Perez was born in Havana Cuba in 1955. She left for the United States when she was twelve years old with her family through the Freedom Flights and grew up in Miami in Cuban immigrant community. As a young adult she won honorable mention in the Gold Key Scholastic Awards in painting and several honorable mentions as she continued her pursuit of the arts during her college years. In 1989 she moved to Mexico City and continued painting and exhibiting with Cuban and Mexican artist. In 1997 she was invited to participate as a guest artist in the studio of Mexican sculptor Jose Sacal and it is here she begins to work for the first time in 3D with clay. She returned to Miami in 2006 and continued her work winning several awards for her figurative ceramics in the state of Florida. Perez has been praised for her command of gestures making her sculptures expressionistic and powerful which combined with the juxtaposition to found objects creates an organic symbiosis. She says her work is her voice, a dialogue with the observer and simultaneously a self-exploration. Her work can be found in many private collection in the United States and Mexico and in permanent collections including Florida International University Honors College Colle...

Bachelors of Science from Endicott College, Beverly, Massachusetts. Magna Cum - Laude

2017- Close Up II: Nine Contemporary Cuban Artists, Lore Degestein Gallery, Susquehanna University, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania.
2017- Red Clay Survey 2017, Huntsville Art Museum, Alabama.
2017 - Naturalle, Efe Serrano Gallery, Murcia, Spain
2017 - Pentavisions Five Contemporary Cuban Artist, Aragon Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
2016 - Aqua Art Miami Simons Gallery - Time Travel
2016 - Nestgen - Ecological Biennale Project, FIU College of Engineering, Miami, Fl
2016 - Latinos 500, Barry University and Miami Shores Fine Arts Commission, Miami, Fl
2016 - Bombay Sapphire - Artisan Series, Wynwood Lab Gallery, Miami, Fl
2016 - 26th Annual All Florida Juried Arts Show, Stuart, Fl
2016 - CloseUp, Eight Contemorary Cuban Artists, Webber Gallery, Ocala Florida
2016 - Judge in the Coconut Grove Art Festival

2016- ArtKinetic, Pop Up, Pompano Beach, Florida
2016 - Miguel Rodez Art Project, Hello Dali, Miami Florida
2016- William V. Musto Cultural Center,Jose Marti La Voz a los Cuatro Vientos,Union City, New Jersey.
2015 - Red Dot Art Fair, Latin American Art Pavilion, Miami, Florida

2015 - CAFE XVII 'Culture and Community Development' University of West Indies, Barbados

2014 - The Jewish Museum-FIU Purim event - mask

2014...