Angel Delgado

Angel Delgado (1965, Havana, Cuba)
Multidisciplinary Contemporary Artist.
Lives and works in Long Beach, CA.
Through keen observation of the everyday and the ordinary, Delgado is trying to transform those objects or situations that are the daily step in photographs, drawings, videos, paintings, installations and performance, with a poetic that makes us reflect on our lives, about social processes or on the same processes of artistic creation.

Studied at the University of the Arts (ISA) in Havana, Cuba, 1984 – 1986; Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts San Alejandro, Havana, Cuba in 1984.

He has taken part in individual projects such as Absent Speech, Building Bridges Art Exchange, 2017 LA; Constancy, Headlines, Omar Alonso Gallery, 2016 PV Mexico; Amanda Harris Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2014; Uncomfortable Landscapes, Nina Menocal Gallery, México, 2013. Inside Outside, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, EUA, 2011; Continous Limit, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; 2009; Wake Up, Artane Gallery, Istanbul; Constancias, nina menocal gallery, Mexico City, 2006; Memorias Acumuladas, Galería Fúcares, Madrid, 2004. He also has worked as a curator in different exhibitions and is the creator and director of CLOSE UP International Video Art Festival.

Among his most important collective exhibitions are Neues Sehen – New Vision. Till Richter Museum, Alemania, 2013; Citizens of the World: Cuba in Queens. Queens Museum. NewYork, 2013; La Revolución no será televisada, The Bronx Museum, New York, 2012; Video Cubano, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, 2011; Arte no es Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000. Museo del Barrio. NY. EUA, 2008; Cuba Avant Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber collection, Harn Museum of Art in the University of Florida and John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, FL...