Enrique Flores-Galbis

Enrique Flores-Galbis is an award-winning author, teacher and painter known for his fluid images of Havana Streets and insightful portraits. His books Raining Sardines, Americas Award Honors, (07) and 90 Miles to Havana, Pura Belpré Award Honors, (10) were both based in Cuba.

A portrait and landscape painter, his work can be found in corporate, university, and private collections throughout the country. His paintings have been accepted into the top annual national juried exhibitions and has been exhibited in numerous group and one man shows. He has been commissioned to paint the portraits of diplomats and deans, loved ones, children and graduates, indoors and outdoors in formal and casual settings, according to the sensibilities of the patron.

Enrique Flores-Galbis began his study of painting at New York University Graduate School under the photo-realist, Adelle Weber. At the Art Students League of New York, he studied with noted portraitist Daniel Greene, and then with Raymond Everett Kinstler at the National Academy of Design.

Mr. Flores-Galbis received a Master of Fine Arts Degree from Parsons School of Design in 1992.

2014 “Dreaming Havana: The Collision of Memory and Fact”, Williams McCall Gallery, Miami, FL
2012 CUBA: Inside Out, Outside In, YES.OUI.SI. Gallery, Boston, MA
2010 College of Saint Elizabeth, Who We Are: Contemporary Portraits
2007 One Man Show, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
2006 Latin Perspective, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
2005 One Man Show, Viva Gallery, New York City, NY
2002 Artist’s Space, Brooklyn, NY
1992 Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York City
1991 Latin Roots-American Vision; New Jersey Center for Visual Arts