Humberto Castro-Cruz

I am a Cuban Artist based on Havana, Cuba and Hartford, Connecticut.
The cultural syncretism of my homeland, along with any ancestral mythology, born from the necessity of Man to understand its reality and to assimilate the symbolism of transformations in search of representing the perpetual questioning of mankind, the search of its possible contemporary parallels and the human relationship with the natural environment, have been the main sources of inspiration for my work from the beginning.

On my last Series I have been working on Symbolism and Lyrical Abstraction, exploring the relation between Form and Content, the nexus between the gestures of the emotional impulse and the nature of the material, the forms’ freedom, the chromatic quality of the values, tones, transparencies, and the terrestrial material character of the texture.

These Series have derived in thematic Suites where I mixed organic forms, semi-figurative symbols, architectonic structures and ruins with landscapes and imaginary tropical islands. Then, vertical registers that appear connecting the geologic layers form of the Earth with the universal layers of the life and the human condition under some sort of “visual insularity”.

Nothing human is strange...

University of Havana, 1989, MA Humanities and Geographic Sciences.

Humberto Castro Cruz
La Habana, 1963

Personal Exhibitions
2012 “Interactions-II”, P.R & Latin-American Cultural Center Gallery, UCONN, Storrs, CT
“Interactions”, Connecticut Convention Center, Hartford, CT
2009 “ Cartographies of the New World”, Windsor Arts Center, Windsor, CT.
2007 “ Retrospective”, X Annual Awards Gala,
Latino & Puerto Rican Affairs Commission, State of CT.
“ Confrontations”, University of Connecticut Art Gallery, West Hartford, CT.
2006 “ Tributes”, Ellen Traut Collection Gallery, Hartford, CT.
2005 Personal Exhibition, Grand Havana Salon, New York, NY.
“ Cobreazul”, The Centinel Hill Auditorium, C.C.College. Hartford, CT.
Personal Exhibition , The Hartford Club, Hartford, CT.
2004 “ La Frontera “, The Bristol Center for the Arts and Culture, Bristol, CT.
2003 “Idols “, Conrad L. Mallet Art Gallery, C.C.College, Hartford, CT.
“Earth’s Visions “, University of Connecticut Art Gallery, West Hartford, CT.
2002 “Persistence of Dreams “, Charter Oak Cultural Center, Hartford, CT.
“Selected Works “, Vignone Gallery ,Glastonbury, CT.
“Behind the Dreams “, Ellen Traut Collection Gallery,Hartford, CT.
2001 “Metamorphosis “, Casa Julia de Burgos, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
“The Legacy “, Univer...