Eliana Iturbe

Since I was a little I loved nature . Before I wanted to be an artist I wanted to be a biologist, I wanted to work with animals study them in their natural habitat. A year before I left Cuba when I was 14 my mother enrolled me in an art school and from that moment on the magic of being able to create changed my life forever.

Nature has been my source of inspiration from the beginning, it has a primordial grip of my soul. Although my exposure to it has been limited since my entire life I have lived in cities where nature is manicured and planed. This limited experience with nature and what I have learned beyond the cities which has been in a synthetic way, consuming it through books, television, the internet. I have fallen in love with it and when I venture out I am a tourist in it , a tourist in nature.

When I want to be in contact with nature society gives me the options of natural history museum, a botanical gardens a walk in the park a zoo and aquarium. I am a human from the Anthropocene.
Like fire, water, and wind, we humans are a force that shapes the earth. My work is about nature after humans; nature after our deliberate attempts to shape it; nature as utopian fantasy or at the brink of apocalypse. But my work ...

2011 MFA , Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ

2005 BFA, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY

1997 Escuela Elemental de Artes Plásticas 23 y C, Vedado, La Habana, Cuba

1995 Photo reporter certification at the U.P.E.C.(Unión de Periodistas y Escritores de Cuba/Union of journalists and writers of Cuba) with Professor Felix Arencibia

2014 Hangar Gallery, Wynwood, Miami, Fl

2013 Scoope Miami, Miami, Fl

2012 Art Takes Time Square, (Presented by Chashama )Times Square, NY

2012 Conception III, Tribeca, NY

2012 Species of Space, Spurse, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY

2011 Seven in the Garden, Gallery 1200, Hoboken, NJ

2011 We are We Make, (Curated by Matthew Nichols and Andrew Atkinson), Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

2011 This Will Probably all Seem Silly Later On, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ


2011 CAA MFA Exhibition, Hunter College, New York, NY

2010 Why did this fox eat that rabbit why the the fox eat the rabbit: Exploring ajancency-playing with failure, (Curated by Iain Kerr) New York, NY

2010 Don’t Look Now, Index Gallery, Newark, NJ

2010 Experiments in Decor, Cucine Lube, New York, NY

2010 Black Bass Throwdown Spurse vs Chefs at Union Square, New York, NY

2010 Greeting the Non-Human, (Curated by Iain Kerr)
Issue Project Room Brooklyn, NY

2010 Alison Knowles Identical Lunch revisited, (Curated by Iain Kerr), New York, NY

2010 Developing Worlds and Spacescapes, Montc...