Gustavo Acosta - CV

Solo Exhibits

 

2019 “Ignorando las Reglas” Lile O.Reitzel Gallery. Dominican Republic.
             “Transpositions”. Latin American Masters. Santa Monica, California.
             “A Walk in the Timeline”. Doral Contemporary Art Museum/ 
              Concrete Art Space. Doral, Florida.
2018 “Structural Narratives”. Pan American Art Projects, Miami.
            "A Walk on the Timeline". Doral Contemporary Art Museum/Concrete Art Space.  Doral, Florida.
2017 "Inventory of Omissions". 532 Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York.
2016 "Paper Trail" Pan American Art Projects. Miami, Florida.
2015 “Timeline” Latin American Masters. Santa Monica, California.
2014 “Space of Silence” Caixa Cultural. Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2013 “Space of Silence” Caixa Cultural. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
             “There”, Pan American Art Projects. Miami.
2012 "A Journal of References". Frederic Boloix Fine Arts. Ketchum, Idaho. 
            "DUDA". Raymaluz Art Gallery. Madrid, Spain.
2011"Here". Pan American Art Projects, Miami.
2010 "Gustavo Acosta". Frederic Boloix Fine Arts, Ketchum, Idaho.
             "Art of Illusion". Latin American Masters, Santa Monica, California.
             "The Time Machine". Lile O.Reitzel Arte Contemporaneo, Santo Domingo,
               Dominican Republic.
2009 "The Great Systems". Pan American Art Projects, Miami.
            "Questions to the Mirror", Museum of Contemporary Art. Republic of Panama.
2008 "Temporary Current", Bentley Gallery. Phoenix, AZ.
            "Hipotesis de la Locura", Pan American Art Projects. Miami.
            "Transit Zones", Latin American Masters. Los Angeles, California.
             "Recent Works", Pan American Art Projects. Dallas, Texas.
2007 “The News of the Day”, Alonso Art Gallery. Miami.
             "Seleccion de Paginas", Art @ Work. Miami.
2006 “Los Juegos del Principe”, Nina Menocal Gallery. Mexico DF.
2005 “Empire of Dreams”, Latin American Masters. Los Angeles, California.
2004 “Historias Recurrentes”, Praxis International Art. Coral Gables. Florida.
            “Del Manual Ilusionista”, Praxis International Art. New York, NY.
2003 "Viajando de Incognito", Lyle O. Reitzel Arte Contemporaneo. Dominican Republic.
            “El Forastero” . Klaus Steinmetz Arte Contemporaneo. San Jose, Costa Rica.
2002 “Books of Hours”, Elite Fine Art, Miami.
            "Teorema de las Islas", Galeria Tamara. San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2001 “Recent Works”, Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina.
2000 “Las Trampas de Saturno”, Legacy Fine Art, Panama.
             “Espejismos y Memorias”, Lyle O.Reitzel Arte Contemporaneo, Dominican Republic.
             “Deciphering Echoes”, Generous Miracles Gallery, New York.
             “Hallucinations”, Elite Fine Art, Miami.
1999 “Recent Works”, Elite Fine Art, Miami USA
            “Siete tardes”, Galeria Muci, Caracas, Venezuela
1998 “Un experimento con el Tiempo”, Legacy Fine Art, Panama.
             “La huella del Eclipse”, Lyle O’Reitzel Arte Contemporaneo. Dominican Republic.
1997 "La Ciudad Prohibida", Galería MUCI, Caracas, Venezuela.
             "Contando las Horas", Galería Alonso Arte, Bogota, Colombia.
             “La Memoria Cifrada”, Galeria Elite Fine Art, Miami, USA.
1995 "On a somber note", Museum of Art Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
             "Trying The Trap", Gutierrez Fine Arts, Miami Beach, Florida.
1992 Lumbreras Fine Art, Coral Gables, Florida.
            "Paisajes para lo que queda de Siglo", Galería Kahlo, Mexico DF.
1991 "Las Sugestiones del Límite", Galería Habana, Havana.
             Galería Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
1990 NINART. Mexico DF.
            Galería Kahlo-Coronel, Mexico DF.
             Complejo Cultural Chaplin, Havana.
1989 "Los Caminos de Roma", Castillo de la Fuerza, Havana.
              Galería Evasión Arte, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
1987 "El Hombre", Museo de Santa Clara, Cuba.
1986 "Trece Escalones" Galería Galiano, Havana.
1983 "Expreso Matanzas-Cienfuegos" Galería Habana, Havana.

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

 

2019 "Staged Meaning/Meaning Staged": Landscapes from Fisher’s Permanent Collection.
​         USC Fisher Museum of Art. Los Angeles, California.
        "Castles in the Sky": Fantasy Architecture in Contemporary Art.
          Lehman College Art Gallery.  New York.
        “Vida y Obra de Una Idea” Art@Work and Fairside Gallery at 
          Colectivo Periferia. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2017 "The Prodigious Decade: A Selection of Artworks by Cuban Artist from the 80's Generation.
          Sagamore Hotel. Miami.                             
         "Cuban Contemporary Art, Collective I". Raw Space. Vero Beach. Florida.
2016 "La Madre de Todas las Artes" Wifredo Lam Center of Contemporary Art. Havana, Cuba.
2015 “Iconocracia” Centro Vasco de Arte Contemporaneo. Vitoria, Spain.
        “Shades of Gray” Panamerican Art Projects. Miami.
        “Agave y Caña”. Mexican Consulate Gallery. Miami.
        “Resilence, The Other Cuba”. Contemporary Cuban Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
        “The Reynardus Cuban Art Collection”. Selby Gallery at Ringling College. Sarasota, Florida.
        “Cuban Art, The 80’s Generation”. Museo Linares, Nuevo Leon. Mexico.
2014 “Welcome to the Jungle” Panamerican Art Projects, Miami.
        “Trayectos de Ida y Vuelta, Grafica Transiberica Desde Miami”, Diputacion Provincial de Huelva,
        Spain.
        “Papertrail” Latin American Masters, Los Angeles.
        “Made in Miami” Panamerican Art Projects, Miami.
        “Figurative & Abstract in Latin American Art. Nova Southeastern University. Fort Lauderdale,
​         Florida.
2013 “Global Caribean”, The Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance. Miami.
         “Works on Paper”, Miami Hispanic Cultural Arts Center.
         “1 Bienal del Sur en Panama”. Panama.
         “Flying”, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien. Berlin. Germany.
         “8 Derivas por la Ciudad Liminal”, Carrillo Gil Museum of Art.  
          MACG. Mexico City. Mexico.
2012 “Caribes”. Casa Cortes Collection. San Juan, Puerto Rico.
         “Fans Forever”. MDC Museum of Art + Design. Miami.
         “Persistence of Memories”.Broward College New Gallery. Fort
          Lauderdale. Florida.      
2012 "Urban Lifecycles". Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, Idaho.
       "Urbanitas". Panamerican Art Projects. Miami.
2011"Florida Contemporary 2011". Patty & Jay Baker Naples Museum of Art. Naples, Florida.
        "Campos de Asociaciones. Dialogos y Silencios entre Practicas de Dibujo".
        Centro Cultural Simon Bolivar. Guayaquil, Ecuador.
2010"Havana a Capital's Punishment". Accent Alternative Art Space, Miami.
        "Ways of Worldmaking. Notes on a Passion for Collection"
         Miami Dade College Museum, Freedom Tower.
2009"Irreversible". CIFO, Miami.
        "Herir la Memoria". Siguaraya Gallery, Berlin.
2008"Visiones: 20th Century Selections from the Nassau County
        Museum of Art", Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton,
        Florida.
        "Recent Acquisitions". Latin American Masters, Beverly Hills,
         California.
        "Unbroken Ties", Museum of Art / Fort Lauderdale.
        "Miami Ciudad Metafora", Spanish Cultural Center, Miami.
        "Andamiajes" . Galeria Allegro, Panama City, Panama.
        "Giants in the City", Artformz Alternative. Bayfront Park. Miami.
2007 "Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from The Farber Collection".
         Harn Museum of Art, Gainsville. Florida
        Galeria Nina Menocal, Merrill Lynch Arte Americas. Miami Beach Convention Center. Miami, FL, USA
        "A Través del Espejo, Arte Cubano Hoy", Galería Allegro. Panama.
2006 “Layers: Collecting Cuban-American Art” University at Buffalo Art Gallery. New York.
        “Tastes & Tongues”. The Spanish Cultural Center. Miami
        “Rising Stars: North Latin Americans”, Nina Menocal Gallery, Miami.
2005 “Real Space – Imaginary Space”, Praxis International Art, New York.
2004 “Erase una vez en Mexico”, Mexican Institute, Miami.
        “De Ida y Vuelta”. The Spanish Cultural Center, Miami.
2003 "Paper Cut I". ARSAtelier, Union City. New Jersey.
        "Second Year Anniversary Exhibition". Leonard Tachmes Gallery, North Miami.
        "Transfiguration" Palazzo Mediceo, Seravezza, Italy.
        "Xll Muestra de Pintura y Escultura Latinoamericana", Espacio Gallery, El Salvador.
        “Onda Expansiva” Lile O. Reitzel Arte Contemporaneo, Dominican Republic.
        “Spatial Identity” The Ignatian Center for the Arts. Belen Jesuit Preparatory School. Miami.
2002 “Art Miami 2002” Miami.
        "XI Muestra de Pintura y Escultura Latinoamericana", Espacio Gallery, El Salvador.
        "Reality and Figuration: The Contemporary Latin American Presence". Boca Raton Museum of Art.
        "Gota a Gota". Lyle O.Reitzel Arte Contemporaneo. Dominican Republic.
2001 “Art Miami 2001” Miami.
        “Places in the Heart”. The Arts Center, Saint Petersburg, Florida.
        “Cariveo 2001 and the cuban connection”, Lyle O. Reitzel Arte Contemporaneo.
        Dominican Republic.
       "Selected works from the Cuban Museum of the Americas Collection”. John J. Koubek Memorial Center, Miami.
       “Small-Big Paintings from Latin America”. Generous Miracles Gallery, New York.
       “Art Miami 2000”. Miami.
       “Cariveo 2000”, Lyle O. Reitzel Arte Contemporaneo. Dominican Republic.
       “Latinamerican Spectrum”, Elite Fine Art. Miami, USA.
       “2nd Anniversary Group Exhibition”, Hidell Brooks Gallery. Charlotte, North Carolina.
       “From Modern to Contemporary”, Lowe Art Museum, Miami.
1999 FIAC. Caracas, Venezuela.
      “Mixta s/papel II”, Lyle O Reitzel. Arte Contemporaneo. Santo Domingo,
      Dominican Republic.
      “Nuevas adquisiciones Latinoamericanas, 1994-1998”. Museo de Bellas Artes.
       Caracas, Venezuela.
       “Obras Maestras del Arte Latinoamericano del Siglo XX”. Biarritz, Francia.
       (Coleccion del Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Venezuela en el marco del Festival de Cine y Cultura de Biarritz)
       “Contemporary Cuban Printmakig”, Jose Alonso Fine Arts, Miami.
1998 “Latinamerican Spectrum”, Elite Fine Art, Coral Gables, Florida.
1997 "Visiones Contemporáneas", Lyle O. Reitzel. Arte Contemporáneo.Dominican Republic.
        "Summer Group Show", Elite Fine Art, Coral Gables, Florida.
        "Breaking Barriers", Museum or Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
1995 "IV Salón de Dibujo", Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
        "Boat Images", Miami Dade Public Library, Miami, Florida.
         Galeria Raices, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1994 "EIGHT-OCHO-HUIT",Gutierrez Fine Arts, Miami, Florida.
        "Alter-Nations", 123 Galery, Chicago, Illinois.
        "Cinco Artistas Cubanos", Galeria Der Brucke, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
        "Cuba Contemporánea", Galeria Namia Mondolfi, Caracas, Venezuela.
        "13 Artistas Cubanos Contemporáneos", Centro de Arte Euroamericano, Caracas,
         Venezuela.
1993 "La ciudad de la Habana vista por sus pintores", Universidad de Alcala de Henares,
         Spain.
        “Art Miami’93”. Miami Beach, USA.
1992 "Plástica Contemporánea Cubana", SECOFI, Mexico, D.F., Mexico.
        "Once Artistas Cubanos", Museo del Carmen, Mexico, D.F., Mexico.
        "La Década Prodigiosa", Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico, D.F., Mexico.
        " LVII Salón Nacional de Artes Plásticas", Valdepeñas, Spain.
        "Continuar la Imagen, Comenzar el Siglo", Otto Zutz, Barcelona, Spain.
1991 "Los Hijos de Guillermo Tell", Museo de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero, Caracas,
         Venezuela.
         X Bienal Internacional de Arte, Valparaíso, Chile.
         III Bienal de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador.
         IV Bienal de La Habana, Havana, Cuba.
         "Los cubanos llegaron ya", NINART, Mexico DF., Mexico.
1990 "Nuevas Adquisiciones Contemporáneas", Museo Nacional, Havana, Cuba.
1989 XX Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
1988 "Sings of Transition", Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York.
        "Arte Contemporáneo en Cuba", CAYC, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
        "Jornada de la Cultura Cubana", Centro Cultural de la Ciudad, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
         Salón UNEAC, Pabellón Cuba, Havana, Cuba.
1987 Bienal de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador.
       "4x4 Nº 4", Galeria Hoy en el Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1986 "Il Arte con il Sonrriso", Milano, Italy.
         Segunda Bienal de La Habana, Havana, Cuba.
        "4x4 Tercera Edición", Galería Habana, Havana, Cuba.
1985 Salón UNEAC. Museo Nacional, Havana, Cuba.
1984 Primera Bienal de La Habana, Havana, Cuba.
1983 "Encuentro Latinoamericano de Artistas Jóvenes", Casa de las Américas, Cuba.
         Salón de Dibujo Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain.
        "Paisaje del Paisaje", Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Finland, Czechoslovakia, India.
1982 Salón Nacional del Paisaje, National Museum, Havana, Cuba.
        "4x4 ", Centro de Arte 23 y 12, Havana, Cuba.

 

Selected Awards

 

1992 Gold Medal in Painting, First Caribbean Biennial, Dominican Republic.
        Gold Medal, Best Represented Country. First Caribbean Biennial, Dominican Republic.
        Painting Award, LVII Salón Nacional de Arte, Valdepeñas, Spain.
1991 Painting Award, III Bienal de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador.
1988 Painting Award, Salón UNEAC, Havana, Cuba.
1984 Drawing National Award, First Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba.

 

Public Collections

 

National Museum of Fine Arts. Havana, Cuba.
Wifredo Lam Center. Havana, Cuba.
National Theatre of Cuba. Havana, Cuba.
University of Havana. La Habana, Cuba.
Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, MACG. Mexico City. Mexico.
Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA. Miami, USA.
Diputacion Provincial de Ciudad Real. Spain.  
Lowe Art Museum. Miami, USA.
Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami, USA.
Fort Lauderdale Art Museum. Fort Lauderdale, USA.
Nassau County Museum of Art. New York, USA.
Farber Collection.
Museum of Contemporary Art. Rep. of Panama.
The Lehigh University Art Galeries Teaching Collection. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA. 
University of Southern California's Fisher Museum of Art. USA.
El Museo del Barrio, New York. USA.
Frost Art Museum, Florida International University. Miami, USA.
American Career College. Newport Beach, California.