Art Resume

Alejandro Lopez

www.alejlopez.com

Born in Havana, Cuba, 1963

Education

● 2015 Summer Scenic Painting Seminar at Cobalt Studios, White Lake, NY.

● 1986 Academia San Alejandro, painting and drawing degree, Havana, Cuba.

● 1984 Attended seminar in electroacoustic music, dictated by Juan Blanco, director of the Laboratorio

Experimental de Música electro-acustica de Cuba.

Solo Exhibitions

● 2011 “Odd Rhetoric Ode” (Part Two). 17th Frost Street Art Space, Brooklyn, NY.

● 2009 “100% Hand Made”. 17th Frost Street Art Space, Brooklyn, NY.

● “El Arca de NoEl”, street performance, NYC.

● 2007 “Cuban Rocket Lands in NYC”, street performance, NYC.

● 2006 “Odd Rhetoric Ode” (Part One), Haven Art Gallery (factory extension), Mott

Haven, Bronx, NYC.

● 2005 “Graphic Testimony II”, ARTEX INC, New York, NY.

● 2004 “Graphic Testimony I”, ARTEX INC, New York, NY.

● 2001 “The Great Theory”, Collective Unconscious, New York, NY.

● 1997 “The Text: Indestructible Unity” and “The Great Theory”. Hammond Hall, Rice University, Texas.

● 1992 ”Nuevo Libro Cartesiano” (New Cartesian Book), Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales,

Havana, Cuba.

● 1991 “Siete Comentarios Científicos” (Seven Scientific Comments), Casa del Joven Creador, Havana,

Cuba.

● 1989 ”Fundamentos de la Teoría de la Parapsicología del Arte (Basic Foundations of the

Parapsychology of Art), Universidad de la Habana, Cuba.

● 1988 “Meta-Cero”, Casa de la Cultura de Plaza, Havana, Cuba.

Selected Group Exhibitions

● 2004 “Killing Time”, Exit Art Gallery, NY

● 1998 ”Cuban Performance Art of the 1980’s”, featured performance: “Supermind’s Prophecy”, Miami

Dade Community College, Interamerican Gallery, Miami, FL.

● 1996 “Seven Dilemmas in Today’s Art”, featured performance “The Hypnotic Opera” and “How to Lose

the Fear to the Electric Guitar”, Romulo Gallego Art Center, Caracas, Venezuela.

● 1994 Collateral Exhibition to the V Havana Biennial, featured performance “A Bauhaus World”, Casa

del Joven Creador, Havana, Cuba.

● 1993 “Nacido en Cuba”, Galería Libertad, Ciudad Queretaro, Mexico.

● 1991 “Nacido en Cuba”, Museo Moderno del Estado de Mexico, Toluca, Mexico.

● “Arte Joven”, collateral exhibition to the IV Havana Biennial, Galeria Habana, Cuba.

● “La Huella del Pulgar”, collateral exhibition to the IV Havana Biennial, Galeria Domingo Ravenet, Havana,

Cuba.

● 1990 ”El Objeto Esculturado”, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba.

● 1988 ”Festival Internacional de Jóvenes Artistas”, Manech Museum, Moscow, URSS.

● “Arte Joven Cubano”, Democratic Republic of Germany.

● 1987 “Veintitantos Abriles”, Galeria Habana, Cuba.

● “Exposición de la Asociación de los Hermanos Saiz”, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba.

● 1984 ”Cuatro Estudiantes de San Alejandro Exponen”, Galería Marianao, Havana, Cuba.

● Salon Nacional de Escuelas de Arte, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba.

Theatrical Work

● 2016 Stage design, set construction and painting for “HMS Pinafore”. Philipstown Depot Theater, Garrison,

NY. Directed by Linda Speziale. Lighting by Donald Kimmel.

http://highlandscurrent.com/2016/05/15/set-designer-parks-ship-depot/

● 1997 Stage design and scenic painting design for “Desde la Orilla” (from the shore). Avante Theater,

Coral Gables, Miami, Florida.

● 1995 Carry out sporadic work as a scenic painter for theater and television in Caracas, Venezuela.

● 1991 Set design and production (scenic painting) for the music concert “Una Capital” (a capital) by the

Cuban trovador Geraldo Alfonso. Teatro Karl Marx, Havana, Cuba.

● 1987 Set design and production for “Homenaje al Che”, Grupo de Danza de las Fuerzas Armadas

Revolucionarias (FAR). Choreography by Marianela Boan, Havana, Cuba.

● Scenic painting for “Lo que sube”, Grupo de Teatro Bertolt Brecht, Havana, Cuba.

● 1986 Scenic design and production (painting) for “El Médico de la Familia”, Grupo de Teatro Cubana de

Acero, Havana, Cuba.

● 1985 Acting role on “Galileo Galilei” directed by Vicente Revuelta, Teatro Hubert de Blanc, Havana,

Cuba.

Other Events and Activities

● 1996 Painted Bodies (five female models) for a video clip. Featuring artist: Oscar de Leon. Directed by

Ernesto Fundora, Caracas, Venezuela.

● 1993 Collaboration work on the first and second edition of Memoria de la Postguerra, by the artist

Tania Bruguera, Havana, Cuba.

● 1991 Law tutelage of the thesis “Prefacio para una sociedad perfecta”, by Ofill Echevarría, Havana,

Cuba.

● 1989 Begins “Comisión para la Investigacion de Fenomenos Historicos”, (later censured by the Cuban

government). This project was sponsored by the Cuban Ministry of Culture. Havana, Cuba.

● Member of the Jury at “Primer Salon de Arte de la Ciudad de Cienfuegos”, commissioned by the Cuban

Ministry of Culture, Cuba.

● Group Performance “La Plástica Joven se dedica al Beisbol” (The Young artist Generation plays Baseball),

a delicate protest action answer to the imposed government censure. Jose Antonio Echeverria Stadium,

Havana, Cuba.

● “Proyecto Pilon”, in collaboration with four other artists. Commissioned by the Cuban Ministry of Culture,

later censured by the government, Holguin, Cuba.

● 1988 “Meditar”, collective mural at the Revolution Public Square, Havana, Cuba.

● “Proyecto Invasion” a socio-cultural experience across the east side of the island. Commissioned by

Asociación Hermanos Saíz, Cuba.

● 1987 Street Performances: “El Triunfo del Nuevo Héroe es Colectivo” (the triumph of the new hero is

collective) and “El Golem” (the golem), Havana, Cuba.

● “Ceremonia” multimedia performance by the artist Juan Luis Morales, as part of the II Havana Biennial,

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba.