Consuelo Castañeda

Consuelo Castañeda (born 1958) is a Cuban artist, professor, and art critic whose work includes painting, installations, photography, graphic art, architecture, and print. She was a major part of a movement of the relationship between art and politics in the 1980s avant-garde scene and revolutionized how women were treated in the art world. Castañeda is also credited with helping to catapult the cultural production of the Cuban avant-garde onto the international stage and shifting the popular understanding of the relationship between art and politics in Cuba, as well as in broader Latin America.[1] Castañeda was living in Miami, Florida until 2016, where she moved back to Havana, Cuba.[2]

Consuelo Castañeda
Born1958 (age 64–65)
Havana, Cuba
Alma mater San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts
MovementContemporary art

Biography

In 1977, Castañeda attended the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts in Havana, Cuba. She then attended the Advanced Institute of Fine Arts in Havana, Cuba in 1982 where she would then teach.[3]

As a professor at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, she was a pivotal figure in Cuba until her emigration to Mexico, and then Miami in the 1990s. Her work as a painter, photographer and multimedia installation artist, has recently shifted to social media and digital format. Her focus is on creating interactive works that anyone with a modem and a computer can readily access. Her work resides in several private collections such as the Rodriguez Collection of Cuban Contemporary art at the Kendall Art Center. The artist participated in the Havana Biennials in 1984, 1986, and 1991. She was awarded with the Cintas Fellowship in 1997–1998 as an installation artist.[4]

Solo exhibitions
  • 1987 – Castañeda held one of her first selected solo exhibitions called "¿Quien la presta los brazos a la Venus de Milo?" at Teatro Nacional de Cuba in Havana, Cuba.
  • 1989 – The second exhibition she held was "La Historia reconstruye la Imagen", Castillo de la Real Fuerza in Havana, Cuba.
  • 1992 – Held her name in an exhibition, Ninart, at the Centro de Cultura in Mexico City, [[Mexico|Mexico]]
  • 1995 – "To Be Bilingual" at the Fredric Snitzer Gallery in Coral Gables, Florida, USA.
  • 1996 – Consuelo Castaneda and Quisqueya Henríquez had a collaboration at the Morris-Healy Gallery, New York, New York.
  • 2001 – "New Work Miami" at the Museo de Arte Moderno (MAM) in Miami, Florida.
  • 2008 – "Finding the Self Art@Work" in Miami, Florida[3]

Group exhibitions
2016[5][6]
  • Return Engagement; Show in Havana, Cuba.
2014
  • Global Positioning Systems: Forms of Commemoration. PAMM’s permanent collection. July 29
  • Women At The Edge Of An Island. Sweet Home: Museo Cubano. Miami. July 26
2013
  • Reverse: Rewriting Culture. Dot Fiftyone Gallery. Wynwood, Miami, FL. May 8 – July 5
  • New Media Festival MADA. PSH Project Gallery. Wynwood Art District. Miami, FL.
  • Primera Bienal del Sur en Panamá. Figaly Convention Center. Ciudad de Panamá
  • Never Ending Moment. The Art Link Gallery. 130 NW 36 Street, Miami, FL 33127.
  • Islands. Cuban American Phototheque. 4260 SW 74 Ave. Miami. Fl.
  • Cachita, the infinite lightness of being. Belen Jesuit Preparatory School. Miami, FL.
2012
2008
  • Why are we here? 801 Projects. Miami, Fl, USA.
  • Fortuna. La Bodega Spac, (part of 801Projects) Wynwood, Miami, Fl, USA.
2007
  • Killing Time: An exhibition of Cuban artists from the 1980s to the present. Exit Art Gallery. NYC. USA.
  • Cuba Avant Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from The Farber Collection.
  • The Samuel P. Harn Museum, University of Florida, Gainesville.USA.
2006
  • Artchitecture. The Bentley Bay Building, Miami Beach, Fl. USA
  • Light in Contemporary Art As Seen in a Selection from the Berezdivin Collection. Espacio 1414. Puerto Rico
2005
  • Nowhere, Alonso Art Gallery, Wynwood, Miami, Florida, USA.
1999
1998
  • Miami Arts Project. Miami Beach, Florida, US.
  • Cuba On: 11 Conceptual Photographers. Generous Miracles Gallery. New York, USA.
1997
  • The Crystal Stopper. Lehmann Maupin Gallery. New York, USA.
1996
  • Warehouse Project. Sponsored by Rosa de la Cruz & Fred Snitzer. Miami, Fl. USA.
  • Vivir es dejar huella, Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
1995
  • Traces: The Body in Contemporary Photography. The Bronx Museum of Art. New York. USA.
  • Still Lives: 4 Interactions with the Past. Ground Level /South Florida Art Center. USA.
1994
  • Alter Nations, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL.
  • Consuelo Castaneda & Quisqueya Henriquez, INTAR Gallery, New York, US.
  • Cubana, The Cuban Museum of Art & Culture, Miami, Florida, US.
  • Selected Gallery Artists. Fredric Snitzer Gallery. Coral Gables, Florida, US.
  • Day by Day. Gutierrez Fine Art Gallery. Miami Beach, Florida, US.
  • Las Nuevas Majas, Otis Art Gallery, Otis College of Arts and Design, Los Angeles, CA.
1993
  • Art Miami' 93, Convention Center of Miami Beach, Fl, USA.
  • Las Nuevas Majas, Casona II. Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público, México, D.F.
1992
  • Los Cubanos llegaron ya. Ninart, Centro de Cultura, México D.F.
  • Ante America: Cambio de Foco, Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Bogotá.
  • La Década Prodigiosa: Plástica Cubana de los 80, Museo del Chopo, México, D.F.
  • Expo Arte Guadalajara 92, Salón de Ferias, Guadalajara, México.
  • Once Artistas Cubanos, Museo del Carmen, México, D.F.
  • Plástica Cubana Contemporánea, Sala de Exposiciones SECOFI, México, D.F.
1991
  • 15 Artistas Cubanos, Ninart, Centro de Cultura, México, D.F.
  • Arte Cubano Actual, IV Bienal de la Habana, Galeria Manolo Rodríguez, La Habana, Cuba.
  • Los Hijos de Guillermo Tell, Artistas Cubanos Contemporáneos.
  • Museo de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero, Banco de La República de Colombia. Bogotá.
  • Nuevas Adquisiciones Contemporáneas, Muestra de Arte Cubano, Museo de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba.
1990
  • Arte Contemporáneo de Cuba. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, España.
  • Cinco Pintoras, Galería Arte y Promoción, México, D.F.
  • Proyecto C&Q, Museo Universitario del Chopo, México
1989
1987
1986
  • II Bienal de La Habana, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba.
  • XVII Festival Internacional de la Pintura de Cannes Sur Mer, Francia.
  • El Arte con la sonrisa, Milán, Venecia, Regio Emilia, Turin, Genova y Roma.
1985
  • Exposición Internacional, XII Festival de la Juventud y los Estudiantes, Moscu.
1984
  • I Bienal de La Habana, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba.
  • Salón UNEAC, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba.
1983
  • Plástica Cubana Contemporánea, Museo de Bogotá, Colombia.
  • Encuentro de Jovenes Artistas Latinoamericanos, Casa de Las Américas, La Habana, Cuba
  • Concurso Internacional de Dibujo "Joan Miro". España.
  • Documentos e Instalaciones. Equipo Hexago. Galería Habana. La Habana. Cuba
1981
  • Concurso 13 de Marzo, Galería L. La Habana, Cuba.

References
  1. Bermejo, Martínez Roxana. About the Concept of Art and Collecting in our time. Across Time art exhibition catalog.
  2. "Consuelo Castañeda – The Farber Collection". www.thefarbercollection.com. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  3. "Miami Biennale Consuelo Castañeda". www.miamibiennale.org. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  4. Bermejo, M. Roxana. Across Time art exhibition catalog.
  5. "about us | Consuelo Castaneda". consuelocastaneda.net. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  6. "Return Engagement: Consuelo Castaneda on her first Havana show in almost 30 years". www.cubanartnews.org. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
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