Alexis Leyva Machado (Kcho)

Cuban artist. Born in Nueva Gerona (1970). Graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Arte (ENA) in Havana (1990). Fellow of the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen (1994). Awarded for his contribution to the Kwangju Biennale in Korea (1995). Awarded the UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts in Geneva. Trained at the Atelier Alexandre Calder in Saché, France (1999). Lives and works in Havana. Contributed to the IV Havana Biennale (1991), Los hijos de Guillermo Tell: artistas cubanos contemporáneos at the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales in Havana, Museo de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero in Caracas and the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango in Bogotá (1991), Von dort aus: Kuba at the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst in Aachen (1992), Kubanische Kunst aus der Sammlung Ludwig at the Kunsthalle Brandts Klaedefabrik in Odense, Denmark (1992), V Havana Biennale (1994), XXII São Paulo Biennale (1994), Cocido y crudo at the Museo Nacional Centro Reina Sofía in Madrid (1994), IV Istanbul Biennale (1995), I Johannesburg Biennale (1995), XI Sydney Biennale (1995), Cuba siglo XX: modernidad y sincretismo at the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno in Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Fundación La Caixa in Palma, Majorca and the Centro de Arte Santa Mónica in Barcelona (1995), XLVIII Venice Biennale (1999), Encounters Bruce Nauman and KCHO at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (1999), Kunstwelten im Dialog at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne (1999), Die Landkarten der Sehnsucht. Zeitgenössische Kubanische Kunst at the Kunsthalle in Vienna and Kunstraum in Innsbruck (1999), Hedendaagse Cubaanse Kunst uit de Verzameling van het Ludwig Forum Aachen at the Museum Oud-Hospitaal in Aaalst, Belgium (2000), Umgang mit nicht-westlicher Kunst: Kuba (Projektreihe) at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basle (2000) and the one-man shows El artista del mes at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana (1991), Kcho at the Galería de Arte Contemporáneo in México DF (1993), El camino de la nostalgia at the Fundacíon Ludwig de Cuba in Havana (1995), Kcho at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró in Majorca, Barbara Gladstone Gallery in New York (1995) and the Studio Guenzani in Milan (1995), Kcho. Todo cambia at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (1997) and Hablar de lo evidente nunca fue para nosotros un placer at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem (1997).