Flavio Garcíandía de Oraá

Cuban artist. Born in Villa Clara (1954). Graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana (1981). Professor of the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana (1980–90). Fellow of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1989), Deutschen Akademichen Austauschdienstes (DAAD), Gesamthochschule Kassel (1990–93) and the Simon R. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation International, New York. Lives and works in Monterrey, Mexico. Contributed to Volume 1 at the Galería de Arte Internacional in Havana (1981), I Havana Biennale (1984), XVIII São Paulo Biennale (1985), XLII Venice Biennale (1986), II Havana Biennale (1986), Made in Havana. Contemporary Art from Cuba at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Brisbane (1988), Kuba o.k. Aktuelle Kunst aus Kuba. Arte actual de Cuba at the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales in Havana and the Kunsthalle in Düsseldorf (1990), No Man is an Island. Nuorta taidetta Kuubasta at the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales in Havana, Porin Taidemuseo in Pori, Finland, Mücsarnok and Museo Ernest in Budapest and the Palffy Palace in Vienna (1990), 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), Kubanische Kunst aus der Sammlung Ludwig at the Kunsthalle Brandts Klaedefabrik in Odense, Denmark (1992), 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 (1996) and one-man shows Flavio Garcíandía at the Museo Provincial Villa Clara (1984), Flavio Garcíandía at the Amelie Wallace Gallery in New York (1985) and Una visita al museo de arte tropical at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana (1994).