José Bedia Valdés

Cuban artist. Born in Havana (1959). Graduated from the Escuela de Artes Plásticas San Alejandro (1976) and Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana (1981). Decorated at the II Biennale in Havana (1986). Fellow of the Simon R. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation International, New York (1994). Lives and works in the United States. Contributed to Volume 1 at the Galería de Arte Internacional in Havana (1981), II Havana Biennale (1986), Arte de lo fantastic at the Museum of Fine Arts in Indianapolis and Queens Museum in New York (1986), III Havana Biennale (1989), Les magiciens de la terre at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (1989), XLIV Venice Biennale (1990), 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), XXII São Paulo Biennale (1991), Los hijos de Guillermo Tell: artistas cubanos contemporáneos at the Museo de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero in Caracas and the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango in Bogotá (1991), Face of the Gods: Art and Altars of Africa and the African Americas at the Museum of African Art in New York (1991), Kubanische Kunst aus der Sammlung Ludwig at the Kunsthalle Brandts Klaedefabrik in Odense, Denmark (1992), Latin American Artists of the XX Century at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Estación Plaza de Armas in Seville, Hôtel des Arts in Paris and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne (1993), 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), Contemporary Narratives in American Prints at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (1999) and the one-man shows Persistencia del uso at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana (1984) and José Bedia Valdés at the Galería Ángel Romero in Madrid (1989).