Tomás Essón Reid

Cuban artist. Born in Havana (1963). Graduated from the Escuela de Artes Plásticas San Alejandro (1982) and Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana (1987). Lives and works in the United States. Contributed to 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), Jovenes artistas de la RDA y Cuba. Junge Künstler der DDR und Kubas at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana and Neue Berliner Galerie im alten Museum in Berlin (1988), III Havana Biennale (1989), Cuenca Biennale in Ecuador (1989), The Nearest Edge of the World. Art and Cuba Now at the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales in Havana, Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, Nexus Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta and the Bronx Museum of Art in New York (1989), Patria o muerte at the Proyecto Castillo de la Real Fuerza, Consejo Nacional de las Artes Plásticas and Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana (1989), 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), Von dort aus: Kuba at the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst in Aachen (1990), 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 the one-man show A tarro partido at the Centro de Arte 23 y 12 in Havana (1988).