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Cuban artist. Born in Havana (1968). Graduated from the Escuela de Artes Plásticas San Alejandro (1987) and the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana (1991). Fellow of the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen (1992). Contributed to the Khój Artists Workshop in Sikribah, Modinagar and New Dehli (1997). Trained abroad with help from the Mid America Art Alliance (1998). Lives and works in Havana. Contributed to 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), La década prodigiosa: plástica cubana de los 80 at the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales in Havana and the Museo del Chopo in México DF (1992), Von dort aus: Kuba at the Ludwig Forum für International Kunst in Aachen (1992), Kubanische Kunst aus der Sammlung Ludwig at the Kunsthalle Brandts Klaedefabrik in Odense, Denmark (1992), Luis Gómez. Tonel at the Kulturhaus Lateinamerika in Cologne (1992), Una de cada clase at the Fundación Ludwig de Cuba in Havana (1992), Territorios utópicos at the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery (British Columbia University) Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver (1997), Contemporary Art from Cuba. Irony and Survival on the Utopian Island at the Arizona State University Museum in Tempe and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco (1998), Quiet Room at the Fundación Ludwig de Cuba in Havana (1998), Trabajando pa´l inglé at the Centro Wifredo Lam in Havana and the Barbican Centre in London (1998), VI Havana Biennale (2000), IL Venice Biennale (2001) and the one-man show Poder, espíritu, y fortuna (Sistole, Diástole): Sobre todo acerca del alma at the Fúndacion Ludwig de Cuba in Havana (1996).