GLEXIS NOVOA
Born in Holguín, Cuba in 1964; lives and works in Havana and Miami
EDUCATION
1998
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1984
Bachelor of Fine Arts, National School of Art, Havana
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Branch & Seeds, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
2019
The Cankama Sutta, Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College, Miami, FL
2017
Glexis Novoa, David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida
2016
Things as they are, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba
2015
Emptiness, Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Miami, FL
2008
Old-new, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
Landscape of events, Cheekwood Museum, Nashville, TN
2006
Visionary Artist, Lowe Museum, Coral Gables, FL
2003
Worcester, Gold and Smoke, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Locust Project, Miami, FL
2001
New Works Miami, PAMM (former Miami Art Museum), Miami, FL
New vision of the Basilica of Sacred Heart, The Snite Museum of Art,
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
1999
Te Quiero, Te Quiero, Te Quiero…, Frances Wolfson Gallery,
Miami-DADE Community College, Miami, FL
1994
Daño, Espacio Aglutinador, Havana
1989
Patria o Muerte (Etapa Práctica), Castillo de la Real Fuerza,
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana
1988
To be or not to be (Etapa Romantica), Galería Habana, Havana
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Tout le poids d’une île; Centre d’art contemporain Passerelle, Brest
Out le poids d’une île; Musée des Beaux-arts de Rennes, Rennes
In the Mind’s Eye: Landscapes of Cuba (Group exhibition); The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami
In the Mind’s Eye: Landscapes of Cuba; The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami
Exercises to Be Happy: Cuban Ephemeral Practices in the 1980s; Co-curated by Gean Moreno, Glexis Novoa and Natalia Zuluaga, NAME Publications, Miami
On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Pérez Art Museum Miami; Frist Art Museum, Nashville
2021
Visionary Aponte: Art and Black Freedom; Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola
Plural Domains: Selected Works from the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Collection; Curated by: Jesús Fuenmayor, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville
The Armory Show; David Castillo Gallery, Miami
Art|Basel Miami Beach; David Castillo Gallery, Miami
AIM Biennial; Curated by William Cordova, Marie Vickles, Gean Moreno & Mikhaile Solomon, Miami
Art Outside; Curated by Silvia Karman Cubiñas, Bass Museum, Miami Beach
Visionary Aponte: Art & Black Freedom; Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville
2020
Visionary Aponte: Art & Black Freedom; Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville
2019
The 4th Today’s Documents: The Stitch in Time, Curated by Huang Du & Jonathan Harris; Today’s Art Museum, Beijing
Cuba introspettiva, La Nuova Pesa, Roma, Italy
Mundos Alternos, Art and Science Fiction in the Americas, Queens Museum, New York
A Gaze through the CINTAS Fellowship Program: A Selection of Works from the CINTAS Foundation and the Art Museum of the Americas, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington DC
2018
Plural domains: selected works from the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Cuenca Biennial, Cuenca, Ecuador
Visionary Aponte: Art & Black Freedom, Power Plant Gallery | Duke University,
Durham, NC
Deconstruction: A reordering of life, politics, and art, Curated by Amy Galpin, Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
Florida Prize in Contemporary Art, Curated by Hansen Mulford, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
On the Horizon: Selections from the Jorge M. Pérez Cuban Art Collection
(Chapter 3: Domestic Anxieties) Curated by Tobias Ostrander, Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL
Climate change, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
2017
Adiós Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Mundos Alternos, Art and Science Fiction in the Americas, UCR | ARTSblock – Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Riverside, CA
Art x Cuba – Contemporary Perspectives since 1989, Ludwig Forum für International Kunst, Aachen, Germany
Between the Real and the Imagined, Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables, FL
2016
Cuba, Tatuar la historia, Cantieri della Zisa; Palermo, Italy
Cuba, Tatuar la historia, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
2015
Of The Americas: Latin American Contemporary Art from the Collection LUAG, Teaching Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PA
Detrás del muro II – En medio de la nada, Havana Biennial / collateral, Havana
2014
The Chosen, Jewish Museum, Miami Beach, FL
Overview Galleries / Global Positioning Systems, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL
Perder la forma humana, Una imagen sísmica de los años ochenta en América Latina, MUNTREF, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL
Lost in Landscape, Museo di arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
Cuban America, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, NY
2013
Perder la forma humana, Una imagen sísmica de los años ochenta en América Latina, Museo de Arte de Lima, Lima, Peru
Antonia Eiriz: A Painter and Her Audience, MDC Museum & Galleries of Art + Design, Miami, FL
El Canto del Cisne, Instituto Cervantes in Berlin present the documentary El canto del Cisne (Swan song) produced and directed by Glexis Novoa; Kino Babylon,
Berlin, Germany
Politics: I do not like it, but it likes me, Center for Contemporary Art Laznia,
Gdansk, Poland
Aesthetics & Values 2013, Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
2012
Perder la forma humana, Una imagen sísmica de los años ochenta en América Latina, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Mediations Biennale, Muzeum Narodowe, Poznan, Poland
CIFO 2012 Grants & Commissions Program Exhibition, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, FL
Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, El Museo del Barrio, Queens Museum of Art and The Studio Museum in Harlem; New York
2011
South Florida Cultural Consortium Exhibition, Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL
Crisis | América Latina | Arte y Confrontación (1910-2010), Museo Del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
2010
Arte ≠ Vida: Actions by artists of the Americas, 1960-2000, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil & Blaffer Gallery, University of Texas, Houston, TX
Eco, Xiang, Echo: meditations on the african, andean & asian diasporas,
Project Rowhouse, Houston, TX
Cuban Avant-Garde, Lowe Museum of Art, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
2009
Untitled (land-scape), Henry Street Settlement/Abrons Art Center, New York
Arte ≠ Vida: Actions by artists of the Americas, 1960-2000, Museo Amparo,
Puebla, Mexico
Arte ≠ Vida: Actions by artists of the Americas, 1960-2000, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico DF, Mexico
2008
Visiones: 20th Century Latin American, Art Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Unbroken Ties: Dialogues in Cuban Art, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Arte ≠ Vida: Actions by artists of the Americas, 1960-2000, El Museo del Barrio,
New York
2007
Los Nuevos Leones, Forum Universal de las Culturas, Sala de Generadores,
Parque Fundidora, Monterrey, Mexico
Latin Masters, Nassau County Museum, Roslyn Harbor, New York
Cuban Avant-Garde, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Killing Time, Exit Art, New York
Drawn In / Drawn Out, Ritter Gallery, Florida Atlantic University; Boca Raton, FL
2006
Waiting List, Time and Process in Contemporary Cuban Art, City Art Museum Ljubljana, Slovenia
Unbroken Ties: Dialogues in Cuban Art, Museum of LatinAmerican Art, Long Beach, CA
The Square Roots of Drawing, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Courant, National Gallery, Cayman Islands, B.W.I.
Miami in Transition, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
2005
Mayo Abstracto, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wilfredo Lam, Havana
Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism, Newcomb Art Gallery Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2003
10 Floridians, Miami Art Central, Miami, FL
Inside / Outside: Contemporary Cuban Art, Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery in Scales Fine Arts Center, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
Latin American Art, Palazzo Mediceo, San Leo, Italy
Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism, The University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; University Galeries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL &
DePauw University Art Gallery, Greencastle, IN
Paradise Lost? Aspects of landscape in Latin American Art, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
2002
Miami Currents, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
2001
globe>miami>island, Bass Museum, Miami Beach, FL
Breaking Barriers, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL
Publikulture, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
La Gente en Casa, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, (VII Havana Biennial), Havana
2000
Sarasota Biennial, Ringling Museum of Art, FL
Inundaciones, Centro de Cultura Contemporanea, Barcelona, Spain
Breaking Barriers, The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
1999
Hort 41, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Hot Spots, Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC & Pittsburgh Center for the Art, Pittsburgh, PA
1998
Abierto 24 Horas, Festival de Fallas, Valencia, Spain
Cuban Performance Art of the 80’s (Chronology), InterAmerican Gallery, Miami Dade Community College, Miami, FL
Metaphors, American International College, Springfield, MA
1997
Breaking Barriers, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Regional Artists: A Survey, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, FL
1996
Cuba Siglo XX Modernidad y Sincretismo, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Canary Islands; Fundación CAIXA, Palma de Mallorca & Centro de Arte Santa Mónica, Barcelona, Spain
1995
Carne Asada, Universidad de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
1993
Carib-Art, Contemporary Art of the Caribbean, National Commission for UNESCO, International Trade Center, Curacao
1992
Seville ’92 Universal Fair, Fondo Cubano de Bienes Culturales, Seville, Spain
X Muestra de Grabado, Engraving Museum, Curitiba, Brazil
Naves, Ex Convento de Santa Teresa La Antigua, Mexico City
La Década Prodigiosa, Museo del Chopo, Mexico City
Bienal de Guayana, Museo Jesus Soto, Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela
Von Dort Aus Kuba, Ludwig Forum Fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
I Bienal de Pintura del Caribe y Centroamérica, Galería de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
1991
Nuevas Adquisiciones Contemporáneas: Muestras de Arte Cubano, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana
Los Hijos de Guillermo Tell, Museo de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
1990
Kuba OK, Aktuelle Kunst aus Kuba / Arte Actual de Cuba, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
El Objeto Esculturado, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana
No Man is an Island, Porin Taide Museo, Pori, Finland; Mucsarnok Museum, Budapest, Hungary & Palffy Palace, Vienna, Austria
The Nearest Edge of the World, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA; also traveled to The Bronx Museum, New York; Mexic-Art, Austin, TX and to Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
No por Mucho Madrugar Amanece Mas Temprano, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana
Segundo Encuentro de Jovenes Artistas, Museo Provincial de Villa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba
Salón de Artes Plásticas UNEAC 90, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana
1989
II Bienal de Cuenca, Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno, Cuenca, Ecuador
III Bienal de La Habana, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana
Arte Cubano en Boston, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Homenaje a Hans Haacke, Castillo de la Real Fuerza, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana
1988
Pintura Cubana Actual, Capilla del Antiguo Hospital de Santa Cruz & Galería GSA, Barcelona, Spain
Cuban Art in Boston, Massachusetts College of Art, Administration Building, Boston, MA
VIII Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe, Arsenal de la Marina, San Juan, Puerto Rico
II Encuentro de Jóvenes Artistas Plásticos, Salón de la Plástica Joven Museo Provincial de Villa Clara, Santa Clara, Cuba
Cuban Art, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, USSR
Bienal de Grabado Latinoamericano, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Encuentro de Grabado, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba
1987
1er Encuentro de Jóvenes Artistas Plásticos, Museo Provincial de Villa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba
Encuentro de Grabado 87, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana
RESIDENCIES, GRANTS, & AWARDS
2021
Artist in Residence, Rockefeller Brothers Fund-The Pocantico Center, Tarrytown,
New York
2020
The Ellies Creator Awards, Oolite Arts, Miami, FL
2018
Residency Unlimited-Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Brooklyn, NY
2016
McColl Center for Art + Innovation (residency), Charlotte, NC
2015
AIR Grant Program (residency), Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA
2013
The Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant Program, New York, NY
2012
CIFO Grants and Commissions Program, Miami, FL
2010
South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists, Miami, FL
Project Row Houses (residency), Houston, TX
2006
Cintas Fellowship Award, New York, NY
1998
Skowhegan (residency), School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Will Heinrich “Mundos Alternos,’ Where Other Worlds Come to Life”, The New York Times, NY, July 15, 2019
Jasmine Chohan “The condition of time”, Galería Acacia, Havana, 2019
Kaira M. Cabañas, “Critic’s pick, Miami / Glexis Novoa”, Artforum, September 2019
Tyler Stallings & Rudi Kraeher, “Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas”, UCR ARTSBLOCK, Riverside, California, October 24, 2017
Rachel L. Price, “Beyond the Revolution”, Art in America, New York. June 20, 2017
Gean Moreno, “Atlas Miami / From the Margins”, Art in America, June 20, 2017
Anne Tschida, “Who says Miami’s art scene closes in summer? Shows at three spaces prove otherwise”, Miami Herald, May 05, 2017
Hamlet Fernández, “Apenas fragmentos de Las cosas como son…”, La Jiribilla, January 2017
Hiroko Ikegami, “Robert Rauschenberg”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2016
David Castillo, Jorge Fernández & Corina Matamoros, “The way things are”, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, September 2016
Jasmine Chohan, “Glexis Novoa: Las cosas como son Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes”, Cubanartours, September 05, 2016
Diego Sileo & Giacomo Zaza “Cuba, Tatuar la historia”, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy, July 2016
Hamlet Fernandez, “Reflections on the Biennial: Successes, Skepticism, and a Look Toward the Future”, Cuban Art News, February 25, 2016
Carolee Thea, “On Curating”, Distributed Art Publishers, New York, 2016
Coco Fusco, “Dangerous Moves: Politics and Performance in Cuba”, Tate Publishing, Mustang, Oklahoma, 2015
Jill Deupi, “Glexis Novoa: Emptiness”, Lowe Museum, 2015
Rachel Weiss, “The Havana Biennial ‘Before it Changes”, Art Nexus, September 2015
Siobhan Morrissey, “The Beauty of Emptiness – Glexis Novoa Creates a zen-like exhibit at the Lowe Art Museum”, Miami Herald, August 17, 2015
Elisa Turner, “Novoa Glexis Draws Big Picture in “Emptiness”, Hamptons Art Hub, July 30, 2015
Susan Delson, “Warming Trend”, Blouin Art+Auction, May 2015
Catherine Sicot, “Glexis Novoa: Inner power”, Wandereur, March 2015
Elizabeth Ceregido, “Painting on canvas”, Juan Ruiz Gallery, 2014
Grace Banks, “Destination / Havana”, Elephant magazine, London, Issue 19, Summer 2014
Gerardo Mosquera, “Lost in Landscape”, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy, April 2014
Manuel J. Borja-Villel, Tamara Díaz y Teresa Velázquez, “Playgrounds, reinventar la plaza”, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, April 2014
Diana Cuellar Ledesma, “I Speak For My Difference, Losing the Human Form: A Seismic Image of the 1980s in Latin America”, Third Text (27:2, 284-288), London, April 04, 2013
Magaly Espinosa Delgado, “El canto del cisne”, El Correo del Archivo #10, April 30, 2013
Red Conceptualismos del Sur, “Perder la forma humana, Una imagen sísmica de los años ochenta en América Latina”, Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2012
Jesus Fuenmayor, Natalia Zuluaga & Elizabeth Ceregido, “Not me: subject to change |”, CIFO, Miami, December 05, 2012
Iván de la Nuez, “El arte latinoamericano de la indiscipline”, El País, Octubre 27, 2012
Saul Ostrow, “Mix and Match at Meditations Biennale”, Art in America, October 2012
Denise Carvalho, Friedhelm Mennekes, Fumio Nanjo & Tomasz Wendland, “Meditations Biennale”, Muzeum Narodowe, Poznan, Poland, September 2014
Gerardo Mosquera, “CRISIS… America Latina, arte y confrontación, 1910-2010”, Palacio Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico, March 2012
Diana McClintock, “Glexis Novoa | Saltworks Gallery”, Art Papers, Atlanta, January 2012
Rachel Weiss, “To and from utopia in the new Cuban art”, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 2011
Andrea O’Reilly Herrera, “Cuban Art Across the Diaspora”, University of Texas Press, 2011
Elizabeth Ceregido, “Project Row Houses”, Literal magazine, July 2010
Amalia Caputo, “Glexis Novoa | Solo show, David Castillo Gallery”, Art Nexus, Issue #62 October 2006
Felicia Feaster, “Cumanana”, Art Papers, May 2009
Deborah Cullen, Gabriela Rangel, Robert Neustadt, Claudia Calirman, Elvis Fuentes, “Arte ≠ Vida: Actions By Artists Of The Americas, 1960-2000”, El Museo del Barrio, New York, 2008
Denise Carvalho, “Poetics and Utopia in Cuban Contemporary Sculpture”, Sculpture Magazine, March 2008
Michelle Weingberg, “The Visionary”, MAP, April 2008
Jonathan Marx, “Cuban artist Novoa contemplates the power of architecture and the architecture of power”, The Tennessean, Nashville, July 27, 2008
Adam McCoy, “Landscape of Events”, Cheekwood Museum, Nashville 2008
Gean Moreno, “Las armas se determinan según el campo de batalla”, Artes magazine, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, July 2008
Patrick Charpenel, “Los Nuevos Leones”, Forum Universal de las Culturas, Monterrey, México 2007
Ruben Gallo, Alan W. Moore, Okwui Enwezor, Irina Aristarkhova & Brian Holmes, “Colectivism After Modernism”, University of Minnesota Press, 2007
Ernesto Oroza, “Glexis Novoa”, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, 2007
Irina Leyva, “Glexis Novoa | Visionary Artist”, Art Nexus, Issue #62 October 2006
Denise M. Gerson & Paula Harper, “Glexis Novoa, Visionary Artist”, Lowe Museum, Miami 2006
Emma Dexter & Rubén Gallo, “Vitamine D | New Perspectives in Drawing”, Phaidon Press, 2005
Artist Project / Landscape of Symbols, Cabinet Magazine, Issue 18 Fictional States, New York, Summer 2005
Francine Birbragher, “Glexis Novoa | Monograph”, Art Nexus, Issue #51 December 2004
Cate McQuaid, “Artist draws on the past to create a vision of Worcester’s future”, Boston Globe, January 23, 2004
Marcelo Pacheco, “10 Floridians”, Miami Art Central (MAC), 2003
Kaira M. Cabañas, “Safe and quiet”, Bernice Steimbaum Gallery, Miami 2002
Ann Wilson Lloyd, “Glexis Novoa at the Miami Art Museum”, Art In America 2002
Francine Birbragher, “Glexis Novoa | Solo show, Miami Art Museum”, Art Nexus, Issue #43 February 2002
Joel Weinstein, “Glexis Novoa | Solo show”, Art Nexus, Issue #41 August 2001
Carol Damian, “Glexis Novoa | Solo show”, Art Nexus, Issue #36 May 2000
Giulio V. Blanc & Antonio Eligio Fernandez (Tonel), “EL PODER”, Galería Nina Menocal, Mexico City, November 1993
Gerardo Mosquera, “Los Hijos De Guillermo Tell”, Museo de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero, Caracas 1991
Antonio Eligio Fernandez (Tonel), “Patria O Muerte (Etapa Practica)”, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana 1989
Santiago Rodríguez Z. & Carlos Rodríguez Cárdenas, “To Be Or Not To Be (Etapa Romántica)”, Galería Habana 1988
Ele Nussa, “Lo Nuevo, lo estrafalario, lo insolito”, Bohemia, Havana 1987
Antonio Eligio (Tonel), “Por quién dobla la campana?”, Granma, Havana, 1987
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Adrastus, Arévalo, Spain
American Express, Minneapolis, MN
Wilfredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, FL
Federal Reserve Bank, Atlanta, GAla
Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PA
Lowe Museum, Coral Gables, FL
Ludwig Forum Fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
Nassau County Museum of Art, Long Island, NY
Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL
Rockefeller Brothers Fund, New York, NY