Angel Delgado is a Cuban visual artist who lives in Long Beach, California.
Biography Delgado studied at the Elementary School of Visual Arts of Havana, between 1976 and 1980. He graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro" in 1984 and studied from 1984 to 1986 at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana. The work of Angel Delgado, goes around a point: the freedom of the individual or the lack of this, his artwork is based fundamentally on the limitations, restrictions, prohibitions, controls and lack of freedoms that are imposed on the human being within the society. In May 1990, Delgado created a performance titled "La esperanza es lo último que se está perdiendo" in the group exhibition "El Objeto Esculturado" at Centro de Desarrollo de Artes Visuales, that led to the prison, where he spent six months of deprivation of freedom, this experience marked his life and his work. In 2005, he left Cuba and decided to stay permanently in Mexico City. He lived there until 2013, when he decided to immigrate to the United States. Delgado currently lives and works in Long Beach, CA.
Selected individual exhibitions
Absent Speech, Building Bridges Art Exchange. Santa Monica, California. 2017 Discurso Ausente, Galeria Seis Seis. Havana, Cuba. 2017 Headlines, Galería Omar Alonso. Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, 2017 Revision, Aluna Art Foundation, Miami, Florida. 2015 Constancy, Amanda Harris Gallery. Las Vegas, Nevada. 2014 Uncomfortable Landscape, Building Bridges Art Exchange. Santa Monica, California. 2014 Inside Outside, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. New Orleans, Louisiana. 2011 Limite Contínuo, Couturier Gallery. Los Angeles, California. 2009 Wake Up, Artane Gallery. Istanbul, Turkey. 2007 Constancias, Galería Nina Menocal. Mexico. 2006 Memorias acumuladas, Galería Fucares. Madrid, Spain. 2004 Sombra interior, Galería Nina Menocal. Mexico. 2003
Collective exhibitions
Unofficial, Kendall Art Center. Miami, Florida. 2018 Domestic Anxieties, chapter 3 of "On the Horizon. Pérez Art Museum Miami. Miami, Florida. 2018 Tatuare la Storia. Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea. Milan, Italy, 2016 An Island Apart: Cuban Artists in Exile. Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University. Westerville, Ohio. 2016 Mobility and Its Discontents, The 8th Floor. New York. 2015 Apertura: Photography in Cuba Today, Chazen Museum of Art. Madison, Wisconsin. 2015 55 Premio Internazionale Bugatti Segantini, Nova Milanese (MB), 2014 Neues Sehen – New Vision. Till Richter Museum. Germany. 2013 Citizens of the World: Cuba in Queens. Queens Museum. Nueva York. 2013 La Revolución no será televisada, Bronx Museum of the Arts. New York. 2012 Video Cubano, Rubin Museum of Art. New York. 2011 Arte no es Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000. Museo del Barrio. New York. 2008
Awards and honors
In 2004, he obtained an artist residency at Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 2008, he won the Museum of Latin American Art award in the category of sculpture and installation in Long Beach, California. In 2016, he is part of The Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL. His work was acquired and it is now included in the collections of the Pérez Art Museum Miami.
Further reading Mendoza, Alexis. Angel Delgado. Drawing Inventory: Them and Now. CdeCuba.org. Magazine 26, January–June, 2019. Una mirada cubana a la manipulación mediática. La Voz de América Noticias, December, 2017. Rojas, Luis Felipe. El pintor cubano Angel Delgado y su obsesión por la libertad. Radio Televisión Martí, July, 2015. Revision: Angel Delgado. Aluna Art Foundation, April, 2015. Perez Moreno, Yanet. La obra de Ángel Delgado, preso en 1990 por realizar una performance. Cubaencuentro, September, 2009. Antón Castillo, Héctor. Angel Delgado, Galería Nina Menocal. Art Nexus. June - August, 2007, p. 129-130 Espinosa Magaly. Antología de textos críticos: El Nuevo Arte Cubano, p. 65 Gallegos, Carina y Martell, Marisol. Art Basel Miami Beach 2005. Art Nexus, No. 56 2005, p. 118-121 Hernández, Orlando. Angel Delgado. Bomb 2002-2003, p. 38-39 Maccash, Doug. No Artist Is An Island. The Times Picayune, March 1, 2002, p. 18 Hernández, Orlando. Letter from Havana. Art Nexus, No. 40, 2001, p. 72-75 Israel, Nico. VII Bienal de La Habana. ArtForum. February 2001, p. 147-148 Expone en Miami Ángel Delgado, Primer Artista Cubano Preso Por su Obra. Neorika.
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