Bio
Born in Havana, Cuba
Lives and works in US
EDUCATION
MFA University of Miami, Florida, 1998
MA Higher Institute of Art, Havana, Cuba, 1989
BA San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba, 1981
FORTHCOMING PROJECT
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
DISPLACEMENTS, IDEOBOX, Miami, FL, 2018/19
JOURNEYS: A DIALOG WITH TIME Recent works by Florencio Gelabert, Museum of Art + Design, Miami, FL, 2015
CRACK & WASTE, Urban Views, Praxis International Art, Miami, FL, 2010
LINES & CONCAVITIES, RL Art Projects, New York, NY, 2009
INTERSECTIONS, The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at FIU, Miami, FL, 2008
PERSONAL LANDSCAPES, Magnan Emrich Contemporary, New York, NY, 2006
VACIO, Galería Fernando Serrano, Moguer, Spain, 2000
PARADISE O, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, 2000
HERRAMIENTAS, Galería Euroamericana, Caracas, Venezuela, 1999
NEW WORKS, Joan Guaita Art, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 1999
THE SOUND OF THE FOREST, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Jacobo Borges, Caracas, Venezuela, 1999
THE SOUND OF THE FOREST, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá, Panama,1998
FLORENCIO GELABERT-BEYOND VIOLENCE, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 1998
THE SEASONS, Intar Gallery, New York, NY, 1998
BREAKING GROUND, Lehigh University Art Gallery, Bethlehem, PA, US, 1996
THE USELESSNESS USE, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables, FL, 1994
COMPRESSION II, Centro Cultural de Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico, 1994
ESCULTURAS, Galería Balance, Mexico City, Mexico, 1989
PROJECTS AND SCULPTURES, Socrates Sculpture Park & Gallery, New York, NY, 1989
ESCULTURAS, Galería de Arte Casa de la Cultura de Plaza, Havana, Cuba, 1984
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
THE BLUE PRNT, Bridge Red Studios, North Miami, US, 2022-23
DESTINATION: LATIN AMERICA, Museum of Shenandoah Valley, VA, US, 2022
UNEARTHING DIALOGUES, DCS Contemporary, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2022
FINE ART ON THE PLATE, Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, Fort Myers, US, 2021
THE REALM OF POSSIBLE FORMS. Art-Factory Project, Miami, US, 2021
THE PARALLEL UTOPIA. Dream Cities in Cuba (1980-1993), Esbaluard Museu d’Art Modern I Contemporani de Palma, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 2021
FINE ART ON THE PLATE, Kendall Art Center, Miami, US, 2020
MATTER OF MIND, The Olympia Projects, NY, US, 2020
ZONA MACO Art Fair, Art Nexus Stand, Mexico City, Mexico, 2020
UN LARGO VIAJE: ARTE CUBANO CONTEMPORANEO, Art Nexus Foundation, Bogotá, Colombia, 2019
UTOPÍAS PARLELAS, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain, 2019
DESTINATION: LATIN AMERICA, LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA, US, 2019/20
THE AFRICAN DIASPORA IN THE WORLD, Museum of Black Civilization, Dakar, Senegal, Dec 2018/19
MÚLTIPLES 1/86, Art Nexus Foundation, Bogota, Colombia, 2018
OFF/ BY / FOR, American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora, Miami, FL, 2017/18
DESTINATION: LATIN AMERICA, South Bend Museum of Art, IN, US, 2018
THE GLOBAL SOUTH VISIONS & REVISIONS FROM THE CAPRILES BRILLEMBOURG COLLECTION, Pinta Art Fair, Miami, FL, 2016
DESTINATION: LATIN AMERICA, Neuberger Museum of Art at Purchase College, New York, NY, 2016
FRAGMENTATIONS AND OTHER PARABLES, Alejandra Von Hartz Gallery, Miami, FL, 2016
WILD NOISE: Bronx/Havana, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, 2016
100+DEGREES IN THE SHADE A Survey of South Florida Art at Art & Design Space, Miami, FL, 2015
BEHIND THE WALL PROJECT at 12th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba, 2015
CARIBBEAN: TOGETHER APART, Luciano Benetton Collection, Treviso, Italy, 2014
BEHIND THE WALL, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, New York, NY, 2014
FROM AFRICA TO THE AMERICAS, The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, FIU, Miami, FL, 2013
DISRUPTED NATURE, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA, 2013
OBSERVED, IMAGINED and RECREATED, Longwood Art Gallery, NY, US, 2011
11th HAVANA BIENNIAL, Havana, Cuba, 2012
CASE STUDIES FROM THE BUREAU OF CONTEMPORARY ART, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe,
NM, 2010/11
XXXI BIENAL DE PONTEVEDRA “UTROPICOS”, Galicia, Spain, 2010
X AÑOS de TEOR/eTICA, Fundación ARS TEOR/eTICA, San Jose, Costa Rica, 2009
THE (S) FILES BIENNAL, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, 2007
INTERSECTIONS/INTERSECCIONES, Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut, US, 2004
DREIDIMENSIONAL, Galerie Aus Baden-Wuntemberg, Berlin, Germany, 2003
IV BIENAL BARRO DE AMERICA, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela, 2002
INSIDE AND OUT: CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE, VIDEO & INSTALLATIONS
Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL, 2001
UPPSALA CONTEMPORARY ART BIENNIAL, Uppsala, Sweden, 2000
III BIENAL BARRO DE AMERICA, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela, 1998
MESOTICA III, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San Jose, Costa Rica, 1998
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
The Paraiso Park at Gran Paraiso on The Bay, Miami, FL, 2019
Garden of the Arts, City of Hialeah, Florida, US, 2015
FIU Sculpture Garden at Biscayne Campus, North Miami, FL, 2008
Miami Dade College, Miami, US, 2006
West Harlem Art Fund, New York, US, 2006
Goldberg Collection at Nassau County Museum, Long Island, NY, 2003
Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL, 2001
Centro Cultural de Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico, 1994
Absolute Vodka, New York, NY, 1992
Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY, 1989
AWARD & RESIDENCIES
2023 Miami-Dade Individual Artists (MIA) Grant Program, Miami, US
2012 Chashama Art Studios Fellowship, New York, NY
2011 Northern Manhattan Artist Alliance Grant 2010/11, New York, NY
2010 Urban Artist Initiative Fellowship 2009/10, New York, US
Northern Manhattan Artist Alliance Grant 2009/10, New York, NY
Viewing Program, Drawing Center, New York, NY
2008 Manhattan Community Arts Fund, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY
2006/12 Chashama Art Studios Fellowship, New York, NY
2005 CAF Award, New York, NY
Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, US
1996 Contemporary Artists Center, Massachusetts, US
1995 Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, US
1994 Artist in Residency at Tijuana Cultural Center, Tijuana, Mexico
1993 Fundación Santa Cruz, La Mancha, Spain
1992 Absolut Freedom Award, Vodka Absolut Campaign, New York, NY
1990 First International Contest of Wood Sculpture Toluca’ 90, Toluca, Mexico
1988/89 Socrates Sculpture Park Artist in Residency, New York, NY
MUSEUM & PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
JORGE M. PÉREZ COLLECTION, Florida, FL, 2017
M.A. WEALTH MANAGEMENT, Long Beach, CA, 2016
CAPRILES BRILLEMBOURG COLLECTION, Miami, FL, 2016
MUSEUM OF ART+DESIGN at Miami Dade College, Miami, FL, 2015
LUCIANO BENETTON COLLECTION, Treviso, Italy, 2013
PEREZ ART MUSEUM MIAMI, Florida, FL, 2013
MUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART, Long Beach, CA, 2013
VIN & SPRITHISTORISKA MUSEET, Stockholm, Sweden, 2012
MUSEO NACIONAL DE BELLAS ARTES, Havana, Cuba, 2011
NEUBERGER MUSEUM OF ART, Purchase, NY, 2010
GOLDBERG COLLECTION at NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM, Long Island, NY, 2004
THE PATRICIA & PHILLIP FROST ART MUSEUM, FIU, Miami, FL, 2002
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, North Miami, FL, 2002
BASS MUSEUM OF ART, Miami Beach, FL, 2001
ELLA FONTANALS-CISNEROS COLLECTION, Miami, FL, 2001
NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART, Santa Fe, NM, 2000
LOWE ART MUSEUM, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 2000
MUSEO DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO, Panama City, Panama, 1998
MUSEO DE ARTE Y DISEÑO CONTEMPORANEO, San Jose, Costa Rica, 1998
NSU ART MUSEUM, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 1997
CISNEROS COLLECTION, Caracas, Venezuela, 1994
SELECTED LECTURES & CONFERENCES
2016 Guest Lecturer of the American Institute of Architecture at the First Meeting of Modernist
Architecture, Havana, Cuba
2015 Lecturer, New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL
2010 Visiting Artist Presentation, Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, US
Visiting Artist Presentation, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY
2009 Presentation, Staples High School, Westport, Connecticut, US
Presentation, The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at FIU, Miami, FL
2005 Presentation, Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, US
2001 Presentation, Foro Puerto de las Artes, Palos de Moguer, Spain
2000 Presentation, Uppsala Biennial at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Lecturer, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
2000-01 Visiting professor, New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL
1999 Presentation, Museo Jacobo Borges, Caracas, Venezuela
Lecturer, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
1998-00 Lecturer, University of Miami, FL
1998 Presentation, Museo Arte Moderno de Panamá, Panama
1994 Lecturer, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, US
1993 Lecturer, Florida International University, Miami, FL
1990 Lecturer, Social Security Institute, Mexico City, Mexico
1988 Lecturer, Rutgers University, New Jersey, US
SELECTED ARTICLES
Mateo, David: Florencio Gelabert; Desmaterialización de la Escultura, Artcronica, Cuba, 2019
Francine, Birbragher: Florencio Gelabert, Ideobox Artspace, Art Nexus, US, Mar-May 2019
Matos, Dennys: Displacements: Florencio Gelabert, El Nuevo Herald, Miami, December 28, 2018
Montero, Hortensia: Desplazamientos, Art On Cuba, Cuba, December 19, 2018
Batet, Janet: Florencio Gelabert Museum of Art + Design, Freedom Tower, Art Nexus, US, Sep-Nov, 2015
Cerejido, Elizabeth: Between Materiality and Metaphor: Florencio Gelabert’s Sculptural Journeys,” Art On Cuba, Sep 2015
Tschida, Anne: Art journeys through the decaying worlds of Miami and Cuba, Knight Arts, Miami, June 22, 2015
Isaac, Andres: Florencio Gelabert: Expansión y Tiempo, El Nuevo Herald, Miami, June 14, 2015
Davidov, Shelly: Journeys: A Dialogue With Time, Miami NewTimes, Miami, June 11, 2015
Herrera Ysla, Nelson: Sculpture from one island to others, Art Nexus, USA/Colombia, Dec-Jan-Feb, 2012/13
Menendez, Ernesto: Florencio Gelabert Islands for a friend, Art Experience NYC, USA, Summer 2012
Moreno, Sarah: The Crossroads of Man and Nature. The Miami Herald, Sunday, January 4, 2009
Falconer, Morgan: The (S) Files 007. Art News, October, NY, US, 2007
Gladstone, Valerie: Florencio Gelabert at Magnan Emrich Contemporary. Art News, March, NY, US, 2007
Turner, Elisa: Florencio Gelabert at Ambrosino Gallery. Art News, January, NY, US, 2003
Jeffett, William: Active Ingredients. Contemporary, December, London, England, 2003
Jeffett, William: Florencio Gelabert. New York Arts, September, NY, US, 2000
Cotter, Holland: Art in Review: Florencio Gelabert. The New York Times, February 21, NY, US, 1997
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