biography of Carlos GARAICOA (1967)

Personal data


Birth : 01/23/1967 - Havana, Cuba
Sex : M
Nationality/Affiliation : Cuba

Address

Havana, Cuba

Representatives

Galerie Farideh Cadot – 58 rue Charlot – Paris, France
Galleria Continua – Via Arco dei Becci, 1 – San Gimignano SI, Italy

Work


Categorie and medium


Sculpture-Volume : Installation
Drawing-Watercolor : Ink
Audiovisual-Multimedia : Video
Performing Art : Performance

Subject

history/society

Works

Quatre cubains
Date of creation : 1997
Medium : Video
 
Japanese Garden
Date of creation : 1997
Medium : Installation
Materials : stone-wood-sand
Process : installation-photograph-text
 
Cuban Garden
Date of creation : 1997
Medium : Performance
 
Projet sur ce qui nous fait peur et ce que nous craignons
Date of creation : 1994-1995
Medium : Ink/paper
Size : 150 x 250 cm
 
A propos de ces atlas infatigables qui jour après jour supportent notre présence
Date of creation : 1994-1995
Medium : Ink/paper
Size : 150 x 220 cm
 

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)


Solo exhibitions

2005

Galeria de Arte Luisa Strina – São Paulo, Brazil
05/28/2005 – 06/22/2005

2002

Carlos Garaicoa
Galleria Continua – San Gimignano SI, Italy
02/02/2002 – 03/23/2002

2001

Fundación Museo de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero – Caracas, Venezuela
2001 – 02/2002

2000

The Bronx Museum of the Arts – Bronx, New York NY, United States
2000

1999

Paisaje
Ars Teoré Tica – San Jose, Costa Rica
1999

1998

Principio y fin de la fascinación
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam – Havana, Cuba
1998

1996

El paisaje ; los limites
Fototeca de Cuba – Havana, Cuba
1996

Cuando el deseo se parece a nada
Art in General – New York NY, United States
1996

Habana : un estudio
Carla Stellweg Gallery – New York NY, United States
1996

1995

El espacio Decapitado
Centre Pasquart – Biel BE, Switzerland
1995

1992

Tu número de suerte asociación
Galería Juan Francisco Elso Hermanos Saíz – Havana, Cuba
1992

Group Exhibitions (Selected)


Art shows / fairs

2007

FIAC Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais – Paris, France
10/18/2007 – 10/22/2007
Represented by : Galleria Continua 2 – Via del Castello 11 – San Gimignano SI, Italy

2006

Frieze Art Fair
Regent’s Park – London, United Kingdom
10/12/2006 – 10/15/2006
Represented by : Galeria de Arte Luisa Strina – Rua Oscar Freire 502 – São Paulo, Brazil

2004

FIAC Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain, n°31
Paris Expo – Porte de Versailles – Paris, France
10/21/2004 – 10/25/2004
Represented by : Galleria Continua 2 – Via del Castello 11 – San Gimignano SI, Italy

Art 35 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/16/2004 – 06/21/2004
Represented by : Galleria Continua 2 – Via del Castello 11 – San Gimignano SI, Italy

2003

Art Basel Miami Beach
Miami Beach Convention Center – Miami Beach FL, United States
12/04/2003 – 12/07/2003
Represented by : Galería Elba Benítez – Patio interior San Lorenzo, 11 – Madrid, Spain

FIAC, n°30
Paris Expo – Porte de Versailles – Paris, France
10/09/2003 – 10/13/2003
Represented by : Galleria Continua – Via Arco dei Becci, 1 – San Gimignano SI, Italy

ArtBrussels – 21st Contemporary Art Fair
Brussels Expo – Brussels, Belgium
04/04/2003 – 04/08/2003
Represented by : Galleria Continua – Via Arco dei Becci, 1 – San Gimignano SI, Italy

The Armory Show 2003
Piers 88 & 90 – New York NY, United States
03/07/2003 – 03/10/2003
Represented by : Galleria Continua – Via Arco dei Becci, 1 – San Gimignano SI, Italy

2002

Art Basel Miami Beach
Miami Beach Convention Center – Miami Beach FL, United States
12/05/2002 – 12/08/2002
Represented by : Galleria Continua – Via Arco dei Becci, 1 – San Gimignano SI, Italy

FIAC, n°29
Paris Expo – Porte de Versailles – Paris, France
10/24/2002 – 10/28/2002
Represented by : Galleria Continua – Via Arco dei Becci, 1 – San Gimignano SI, Italy

LISTE 02 – The Young Art Fair
Werkraum Warteck pp – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/11/2002 – 06/16/2002
Represented by : Lombard-Freid Fine Arts Gallery – 531 West 26th Street – New York NY, United States

ArtBrussels – 20th Contemporary Art Fair
Brussels Expo – Brussels, Belgium
05/02/2002 – 05/06/2002
Represented by : Galleria Continua – Via Arco dei Becci, 1 – San Gimignano SI, Italy

The Armory Show 2002
Piers 88 & 90 – New York NY, United States
02/22/2002 – 02/25/2002
Represented by : Galleria Continua 2 – Via del Castello 11 – San Gimignano SI, Italy

Art Miami, n°12
Miami Beach Convention Center – Miami Beach FL, United States
01/04/2002 – 01/08/2002
Represented by : Jacob Karpio Galeria – Avenida 1a Cuesta de Nuñez – San Jose, Costa Rica

2001

Art Basel Miami Beach: cancelled
Miami Beach Convention Center – Miami Beach FL, United States
12/13/2001 – 12/16/2001
Represented by : Lombard-Freid Fine Arts Gallery – 531 West 26th Street – New York NY, United States

ARTissima – Arte Contemporaneo a Torino, n° 8
Palazzo del Lavoro – Turin TO, Italy
11/15/2001 – 11/18/2001
Represented by : Galleria Continua – Via Arco dei Becci, 1 – San Gimignano SI, Italy

Art Forum Berlin, n° 6
Messegelände Berlin / Exhibition Grounds Berlin – Berlin, Germany
10/03/2001 – 10/07/2001
Represented by : Lombard-Freid Fine Arts Gallery – 531 West 26th Street – New York NY, United States


Group exhibitions

2003

Catastrofi Minime
MAN Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro – Nuoro, Italy
12/05/2003 – 02/29/2004

2002

1st Biennial Ceará América
Fortaleza, Brazil
12/13/2002 – 02/28/2003

Documenta XI
Kunsthalle Fridericianum – Kassel, Germany
06/08/2002 – 09/15/2002

Artists imagine Architecture
ICA The Institute of Contemporary Art – Boston MA, United States
05/22/2002 – 09/02/2002

El Final del Eclipse. El Arte de América Latina en la Transición al siglo XXI / The End of the Eclipse. Latin American Art from the Transition into the XXI Century
MEIAC Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo – Badajoz, Spain
02/08/2002 – 04/08/2002

2001

El Final del Eclipse. El Arte de América Latina en la Transición al siglo XXI / The End of the Eclipse. Latin American Art from the Transition into the XXI Century
Palacio de los Condes de Gabia – Granada, Spain
11/29/2001 – 01/20/2002

El Final del Eclipse. El Arte de América Latina en la Transición al siglo XXI / The End of the Eclipse. Latin American Art from the Transition into the XXI Century
Fundación Telefónica – Madrid, Spain
09/12/2001 – 11/18/2001

Mega Wave : Towards a New Synthesis – Yokohama International Triennale of Contemporary Art
Yokohama, Japan
09/02/2001 – 11/11/2001

1999

Maps of Desires
Kunsthalle Wien – Vienna, Austria
1999

Mirror’s Edge
Bildmuseet – Umeå University – Umeå, Sweden
11/21/1999 – 02/20/2000

1998

Roteiros – Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, n°24
Parque do Ibirapuera – São Paulo, Brazil
10/03/1998 – 12/13/1998

1997

Kwangju Biennale, n° 2
Kwangju, South Korea (Republic of Korea)
1997

El individuo y su memoria – 6a Bienal de la Habana
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam – Havana, Cuba
05/03/1997 – 06/08/1997

1995

Objects of Defiance, Spaces of Contemplation – Africus ’95 – 1st Johannesburg Biennale
Museum Africa – Johannesburg, South Africa
02/28/1995 – 04/30/1995

1994

The New Generation : Contemporary Photography from Cuba
The Menil Collection – Houston TX, United States
1994

Arte, Sociedad, Reflexión – 5a Bienal de la Habana
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam – Havana, Cuba
05/06/1994 – 06/30/1994

1993

Las Metáforas del Templo
Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales de La Habana – Havana, Cuba
1993

Bibliography (Selected)


On the artist


Books

2000

Fresh Cream
Publisher: Phaidon Press – Regent’s Wharf – London, United Kingdom
11/2000
ISBN : 0714891142


Periodicals

2002

Arte y Parte n° 36
Santander, Spain
12/2001-01/2002

2001

GOODMAN Jonathan – Carlos Garaicoa at the Bronx Museum of the Arts
in: Art in America p. 128
New York NY, United States
06/2001

1995

ZAYA Octavio – The Cuban Quagmire
in: Flash Art
Milan MI, Italy
10/1995

Legals