José Iraola
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José Sánchez Iraola was born in Camaguey, Cuba, on September 19th, 1961. At the age of 26 he left his homeland and resided in Madrid, Spain from 1987 to 1989 when he finally moved to Miami, Florida, Estados Unidos. He’s mainly a painter and started studying in 1986 at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro, Havana, Cuba but didn’t finish his academic education there.
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[edit] Individual exhibitions
In January 1987 he shows a solo work called Jugamos con los dioses in the art gallery Domingo Ravenet in Havana. Three years later, in Madrid, Spain, he presents another exhibition under the name Caja Postal. Since 1993 he works usually with Luis Marín and they exhibit together this year in Ecuador at the Sala de Arte Contemporaneo of the Museo Municipal de Guayaquil and at the Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno in Cuenca. In 1995, the artists proposed Posibles Orígenes y Mitos from April 19th to May 6th at La Galería in Quito, Ecuador and in 1997 they show Presencia Cubana en Los Angeles at the Antioch University in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A..
[edit] Collective exhibitions
The artist was invited to the Salón Playa’85 that took place at the Galería Servando Cabrera Moreno in Havana, Cuba, in December 1985. In September 1991 he shows some of his works in Abstractions at the Inter American Gallery, in the Wolfson Campus of the Miami Dade Community College, in Miami, Florida, U.S.A.. In March 1994 he participates in the The Afro Cuban My at the Barbara Greene Gallery, Miami, Florida, U.S.A. and he also was a member of the 9 Cuban American Artists in the Kingsborough Community College Art Gallery, City University of New York, U.S.A.
[edit] Collections
Some of his paintings conform the collections of the Antioch University in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A; the Diners Club Collection in Quito, Ecuador; the Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, Connecticut, U.S.A. and the Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano, in the Peruvian capital. The Modern Art Museum of Cuenca, Ecuador also acquired some of his canvases as well as the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.A.
[edit] Awards
He won the important award Soho Art Competition No. 9. of the Ariel Gallery, Soho, New York, U.S.A.
[edit] References
- Jose Veigas-Zamora, Cristina Vives Gutierrez, Adolfo V. Nodal, Valia Garzon, Dannys Montes de Oca; Memoria: Cuban Art of the 20th Century; (California/International Arts Foundation 2001); ISBN 9780917571114
- Jose Viegas; Memoria: Artes Visuales Cubanas Del Siglo Xx; (California International Arts 2004); ISBN 9780917571121 (Spanish)
