Gustavo Acosta

Born in 1958 in La Habana, Cuba
Lives and works in Miami, USA

The urban images present in my work are derived from the everyday, ordinary visual perspective. I strive to integrate these into a new (and not always clear) system, in which signs of ubiquity and temporality imitate the arbitrary procedures through which our minds and memories distort and magnify personal expectations and priorities. Through the use of these ideas, I can manipulate the pictorial illusion to create a form of visual fiction.

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Studied at San Alejandro National School of Arts (1977) and Superior Institute of Art, Havana (1982). His work was awarded several times in nationals and internationals events as the First Havana Biennial, (1994). the Cuenca Biennial (Ecuador) 1991 and the Caribbean Biennial (Dominican Republic) 1992. He was part of the Cuban representation at the XX Sao Paulo Biennial (1989). Also participated in the First Biennial of the South, Panama City (2013).

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2013 – Silence Space Caixa Cultural Fundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012 – A Journal of References – Frederic Boloix Fine Arts, Ketchum, Idaho
2012 –DUDA (Doubt) – Raymaluz Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2011 – Here – Pan American Art Projects, Miami, Florida
2011 – Questions to the Mirror – Panama Museum of Contemporary Art, Panama
2011 – Art of Illusion – Latin American Masters, Los Angeles, California
2011 –The Time Machine – Lile O,Reitzel Arte Contemporaneo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
2009 – The Great Systems – Pan American Art Projects, Miami, Florida
2008 – Hipotesis de la Locura – Pan American Art Projects, Miami
2008 – Transit Zones – Latin American Masters, Los Angeles, California

Selected Group Exhibitions
2013 – Global Caribbean – Haitian Cultural Center, Miami, FL
2012 – Urban Lifecycles – Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, Idaho
2011 – Florida Contemporary: Paintings, Photographs and Sculpture – Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida Campos de Asociaciones,
2011 – Diálogos y Silencios entre Practicas de Dibujo – SBCC, Guayaquil, Ecuador
2010 – Havana a Capital’s Punishment – Accent Alternative Art Space, Miami
2010 – Ways of Worldmaking, Notes on a Passion for Collection – Miami Dade College Museum, Freedom Tower, Miami
2009 – Irreversible – CIFO, Miami
2009 – Herir la Memoria – Siguaraya Gallery, Berlin
2008 – Visiones: 20th Century Selections from the Nassau County Museum of Art – Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida