Jesús Hdez-Güero

Born in 1983 in Havana, Cuba
Live and works between Venezuela and Cuba

I am interested in the capacity of art to utilize and reorganize existing social forms and cultural models that can be updated infinitely. I intend that my work will have a double impact and validity; merit in the plane of art as well as in the social dominion.  It must become a platform of communication and expansion of specific phenomena and of the principal contradictions and socio-cultural forces of those areas that are not made evident, lack transparency, or are hidden, and in the end the work must remain as an archive of these “social invisibilities”.

Residencies
2013– A-I-R Laboratory. Centre for Contemporary Arte Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland.
2008– BATISCAFO Residence. HIVOS Foundation and Triangle Arts Trust. Havana, Cuba.

Solo exhibitions
2013 – Las armas no matan. El Anexo / Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas, Venezuela.
2013 – Debajo de la mesa. AIR Open Studio. Center for Contemporary Art  Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland.
2009 – La realidad se impone – Collateral to the X Havana Biennale. Salle Zéro, Alliance Française, Havana, Cuba
2007 – Recortes de la realidad informativa – Casa de las América, Havana, Cuba
2003 – Simbiosis II – Visual Arts and Design Center, Havana, Cuba

Group exhibitions (Selection)
2013– Tócate, HABANA Gallery. Havana, Cuba.
2013–  El arte es emoción, Center of Contemporary Art  Los Galpones, Caracas, Venezuela.
2011 – Quinquenio – Salle Zéro, Alliance Française, Havana, Cuba
2011 – XIV International Biennial of Miniprint “Luisa Palacios”. CAF Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
2010 – The extreme of the bullet: a decade of Cuban art – Cuba Pavilion, Havana, Cuba
2010 – TOUCHED – Liverpool Biennale, curatorial work by Lorenzo Fusi, Visitor Centre, Liverpool, UK
2010 – Show Cuba Century XXI: literature in transition – Avant Writing Symposium 2010. The Ohio, State University, Ohio, U.S.A.
2009 – Experimental video and video-art: Artist from Cuba – Curatorial work by Magaly Espinosa and Conrado Uribe. Casa del Encuentro, Antioquia Museum, Medellín, Colombia.
2009 – State of Exception – Curaturial work by Tania Bruguera and Mailyn Machado. X Havana
2009 – Biennale, HABANA Gallery, Havana, Cuba
2008 – Ver Magazine – Curatorial work by Rirkrit Tiravanija. Tailandia-U.S.A.
2008 – VII Bienal de Gwangju. South Corea. Curatorial work by Okwui Enwezor
2008 – Curador por cuenta propia – Le Fresnoy/Habana Remix. National Museum of Fine Arts, (MNBA), Havana, Cuba
2008 – Belimbo – BATISCAFO Residence. HIVOS Fundation and Triangle Arts Trust. Havana, Cuba
2008 – States of Exchange: Artists from Cuba – Institute of International Visual Arts (iniVA), Londres, UK. Curatprial work by Gerardo Mosquera y Cylena Simonds