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JULIO RAMON SERRANO

Ramón Serrano Cuban, b. 1967


Education


1989-95

Higher Institute of Fine Art, Havana, Instituto Superior de Arte (I.S.A), Habana

1982-86

  • Art Professional School, El Alba, Holguin, Escuela Professional de Arte, Holguín, (Professional School of Art, Holguín), Cuba

1979-82

  • Academy of Art, Holguin, Escuela Vocacional de Arte, Holgin, Cuba


Academic Appointments and Relevant Life Events


2004- 2007

  • Dean, Graduate Department, Faculty of Visual Arts, Higher Institute of Fine Art, Havana, Cuba

2002-2007

  • Professor, Faculty of Visual Arts, Higher Institute of Fine Art, Havana, Cuba

Artist Residency

2008

  • Artist in residency, Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts, Toronto Canada

2007

  • Artist in Residence Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts, Toronto Canada
  • Drake Hotel Artist-in-Residence, Toronto Canada

2006

  • Artista en Residencia, Royal University College of Fine Art, Stockholm, Sweden

2001

  • Artist in Residence University of Castilla de la Mancha, Spain


Awards

1996

  • Painting Award, Provincial Art Salon, Holguín, Cuba

1994

  • Painting Award, Salón Provincial de Pequeño, Formato, Holguín, Cuba


Solo Museum and Public Gallery Exhibitions

2004

  • What You See is What You See, Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Havana, Cuba

2002

  • Commenting on a Photograph (Photographic Commentary), Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba

1995

  • Objects of Desire, Provincial Center for Visual Arts, Holguín, Cuba

1986

  • Memories, Provincial Center for Visual Arts, Holguín, Cuba


Group Museum and Public Gallery Exhibitions

2023 

      Stand Point, 1313 Art Gallery, Toronto, ON

2015

2013

  • Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima, Lima, Peru: Collection of Joan Mulder

2012

  • Les Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France: The Joan Mulder Collection

2006

  • Wifredo Lam Center for Contemporary Art, Cuba: Ninth Havana Biennial (Havana Biennal)

2004

  • Wifredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba: Abstract May
  • Palacio de Bellas Artes, Alicante, Spain: Invadiendo Territorios (Territorial Invasion), Cuban Contemporary Art

2004

  • Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba: Uneasiness

2003

  • Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba: La Otra Mirada (Another Look)
  • Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuals, Havana, Cuba: Works on Paper of Two Nations, Canada and Cuba
  • Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba: Interior Space

2000-02

  • Arte Jóven Cubano (tour): Thunder Bay Gallery, Thunder Bay, ON; Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, ON; MacLaren Art Center Campus Gallery, Georgian Collage, Barrie, ON; Timmins Museum & National Exhibition Centre, Timmins, ON

2001

  • Hamburg, Germany; ElbArt Art Fair
  • Wifredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba: II Salón de Arte Contemporáneo Cubano (Contemporary Art Salon)
  • Daniela Chuppard Foundation, Odalis Auction House, Odalis Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela: IV Photography Auction
  • Centro de Desarrollo de Las Artes Visuales, Centre for Development of Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba: Expo Desasosiego, (Disassociation Exposition) Arte Abstracto

2000

  • VII Havana Biennial Casa de las Americas Gallery, Havana, Cuba: Contemporary Cuban Art Auction
  • VII Havana Biennial, Habana Libre Hotel, Havana, Cuba: Tone on Tone
  • Contemporary Cuban Art in United Arab Emirates, toured.

1998

  • Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba: II Salón de Arte Contemporáneo (Contemporary Art Salon)

1997

  • Acacia Gallery. VI Havana Biennial, Cuba: Painting of Silence

1996

  • Havana Gallery, Havana, Cuba: Abstract Cuban Paintings


Solo Exhibitions

2024 

          Obelisk, On sugar dreams, JRS art Gallery, Toronto

2023 

2013

  • It’s Hot, It’s Cold, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON

2012

  • My Nose is Growing Now, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2011

  • Words, textures and other silly things, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2010

  • Desert, Mirage, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON

2009

  • Ideales Romanticos, ( Romantics ideals) Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON

2008

  • Open Studio, Gibraltar Center for the Art, artist in residency, Toronto Island, ON

2007

  • Habana Mirage, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON

2006

  • Horizonte, Corkin Shopland Gallery, Toronto, ON

2005

  • Lo Que Se Ve Es Lo Que Se Ve (What You See is What You See), Corkin Shopland Gallery, Toronto, ON

2004

  • What Is Seen Is What Is Seen, Center for the contemporary art Wifredo Land, Havana Cuba

2002

  • Blanco y Negro (White and Black), Galleria Mitos, Mexico

1999

  • Ramón Serrano, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba
  • Recent Works, Acacia Gallery, Havana, Cuba

1995

  • captivated by the vangard, Habana Gallery, Havana, Cuba

ART Fair

  • 2015 Feria ARCO, Madrid Spain, corking GAllery
  • 2010, Art Hong Kong, Hongkong, China, Corkin Gallery
  • 2008, Armory Show, New York, USA, Corkin Gallery
  • 2007, Armory Show New York, USA, Corkin Gallery
  • 2005, 2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015 ,2016, ART TORONTO, Canada,The 12th Toronto International Art Fair, Corking Gallery.
  • 2001, Hamburg, Germany. ElbArt Art Fair


Exhibitions Curated

2006

  • In La Carpinteria, (the carpentry workshop) IX Biennial Of Havana, High Institute of Fine Art (ISA) Havana Cuba.

2000

  • Al Vacío (Void), Cultural Center of Spain, Havana

1997

  • Paintings of Silence, Acacia Gallery, VI, Havana Biennial, Havana

1993

  • All Abstracts, Centro Provincial de Arte, Holguín


Selected Bibliography

2012

  • Catalogue Entry, Habana Mirage 2003, The Jan Mulder Collection, Les Recontres d'Arles, France; The Jan Mulder Collection

2011

  • Adams, James, “An artist’s farewell to Havana”, Globe and Mail, March 19, 2011

2006- present

  • Davidson, Robert, “The Hotel: Space Over Time”; Serrano: Habana Libre, University of Toronto Press (In progress)

2006

  • Carson, Andrea, “RAMON SERRANO at Corkin Shopland Gallery”, View on Canadian Art, September 7, 2006,
    http://www.viewoncanadianart.blogspot.com/

2006

  • Dault, Gary Michael, “Horizonte”, Walking the Line #22, Art Post Info, September 10, 2006, http://mondayartpost.com/

2005

  • Dault, Gary Michael, “The hotel that ‘will not go away’,” Globe & Mail, Saturday January 29, 2005

2004

  • Goddard, Peter, "What You See Is What You See at Corkin Shopland Gallery," Toronto Star, Saturday February 12, 2005
  • Margarita Sánchez Prieto, "What is seen is what is seen, some considerations around postminimalism in Cuba," Artecubano, National Council of Plastic Arts, February 2004

Public Collections

  • The Jan Mulder Collection
  • Luciano Benneton Art Collection
  • Francesco Valerio, Nova-Fin
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