VITA RODRÍGUEZ HERNÁNDEZ, René Francisco 1960 born in Holguín, Cuba Since 1989 Professor at the Institute Superior of Arts Havana (ISA) Member, Union of Writers and Artist of Cuba (UNEAC), Havana EDUCATION Studies 1982 Nacional School of Arts (ENA), Havana 1987 Superior Institute of Arts (ISA), Havana Artistic Residences 2008 Artist in residence, Art Center of Mataro. Barcelona, Spain 2004 Artist in Residence, Cuban Artists Found Artist in Residence, Mattres Factory Pittsburg, USA 2003 Artist in Residence, Schloss Wiepersdorf, Germany 1999 Artist in Residence, Hersliya. Artist Residence, Israel 1997 Artist in Residence, Museum of Fine Arts La- Chaux-De-Fonds, Switzerland 1996 Artist in Residence, Ludwig Forum Internacional Kunst, Germany 1/6
EXHIBITIONS Solo Exhibition 2008 Screening of his trilogy of new videoworks. Frills Community Garden 38 Charles Street, Kingston, Ontario, Canada 2008 Historias Cruzadas. PanAmerican Art Projects, Miami, USA 2006 Patio de Nin (9th Havana Biennial), Miramar Trade Center, Havana 2005 Lista de Espera. Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico D.F. Pasta Cortada. M.A. Contemporary Galerie, Berlin. Trabajo social (Exhibition colateral to Matanzas s Salon of Art) Provincial Center of Art, Matanzas 2003 Cositas sueltas. Schloss Wiepersdorf, Germany. Ca(sz)a persona beuys. Foto Graphik Galerie Käthe Kollwitz, Berlin Ajuste de cuentas (8th Havana Biennial). Nacional Museuom of Fine Arts, Havana 2002 Todo uso es un abuso. Casa de las Américas. Havana Abajo René Francisco. Gallery 106, Austin, TX 2001 Tubosutra. Goch Museum, Germany 2000 Humano demasiado, humano. Gallery Herzliya Residence, Tel Aviv, Israel 1999 Tubosutra. Havana Gallery, Havana 1997 Autorretratos (with Tonel and Eduardo Ponjuán). Gallery Or, Vancouver, Canada 1996 Call Malevich (with Eduardo Ponjuán). Kunshtalle, Dusseldorf y Kunstverein Lingen, Alemania El Cumpleaños de Malevich. Contemporary Art Center Wifredo Lam, Havana 1994 Vuelo (with Eduardo Ponjuán). Ifa-Galerie Friedrichstrase, Berlin Muestra del mes (with Eduardo Ponjuán). Agglutinative Space Havana 1993 Arte y Confort (with Eduardo Ponjuán). Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico D.F. 1992 Ven y dame una mano. Art Center 23 y 12, Havana city. 1989 Artista Melodramático (with Eduardo Ponjuán). Castle of The Royal Force, Havana 1988 Lectura II (con Eduardo Ponjuán). Centro Provincial de Arte Plásticas y Diseño, Havana 1985 Confluencias. Art Center of Pinar del Río, Pinar del Río/ Alex Urquiola Library, Holguín 2/6
EXHIBITIONS Group Exhibition 2008 Cartografías de una isla de ultramar. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. La Habana, Cuba 2008 Lugares comunes. La experiencia colectiva en el video latinoamericano. Centro Jose Guerrero. Granada, España Territories. Contemporary Latinoamerican Art. Otranto, Italy. Post it cities-international. CCCM. Barcelona. Spain 2007 New technologies. Spaces of the contemporary art. Salamanca University, Spain 2007 Basilea Foundation. Dreinlandereck, Basel, Switzerland 52ª Venice Biennial. Venice, Italy Killing time (second version of Waiting List). Exit Art. Nueva York, USA 2006 Como en botica. Salón de la Plástica Mexicana (Zócalo s Book Feir) Mexico D.F, Mexico Waiting List. Mestna Galerija Ljubljana, Slovenia Rising Stars: North Latin Americans. Art Loves Design Program 2006 Art Basel Miami Beach 2006. Miami, USA Art Forum. Nina Menocal Gallery, Berlin, Germany Del otro lado del atlántico. Sacramento Gallery, Aveiro, Portugal Fantastic frameworks. Architectural Utopias + Designs for life. Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada Fast Forward. Cultural Center Fresa y Chocolate, Havana Ciudades internas: Habana-Berlín (9th Habana Biennial) Provincial Center of Plastica Arts and Design, Havana city. La huella múltiple Convento of San Francisco de Asís, Havana 2004 Just on Time. Havana Gallery, Havana 26th Sao Paulo Biennial. Sao Paulo, Brasil Unknown Sister, Unknown Brother. Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany Escalar montañas hermana hombres. Workshop Réne Francisco with KiT and KhiT Bergen, Norway Cuban artists in residence.installations. Mattres Factory. Pittsburg, Philadelphia, E.U.A. Massa Dammata. Galerie Refugium, Berlin, Germany Art Cologne. Galerie Refugium. Koln, Germany 2003 Sentido Común. Havana Gallery, Havana Maneras de inventarse una sonrisa. Center of Development of Visual Art (CDAV), Habana Art Basel Feir, Miami, USA 4D. Rain Project. Cuba Pavilion, Havana 2002 With eyes of stone and water. Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland 2: 12. San Francisco Art Comission Gallery. Overtures über Wasser. Gelsenkirchen, Germany 3/6
EXHIBITIONS Group Exhibition 2001 Transform: 8 artists in Trieste, Italy Cuba Contemporánea. Galería DUPP, MAC, Brasil Hello Cuba Breaking Barries (with Galería DUPP). Tallahasse, USA 2000 Havana Nagila. Cuba - Israel: Dialogue. Tel Aviv, Israel 7th Havana Biennial. Castle of the Three Kings, Havana (with Galería DUPP) Forum internacional de escultura CODEMA 2000, Havana 1999 Big River. Workshop. Grand Riviere, Trinidad & Tobago. National Museum, Trinidad Tobago 48va Venice Biennial. Italy. 1998 Ironía y supervivencia en la isla utópica. Museum of Fine Arts, Arizona, USA La dirección de la mirada. Zurich, Switzerland. 1997 Taller de reparaciones. 6th Havana Biennial. Havana I Bienal Iberoamericana. Lima, Perú Utopian Territories: New Arts from Cuba. Morris & Helen Belkin Gallery, (British Columbian University), Vancouver, Canada 1996 Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo ARCO 96. Recinto Ferial Juan Carlos I, Madrid. - A dentro-a fuera. Walter Phillips Gallery, Canada. 1995 Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo ARCO 95. Recinto Ferial Juan Carlos I, Madrid Una de cada clase. Nacional Center of Conservation, Restoration and Museology, Ludwig Fundation of Cuba, Havana 1994 Sueño, Arte y Mercado. 5th Havana Biennial. Morro- Cabaña complex, Havana 1992 Avantgarde & Kampangne. Cultural Center of Dusseldorf, Germany von Dort aus: Kuba. Ludwig Forum for the Internacional Culture, Aachen, Germany La época prodigiosa. Museum of the Chopo, Mexico D.F. 1990 El objeto esculturado. Center of the Development of Visual Arts. Havana 1988 No es solo lo que ves. Arts and Letters School, Havana University, Havana 1985 Salón Joan Miró. Barcelona, Spain 4/6
ACTIONS Plastic 2002 El prestamista y el deudor (concert). Superior Institute of Art (ISA), Havana 2001 Homenaje a San Francisco. San Francisco, California, E.U.A. (with Felipe Dulzaides) 2000 Desde un pensar abstraído. Havana Gallery, Havana (with Galería DUPP) 1998 El Regreso de Joseph Beuys. First Festival of Performance Ana Mendieta, Havana 1997 Reviva la ReVoltaire. Gruop action of cuban artists in Spiegelgasse 1, Zürich, onetime location of the Voltaire cabaret, place where Dada used to hold their meetings. Joseph Beuys, 7 días en Holguín. Holguín, Cuba. 1996 Malevi bobo, papá bobo. Center of Contemporary Art Wifredo Lam, Havana 1987/1988 La plástica cubana se dedica al baseball (group performance) Círculo Social. José A. Echevarría, Havana 1987 Si salgo llego... Fototeca de Cuba, Havana (with Francisco Lastra) Social Insertion Works 2004/05 Patio de Nin. El Romerillo quarter, La Habana 2003 A la ca(sz)a de Rosa. El Romerillo quarter, La Habana 1997 Desde una pragmática Pedagógica. Third edición. Galería DUPP, Superior Institute of Art, Havana 1992 Desde una Pragmática Pedagógica. Second Edition. Department of Debates and Exhibitions, Superior Institute of Art (ISA), Havana 1990 Los Cuadros por Encargo Gratis. Santa Cruz del Valle, Ávila, Spain 1989/90 Desde una pragmática pedagógica. First Edición, January-May, Havana PRIZES & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 2008 Orden por la Educación Nacional Orden por la Cultura Nacional 2001 Honorary Doctorate Fine Art, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA. 2000 Premio UNESCO con Galería DUPP, 7th Havana Biennial, Havana city. 5/6
PUBLICATIONS Sept. 1988 Sept. 1989 PRIMERO RETORCER, LUEGO ESTIRAR Efraín Rodríguez Santana. Catálogo Lectura 2. Ponjuan de La Coloma René Francisco. Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas y Diseño. CATÁLOGO PROYECTO CASTILLO DE LA FUERZA Gerardo Mosquera. Eduardo Ponjuan, René Francisco. Pág. 1 1990 COURSE OF CARPENTRY René Francisco Rodríguez 1993 PONJUÁN Y RENÉ FRANCISCO, DOS QUE REGRESAN A CUBA Nina Menocal. Pp. 8. Catálogo Arte y confort. Ponjuán y René Francisco. Galeria Nina Menocal 1998 CATÁLOGO II SALÓN DE ARTE CUBANO CONTEMPORÁNEO René Francisco Rodríguez Hernández. Pág. 106. 2002 CATALOGUE CUBA WITH EYES OF STONE AND WATER Arja Miller. René Francisco. Pp. 21. Helsinki City Art Museum. ISBN0 951-8965-51X 2003 CON EL MISMO SABOR DE BOCA. (MIT DEM GLEICHEN GE- SCHMACK IM MUND). René Francisco 6/6