HANDER LARA
www.cubartecontemporaneo.com
Born-Cuba, La havane
1984
STUDIES/ ETUDES:
2010-2011
Postgraduate of Symbolic Production. Higher Institute of Art (ISA). Havana City.
2004-2009
Higher Institute of Art (ISA). Gold Degree. Havana City.
2008
Studies at the Royal University College of Fine Arts (Kungl. Konsthögskolan), Stockholm, Sweden.
1999-2003
San Alejandro Fine Arts Academy. Gold Degree. Havana City.
1996
Course of Art History Panorama. Imparted by the Art History Department of the Arts & Letters
Faculty of the Havana Unversity and the Association of Visual Artists of the National Union of and
Artists of Cuba (UNEAC).
- Since 2009
he works as a professor of the Visual Arts Faculty of the Higher Institute of Art (ISA).
- In 2012
he assume the leadership of the Sculpture Department of the Visual Arts Faculty of the Higuer
Institute of Art (ISA).
- He is member of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC).
- His work moves in different medias such as the sculpture, the installation, the photography, the drawing and the
videoart.
- He has participated in more than fifty collectives exhibitions and seven personal exhibitions, and his works have been
exhibited in countries like: Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, Honduras, Belgium, Spain and United States.
- His works have been exhibited in museums, halls, international festivals and fairs, biennials, galleries, foundations and
cultural centers.
- He has imparted lectures as invited professor of the Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle, in Germany and of
the Royal University College of Fine Arts (Kungl. Konsthögskolan), in Stockholm, Sweden.
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS/ EXPOSITIONS INDIVIDUELLES
2012
“The place of all things”. XI Havana Biennial. San Carlos de La Cabaña Fortress. Havana City.
2011
“Land-escapes”. Rubén Martínez Villena Gallery. Plaza de Armas, Old Havana. Havana City.
2009
“10 & 2”. San Pancho Cultural Center. Nayarit, Mexico.
2007
“Beyond appearances”. Center of Visual Arts and Desing Luz y Oficios. Havana City.
2006
“Of short stories and big spaces”. IX Havana Biennial colateral exhibition. Talía Gallery. Havana
City.
2005
“Cosmologies”. Library of the Higher Institute of Art (ISA). Havana City.
2003
“When reflection become form”. 23 & 12 Gallery. Havana City.
AWARDS/ PRIX ET RECOMPENSES
2008
Scholarship at the Royal University College of Fine Arts (Kungl. Konsthögskolan). Stockholm,
Sweden.
2007
First Prize of the European Union Art Competition. “Cuba & Europe. Visions”. Represented by the
Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, on behalf of the Presidency of the European Union in
Havana and by the Delegation of the European Commission. Havana City.
Mention in the Photography Competition “Laces to the sea” summoned by the The Neatherlands
Embassy in Cuba. Havana City.
Antonio Grediaga Art Casting Scholarship. School-workshop of Artistic Casting Antonio Grediaga.
Havana City.
COLLECTIVES EXHIBITIONS/ EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES
2013
OK Biennale Cuvée. Ok Center for Contemporary Art. Linz, Austria.
“Occupaying, Building, Thinking: Poetic and Discursive Perspectives on Contemporary Cuban
Videoart (1990 – 2010)”. Contemporary Art Museum of Tampa - Graphic Studio (USF). United
States.
“Still racket”. Museum of the Ceramic. Havana City.
2012
“Subjective”. Culture House of Plaza. Havana City.
“Light to your own chemistry V”. Exhibition presented in the mark of the event Photographic No
vember. Fototeca of Cuba. Havana City.
“Thinking from the landscape”. Osvaldo Guayasamín Gallery. Havana City.
“Occupaying, Building, Thinking: Poetic and Discursive Perspectives on Contemporary Cuban
Videoart (1990 – 2010)”. The Cultural Center Of Spain in Miami. Miami, United States.
Exhibition of the Cuban Art collection of the Cubaplus magazine in their 6th Anniversary. Vedado
Hall of the National Hotel of Cuba. Havana City.
“Artfulling Uniting Extraordinary. Cuban artworks with extraordinary life”. BNP Paribas Fortis.
Brussels, Belgium.
2011
“Pink noise”. Opening exhibition of the T.I.E.R. project. La Moderna Gallery. Havana City.
Exhibition of the Cuban Art collection of the Cubaplus magazine in their 5th Anniversary. Vedado
Hall of the National Hotel of Cuba. Havana City.
“Ya sé leer”. Centemporary Art Center Wifredo Lam. Havana City.
“Occupaying, Building, Thinking: Poetic and Discursive Perspectives on Contemporary Cuban
Videoart (1990 – 2010). As part of the event “Cuban Music, Art and Literature After the Fall of the
Berlin Wall”. Carleton College.Minneapolis, United States.
Art Madrid ´11. 6th Contemporary Art Fair. Crystal Pavilion, Casa de Campo. Madrid, Spain.
2010
“Sight make faith”. San Alejandro Fine Arts Academy Gallery. Havana City.
“Light to your own chemistry III”. Exhibition presented in the mark of the Photographic November e
event and the Inventory Project of the Ludwig Foundation. Ludwig Foundation. Havana City.
“The extreme of the bullet. A decade of Cuban Contemporary Art”. Cuba Pavilion. Havana City.
“Multiple option. Contemporary Cuban Art”. Benito Juárez International Airport. Mexico DF,
Mexico.
“10 & 2”. Contemporary Cuban Photography. Punto Cero Gallery. Mexico DF, Mexico.
“Intertwining cultures”. Art & Fashion. Edition 2010. National Museum of Fine Arts. Havana City.
“Multiple option. Contemporary Cuban Art”. Arte San Juan Foundation. Guadalajara, Mexico.
“Panorama II”. Mariano Rodriguez Gallery. Panamerican Villege. Havana City.
“10 & 2”. Contemporary Cuban Photography. Guadalajara Galeries. Guadalajara, Mexico.
2009
“Black is a color”. Collective exhibition of Contemporary Cuban Art. San Juan Foundation.
Gadalajara, Mexico.
“Light to your own chemistry II”. Exhibition presented in the mark of the event Photographic
November. Fototeca of Cuba. Havana City.
“Build in”. X Havana Biennial colateral exhibition. Servando Cabrera Gallery. La Copa. Havana
City.
“Change and out”. X Havana Biennial colateral exhibition. Visual Arts Faculty of the Higher Institute
of Art (ISA). Havana City.
2008
“Isla in Continente. Contemporary Cuban Art”. Exhibition presented in the Central American
Biennial of Tegucigalpa. Art National Gallery FUNDARTE. Plaza La Merced, Tegucigalpa,
Honduras.
XIX Art Hall. Katzen Museum of the American University of Washington DC. Washington DC, United
States.
Contemporary Cuban Art Hall. Development Center of the Visual Arts. Havana City.
“Glocalizados”. International Festival of Culture of Boyacá. Rafael Taveras Gallery. Tunja, Colombia.
“Grove. The body is bodies”. Presented exhibition in the mark of the International Festival of
Contemporary Art in Guanajuato. Jesús Gallardo Art Gallery. León, Mexico.
“Toma 9”. Development Center of the Visual Arts. Havana City.
“Stalker”. Visual Arts Faculty of the Higher Institute of Art (ISA). Havana City.
ABC International Event of Performance and Audiovisual. Circus Project 5th Edition. Poetry´s
House. Havana City.
“2008culturas.com”. International event organized through Internet by the State Society of Cultural
Commemorations, appointed to the Culture Ministry of Spain, with motive of the European Year of
The Intercultural Dialogue.
Exhibition of the resultants works of the Art Casting Sculpture Scholarship. School-workshop of
Artistic Casting Antonio Grediaga. Havana City.
2007
“Laces to the sea”. Works exhibition of the Photoraphy Competition summoned by the The
Neatherlands Embassy in Cuba. Mr. Embassador residence. Havana City.
“The One Minute Belgianopen”. Audiovisual Festival organized by the TOM Amsterdam and the
Belgianopen. Gante, Belgium.
Cuban Artists Exhibition. Guanajuato Art Gallery. León, Mexico.
Young Cuban Artists Exhibition. San Juan Art Foundation. Guadalajara, Mexico.
IX Digital Art Hall. Pablo de la Torriente Brau Center. Havana City.
“Cuba & Europe. Visions”. Exhibition of the rewarded works and finalists of the European Union Art
Competition. Residence of the Cultural Adviser of Germany in Havana. Havana City.
“Built situation”. Organized Event by the 3th year students of the Higher Institute of Art (ISA),
compound by the bidimensional exhibition “Vein head”, the Vidio-art exhibition “Maneuvers”,
interventions and performances. Art Faculty of the Higher Institute of Art (ISA). Havana City.
“Travelling. Reality & Fiction”. International Event of Performance and Audivisuals. Circus Project 4th
Edition. Actualidades Cinema. Havana City.
2006
“H2Oro”. Poetry´s House. Havana City.
City Hall ´06. Province Center of Fine Arts and Design Luz y Oficios. Havana City.
“To shoot and to shoot well”. IX Havana Biennial colateral exhibition. Intervention in the shot training
field in Vedado. Havana City.
“IX in the carpentry”. IX Havana Biennial colateral exhibition. Higher Institute of Art. Havana City.
“Transient sculpture”. IX Havana Biennial colateral exhibition. Workshop of the National Advisory
Counsel for the Development of the Enviromental and Monumental Sculpture (CODEMA). Havana
City.
2005
V Installations Hall Juan Francisco Elso. Mariano Rodríguez Gallery. Panamerican Villege. Havana
City.
“SIZE: XXL”. Mariano Rodríguez Gallery. Panamerican Villa. Havana City.
2003
“Naturarte”. Documental exhibition of the Ephemeral Workshop. Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art
Center. Havana City.
“Naturarte”. Ephemeral Workshop. Dos Hermanas Camping Base. Viñales Valley. Pinar del Río City.
2001
“Academic 2001”. Collective exhibition of the sculpture specialty students of San Aleandro Fine A
Arts Academy. House of Poetry. Havana City.
2000
XII Mirta Cerra´s Hall. Mirta Cerra Gallery. Bejucal.
Summer Hall. Bejucal Art Gallery. Bejucal.
www.cubartecontemporaneo.com
Born-Cuba, La havane
1984
STUDIES/ ETUDES:
2010-2011
Postgraduate of Symbolic Production. Higher Institute of Art (ISA). Havana City.
2004-2009
Higher Institute of Art (ISA). Gold Degree. Havana City.
2008
Studies at the Royal University College of Fine Arts (Kungl. Konsthögskolan), Stockholm, Sweden.
1999-2003
San Alejandro Fine Arts Academy. Gold Degree. Havana City.
1996
Course of Art History Panorama. Imparted by the Art History Department of the Arts & Letters
Faculty of the Havana Unversity and the Association of Visual Artists of the National Union of and
Artists of Cuba (UNEAC).
- Since 2009
he works as a professor of the Visual Arts Faculty of the Higher Institute of Art (ISA).
- In 2012
he assume the leadership of the Sculpture Department of the Visual Arts Faculty of the Higuer
Institute of Art (ISA).
- He is member of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC).
- His work moves in different medias such as the sculpture, the installation, the photography, the drawing and the
videoart.
- He has participated in more than fifty collectives exhibitions and seven personal exhibitions, and his works have been
exhibited in countries like: Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, Honduras, Belgium, Spain and United States.
- His works have been exhibited in museums, halls, international festivals and fairs, biennials, galleries, foundations and
cultural centers.
- He has imparted lectures as invited professor of the Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle, in Germany and of
the Royal University College of Fine Arts (Kungl. Konsthögskolan), in Stockholm, Sweden.
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS/ EXPOSITIONS INDIVIDUELLES
2012
“The place of all things”. XI Havana Biennial. San Carlos de La Cabaña Fortress. Havana City.
2011
“Land-escapes”. Rubén Martínez Villena Gallery. Plaza de Armas, Old Havana. Havana City.
2009
“10 & 2”. San Pancho Cultural Center. Nayarit, Mexico.
2007
“Beyond appearances”. Center of Visual Arts and Desing Luz y Oficios. Havana City.
2006
“Of short stories and big spaces”. IX Havana Biennial colateral exhibition. Talía Gallery. Havana
City.
2005
“Cosmologies”. Library of the Higher Institute of Art (ISA). Havana City.
2003
“When reflection become form”. 23 & 12 Gallery. Havana City.
AWARDS/ PRIX ET RECOMPENSES
2008
Scholarship at the Royal University College of Fine Arts (Kungl. Konsthögskolan). Stockholm,
Sweden.
2007
First Prize of the European Union Art Competition. “Cuba & Europe. Visions”. Represented by the
Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, on behalf of the Presidency of the European Union in
Havana and by the Delegation of the European Commission. Havana City.
Mention in the Photography Competition “Laces to the sea” summoned by the The Neatherlands
Embassy in Cuba. Havana City.
Antonio Grediaga Art Casting Scholarship. School-workshop of Artistic Casting Antonio Grediaga.
Havana City.
COLLECTIVES EXHIBITIONS/ EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES
2013
OK Biennale Cuvée. Ok Center for Contemporary Art. Linz, Austria.
“Occupaying, Building, Thinking: Poetic and Discursive Perspectives on Contemporary Cuban
Videoart (1990 – 2010)”. Contemporary Art Museum of Tampa - Graphic Studio (USF). United
States.
“Still racket”. Museum of the Ceramic. Havana City.
2012
“Subjective”. Culture House of Plaza. Havana City.
“Light to your own chemistry V”. Exhibition presented in the mark of the event Photographic No
vember. Fototeca of Cuba. Havana City.
“Thinking from the landscape”. Osvaldo Guayasamín Gallery. Havana City.
“Occupaying, Building, Thinking: Poetic and Discursive Perspectives on Contemporary Cuban
Videoart (1990 – 2010)”. The Cultural Center Of Spain in Miami. Miami, United States.
Exhibition of the Cuban Art collection of the Cubaplus magazine in their 6th Anniversary. Vedado
Hall of the National Hotel of Cuba. Havana City.
“Artfulling Uniting Extraordinary. Cuban artworks with extraordinary life”. BNP Paribas Fortis.
Brussels, Belgium.
2011
“Pink noise”. Opening exhibition of the T.I.E.R. project. La Moderna Gallery. Havana City.
Exhibition of the Cuban Art collection of the Cubaplus magazine in their 5th Anniversary. Vedado
Hall of the National Hotel of Cuba. Havana City.
“Ya sé leer”. Centemporary Art Center Wifredo Lam. Havana City.
“Occupaying, Building, Thinking: Poetic and Discursive Perspectives on Contemporary Cuban
Videoart (1990 – 2010). As part of the event “Cuban Music, Art and Literature After the Fall of the
Berlin Wall”. Carleton College.Minneapolis, United States.
Art Madrid ´11. 6th Contemporary Art Fair. Crystal Pavilion, Casa de Campo. Madrid, Spain.
2010
“Sight make faith”. San Alejandro Fine Arts Academy Gallery. Havana City.
“Light to your own chemistry III”. Exhibition presented in the mark of the Photographic November e
event and the Inventory Project of the Ludwig Foundation. Ludwig Foundation. Havana City.
“The extreme of the bullet. A decade of Cuban Contemporary Art”. Cuba Pavilion. Havana City.
“Multiple option. Contemporary Cuban Art”. Benito Juárez International Airport. Mexico DF,
Mexico.
“10 & 2”. Contemporary Cuban Photography. Punto Cero Gallery. Mexico DF, Mexico.
“Intertwining cultures”. Art & Fashion. Edition 2010. National Museum of Fine Arts. Havana City.
“Multiple option. Contemporary Cuban Art”. Arte San Juan Foundation. Guadalajara, Mexico.
“Panorama II”. Mariano Rodriguez Gallery. Panamerican Villege. Havana City.
“10 & 2”. Contemporary Cuban Photography. Guadalajara Galeries. Guadalajara, Mexico.
2009
“Black is a color”. Collective exhibition of Contemporary Cuban Art. San Juan Foundation.
Gadalajara, Mexico.
“Light to your own chemistry II”. Exhibition presented in the mark of the event Photographic
November. Fototeca of Cuba. Havana City.
“Build in”. X Havana Biennial colateral exhibition. Servando Cabrera Gallery. La Copa. Havana
City.
“Change and out”. X Havana Biennial colateral exhibition. Visual Arts Faculty of the Higher Institute
of Art (ISA). Havana City.
2008
“Isla in Continente. Contemporary Cuban Art”. Exhibition presented in the Central American
Biennial of Tegucigalpa. Art National Gallery FUNDARTE. Plaza La Merced, Tegucigalpa,
Honduras.
XIX Art Hall. Katzen Museum of the American University of Washington DC. Washington DC, United
States.
Contemporary Cuban Art Hall. Development Center of the Visual Arts. Havana City.
“Glocalizados”. International Festival of Culture of Boyacá. Rafael Taveras Gallery. Tunja, Colombia.
“Grove. The body is bodies”. Presented exhibition in the mark of the International Festival of
Contemporary Art in Guanajuato. Jesús Gallardo Art Gallery. León, Mexico.
“Toma 9”. Development Center of the Visual Arts. Havana City.
“Stalker”. Visual Arts Faculty of the Higher Institute of Art (ISA). Havana City.
ABC International Event of Performance and Audiovisual. Circus Project 5th Edition. Poetry´s
House. Havana City.
“2008culturas.com”. International event organized through Internet by the State Society of Cultural
Commemorations, appointed to the Culture Ministry of Spain, with motive of the European Year of
The Intercultural Dialogue.
Exhibition of the resultants works of the Art Casting Sculpture Scholarship. School-workshop of
Artistic Casting Antonio Grediaga. Havana City.
2007
“Laces to the sea”. Works exhibition of the Photoraphy Competition summoned by the The
Neatherlands Embassy in Cuba. Mr. Embassador residence. Havana City.
“The One Minute Belgianopen”. Audiovisual Festival organized by the TOM Amsterdam and the
Belgianopen. Gante, Belgium.
Cuban Artists Exhibition. Guanajuato Art Gallery. León, Mexico.
Young Cuban Artists Exhibition. San Juan Art Foundation. Guadalajara, Mexico.
IX Digital Art Hall. Pablo de la Torriente Brau Center. Havana City.
“Cuba & Europe. Visions”. Exhibition of the rewarded works and finalists of the European Union Art
Competition. Residence of the Cultural Adviser of Germany in Havana. Havana City.
“Built situation”. Organized Event by the 3th year students of the Higher Institute of Art (ISA),
compound by the bidimensional exhibition “Vein head”, the Vidio-art exhibition “Maneuvers”,
interventions and performances. Art Faculty of the Higher Institute of Art (ISA). Havana City.
“Travelling. Reality & Fiction”. International Event of Performance and Audivisuals. Circus Project 4th
Edition. Actualidades Cinema. Havana City.
2006
“H2Oro”. Poetry´s House. Havana City.
City Hall ´06. Province Center of Fine Arts and Design Luz y Oficios. Havana City.
“To shoot and to shoot well”. IX Havana Biennial colateral exhibition. Intervention in the shot training
field in Vedado. Havana City.
“IX in the carpentry”. IX Havana Biennial colateral exhibition. Higher Institute of Art. Havana City.
“Transient sculpture”. IX Havana Biennial colateral exhibition. Workshop of the National Advisory
Counsel for the Development of the Enviromental and Monumental Sculpture (CODEMA). Havana
City.
2005
V Installations Hall Juan Francisco Elso. Mariano Rodríguez Gallery. Panamerican Villege. Havana
City.
“SIZE: XXL”. Mariano Rodríguez Gallery. Panamerican Villa. Havana City.
2003
“Naturarte”. Documental exhibition of the Ephemeral Workshop. Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art
Center. Havana City.
“Naturarte”. Ephemeral Workshop. Dos Hermanas Camping Base. Viñales Valley. Pinar del Río City.
2001
“Academic 2001”. Collective exhibition of the sculpture specialty students of San Aleandro Fine A
Arts Academy. House of Poetry. Havana City.
2000
XII Mirta Cerra´s Hall. Mirta Cerra Gallery. Bejucal.
Summer Hall. Bejucal Art Gallery. Bejucal.
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