Angel Delgado Fuentes

Angel Delgado is a Cuban visual artist who lives in Long Beach, California.

Biography

Delgado studied at the Elementary School of Visual Arts of Havana, between 1976 and 1980. He graduated from the Escuela Nacional de [Bellas Artes "San Alejandro"] in 1984 and studied from 1984 to 1986 at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana.
The work of Angel Delgado, goes around a point: the freedom of the individual or the lack of this, his artwork is based fundamentally on the limitations, restrictions, prohibitions, controls and lack of freedoms that are imposed on the human being within the society.
In May 1990, Delgado created a performance titled "La esperanza es lo último que se está perdiendo" in the group exhibition "El Objeto Esculturado" at Centro de Desarrollo de Artes Visuales, that led to the prison, where he spent six months of deprivation of freedom, this experience marked his life and his work.
In 2005, he left Cuba and decided to stay permanently in Mexico City. He lived there until 2013, when he decided to immigrate to the United States. Delgado currently lives and works in Long Beach, CA.

Selected individual exhibitions

Absent Speech, Building Bridges Art Exchange. Santa Monica, California. 2017
Discurso Ausente, Galeria Seis Seis. Havana, Cuba. 2017
Headlines, Galería Omar Alonso. Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, 2017
Revision, Aluna Art Foundation, Miami, Florida. 2015
Constancy, Amanda Harris Gallery. Las Vegas, Nevada. 2014
Uncomfortable Landscape, Building Bridges Art Exchange. Santa Monica, California. 2014
Inside Outside, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. New Orleans, Louisiana. 2011
Limite Contínuo, Couturier Gallery. Los Angeles, California. 2009
Wake Up, Artane Gallery. Istanbul, Turkey. 2007
Constancias, Galería Nina Menocal. Mexico. 2006
Memorias acumuladas, Galería Fucares. Madrid, Spain. 2004
Sombra interior, Galería Nina Menocal. Mexico. 2003

Collective exhibitions

Unofficial, Kendall Art Center. Miami, Florida. 2018
Domestic Anxieties, chapter 3 of "On the Horizon. Pérez Art Museum Miami. Miami, Florida. 2018
Tatuare la Storia. Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea. Milan, Italy, 2016
An Island Apart: Cuban Artists in Exile. Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University. Westerville, Ohio. 2016
Mobility and Its Discontents, The 8th Floor. New York. 2015
Apertura: Photography in Cuba Today, Chazen Museum of Art. Madison, Wisconsin. 2015
55 Premio Internazionale Bugatti Segantini, Nova Milanese, 2014
Neues Sehen – New Vision. Till Richter Museum. Germany. 2013
Citizens of the World: Cuba in Queens. Queens Museum. Nueva York. 2013
La Revolución no será televisada, Bronx Museum of the Arts. New York. 2012
Video Cubano, Rubin Museum of Art. New York. 2011
Arte no es Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000. Museo del Barrio. New York. 2008

Awards and honors

In 2004, he obtained an artist residency at Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 2008, he won the Museum of Latin American Art award in the category of sculpture and installation in Long Beach, California. In 2016, he is part of The Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL. His work was acquired and it is now included in the collections of the Pérez Art Museum Miami.