Alexandre Arrechea,
Trinidad, Cuba , 1970, Living and Work in Madrid

Graduated from the “Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA)” in Havana in 1994. For twelve years he was a member of the art collective Los Carpinteros, until he left the group in July of 2003 to continue his career as a solo Artist.

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2020 • Dreaming with lions, Faena Art, Miami.

2019 • Superficies em conflicto, Galeria Nara Roesler, Rio de janeiro.
• Corners, Nara Roesler Gallery, New York.
• Obsesiones y acumulaciones: el gabinete del artista, Estudio Figueroa-Vives and the Norwegian Embassy in Cuba, Havana, Cuba.

2018 • Higienopolis, Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid.
• Uninhabited Order, Fredric Snitzer, Miami.

2017 • La Mar de Músicas, Palacio Molina, Cartagena, Murcia.
• Refazer , Roesler Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

2016 • Tied Stone, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami
• “Jerarquias Negadas” Galería Habana, La Habana, Cuba
• "O Objeto Vital” > [Los Carpinteros > Arrechea/Castillo/Rodriguez], Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil.

2015 • Fragment Seduction, Galeria Casado Santapau , Madrid. Spain
• Mapa del Silencio, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana,Cuba.

2014 • Magnan Metz Gallery , N.Y.

2013 • Park Avenue Mall Project, New York, NY.
• DOS · Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid. Spain.
• No limits , Phillips, New York.

2012 • Building Bacardi: Architecture, Art and Identity, Coral Gables Museum, Miami, FL
• Skyline Adrift: Cuban Art and Architecture, Architecture OMI, Ghent, NY
• Twisted Horizon, Magnan Metz Gallery, New York, NY

2011 • The Sacrificed Object, Casado Santapau Gallery, Madrid Spain

2010 • Global Africa Project, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
• Orange Tree, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
• Evasive, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France
• Elasticity, Magnan Metz Gallery, New York, NY
• The Rules Of Play, Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah and Atlanta, GA
• Ideational Architecture, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, CA
• Alexandre Arrechea @ Ice Box Project Space in conjunction with Philagrafika
2010, Philadelphia, PA
• La ciudad que dejó de bailar, Casado Santapau Gallery, Madrid, Spain
• Black Sun, NASDAQ Billboard, Times Square Arts, Time Square, NY

2009 • Everything, Something, Nothing, CAB de Burgos, Burgos, Spain
• A Day After The Future, Galeria Villa Manuela, Havana, Cuba

2008 • Suicide landscape, [May 13] Casado-Santapau Gallery, Madrid
• American University Museum at the Katzen, Washington, DC

2007 • What Could Happen If I Lie? Magnan Projects, New York, NY
• Scalpel and Cotton, Contemporary Links 5, San Diego Museum of
Art, San Diego, CA
• Defeated Space, Casado Santapau Gallery, Madrid, Spain

2006 • Perpetual Free Entrance, Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain
• The Limit, Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Alarma, Special Project Booth, ART212 (shown by Magnan Projects),
New York, NY

2005 • DUST, Magnan Projects, New York, NY
• POLVO, Miramar Trade Center, Havana, Cuba
• Three New Spaces, PULSE Art Fair (shown by Magnan Projects), Miami, FL
• Raúl Cordero, Felipe Dulzaides, Alexandre Arrechea en la Casa de las Américas,
Casa de las Americas, Havana, Cuba

2004 • Dos Nuevos Espacios, Espacio Aglutinador, Havana, Cuba
• Arte Público, Mark Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
• Sudor, Proyecto de arte público, Havana, Cuba

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2018
•Here We Meet, (co-produced with Kadist art Fondation)Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art (Chongqing, China).
•Gwangju Biennale, Korea
•Construções sensíveis – A experiência geométrica latino-americana na coleção Ella Fontanals-Cisneros. Itinerant exhibition: Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil – Belo Horizonte (CCBB-BH), Belo Horizonte/MG, Brazil; Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil – Rio de Janeiro (CCBB-RJ), Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brazil.
•The World’s Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art,PAMM

2017
•On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, PAMM, Miami.
• Adiós Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950, Houston Museum Fine Arts.

2016
• Q & A Nine Cuban Artists, Miami Dade College / Museum of Art + Design, Miami
• Katrina Chairs (art project), Coachella valley Music & Art festival, California .
• La Madre de Todas las Artes, Centro Wifredo lam, La Habana , Cuba.

2015
• Q&A, Contemporary Cuban Artist, IDB Cultural Center , Washington.
• Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami.
• Boghossian Foundation – Villa Empain . Brussels

2014 •Somos, sois, eres, soy: 4 lecturas de lo humano en la Colección Museo Würth, La Rioja.

2013 • Against The Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft & Design,
Museum of Arts and Design, NY.
• ¡Oye, Mira! Reflective Approaches in Contemporary Latin American Video Art,
San Francisco Art Institute , San Francisco, CAL.

2012 • Against The Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft & Design,
MINT Museum, NY
• Message from La Habana: Seven Contemporary Cuban Artists,
Zane Bennett Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
• 11th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
• Who More Sci-Fi Than Us?, Kunsthal KAdE, The Netherlands

2011 • 54 Biennial de Venezia, Venice, Italy
• Hola Havana, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
• Cuba Now, 21c Museum, Louisville, KY
•The Draughtsman’s Contract Curator Carlos Garaicoa’s Studio. Madrid, Spain
•Fear, Salon de Vortex, Ithakis 24, Kipseli, Athens, Greece

2010 • Global Africa Project, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
• No Longer Empty, Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY
• PortugalArte 10, Lisbon, Portugal
• Announcing Magnan Metz, Magnan Metz Gallery, New York, NY
• EN OTRA DIMENSIóN, Galeria Habana, Havana, Cuba
• Does The Angle Between Two Walls Have A Happy Ending?,
Galeria Federica Schiavo, Rome
• XXXI Biennial de Pontevedra UTROPICOS, Centro America y
CaribeSexto Edifico Museo de Pontevedra, Pontevedra, Spain

2009 • Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art, Russia
• Thessaloniki Biennial of Contemporary Art, Greece
• 10th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba

2008 • Prospect.1 New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
• MACO 23-27/ 04/ 2008 México International Art Fair, Centro Banamex,
México D.F.
• Informed by Function, Lehman College Art Gallery Bedford Park Boulevard West,
Bronx, N.Y. USA, ARCO, 2008
• “Cuba: Artists Experience Their Country,” Hunterdon Museum, NJ
• Elefante Negro, Museo Diego Rivera, Anahuacalli, [January 26] Mexico D.F.

2007 • MOMA N.Y. New Perspectives in Latin American Art
• Tomorrow, Artsonje Center and Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
• Caribbean Encounters, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
• Killing Time, An exhibition of Cuban Artists from the 1980’s to the Present,
Exit Art, New York, NY
• Cintas Fellowship Finalist Exhibition, The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at
Florida International University, Miami, FL
• We Are Your Future, Special Project at the 2nd Moscow Biennial of the Fine Arts,
Moscow, Russia

2006 • IMPAKT FESTIVAL, Central Museum, Louis Hartlooper Complex, Utrecht, Holland
Taipei Biennial, Taipei, China
• FATAMORGANA, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
• ULTRA BRAG, 2nd Volta Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland

2005 • 51 Biennial de Venecia, Venice, Italy*
• Out of Place-Works on Paper, Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Scope: Contemporary Cuban Video/Film, co–presented by Emmedia
Gallery and May Works Festival, Calgary, Canada
• Inaugural Exhibition, Magnan Projects, New York, NY
• Salon de arte contemporaneo, Centro de desarrollo de las artes visuales,
La Habana, Cuba

2004 • Video Rampage: Resurrected!, video in Vancouver, Canada Video In
Studios/Satellite, Video Exchange Society, Vancouver, Canada
• Ay, Mami! Programe of Cuban video, Liverpool Biennal, UK
Festival of Independent Film & Video, Toronto, Canada

Collections

MoMA, Museum of Modern Art,New York, NY
MOCA,Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
Fidelity Art Collection, London, England
Artist Pension Trust, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Arizona State University, ASU, Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo A.C., Mexico City, Mexico
Cincinnati Museum of Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, OH
CIFO, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, FL.
Daros Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
Ellipse Foundation, Portugal, Spain
Fredrick Weissman Foundation, Beverly Hills, CA
Fundación ARCO, Madrid, Spain
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA, CA
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
The Margulies Collection, Miami, FL
Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba
The Richard B. Sachs Collection, New York, NY
San Diego Art Museum, CA
Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University, KS
University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, CA
MUDAM Luxembourg, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg.
MAM. Museo de Arte de Miami, Florida.USA
Artnow International, San Francisco, CA
CAB (Cento de Arte Burgos) Burgos, Spain
Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, USA
The Farber Collection, USA
Museo del Barrio. New York. NY. USA
Fort Lauderdale Museum, Miami, USA
Arizona State University, ASU Art Museum, Arizona, USA
Würth Museum, La Rioja, España.
Pizzuti Collection, Ohio. USA
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami.USA

Awards and Residencies

2016
Space defeated, Alexandre Arrechea, artist, in conversation with Michelle Bird, curatorial assistant, department of French paintings, national Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA

2015
Prize. Cuban artist of the year, Farber Foundation, Havana, Cuba

2013
NOLIMITS – Park Avenue Mall, New York, USA

2011
Defeated Space, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA

2005
Braziers International. Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

2002
Artist in residence, The Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, New Castle, United Kingdom

2000
Prize. Fomento de las Artes, UNESCO, 7th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
1997
First Prize, Contemporary Art-People’s Award, El Mundo Magazine, Argentaria Foundation. ARCO Fair, Madrid, Spain
1995-6
Endowment. Departamento de Exposiciones y Colecciones Ministerio de Cultura Español, Madrid, Spain.