Bio
Analía Amaya is a Cuban artist born in Matanzas, Cuba, in 1979, currently living and working in Upstate New York. Her experimental art spans from resin art, photography, video art, installation, among others, to recreate simple, abstract, and conceptual works that blend beauty and significance. She studied at San Alejandro Fine Arts Academy, Havana, Cuba (1995-1999) and at the High Institute of Arts, University of Arts, Havana, Cuba (1999-2004), where she also completed a postgraduate in Performance Arts (2003-2005). Among her personal exhibitions are Night Landscapes, Palmerston North City Library, New Zealand (2018) Concert of stars, 12th Havana Biennial Collateral Exhibition, National Theater of Cuba (2015); Landscapes, Co Gallery, Santiago de Chile, Chile (2014); Light, La Casona Gallery, Havana, Cuba (2009) and Aural spaces (Museum of Contemporary Art, Valdivia, Chile (2007). She has been awarded national prizes and scolarships and she has exhibited in several group exhibitions. Among the group exhibitions are: Lost in Landscape, MART, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Trento and Rovereto, Italy (2014); Silent Contemplated Variations, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba (2014); Citizens of the world: Cuba in Queens, The Queens Museum, New York, USA (2013); Out of place: reflections about art, city and urbanism, National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago de Chile, Chile (2010).
Education
2003-2005
Postgraduate degree in Performance, “Arte de Conducta”. Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), University of Arts, Havana, Cuba.
1999-2004
Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts. Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), University of Arts,
Havana, Cuba.
1995-1999
Diploma in Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts San Alejandro, Havana, Cuba.
Solo exhibitions
2020
On, Jan Royce Art Gallery, Valencia, Spain.
2018
Night Landscapes, Palmerston North City Library, New Zealand.
2015
Concierto de Estrellas, 12th Havanna Bienal Collateral Exhibition, Sala Covarrubias, National Theater of Cuba, Havana, Cuba.
2014
Paisajes, Co Gallery, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
2011
Un minuto de silencio, Salle Cero, French Alliance, Havana, Cuba.
2009
Light, La Casona Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
2007
Espacios Aurales, Contemporary Art Museum, Valdivia, Chile.
2005
Comhla A-Rithist, Taigh Chearsabhagh, Gallery two, North Uist, Scotland, UK.
2004
Evocations, Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Scotland, UK.
Land-Scapes, Havana Gallery, Cuba.
2003
Reflejos, Provincial Center of Plastic Arts, Matanzas, Cuba.
2002
En tiempo real, Mella’s Theather, Havana, Cuba.
Group Exhibitions
2023
Fragility: Late Winter Storms. Online exhibition by Art Emerge Gallery.
2021
The Guangzhou Image Triennial 2021, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
2018
Canto de sirenas, Galería temporal, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
2017
Move Things: Videocreation in Cuba, Experimental Response Cinema, Cine Las Américas International Film Festival, Austin, Texas, USA.
Move Things: Videocreation in Cuba, International Film Festival, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
Co-lectiva, Montecarmelo Cultural Center, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
2016
La cubana y el cubano, Co/So Gallery, Copley Society of Art, Boston, USA.
2015
Ch.ACO 2015, Contemporary Art Fair, Mapocho Station Cultural Center, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
2014
Variaciones contempladas en silencio, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba.
Las otras narraciones, 6º Salon of Cuban Contemporary Art, Wilfredo Lam Center of Contemporary Art, Havana, Cuba.
Ch.ACO 2014, Contemporary Art Fair, Mapocho Station Cultural Center, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
Lima Photo, International Photo Fair, Lima, Peru.
XXX Fuorifestival, Pesaro and Urbino, Italy.
Video Cubano, Intermission, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA.
Y sucedió por fin, Habana Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
Lost in Landscape, MART, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Trento and Rovereto, Italy.
2013
Citizens of the World: Cuba in Queens, The Queens Museum, New York, USA.
Video Cubano, The College of New Jersey Art Gallery, New Jersey, USA.
Affordable Art Fair México, Mexico City, Mexico.
New Works: light as photography, photography as ideology, ideology as art, art as fantasy, fantasy as reality, Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
2012
CitySCREEN’12: You and Eye (Cartografías existenciales e itinerarios urbanos), La Central del Raval, Barcelona, Spain.
You and Eye (Cartografías existenciales e itinerarios urbanos), XI Havana Biennial Collateral Exhibition, Plaza Cultural Center, Havana, Cuba.
2011
Video Cubano, University of Iowa Art Museum, Iowa, USA.
Videolab Sinestesia, Videoscreening Take S, Sines, Portugal.
Ch.ACO 2011, Contemporary Art Fair, Mapocho Station Cultural Center, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
Imagecity: Selections from Video Cubano, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), San Francisco, USA.
Premios y Menciones, Roberto Diago Querol 2011 Provincial Saloon, Provincial Center of Plastic Arts, Matanzas, Cuba.
2010
Fuera de lugar: Consideraciones sobre arte, ciudad y urbanismo, National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
Video Cubano, 8th Floor Space, New York, USA.
Animus, Artistas Contemporáneas Cubanas, Island Palace, Cáceres, Spain.
II VVVienal de Videoarte Valparaíso 2010, Valparaíso, Chile.
Contemporary Art Ruhr, Contemporary Art Festival, Essen, Germany.
Vacuna: el virus debilitado, chilean group Caja Negra Artes Visuales, Galería Wschodnia, Poland.
Torneo Audiovisual, Aglutinador Space, Havana, Cuba.
2009
Making Connections: Contemporary Cuban Printmakers, Laconia Gallery, Boston, USA.
Cronos, La Casona Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
Videolab: Cuba, Santa Clara Gallery, Coimbra, Portugal.
Lentes o el deseo no tiene límites: two exhibitions dedicated to Cuban art, Laboratory Museum ex-manifattura Tabacchi, San Ángelo, Italy.
Diálogos en movimiento, cuban video art, Dragón de Mar Contemporary Art Center, Fortaleza, Brasil.
A la vuelta de la esquina, Inéditos 2009, Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain.
Experimental video and video art: artists from Cuba, Antioquia Museum, Colombia.
Just Time, Provincial Center of Plastic Arts, Matanzas, Cuba.
HB, Contemporary Cuban Art, X Havana Biennial Collateral Exhibition, Pabexpo, Havana, Cuba.
Topografías Íntimas. Iniciarte Space, Sevilla, Spain.
2008
Erótica: Sexualidad y erotismo, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba.
Arboleda: El cuerpo es cuerpos, Jesús Gallardo Gallery, Guanajuato, Mexico.
VIP 2008, Group Exhibition for Tate's Latin American Acquisitions Committee (LAAC), La Casona Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
Asalto al cielo: Estrategias insulares del videoarte cubano, Sala d'Exposicions, Cultural Center Can Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Lo que las imágenes quieren: video desde Hispanoamérica, Arte Actual FLACSO Space, Ecuador.
2007
Kairos, CCEBA Cultural Center of Spain, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Cero, Salón Blanco, San Francisco de Asís Convent, Havana, Cuba.
Moving Fast, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany.
Lo que las imágenes quieren: video desde Hispanoamérica, ICO Foundation, Madrid, Spain.
ARCO, International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid, Spain.
Art Madrid Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid, Spain.
2006
Show Off Art Fair (Showroom), Paris, France.
Stop & Forward, Habana Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
El tercer entorno, La Casona Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
Eighth International Digital Art Exhibit and Colloquium, Pablo de la Torriente Brau Cultural Center, Havana, Cuba.
Asalto al cielo, Insular Strategies of the Cuban Video Art, French Institute of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
9th. Havana Biennial, Collateral Exhibitions, Humboldt’s House, Havana, Cuba.
2005
Alternativas, Servando Gallery, ICAIC, Havana, Cuba.
Entre el instante y la eternidad, Sala Avellaneda, National Theater of Cuba, Havana, Cuba.
Suave Death, J.A.D. Peláez Gallery, San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba.
XV Roberto Diago Querol Saloon, Provincial Center of Visual Arts, Matanzas, Cuba.
Contemporary Cuban Art Saloon, Center for the Development of Visual Arts (CDAV), Havana, Cuba.
2004
National Saloon of Drawing (2nd edition), Provincial Center of Visual Arts, Matanzas, Cuba.
2003
Experiencia de Acción: 30 días (Department of Public Interventions), 8th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba.
Cátedra Arte de Conducta, first exhibition (sound), Centre for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba.
Sentido Común, Habana Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
Performance in Reverse, Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), University of Arts of Cuba, Havana, Cuba.
9th Salon of the Awarded Artists, Centre for the Development of Visual Arts (CDAV), Havana, Cuba.
2002
XI Roberto Diago Querol Saloon, Provincial Center of Visual Arts, Matanzas, Cuba.
De tal palo tal astilla, Servando Gallery, Cinematographic Cultural Center ICAIC, Havana, Cuba.
La Huella Múltiple, La Casona Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
Copyright, Cultural Centre of Spain, Havana, Cuba.
2001
Llega y pon, III Salon of Contemporary Cuban Art Collateral Exhibition, Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), University of Arts, Havana, Cuba.
National Encounter of Engraving, Contemporary Art Centre Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba.
II Jornada de Performance, Cienfuegos, Cuba.
2000
Havana ISA Club, VII Havana Biennial Collateral Exhibition, Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), University of Arts, Havana, Cuba.
Pensamiento visible, Humboldt’s House, Havana, Cuba.
Grants & Awards
2006
First Prize (audiovisual) VIII Digital Art Exhibition, Pablo de la Torriente Brau Cultural Center, Havana, Cuba.
2005
National Prize of Curatorship 2005, National Council of Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba.
Batiscafo Scholarship. Triangle Art Trust, British Council, Havana, Cuba.
Prize & Scholarship of Creation “Hermanos Saíz”, Matanzas, Cuba.
2004
Glasgow Sculpture Studios, International Artist Residence, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
National Saloon of Drawing Prize (2nd. edition), Matanzas, Cuba.
2003
9th Saloon of the Awarded Artists Prize, Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba.
Publishing Seal Cuban Art Prize, National Council of Visual Arts, Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba.
Comhla International Artists Workshop. Taigh Chearsabhagh and the Triangle Art Trust, North Uist, Scotland, UK.
2002
First Prize XI Roberto Diago Querol Saloon, Matanzas, Cuba.
Prize AACA XI Roberto Diago Querol Saloon, Matanzas, Cuba.
Prize and Scholarship of Creation “Hermanos Saíz”, Matanzas, Cuba.