Douglas graduated from Academia San Alejandro, Havana, Cuba in 1998 and from the Higher Institute of Art, (ISA), Havana, Cuba in 2004. He now resides and works in Union City, New Jersey. With an Array of awards, fellowships, Publications.
His works have been exhibited in important centers such as the Frost Art Museum, (FIU), Miami, USA, and are also found in important collections such as Pérez Art Museum of Miami. Miami, USA. Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado, USA. Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba. His work has been exhibited and placed in private collections internationally.
From 2004 through 2012, he taught as a professor of Painting at the Faculty of Visual Arts at ISA. He has participated in collective exhibitions in Cuba and the United States and has had solo exhibitions in Mexico and Switzerland, as well as Ohio and Florida in the United States.
Douglas has held a full-time career as an artist for 19 years. This constancy has allowed him to elaborate a deep investigation in different means of the visual arts, integrating knowledge of other areas and disciplines for a multidisciplinary practice. The topics covered in his work are related to the breadth of the concept of "Reality." It includes approaches to this notion from philosophy, history, science and mysticism, as well as Art History. His main current and life objective is to maintain his research process in the different media in which he works and to practice his profession full time.
In 2018 he received a residency through the Residency Unlimited and the Cuban Artist Fund. The artist’s works are in public collections in the Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, Colorado; and the Pérez Art Museum in Miami, Florida.
“The topics covered in my work are related to the concept of Creation. I relate to this idea from the knowledge accumulated by different disciplines such as Philosophy, History, the sciences, Art History itself and in fields such as religion and mysticism. I usually use different means to do my job. I think about the idea and this leads me to choose a medium. It is a simple and constant process.”
