Douglas Argüelles Cruz
Exhibitions (Solo)
2015
Reveal. The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, FIU, Miami, Florida, United States.
Momentum. Havana Gallerie, Zürich, Suiza.
A Hunger Artist. Galería Habana. Havana. Cuba.
2013
Surface. Galería Villa Manuela, Havana, Cuba.
2009
The Eskimos have no poetry. Collateral to the X Biennial Havana. Galería La Casona. Havana, Cuba.
2008
Physiognomy of silence. Galería La Luz. Merida, México.
2007
Goldberg Variations. Galería La Casona. Havana, Cuba.
2003
Desafio. performance at “Action Experience: 30 days” (DIP), 8th Art Biennial of Havana, Cuba.
1998
Utopia. Thesis- Presentation and discussion. Academia San Alejandro. Havana, Cuba.
Exhibitions (Group)
2020
Adrenaline No. 1. 25 Kent Ave Wallplay. january- february. Brooklym. NY.
2019
The Beirut Art Fair. South Border Gallery & Abroyan Factory, Beirut , Lebanon.
Cuba in Columbus. Brandt-Roberts Galleries. Columbus, Ohio, United States.
2018
kindred spirits. Ten artist by the Hudson. Coral Gables Museum. Miami. FL
On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection. The third
chapter of this exhibition, Domestic Anxieties. PAMM. Peréz Art Museum of Miami. Miami, FL.
2016
Blank space. Centro Hispanoamericano de Cultura, Havana, Cuba
2015
A Sense of Place from The Jorge M. Pérez Collection. Mana Wynwood Convention Center,
Miami, Florida
2013
HB. 10 th Art Biennial of Havana, Cuba.
Lo indecible. Galería Habana. Havana. Cuba.
Gulliver. Freies Museum Berlin. Potsdamer Str 91, 10785 Berlin.
2012
Daiquiri sin azucar. Galería Habana. Havana. Cuba.
Estrictamente impersonal. Collateral XI Havana Biennial. Morro-Cabaña. May 11 to June 11.
Havana. Cuba.
Parcela. Collateral XI Havana Biennial. El Trasgu Gallery. Asturian Federation of Cuba. May 10
to 28 June. Havana. Cuba.
HB. PABEXPO Cuban Contemporary Art. 9-25 May. Havana. Cuba.
2011
Pinta. Latin American Art Fair. New York. United States.
Ninart-Havana. Exhibition Space 08. Asturian Center. Havana. Cuba.
Art-Position. Eleventh Contemporary Art Festival, Bern, Switzerland.
YA se leer. Centro de Arte Contemporaneo Wilfredo Lam. Havana, Cuba.
2010
Serendipity. Pavilion East. Portugal Art 10, First Biennial. Lisboa, Portugal.
Pieza única. Delegación Príncipe de Asturias. Madrid, Spain.
Monomania. Galería Habana. Havana, Cuba.
2009
First International Festival of Contemporary Art of Algeria. National Museum of Modern and
Contemporary Art, Algeria (MAMA).
Confluencias inside II. NHHC Art Museum, Albuquerque. New Mexico, United States.
Topologías. Galería Excelencia. Madrid, Spain.
From the Biennial. Connection with the Tenth Havana Biennial. Havana Gallery. Zurich, Switzerland.
Preview, 08 Space. Collateral to the Tenth Havana Biennial, Cuba.
V Salón de Arte Cubano Contemporaneo. Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales (CDAV).
Havana, Cuba.
Contemporary Art from Cuba. The Honor City Hall, Nuremberg, Sala Lam, Diplomatic Office in
Bonn, Germany.
2008
Embedded, 08 Space. St. Francis Convent. Havana, Cuba.
Kunst, 08 Space. Hispano-American Cultural Center. Havana, Cuba.
2007
ARTH-GOTH. Casona Gallery. Havana, Cuba. 2006
El falso añadido. Eberhard Schlotter Foundation. Alicante, Altea, Spain.
Trans-it. Development Center for the Visual, Arts (CDAV). Havana, Cuba. 2005
Update & download. Mexico House "Benito Juarez". Havana, Cuba.
46th Annual Arts and Art Riverwood Show. Chicago, Illinois, USA.
2004
A is B. Between Art and Science. Galería Habana. Havana, Cuba.
2003
Double Seduction. Video on demand of Cuban artists. Departamento de Intervenciones
Públicas, (DIP). Amadis Room. Madrid, Spain.
Common Sense. Departamento de Intervenciones Públicas, (DIP). Galería Habana. Havana, Cuba.
XIV Salón de la Ciudad. Centro provincial de Artes y Diseño. Havana, Cuba.
Immersed in time. Cultural Center of Spain in Cuba. Havana, Cuba.
2002
Living space I. Departamento de Intervenciones Públicas, (DIP). Malecón, Havana, Cuba.
Living space II. A direct attention to the object. Departamento de Intervenciones Públicas,
(DIP). Semana de Arte Joven. Santa Clara, Cuba.
2001
Llega y pon. Collateral to III Salon de Arte Cubano Contemporaneo. Higher Institute of Art. Havana, Cuba.
Desasosiego. Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, (CDAV). Havana, Cuba.
2000
HAVANA-ISA-CLUB. Higher Institute of Art, Seventh Biennial of Havana, Cuba.
Works with the department of interventions - DIP
2003
Member of the Organizing Committee of Action Experience: 30 days. Public interventions
event, the VIII Havana Biennial/ Defiance, intervention in the firehouse of Old Havana / See
where others look II, X Romerías de mayo, Holguín / See where others look, National Arts
Colloquium, Matanzas / Participation in Errata, Nelson Mulet. XII International Book Fair. La
Cabaña, Havana, Cuba. 2002 / Participation in The Journal of Heidi Garcia, Havana /
Participation in 8 hours, Tatiana Mesa and Maria Victoria Portelles. Havana /Participation in
The drama of becoming another: Paranoia, of L.CONDUCT-A-RT, Obispo street, Havana /
Participation in From north to south and from south to north, Maria Victoria Portelles, North
Coast, South Coast: travel. Havana / Dock (collective action), South Coast, Havana /
Participation in 50 chairs, Fidel E. Alvarez and L.CONDUCT-ART, Central Park, Havana /
Participation in Fraternity, Humberto Diaz, Fraternity Park, Havana / Founding member of the
Department of Public Interventions.
Lectures Delivered
2009
Panel: Spaces, participation and legitimation, art opportunities, creating young, mass media, alternative media,
marginality, Casa de las Americas. Havana.
Conference: 08 Space. Coffee Arteamérica, Casa de las Americas. During the X Biennial of Havana, Cuba.
2003
Theoretical Event: Experience of action: 30 days, VIII Havana Biennial, Higher Institute of Art. Havana, Cuba.
Awards and Fellowships
2018
Residency Unlimited. Cuban Artist Fund. New York, United States.
2008
Personal exhibition, "Goldberg Variations”. Mention of curators. Curatorial National Prize.
Residence Batiscafo. Triangle Art Trust and Gasworks of England in the Havana.
2003
Premio del Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales. XIV Salón de la ciudad, Havana, Cuba.
Collections
- Pérez Art Museum. Miami, PAMM, Florida, USA.
- Valdes-Fauli / Boren Collection, Miami, Florida, United States.
- Galila Barzalai Collection. Belgium.
- Museo de Bellas Artes de la Habana.
- Genesis Collection. Havana, Cuba.
- Ron Brasch Collection. Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. United States.
- Marc Le Baron, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.
- Jennifer & Veit Wagner, Zurich, Suiza.
- Amy Dean & Alan Kluger Collection. Florida, United States.
- Leslie & Russ Robinson Collection. Florida, United States.
- Nina Menocal Collection. D.F., Mexico. - Mayi Martinez Collection. D.F. México.
- Lincoln & Damian Fontanills collection, Florida, United States.
- Carmen Barone Collection. D.F. Mexico.
- Havana Galerie Collection. Beatrice Liaskowski. Zurich, Switzerland.
- Andreas Winkler Collection. Havana, Cuba / Zurich, Switzerland.
- Armando Manuel de Lima Amorim Soares Collection, Havana / Portugal.
- Mauricio Mello Collection. Sao Paulo. Brazil.
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