| Born 1967, Havana, Cuba |
| 1989-94 | Studies at the Institute of Fine Arts of Cuba |
| 2009 | Carlos Garaicoa : La enmienda que hay en mí. Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
The Observatory Expo and presentation of the Public work for the City of Castleford, Art Council, the City of Castleford and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park Carlos Garaicoa, Colateral 10 Bienal de La Habana. Carlos Garaicoa, Galería Luisa Strina, Sao Pablo, Brasil Carlos Garaicoa, La Caja Negra, Madrid |
| 2008 | La Caixa Cultural, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Revolucion o Rizoma, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China |
| 2007 | Latin Kings Music Vol. I-V, Elba Benitez Gallery, Madrid
Capablanca’s Real Passion, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2006 | Capablanca’s Real Passion, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada
Overlapping, Liverpool Biennale, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool The drawing, the writing, the abstraction (with Ezequiel Suárez), Lombard-Freid Projects, NY, New York Yo no quiero ver más a mis vecinos, Castello di Ama, Gaiole in Chianti, Siena, Italy Das Gast (retrospective of videos 1996-2006), Fribourg Kuntshalle, Germany Postcapital, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain |
| 2005 | Things that happen when life goes very wrong. Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
Capablanca’s Real Passion. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Carlos Garaicoa, Mass Moca, North Adams, MA Self-flagellation, survival, insubordination. Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO Because every city has the right to be called Utopia, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Wales, UK Carlos Garaicoa, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Yorkshire, UK Carta a los censores, Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco, XXXIX Prix International d' Art Contemporain, Montecarlo, Monaco Vamos fazer barullo agora, porra! (with Ezequiel Suárez), Galería Habana, Havana, Cuba El mapa del viajero, Luisa Strina Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| 2004 | The measure of almost everything. Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy |
| 2003 | Cuba on the Verge, Centro Internationale di Fotografia (UK) Espacia C, Carnargo
De la serie Nuevas Arquitecturas. Centro Wifredo Lam, La Habana Letter to the Censors. Art Statements, Art Basel Miami Beach, FL Self-flagellation, survival, insubordination. La Caixa Foundation, Sala Montcada, Barcelona, Spain Letter to the Censors. Volume, Rome, Italy La Habitacion de mi Negatividad, Galeria La Casona, Havana, Cuba Lecciones de Historia. Casa de America, Madrid, Spain Carlos Garaicoa, Elba Benitez Gallery, Madrid, Spain |
| 2002 | Ni Crist, ni Marx, ni Bakunin. Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris, France
Now let's play to dissappear. Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy |
| 2001 | Because Every City Has the Right To Be Called Utopia. Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York, NY
Carlos Garaicoa. Galerie Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland Carlos Garaicoa: The Ruin; The Utopia, (Works 1990-2000). Alejandro Otero Museum,Caracas, Venezuela The last 10 days of the market. Aarhus Photography Festival, Image Gallery, Denmark |
| 2000 | Carlos Garaicoa: The Ruin; The Utopia (Works1990-2000). Luis Angel Arango Library, Bank of the Republic, Bogotá Colombia; Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
Nouvelles Architectures. Farideh Cadot Gallery, Paris, France. Recuadros (con Federico Herrero). Jacobo Karpio Gallery, San Jose, Costa Rica. |
| 1999 | My first and last homage to architecture (and the Marquis de Sade). Havana, Cuba
Landscape. Ars TeoréTica, San José, Costa Rica Survia. Gallery Center for Development of the Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba |
| 1998 | The beginning and end of the fascination. Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba |
| 1996 | Inside Havana, Space Agutinador of Art, La Habana, Cuba
El voluble rostro de la realidad, Gallery Center for Development of the Visual Arts and The Ludwig Foundation of Cuba, Havana, Cuba When Desire resembles Nothing, Art in General, New York, NY Havana: A Survey, Carla Stellweg Gallery, New York, NY The Landscape; The Limits, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba |
| 1995 | Inside Havana, Space Aglutinador of Art, Havana, Cuba
The Beheading Space, Centre PasquArt, Biel-Bienne, Switzerland |
| 1994 | The Dream of the Reason..., Wifredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba |
| 1992 | Your lucky number, Gallery Juan Francisco Elso, Havana, Cuba |
| 1989 | Childhood’s Days, Investigation Center of the Ministry of Education, Havana, Cuba |
| 2009 | Paço das Artes e o MIS de São Paulo, Brasil, julio 2009.
Videos in the Street Project , Murcia, Spain, april- May, 2009 Group show at 53 Venice Biennale, Artiglerie, Italy, junio 2009. Show “Cartografías Disidentes” Río de Janeiro. Oi Futuro Show “Cartografías Disidentes” Caracas. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Show “Cartografías Disidentes” México. Centro Cultural de España, México |
| 2008 | The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, known as CIFO, during Art Basel Miami Beach
Cartografías Disidentes (itinerancia),Centro Cultural de São Paulo, Brazil Farewell to Post-Colonialism, Third Guangzhou Triennial, 2008, Guangdong Museum of art, CHINA Lança Cuba, Gentil Carioca, Río de Janeiro, Brasil Articulações, Faro, Portugal, Junio. Ex Box, ARCO, Madrid, Spain ¡Cuba! Art and History from 1868 to Today, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada Surrounded by Water: Expressions of Freedom and Isolation in Contemporary Cuban Art, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA The Sneeze 80 artists x 80 seconds 106 minutes, Durban Art Gallery, South Africa Fate Presto, Chiesa dell'Addolorata, Napoli, Italia Cultural summer, Saint Tropez, France Cartografías disidentes, Itinerante, Santiago de Chile, Madrid, Sao Pablo, Barcelona, Mexico DF, Caracas |
| 2007 | The Shapes of Space, Guggenheim Museum, New York, EEUU (Untitled (“La esquina”). 2003-2006)
Moulin, Galería Continua, París, Francia Cuestion Xeracional, Galego de Arte Contemporáneo Centre, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia The Sneeze, Durban Art gallery, Durban, South Africa A Number of Worlds Resembling Our Own, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam Evento Loop 07 (Videos), Barcelona “IL FUTURO DEL FUTURISMO. Dalla 'rivoluzione italiana' all'arte contemporanea. Da Boccioni a Fontana a Damien Hirst” de GAMeC, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italia. Art Unlimited, Art Basel 38 Emergenze Hangar Biccoca, Milan, 2007 Killing Time, Exit Art, New York Expérience Pommery, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France Common House, Laboratorio per l’Art Contemporanea, Stabilimento Teseco, Pisa Utopian Mirage: Social Metaphors in Contemporary Photography and Film, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Homing Devices: Sculpture from Latin American and Caribbean Artists, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida Encuentro entre dos mares, University of Valencia, Sao Paulo, Brazil Trans(ient) City, Luxembourg Commitment, Mechelen, Belgium Turbulence, 3rd Auckland Triennial, New Zealand |
| 2006 | Habana Factory, en “A Chocolatería”, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Waiting List. Mestna Galerija, Ljubljana Overlapping, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool Biennial–International Festival of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, England Off the Shelf: New Forms in Contemporary Artist's Books, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Doubtful Straits, San José, Costa Rica De repente livros, A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Arte de Cuba, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Curitiba, Brazil C4. Contemporary Center Culture Caldogno, Venice, Italy Triennial Echigo-Tsumar, Niigata, Japan Metropolitanscapes, Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy Less. Strategies alternatives of living, PAC, Milan, Italy Other than Art, G Fine Art, Washington, DC Nuit Blanche, París, France Ideal City-Invisible Cities, Zamosc, Poland Global Tour: Art, Travel & Beyond, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2005 | Senza Confine (15th year), Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italia
New Photography, M.O.M.A, New York Inverting the Map: Latin American Art from the Tate Collection, Tate Museum Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. Beyond Delirious Architecture: Selected Photographs from the Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection, Miami, FL New Photography Series XV, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY M City, Kunsthaus Graz, Vienna, Austria Farsites: Urban crisis and domestic symptoms in recent contemporary art, inSite05, San Diego Museum of Art and Centro Cultural Tijuana. Collection Remixed, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY ATOMICA, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts and Esso Gallery, New York, NY 51st Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy Fantasmapolis, La Ville Contemporaine Et Ses Imaginaires, Galerie Art & Essai, Rennes, France Dialectics of Hope, Moscow Biennale. 7th Sharjah International Biennial, United Arab Emirates. |
| 2004 | Transmigracione, Triennial Poli/Gráfica de San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Future Cities. Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, Canada We come in peace… Histories of the Americas, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal. Artitecture. Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA Image Smugglers, XXVI Sao Paulo Biennale, Parque Ibirapuera, Brazil. Gallery Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France A Taste of the Pain of Others. Contemporary video works from Latin America. L.A Freewaves, California. USA |
| 2003 | Time Capsule, curated by Tami Katz-Freiman, Art In General,
New York, NY Dream Space / Entre sueños. German Bank Lobby Gallery, New York, NY Salon des Refuses, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy Modern Islands, Public Project, Dresde, Germany. |
| 2002 | Documenta11, Platform 5, Kassel, Germany
Artists Imagine Architecture, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA Copyright. Cultural Center of Spain, Habana, Cuba Reality’s Desire. Generación de la Imagen 8, Milano, Italy De ponta cabeça. Biennial de Fortaleza, Brazil |
| 2001 | Some Islands Exhibition, Project Room, Ianidett Cadot Gallery, Arco 2001, Madrid, Spain
Mirror’s Edge, (traveling exhibition) curated by Okwui Enwezor,Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland; Charlottenbourg, Germany; Copenhagen, Denmark Sincretisimi, Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, Rome, Italy Shifting Tides-Cuban Photography After The Revolution, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA; Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan Sonsbeek 9, curated by Jan Hoet, Arnhem, Netherlands Mas alla del documento, curated by Jose Jimenez, Telefonica Foundation, Madrid, Granada, Badajoz, Spain Demonstration Room (casa ideal), Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas (Venezuela); Apex Gallery, New York (USA); NICC, Antwerp, (Belgium) VII Bienal de La habana, Centro Wifredo, Lam, La Habana, Cuba |
| 2000 | Memorias Intimas, Marcas, MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Mirror's Edge, Vancouver Art Gallery, Castello Di Rivoli, Turin, Italy From the negative: conceptual photography from Cuba, Parts Gallery, Minneapolis, MN; North Dakota Museum, ND Beyond the Document, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain Waterfront project, Malmo, Sweden Fotolatina, Contemporary Art Museum of Guadalajara, Mexico Project: Window onto Venus, VII Biennale of Havana, Havana, Cuba Cream 2, 10 curators, 100 artists. Exhibition Catalog, Phaidon Press London, England |
| 1999 | Venus’s Window, Civic Centre “La Grancia”, Zerynthia, Associacione per l’arte Contemporanea, Tuscany.
Maps of Desire, Kunsthalle, Vienna; Nikolai Comtemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark Four Cuban artists, Geunkens and De Vill Gallery, Knokke, Belgium. Mirror’s Edge, Bild-Museet, Umea, Sweden |
| 1998 | The Sight and the Labyrinth, Cosello da Cultura Gallega, Galicia, Spain
Isla Oscura: New Photography from Cuba, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL Comme peut on être cubain? Maison de L´Amérique, Paris, France Fragments to its Magnet, Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba Memorias Intimas, Marcas, Electricworkshop, Johannesburg; Window-Museum, Pretoria, South Africa; White Pavilion, Institute for Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal XXIV Biennale of Sao Paulo, Parque Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2nd Salón de Arte Contemporáneo, Center for Development of the Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba |
| 1997 | Utopian territories: New Cuban Art, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Memorias Intimas, Marcas, Cuito Cuanavale, Portuguese Cultural Center, Angola; The Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town, South Africa Individual and his memory, VI Biennale of Havana, Wifredo Lam Centre, Havana, Cuba Kwangju Biennale (Space/Fire), Kwangju, South Korea Las otras escri(p)turas, Visual Arts and Design Center, Havana, Cuba |
| 1996 | Las otras escri(p)turas, Visual Arts and Design Center, Avana, Cuba |
| 1995 | Africus 95, 1st Biennale of Johannesburg, South Africa
One of each class, Ludwig Foundation of Cuba, Havana, Cuba Trans (Intro) Post-Diary, La Fundición Gallery, Bilbao, Spain Cuba: The Possible Island, Center of Contemporary Culture, Barcelona, Spain |
| 1994 | Environment and Circumstances, V Biennale of Havana, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana; Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
The new generation: Contemporary Photography from Cuba, Fototeca de Cuba, V Biennale of Havana, Havana, Cuba |
| 1993 | The Metaphors of the Temple, Gallery Center for Development of the Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba |
| 1991 | Si Tim tiene, Tim vale, IV Biennale of Havana, Gallery ISA, Havana
Flesh, Space Aglutinador of Arte, Havana, Cuba |
| 2007 | Selected Young Global Leader 2007 by the Wold Economic Forum |
| 2006 | Artist in Residence project, Coleçao Teixeira da Freitas, Rio de Janeiro |
| 2005 | Foundation Prince Pierre De Monaco Award |
| 2003 | Guest Lecturer, “Archive Information Territory,” Canadian Center
for Architecture, Montreal, Canada |
| 1999 | Artist in residency project, Parts Gallery. Minneapolis, MN |
| 1998 | Artist in residence project, Mario Abreu Museum, Maracay, Venezuela
Artist in residency project, Yaddo Corporation, New York, NY |
| 1997 | Artist in residence project, Civitella Ranieri Center, Umbertide, Italy |
| 1996 | Artist in residence project, Art in General, New York, NY |
| 1995 | Artist in residence project, City of Biel-Bienne, Pro Helvetia and the Canton of Berne, Switzerland |
| 1993 | Artist in residence project, City of Düsseldorf and the Paul Pozzoza Museum, Germany |
| Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection, Miami, FL Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Tate Modern, London, England Los Angeles County Museum, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Museo Nacional de Arte Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY National Museum of Fine Arts, Cuba Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL Metropolitan Savings Bank, Cleveland, OH Lehigh University Gallery Bethlehem, PA Centre PasquArt, Biel-Bienne, Switzerland Arte Viva, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Musée Européen de la Photographie, Paris, France SMAK Museum, Ghent, Belgium Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto, Canada MUSAC, León |
| 2008 | D’arcy, David. “It’s Not Politics. It’s Just Cuba.” New York Times, Feb 3, 2008: AR 31. |
| 2007 | Lovelace, Carey. “Carlos Garaicoa at Lombard-Freid.” Art in America, Mar 2007: 176-177.
Newhall, Edith. “Carlos Garaicoa: ICA.” ARTnews, Apr 2007: 138. |
| 2006 | Chen, Aric. "Hint gets to the art of it all." Hint Fashion Magazine Oct 2006.
Cotter, Holland. "Carlos Garaicoa." Review, The New York Times 17 Nov 2006. |
| 2005 | Gefter, Philip. “Defining the Moment, for the Moment, Anyway.” The New York Times 16 Oct 2005.
Pagel, David. “When multi-this and multi-that lacks newness.” Los Angeles Times 14 Mar 2005. --- “Turning artwork into border issue.” Los Angeles Times 14 Sept 2005. Spiegler, Marc. “City Lights.” ARTnews Mar 2005: 96-99. Wallach, Amei. “Below the Surface: Daydreams of Havana, and Other Cities, Too.” The New York Times 19 May 2005. |
| 2003 | Brody, Jacqueline. “From Putts to Prints in Cuba.” art on paper Mar 2003: 40-44.
Csaszar, Tom. “Foire International d’Art Contemporain.” Review, Sculpture May 2003. Halkin, Talya. “Metamorphoses of Time.” The New York Sun 30 Jan 2003. Frerot, Christine. “FIAC 2002, Art Paris.” Art Nexus 2003. Rosen, Miriam. “Maison Europeenne de la Photographie” Review Artforum Summer 2003. Rottner, Nadja. Review, Flash Art Oct 2003. |
| 2002 | Block, Holly. “Carlos Garaicoa.” BOMB Winter 2002-2003.
Cembalest, Robin. “The Cuban Revolution.” ARTnews Mar 2002. Duenas, Issa Maria Benitez. “El Final del Eclipse.” Art Nexus 2002. Helguera, Pablo. Review of Lombard-Freid Fine Arts show. Art Nexus 2002. Hernandez, Erena. “Carlos Garaicoa: From Ruins to Desire.” Art Nexus 2002. Jimenez, Carlos. “The Globalization Documenta.” Art Nexus 2002: 69-70. |
| 2001 | Cotter, Holland. “Photographic Stylists of the Epic and the Surreal.” The New York Times 7 Sept 2001.
Dailey, Meghan. “Because every city has the right to be called Utopia.” Review, Time Out New York 27 Dec 2001- 3 Jan 2002. de la Torre, Monica. Review of Bronx Museum of the Arts show, ARTnews Feb 2001. Glueck, Grace. Review of Bronx Museum of the Arts show, “The Ruins, The Utopia.” The New York Times 16 Feb 2001. Gioni, Massimiliano. “Yokohama Mega Wave: Towards a New Synthesis.” Flash Art Oct 2001. Goodman, Jonathan. “Carlos Garaicoa at the Bronx Museum of Art.” Art in America Jun 2001. Jones, Kristen M. “Shifting Tides: Cuban Photography after the Revolution, Grey Art Gallery, New York.” frieze Dec 2001: 126 Newhall, Edith. review, New York Magazine Dec 2001 Ollman, Leah. “From Revolution to Reverie.” Art in America Oct 2001: 65-69. |
| 2000 | Mosquera, Gerardo. "CREAM 2: 10 curators, 100 artists,” Phaidon Press, 2000. |
| 1998 | Blanco, Caridad. “Carlos Garaicoa: Jugar a la memoria entre la historia y la ficción.” En Arte Cubano 1998: 32-37.
Guagnini, Nicolás. “CubaON: 11 fotógrafos conceptuales: Galería Generous Miracles, New York.” Art Nexus Apr-Jun 1998:131-132. --- “Comand (voz de mando).” Marcas News Deflagration Difumbe (Proyecto Memorias Intima). Johannesburg Jul 1998: 16. |
| 1997 | Olmo, Santigo B. “Bienal de La Habana El individuo y la memoria.” Lápiz Spain Jun 1997: 62-69.
Weiss, Rachel. “La Sexta Bienal de La Habana.” Art Nexus Oct-Nov 1997: 70-77. |
| 1996 | Lovelace, Carey. “Havana Biennial.” ARTnews Sept1997: 142-144.
Mosquera, Gerardo. “Carlos Garaicoa,” Poliester Spring1996. Santos, Eduardo Alberto. “Carlos Garaicoa. Un proyecto para Atlántica.” Atlántica Internacional Revista de Artes Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno Cabildo Insular de Gran Canaria Winter 1996: 92-97. Tully, Judd. “Carlos Garaicoa: Art in General and Carla Stellweg.” Art Nexus Oct-Dec 1996: 154. |
| 1995 | Watriss, Wendy with Antonio Molina. Interview: “Reflection on contemporary photography in Cuba.” Aperture 1995.
Zaya, Octavio. “The Cuban Quagmire: Carlos Garaicoa, Kcho and Osvaldo Yero.” Flash Art Oct 1995: 195-198. |
| 1994 | Cameron, Dan. “Cuba: Still not Free.” Art and Auction Mar 1994: 86-91.
Cazalla, Jana. “Quinta Bienal de La Habana: Encuentros en la periferia.” Lápiz Spain, Oct-Dec 1994. |
| 1991 | Mosquera, Gerardo. “Art through the city (Carlos Garaicoa).” The City as Art: Interrogating the polis publication from Symposium held in Dublin by The International Association of Art Critics (AICA), Dec 1991. |