WILFREDO PRIETO - Fundación Botín

WILFREDO PRIETO
Sancti-Spíritus, Cuba, 1978.
Education
2002 Higher Institute of Arts, La Habana, Cuba
2003 Galería DUPP (From a Pedagogical Pragmatism, group of artists)
1996 Professional School of Plastic Arts, Trinidad, Cuba
1989-1992 Elementary School of Plastics Arts, Santa Clara, Cuba
Grants, awards and Internships
2013 Plastic Arts Grant, Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain
2011 International arts award Council of Castellon, Spain
2010 Future Generation Art Prize 2010, Kiev, Ukraine
2008 The Cartier Foundation Award, with internship in Gasworks, London
F Award, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2007 Internship in Le Grand Café, Saint Nazaire, France
2006 Internship in John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, New York, USA
2005 Kadist Art Foundation, Paris. Internship
2000 Award to the best curator 2000, Galería Habana, DUPP, La Habana
The 2000 UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts, VII Biennial of La Habana, DUPP,
La Habana
Individual exhibitions (selection)
2014 Vista al jardín de Helene Hollandt. Kuntsverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Hablando mal de las piedras. S.M.A.K, Gante, Belgium
2013 Café hecho por Di. NoguerasBlanchard, Madrid
Piedra iluminada y piedra sin iluminar. NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona
2012 Dejándole algo a la suerte. Siqueiros Public Arts Hall, Mexico D.F., Mexico
Equilibrando la curva. HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy
Circo Triste – Sad Circus. XI Biennial of La Habana, Calzada and La Habana
2011 The emperor’s New Clothes. Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Wilfredo Prieto, Constructivist and deconstructivist meadow as viewed from a home
sofa with your feet on the table. Spirito Due, Complesso Monumentalle Santo Spirito in
Sassia, Rome
Wilfredo Prieto, Pradera constructivista y deconstructivista vista desde el sofá de la
casa con los pies sobre la mesa. ARTIUM, Vitoria, Spain
Amarrado a la pata de la mesa. 2 de Mayo Art Centre CA2M, Móstoles, Madrid
Izquierda/Derecha. Contemporary Art Museum of Vigo MARCO, Vigo, Spain
Landscape with the fall of Icarus. Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon
2010 Negro, mate, seco. NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona
Group exhibitions (selection)
2015 Itinerarios XXI. Botín Foundation, Santander, Spain
2014 Hidden wood in trees. CCA, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Collective Collection. BBB centre d'art, Toulouse, France
NuitBlanche, Toronto, Canada
Some Artists' artists. Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
A Story. Art, architecture and design from 1980 until now. Centre Pompidou, Paris
Doble sentido. Centre d’art La Panera, Lerida, Spain
Bajo el mismo sol: arte de Latinoamérica hoy. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, USA
Chapter III. Manifest. Art today, if in doubt. Fabra i Coats Centre d’Art
2013
Contemporani, Barcelona.
Permission to be Global. Global Practices. Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, USA
SLAPSTICK! The Art of Comedy. LENTOS Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria
About sculpture #1. Rolando Anselmi, Berlin, Germany
Para quebrar los muros. Un proyecto de intervención. National Museum of Fine Arts.
La Habana
Global Practices Art in Latin America. CIFO Art Space, Miami, USA
Spanish Lessons (a Project by Gabriel Orozco). Marian Goodman, New York, USA
Nuit Blanche–Metz, France
Dilated Biography: Contemporary Cuban Narratives. School of the Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston, USA
Gracia Divina. El humor como estrategia artística. Sala Gasco, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Mixed Message Media. Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
Emergency Pavilion: Rebuilding Utopia. 55th Biennial Collateral Event of Venice,
Venice, Italy