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STETSON UNIVERSITY / DELAND

Stetson University MFA of the Americas, summer residency invited artist keynote speaker. Stetson University, DeLand, Florida. June 8-16, 2024.


ART | BASEL MIAMI BEACH / MIAMI

Art|Basel Miami Beach (Booth B47) in the Galleries Sector at Miami Beach Convention Center; David Castillo Gallery, Miami. December 8 – 10, 2023


SANTUARIO NUESTRA SEÑORA DE LA CARIDAD / MIAMI

Vuelve a nosotros tus ojos. La Caridad nos une (exposicion colectiva), Santuario Nuestra Señora de la Caridad, Miami. December 04, 2023 – January 15, 2024.


CORAL GABLES MUSEUM / CORAL GABLES

Paving Roads for Latin American Art: The Pioneering Work of Celia Birbragher (Group exhibition); Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables. November 22, 2022 – April 16, 2023


EL NUEVO HERALD

La Fundación CINTAS, un baluarte de la cultura cubana (periódico) por Dennys Matos, El Nuevo Herald. 21 de octubre de 2023.


MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS / HOUSTON

Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Hidden Histories (Group exhibition); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. September, 2023 – April, 2024.


PEREZ ART MUSEUM MIAMI / MIAMI

Permanent Collection Exhibition (Group exhibition); Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami. September, 2023 – May, 2024.


CHRISTIE’S

CHRISTIE’S Latin American Art Auction Online (22657 – Lot 68). 22 Sep. – 5 Oct., 2023


INFRAESTUDIO / HAVANA

Come together Curated by Ricardo Miguel Hernández / Yenny Hernández; Infraestudio, Havana. Septiembre 15, 2023.


THE ARMORY SHOW / NEW YORK

The Armory Show, NY; David Castillo Gallery, Miami. September 8 – 10, 2023.


ONE WORLD ART GALLERY / MIAMI

Heat Text by Maria Gabriela Di Giammarco; One World Art Gallery, Miami. July 29, 2023.


FUNDACIÓN AMA AMOEDO / URUGUAY

Grant to [NAME] Publications, for a forthcoming publication on ephemeral practices in 1980s Cuba. [NAME] was among 10 recipients selected from approximately 2000 proposals. Co-edited with artist Glexis Novoa @glexisnovoa , this fully illustrated 350-page volume compiles scholarship, artworks, 400+ photographs, and ephemera documenting the nascent performance art movement in Havana of the 1980s into what will be the most complete chronology and catalog of the period; Fundación Ama Amoedo, José Ignacio, Uruguay. July 18, 2023.


CUBAN HERITAGE COLLECTION / MIAMI

The Cintas Foundation: An Archival Perspective Curated by Elizabeth Cerejido; Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida. July 20, 2023 – May 31, 2024.


BONINGTON GALLERY – NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY / NOTTINGHAM

El canto del Cisne (Swan song); The Nottingham School of Art & Design present the documentary El canto del Cisne (Swan song) produced and directed by Glexis Novoa, -Translated by Dr. Isabel Story, Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, England-; Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham School of Art & Design, Nottingham, England. June 15, 2023


INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART / MIAMI

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami has acquired the work of Glexis Novoa. March, 2023


MUSÉE DES BEAUX-ARTS, RENNES / PASSERELLE CONTEMPORARY ART CENTRE, BREST

Tout le poids d’une île (book) By François Vallée, Sandra Ceballos and Gerardo Mosquera. Publisher: Bernard Chauveau 2022, Number Of Pages: 200 pages/Size: 21 x 29 cm/Language: French/ISBN 978-2-36306-324-3/Reference 9782363063243


TURNER

Si pierdo la memoria/If I Lose Memory’ (book) Author: Corina Matamoros, Publisher: Turner. 2022
The work of twenty of the most relevant artists in Cuba today in a critical analysis. As a result of her curatorial experience of almost forty years, Corina Matamoros writes in these incisive essays on some of the recent work of twenty outstanding contemporary Cuban artists. Size: 16 × 24 cm, Nº pages: 304, Language: Spanish & English, ISBN: 978-84-17866-30-3


ART | BASEL MIAMI BEACH / MIAMI

Art|Basel Miami Beach (Galleries Sector of Art Basel, F34), David Castillo Gallery, Miami. December 1 – 3, 2022


PASSERELLE / BREST

Tout le poids d’une île; Curated by François Coulon, Patrice Goasduff, Anne Langlois & François Vallée; Centre d’art contemporain Passerelle, Brest, France. November 25, 2022 – April, 2023


CORAL GABLES MUSEUM / CORAL GABLES

Letters from overseas (Group exhibition); Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables. November 22, 2022 – April 16, 2023


MUSÉE DES BEAUX-ARTS / RENNES

Cuban abstractions since 1950; Curated by Loïc Le Gall; Musée des beaux arts de Rennes, Rennes, France. October 14, 2022 – January 15, 2023


FROST ART MUSEUM / MIAMI

In the Mind’s Eye: Landscapes of Cuba (Group exhibition); The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami. September 24, 2022 — January 15, 2023


THE ARMORY SHOW/NEW YORK

David Castillo Gallery, Miami. September 9 – 11 September, 2022


SALADRIGAS GALLERY-IGNATIAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS/ MIAMI

Concerning the Spiritual: Selections from the Mosquera Collection (Group exhibition); The Saladrigas Gallery at the Ignatian Center for the Arts, Miami. September 22, 2022


THE MUSEUM OF FINE ART HOUSTON/HOUSTON

The Museum of Fine Art Houston has acquired the work by Glexis Novoa ‘Hidden History (Constantin Brâncuşi, MQ-1 Predator & Mamayev)‘, for the Latin American and Latino Art collection. July 2022


RIALTA

‘Ejercicios para ser feliz’: una exposición reconstruye las prácticas efímeras en Cuba (periodical) by Edgar Ariel, Rialta Magazine. June 04, 2022


NAME PUBLICATIONS / MIAMI

Exercises to Be Happy: Cuban Ephemeral Practices in the 1980s Co-curated by Gean Moreno, Glexis Novoa and Natalia Zuluaga, NAME Publications, Miami. May 21 – June 21, 2022


RIALTA

Formas contemporáneas del paisaje con Luis Cruz Azaceta y Glexis Novoa en la NG Art Gallery de Panamá (periodical), Rialta Magazine. February 18, 2022


NG ART GALLERY / PANAMA CITY

Paisaje al límite II (Luis Cruz Azaceta & Glexis Novoa) (Two-person exhibition) Curated by Gerardo Mosquera, NG Art Gallery, Panama City, Panama. February 15, 2022


FRIST ART MUSEUM / NASHVILLE

On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Pérez Art Museum Miami; Frist Art Museum, Nashville. Jan 28 – May 1, 2022


UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS | GAINESVILLE


Visiting Artist Lecture: Glexis Novoa University of Florida College of the Arts; Gainesville, US. Tuesday, October 26, 2021 6:15pm to 7:30pm


PENSACOLA MUSEUM OF ART / PENSACOLA

Visionary Aponte: Art and Black Freedom; Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, US. Oct 22 – March 27, 2022


THE POCANTICO CENTER OF THE ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FUND / NEW YORK

The Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. (residency) Tarrytown, New York, US. October 4-10, 2021


DAVID CASTILLO GALLERY / MIAMI


Glexis Novoa | Branch & Seeds David Castillo Gallery, (personal exhibition) Miami. September 16 – November 13, 2021


HARN MUSEUM OF ART, GAINESVILLE


Plural Domains: Selected Works from the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Collection (Group exhibition) Curated by: Jesús Fuenmayor at Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida. September 9, 2021 – April 24, 2022


THE ARMORY SHOW/NEW YORK

David Castillo Gallery, Miami. September 9 – September 12, 2021


DAVID CASTILLO GALLERY / MIAMI


Currents David Castillo Gallery, (group exhibition) Miami. July 10 – August 21, 2021


ART | BASEL MIAMI BEACH / MIAMI

Art|Basel Miami Beach David Castillo Gallery, Continental Drift is an exhibition featuring works by Sanford Biggers, Lyle Ashton Harris, Quisqueya Henriquez, Pepe Mar, Glexis Novoa, Xaviera Simmons, Shinique Smith, and Vaughn Spann which examine the unsettled and shifting nature of meaning. December 2 – 5, 2020


AIM BIENNIAL / MIAMI

AIM Biennial (outdoor art exhibition), Curated by William Cordova, Marie Vickles, Gean Moreno & Mikhaile Solomon; Miami. December 1 – 31, 2020


BASS MUSEUM / MIAMI BEACH

Art Outside (outdoor art exhibition), Curated by Silvia Karman Cubiñas; Bass Museum, Miami Beach. November – December 2020


THE ELLIES / MIAMI

Creator Award Winner Oolite Arts, Miami. October 22, 2020


HYPERMEDIA

Glexis Novoa: “Yo elegí vivir del otro lado del muro” (periodical) by François Vallée, Hypermedia Magazine. July 28, 2020


VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY FINE ARTS GALLERY / NASHVILLE

Visionary Aponte: Art & Black Freedom (group exhibition) Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee. January 9 – March 8, 2020


TODAY ART MUSEUM / BEIJING

The 4th Today’s Documents: The Stitch in Time (group exhibition) Curated by Huang Du & Jonathan Harris; Artist: Arts Territory Exchange (ATE) (UK), Bashir Makhoul (Palestine), Christy Rupp (US), Coco Fusco & Paula Heredia (Cuba), Cody Choi (Korea), Glexis Novoa (Cuba), He An (China), Hu Weiyi (China), Hwang Jung-hoo (Korea), Jananne Al-Ani (Iraq), Jiang Zhi (China), Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige (Lebanon), Ju Ting (China), Lamia Joreige (Lebanon), Larissa Sansour (Palestine), Lee Maelee (Korea), Li Hongbo (China), Li Jinghu (China), Li Xiaofei (China), Liu Wei (China), Liu Xiaodong (China), Manish lal Shrestha (Nepal), Mark Boulos ( US), Miyamoto Ryuji (Japan), Qiu Anxiong (China), Shang Yang (China), Shao Yinong (China), Shen Yuan (China), Sherman Ng (Malaysia), Shi Yong (China), Tan Xun (China) , Tian Longyu (China), Wang Luyan (China), Wang Tuo (China), Xiao Yu (China), Zhang Kechun (China) & Zhang Yibei (China).; Today Art Museum, Beijing. December 12, 2019 – March 15, 2020


GALERÍA ORIENTE / SANTIAGO DE CUBA

Visionary Aponte: Art & Black Freedom (group exhibition) Galería Oriente, Santiago de Cuba. November 6 – December 7, 2019


NOVO ESTUDIO PÁRRAGA / HAVANA

El octavo círculo (group exhibition) Francisco de la Cal, Glexis Novoa Vian, José Angel Toirac Batista, José Manuel Mesías, Julio Llópiz-Casal, Lil Puñeta, Maurizio Cattelan, Nat Tate, Jorge Rodriguez Diez, Ranfis Suárez Ramos, Reynier Leyva Novo & Santiago Sierra. Curated by Magela Garcés; Novo Estudio Pàrraga, Havana. October 05, 2019


LA NUOVA PESA / ROMA


Cuba introspettiva (Group exhibition), La Nuova Pesa, Roma, Italy. October 23, 2019 – January 2020


ARTBO – ACACIA GALERÍA / BOGOTÁ


Acacia Galería, Havana (group exhibition) ArtBo, Bogotá, Colombia. September 19 – 22, 2019


CENTRO DE DESARROLLO DE LAS ARTES VISUALES / HAVANA

Visionary Aponte: Art & Black Freedom (group exhibition) Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana. September 20 – October 26, 2019


THE NEW YORK TIMES

“Glexis Novoa draws dreamy cities on marble panels with graphite, also adorning the museum’s walls with site-specific doodles worth looking out for …” -Will Heinrich
‘Alternate Worlds,’ Where Other Worlds Come to Life (periodical) by Will Heinrich, The New York Times, New York. July 15, 2019


ACACIA GALERÍA / HAVANA


Formas del tiempo (Personal exhibition), Acacia Galería, Havana, Cuba. June 28 – August 26, 2019


THE CLYDE FITCH REPORT

Latinx Artists Probe Sci-Fi in ‘Alternate Worlds’ By: Beck Feibelman. May 9, 2019


XIII BIENAL DE LA HABANA – GRAN TEATRO DE LA HABANA ALICIA ALONSO / HAVANA


HB, Contemporary Cuban Art (Group exhibition), XIII Biennial of Havana, collateral exhibition/Acacia Galería, Havana, Cuba. April 12, 2019


ARTISHOCK


Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the America May 08, 2019


ARTFORUM


Critic’s pick, Miami / Glexis Novoa By Kaira M. Cabañas. April 20, 2019


QUEENS MUSEUM / NEW YORK

Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas (group exhibition) Museum of Photography at UCR ARTS. Queens Museum, New York. April 7  – August 18 2019


ART MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAS / WASHINGTON D.C.

A Gaze through the CINTAS Fellowship Program: A Selection of Works from the CINTAS Foundation and the Art Museum of the Americas (group exhibition) Art Museum of the Americas, Washington D.C. March 14 – June 9, 2019.


MUSEUM OF ART AND DESIGN / MIAMI

The Cankama Sutta (personal exhibition) Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College. March 14 – September 22, 2019


DAVID CASTILLO GALLERY / MIAMI BEACH


Lines of Fracture David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach (group exhibition) Art Basel, Miami Beach. February 21 – April 6, 2019


ART BASEL – DAVID CASTILLO GALLERY / MIAMI BEACH


David Castillo Gallery Miami Beach (group exhibition) Art Basel, Miami Beach. December 6 – 9, 2019


XIV CUENCA BIENNIAL – MUSEO DE LA CIUDAD / CUENCA

  
Plural domains: selected works from the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (group exhibition), Curated by Jesús Fuenmayor, as part of the 2018 Cuenca Biennial, Cuenca, Ecuador. November 23, 2018 – February 3, 2019


RESIDENCY UNLIMITED / NEW YORK

Artist In ResidenceResidency UnlimitedBrooklyn, New York, U.S. Oct. 01 – Nov. 30, 2018


POWERPLANT GALLERY – DUKE UNIVERSITY / NEW YORK

Visionary Aponte: Art & Black Freedom (group exhibition) Power Plant Gallery | Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. September 19 – November 17, 2018


FROST ART MUSEUM / MIAMI

Deconstruction: A reordering of life, politics, and art (group exhibition) Curated by Amy Galpin, Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida. July 10 – September 30, 2018


ORLANDO MUSEUM OF ART / ORLANDO

Florida prize in contemporary art (group exhibition), Curated by Hansen Mulford, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida. June 01, 2018


USF CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM / TAMPA


Climate change / Cuba – US Transition (group exhibition)
Curated by: Noel Smith, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida, US. January 12 – March 3, 2018


WALKER ART CENTER / MINNEAPOLIS

Adiós Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950 (group exhibition) Conceived by CIFO Europa and organized in partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Walker Art Center; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US. November 11, 2017 – March 18, 2018


LUDWIG FORUM FÜR INTERNATIONAL KUNST / AACHEN

Art x Cuba – Contemporary Perspectives since 1989 (group exhibition) Curated by Dr. Andreas Beitin and Tonel (Antonio Eligio Fernandez); Ludwig Forum für International Kunst, Aachen, Germany. September 07, 2017 – February 2018


CORAL GABLES MUSEUM / CORAL GABLES

Between the Real and the Imagined (group exhibition) Curated by Elizabeth Cerejido, Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables, Florida. August 30 – October 22, 2017

08/2017 THE NATION

“Glexis Novoa, a Cuban artist who protested ROCI’s collaboration with his country’s “self-colonizing” cultural institutions, still had to admit: “You cannot avoid liking Rauschenberg as an artist.” His energetic enthusiasm covers a multitude of doubts.”  -Barry Schwabsky

Zero Gravity: Robert Rauschenberg and the art of the New Frontier (periodical) by Barry Schwabsky, The Nation, New York. August 24, 2017 

06/2017 ART IN AMERICA

“…small groups of collages in a darker mode of science fiction that Cuban artist Glexis Novoa produced a decade ago but never showed before.”  -Gean Moreno

Atlas Miami / From the Margins (periodical) by Gean Moreno, Art in America, New York. June 20, 2017


MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS / HOUSTON

Adiós Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950 (group exhibition)
Conceived by the Cisneros Fontanals Fundación Para Las Artes (CIFO Europa) and organized in partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Walker Art Center; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, US. March 5, 2017 – May 21, 2017.

CANTIERI DELLA ZISA / PALERMO

Cuba, Tatuar la historia (group exhibition)
Curated by Diego Sileo & Giacomo Zaza; Cantieri della Zisa; Palermo, Italy. October 7 – December 18, 2016.

MCCOLL CENTER FOR ART+INNOVATION / CHARLOTTE

Artist In Residence McColl Center for Art+Innovation, Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S. Aug. 22 – Nov. 22, 2016


SPAZIO OBERDAN / FOUNDAZIONE CINETECA ITALIANA / MILAN


El Canto del Cisne
 (screening)
1 hour documentary written and directed by Glexis Novoa.

Spazio Oberdan / Foundazione Cineteca Italiana; Milan, Italy. Julio 11, 2016

PADIGLIONE D’ARTE CONTEMPORANEA / MILAN


Cuba, Tatuar la historia (group exhibition)
Curated by Jorge Fernández Torres, Diego Sileo & Giacomo Zaza; Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milano. Jul. 5 – Sept. 12, 2016

PEREZ ART MUSEUM / MIAMI


Dialogues in Cuban art (symposium)
Conceived & curated by Elizabeth Ceregido, Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, US. Apr. 28 – 29, 2016


RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART / NEW YORK

Gestures of faith in contemporary Cuban art (​group exhibition) Curated by Sara Reisman, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, New York. Apr. 4 – Jul. 10, 2016

MUSEO NACIONAL DE BELLAS ARTES / HAVANA

Things as they are / Things as they are (personal exhibition)
Curated by Corina Matamoros, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba. Sept. 23 – Jan. 16, 2016

JOAN MITCHELL CENTER / NEW ORLEANS

Artist In Residence (AIR) Grant ProgramJoan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, Lousiana, U.S. Nov. – Dec. 2015


LOWE ART MUSEUM / CORAL GABLES


Emptiness (personal exhibition)
Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Miami, U.S. June. 19 – Oct. 19, 2015. Hamptons Art Hub – DM Art Pro – Miami Herald – El Nuevo Herald


BIENAL DE LA HABANA / HAVANA


Detras del muro II “En medio de la nada” (group exhibition) Malecón (Havana Biennial / collateral), Havana, Cuba. May 24, 2015.Art NexusArt Oncuba –  Agencia Cubana de Noticias – Cuban Art NewsDiario LibreMarti NoticiasGetty ImagesClarin


WANDEREUR / ONTARIO

Glexis Novoa: Inner power (online publication)
By Catherine Sicot (curator) & Ryan Stone (photographer), Wandereur, Ontario, Canada. March. 2015

THE JEWISH MUSEUM / MIAMI BEACH

The Chosen (group exhibition)
Jewish Museum, Miami Beach, US. Nov. 03, 2014

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART / NORTH MIAMI

Third Space: Inventing the posible (group exhibition)
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami. Sept. 25, 2014


PÉREZ ART MUSEUM / MIAMI


Overview Galleries / Global Positioning Systems (group exhibition)
Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, Florida. Aug. 18, 2014


THE JOAN MITCHELL FOUNDATION / NEW YORK

Grant Program Recipient New York 2013


LEHMAN COLLEGE ART GALLERY / NEW YORK


Cuban America (group exhibition)
Curated by Yuneikys Villalonga & Susan Hoeltzel at Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, New York. February 4 – April 30, 2014


MUSEO DI ARTE MODERNA E CONTEMPORANEA DI TRENTO E ROVERETO / ROVERETO


Lost in Landscape (group exhibition)
Cuarated by Gerardo Mosquera at Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy. March 21 – August 31, 2014


PÉREZ ART MUSEUM MIAMI / MIAMI


Caribbean: Crossroads of the World (group exhibition)
Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, Florida. April 18 – Aug. 17, 2014


BABYLON CINEMA – INSTITUTO CERVANTES / BERLIN

El Canto del Cisne
The Instituto Cervantes in Berlin present the documentary El canto del Cisne (Swan song) produced and directed by Glexis NovoaKino Babylon, Berlin. June 27, 2013

CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART LAZNIA / GDANSK

Politics: I do not like it, but it likes me (Group exhibition)
Curated by Agnieszka Kulazinska and Dermis León at Center for Contemporary Art Laznia, Gdansk, Poland; April 2013

MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFIA / MADRID
Perder la forma humana, Una imagen sísmica de los anos ochenta en America Latina (Group exhibition), Curated by Red Conseptualismos del Sur at Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; October 25, 2012

2012 MEDIATIONS BIENNALE / POZNAN

4th Mediations Biennial: “The Unknown:” The Americas (Group exhibition) Curated by Denise Carvalho. Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu, Poznan, Poland. September 14 – October 14

CISNEROS FONTANALS ART FOUNDATION

CIFO 2012 Grants & Commissions Program Exhibition
Glexis Novoa
 Mid-Career Commission Recipient. (Group exhibition) Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami; September 06, 2012

CENTRE DE CULTURA CONTEMPORÁNIA DE BARCELONA / BARCELONA


Inundaciones (Group exhibition), Curated by Iván de la Nuez at Centro de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; 2000


SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE

Artist in Residence Skowhegan, Maine, 1998

CENTRO ATLÁNTICO DE ARTE MODERNO – FUNDACIÓN CAIXA – CENTRO DE ARTE SANTA MÓNICA / LAS PALMAS – PALMA DE MALLORCA – BARCELONA

    
Cuba Siglo XX Modernidad y Sincretismo (Group exhibition), Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, also traveled to Fundación CAIXA, Palma de Mallorca; and Centro de Arte Santa Mónica, Barcelona, Spain 1996