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MARIO BENCOMO
Né / Born Pinar del Rio, Cuba, 1953
Mario Bencomo est un artiste cubain.
Lors de la révolution dans son pays
d’origine, il a été envoyé seul, en
Europe. À l’âge de 14 ans, il a quitté
l’Espagne pour se rendre aux États-Unis,
arrivant à New York en 1968, seul
encore une fois. Il retourne souvent en
Europe pour de longs séjours. Il ne s’est
jamais détaché de ses liens avec la
culture cubaine, ni espagnole, ajoutant
son éducation américaine à son travail
et à son expérience multiculturelle. En
1996, près de trois décennies après son
départ, Bencomo retourne à Cuba pour
la première fois et depuis ce temps, il
continue
de
visiter
ce
pays
périodiquement. Il vie et travaille à
Miami.
L’œuvre de Bencomo rejoint plusieurs
thèmes; l’ambigüité sensuelle des
formes qu’on retrouve dans la nature, la
mythologie, l’extase mystique, l’histoire
et l’expérience personnelle; estompant
souvent la ligne entre le spirituel et le
sensuel. Dévoreur vorace de livres, son
œuvre est très inspirée par la poésie.
L’oeuvre de Bencomo se retrouve, entre
autre,
dans
la
collection
du
Metropolitan Museum of Art de New
York; au Musée Arte Contemporaneo
de Panama; au Museo Nacional de
Bellas Artes, La Habana, à Cuba; au Art
Museum of the Americas à Washington,
D.C.; au Lowe Art Museum, de
l’Université de Miami; au Frederick R.
Weisman Art Museum, au Minneapolis
Museum of Art.
Mario Bencomo is a Cuban born artist.
He was sent alone to live in Europe
during the revolution in his homeland.
At the age of 14, he left Spain for the
U.S., arriving by himself in New York City
in 1968. He never broke away from his
original cultural links to Cuba nor to
Spain, often returning to Europe for
extended stays, adding his American
education
to
his
multicultural
experience and work. In 1996, almost
three decades alter his departure,
Bencomo returned to Cuba for the first
time and continues to visit Cuba
periodically since then.
He is based in
Miami.
Bencomo’s work relates to various
themes; the sensual ambiguity of form
found in nature, mythology, mystical
ecstasy,
history
and
personal
experience; often blurring the line
between the spiritual and the sensual. A
voracious reader, his work is very much
inspired by poetry.
Bencomo's work is in the collection of
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York, Detroit Institute of Art, Denver Art
Museum, Frost Art Museum at FIU, Miami,
Museo
de
Arte
Contemporaneo,
Panama, Museo Nacional de Bellas
Artes, La Habana, Cuba, Art Museum of
the Americas, Washington, D.C., Museo
de Arte Maria Zambrana, VelezMalaga, Spain, Lowe Art Museum, U. of
Miami, Norton Museum of Art, West
Palm Beach, Frederick R. Weisman Art
Museum, Minneapolis, Museum of Art,
Ft. Lauderdale, Polk Museum of Art,
Lakeland, among others.
EXPOSITIONS SOLOS SELECTIONNÉES /
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
« Utopie: Si le Québec était un
pays tropical / Utopia : If
Québec were in the Tropics”
Beaux-arts des Ameriques,
Montreal, Québec, Canada
2010: “Opalia”, The Americas
Collection, Coral Gables, FL
2006 “Mis Islas/My Islands,” Galeria
Tamara, San Juan, PR
Drawn from Poetry, The Americas
Collection, Coral Gables, FL
2005 “If Québec were in the tropics”,
The Americas Collection, Coral
Gables, FL
2003 “Diurnus Libellus,” Pesqueira
Gallery, Miami • “Wanderlust”,
Elite Fine Art, Coral Gables, FL
2000 “Penetrando el Trópico”, Galería
Tamara, San Juan, Puerto Rico •
“Organic Images”, Corbino
Gallery, Longboat Key,FL
1996 “Verbum”, Elite Fine Art, Coral
Gables, FL
1995 "La Nauraleza Como Unico
Deseo", Muséo de Arte
Contemporáneo, Panamá,
Panamá
1994 "Abstract Drawings of Mario
Bencomo: Works on
Paper", Lehigh University's Siegel
Gallery, Bethlehem, PA
1993 “Recent Works,” Elite Fine Art,
Coral Gables, FL
1992 “New Work”, Elite Fine Art, Coral
Gables, FL
1991 Elite Fine Art, Coral Gables, FL
1990 “A Review of Twelve Years’
Work”, Bacardi Art Gallery,
Miami, FL
1989 "Urgent Dream", Museum of
Contemporary Hispanic Art, New
York, NY
1987 "Wind Paintings", Barbara Gillman
Gallery, Miami, FL
“Wind Paintings, Gilman-Stein
Gallery, Tampa, FL
1986 “Low Tide and Other Recent
Paintings", Intar Gallery, New
York, NY
1985
1984
1982
1981
1980
1979
“Bencomo Acrylics", Art Consult
Gallery, Boston, MA
“Noche Insular: Jardines
Invisibles", Forma Gallery, Coral
Gables, FL
"Noche Insular: Jardines
Invisibles", Galeria Art Consult,
Panamá, Panamá
"New Work", Schweyer-Galdo
Gallery, Morristown, NJ • "New
Paintings", Forma Gallery, Coral
Gables, FL
"Works on Paper", West Dade
Library Gallery, Miami, FL
"Archipielagum", SchweyerGaldo Gallery, Birmingham, MI
"New Work", Meeting Point Art
Center, Coral Gables, FL
Library Gallery, Miami-Dade
Community College, Miami, FL
EXPOSITIONS EN GROUP SELECTIONNÉES /
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 The Miami Generation : Revisited, Museum of Art Ft. Lauderdale, FL Impact and Legacy: 50 Years of the CINTAS Foundation, MDC Museum of Art + Design, Miami Montreal -­‐ Vues de la Ville, Galerie Beaux-­‐Arts des Ameriques, Montreal, Canada The Expressive Edge of Paper, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York 2013 Almacenes Abiertos, National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana, Cuba El Viento del Sur, Galerie Beaux-­‐Arts des Ameriques, Montreal, Canada El Viento del Sur, Beaux-arts des
Amériques, Montréal, QC
2012
2011
2010
PAPIER 2012, Place des Arts,
Montréal, QC
PAPIER 2011, Place des Arts,
Montréal, QC
PAPIER 2010, Black Watch
Armoury, Montréal, QC
2009
2008
2007
2005
2004
2003
“Red Dot Art Fair” Anita
Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
“Artists for Artists’ Relief Fund”
ArteAmericas, Miami, Florida
“Ways of Worldmaking: Notes on
a Passion for Collecting Latin
American Art, Freedom Tower
Museum, Miami, Fl
“Elements of Nature”,
Contemporary Art Center, New
Orleans, LA
“3: Cuban Selections from the
Lehigh University Art Gallery
Teaching Collection, Bethlehem,
PA
”Au Premier Regard / At First
Glance,” Beaux-arts des
Amériques, Montreal
ArteAmericas 2009, Miami
Beach, FL • Celebrating
ArteAmericas 2009, The Americas
Collection, Coral Gables, FL
The Beauty of Paper, The
Americas Collection, Coral
Gables, FL
“Latin American Art from Two
Private Cleveland Collections,”
Greenhouse Gallery, Case
Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, OH
Collector’s Choices, Anita
Shapolsky Gallery, New York
Works by Artists of Cuban
Ancestry from the Permanent
Collection, Polk Museum of Art,
Lakeland, FL
“Layers: Collecting Cuban
American Art,” University at
Buffalo Center for the Arts, New
York, Cantor Art Gallery, College
of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
“Homenaje a Maria Zambrano”,
Muséo de América, Madrid,
Muséo de Arte Contemporáneo,
Velez-Malaga, Spain
“Cintas: Hope & Glory”, Miami Art
Center, FL
“Paradise Lost? Aspects of
Landscape in Latin American
Art”, The Lowe Art Museum,
University of Miami, Coral Gables,
FL
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
“Illiciting a Response”, Museum of
Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
“Diaspora”, Walker Fine Art,
Denver, CO
“Personas, Lugares y Cosas”,
University Gallery, University of
Florida, Gainesville
Elite Fine Art, Group Show, Coral
Gables, FL
Corbino Gallery, Group Show,
Longboat Key, FL
“Breaking Barriers: The Next
Chapter”, Museum of Art, Ft.
Lauderdale, FL
“Contemporary Cuban Art”,
Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL
“The Jay and Anita Hyman
Collection of 20th Century Cuban
Painting”, Herbert F. Johnson
Museum of Art, Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY
“From Modern to Contemporary:
Cuban and Cuban-American
Art”, Lowe Art Museum, University
of Miami, FL
Galeria Tamara, Group Show,
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Museum of Art, Collection
Selection, Ft Lauderdale, FL
Corbino Gallery, Group Show,
Longboat Key, FL
Elite Fine Art, Group Show, Coral
Gables, FL
“Far from Cuba”, Museé des
Tapisseries, Aix-en Provence,
France
Amalia Mahoney Gallery, Group
Show, Chicago, IL
“Cuban Jewish Art Today”, Mizel
Museum of Judaica, Denver, CO,
Museo de Las
Americas, Denver, CO
Elite Fine Art, Coral Gables, FL
"PAST CUBA: Identity and
Identification in Cuban-American
Art", Fairfield University, Fairfield,
CT, Saint Laurence University,
Canton, NY
1996
“Breaking Barriers”, Museum of
Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Snite
Museum, University of Notre
Dame, IN
"CUBA SIGLO XX. MODERNIDAD Y
SINCRETISMO", Centro Atlantico
de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de
Gran Canarias, Spain, FUNDACIO
LA CAIXA, Palma de Mallorca,
Spain, Centre d'Art Santa
Monica, Barcelona, Spain
"Eight Cuban-American Artists",
Kingsborough College, Brighton
Beach,
Brooklyn, NY
1992
1991
1995
1994
1993
"From the Permanent Collection",
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale,
FL
"Young Artists", Anita Shapolsky
Gallery, New York, NY
"THE NEW COLLECTION-I", Cuban
Museum of Art, Miami, FL
Elite Fine Art, Group Show, Coral
Gables, FL
“Chiaroscuro: A Contemporary
Study of Light and Dark", 1994
Montgomery Biennial,
Montgomery Museum of Fine
Arts, Montgomery, AL
"5 + 6", Center of the Earth
Gallery, Charlotte, NC
"LatinArt '90s", Art and Culture
Center of Hollywood, FL
"VITRALIMA, Painted Glass
Sculptures", Elite Fine Art, Group
Show, Coral Gables, FL
"Continuing Tradition", Anita
Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
”Excavations: Four Sephardic
Artists", Starr Gallery, Newton, MA,
Dowd Fine Arts Gallery, State
University College at Cortland, NY
"FL Fellowships, 1992-1993", North
Miami Center for Contemporary
Art, North Miami, FL, The Museum
of Fine Art, St Petersburg, FL, The
Capitol Gallery, Tallahassee, FL,
University Gallery, University of Fl,
Gainesville, FL, Valencia
Community College, East
Campus, Orlando, FL
1990
1989
"Islands in the Stream: Seven
Cuban American Artists", Dowd
Fine Arts Gallery, State University
College at Cortland, NY
"El Espiritu del Arte
Latinoamericano", Galeria
Valanti, San Jose, Costa Rica
“In the Tradition", Anita Shapolsky
Gallery, New York, NY
"The Americas", Anita Shapolsky
Gallery, New York, NY
"Latin Power", Anita Shapolsky
Gallery, New York, NY
"Latin American Spectrum", Elite
Fine Art, Coral Gables, FL
"CUBA/USA: The First Generation",
Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago, IL, Fondo del Sol,
Washington D.C, The Minnesota
Museum of Art, St Paul, MI, The Art
Museum, FL International
University, Miami, FL,
Contemporary Art Museum,
University of South Fl, Tampa, FL,
Nexus, Philadelphia, PA
"South FL Invitational: George
Bolges Selects", Museum of Art, Ft
Lauderdale, FL "Latin American
Spectrum", Elite Fine Art, Coral
Gables, FL
"Permanent Collection: Recent
Acquisitions", Art Museum of the
Americas, Wash, DC
"Latin Art '90" Anita Shapolsky
Gallery, New York, NY
"Contemporary Latin American
Art", A selection of the Collection
of Museum the University of
Texas at Samuel P. Harn Museum
of Art, University of Fl,
Gainesville, FL
"All Fl Exhibition", Boca Museum,
Boca Raton, FL
“Borderlines”, Thomas Center
Gallery, Gainesville, FL
Anthony Ardavin Gallery, Atlanta,
GA
"51st National Exhibition of
Contemporary American
Painting", The Society of the Four
Arts, Palm Beach, FL "Third All Fl
1990
1988
1987
Biennial", Polk Museum of Art,
Lakeland, FL
“39TH FL Exhibition", (Painting
Award), Boca Museum, Boca
Raton, FL
"Mira!” Municipal Art Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA, Meadows Museum,
Dallas, TX, Terra Museum of
American Art, Chicago, IL, Bass
Museum, Miami Beach, FL, Museo
del Barrio, New York, NY
"Expresiones Hispanas 88/89",
Mexican Cultural Institute, San
Antonio, TX, Southwest Museum
of Art, Los Angeles, CA, Triton
Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA,
Arvada Center for the Arts,
Arvada, CO, Millicent Rogers
Museum, Taos, NM, Center for
the Fine Arts, Miami, FL
"Latin American Artists of the
South East Coastal Region",
Contemporary Art Center, New
Orleans, LA, Art and Culture
Center, Hollywood, FL, Louisiana
Tech. University, Ruston, LA
"The Frederick R. Weisman
Collection", Norton Museum of
Art, West Palm Beach, FL
"1988 Tampa Triennial", Tampa
Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
"1988 Exhibition", Orlando
Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
"VI Biennial Iberoamericana de
Arte", Palacio de Bellas Artes,
México City, México
"HORTT30", The Museum of Art,
Fort Lauderdale, FL
“Outside Cuba/Fuera de Cuba",
Jane Voorhees Zimmerili Art
Museum, Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, NJ, Museum of
Contemporary Hispanic Art, New
York, NY, Miami University Art
Museum, Oxford, OH, Museo de
Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto
Rico, Center for the Fine Arts,
Miami, FL, Atlanta College of Art,
Atlanta, GA
"Cuban Artists in North America",
National Library of Canada,
Ottawa, Canada "Abstract
1986
1985
1983
1982
1981
1980
Visions", Museum of
Contemporary Hispanic Art, New
York, NY "Contemporary Cuban
Art", Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Coral Gables, FL
"Positive/Negative", Carroll Reece
Museum, East Tennessee State
University, Johnson City, TN
“Second Florida Biennial
Exhibition", Polk Museum of Art,
(Museum Purchase Award),
Lakeland, FL
“V Biennial Iberoamericana de
Arte”, Instituto Cultural Domécq,
México City, México
"HORTT28", The Museum of Art,
Fort Lauderdale, FL
“Expatriates: Paintings by 15
Young Latin American Artists”,
Thomas Center Gallery,
Gainesville, FL, Lee Scarfone
Gallery, University of Tampa,
Tampa, FL, Polk Museum of Art,
Lakeland, FL, The Atlantic Center
for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach,
FL
"New Directions", Helander
Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
"The Art of Miami", Southeast
Center for Contemporary Art,
Winston-Salem, NC "Basel Art 16'
1985", Schweyer-Galdo Gallery,
Basel, Switzerland
"The Miami Generation, Nine
Cuban American Artists", Cuban
Museum of Art and Culture,
Miami, FL, Meridian House
International, Washington DC,
The Museum of the Balch Institute
for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia,
PA
"Mayor Cuban Artists", Forma
Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
“Young Hispanics USA", Leigh
University Art Galleries,
Bethlehem, PA
"Recent Acquisitions", Museum of
Modern Art of Latin America,
Washington DC "Contemporary
Latin American Art", SchweyerGaldo Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Cultural & Artistic Expressions",
University of Miami, FL
COLLECTIONS DE MUSÉES SELECTIONNÉES /
SELECTED MUSEUMS AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York • Detroit Institute of Art • Norton Museum of Art,
West Palm Beach • Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Museum of the University of Texas,
Austin • Denver Art Museum • Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana • Art
Museum of the Americas, Washington DC • Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum,
Minneapolis • Museo de Arte Maria Zambrano, Vélez-Málaga, Spain • Leigh University
Art Gallery, Bethlehem, PA • Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY • Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami • Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale •
Muséo de Arte Contemporáneo, Panamá • Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL • The
Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ • Mizel Museum, Denver • State University of New York,
College at Cortland • Frost Art Museum, Miami • The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ •
Muséo de Las Américas, Denver • Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY • Cintas Collection at Frost Art Museum, Miami • Art in Public Places, Miami •
Miami Public Library Art Collection • American Express Art Collection • Banco Exterior
de España Art Collection • Bank of Boston Art Collection • Cabot Corporation Art
Collection • Eastern National Bank Art Collection • General Mills Corporation Art
Collection • Hoover International Art Collection • Lloyds Bank International Art
Collection • Reynolds Tobacco Corporation Art Collection • SunTrust Art Collection • The
Chase Manhattan Bank Art Collection • Museo del Barrio
BIBLIOGRAPHIE SELECTIONNÉE, PUBLICATIONS /
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, PUBLICATIONS
Janet Batet, “Mario Bencomo” Review for “Opalia”, The Americas Collection. Miami,
USA, Arte al Dia International, No. 134, March/April/2011
Carlos M. Luis, "Luz y Sensualidad" Review for "Utopia: If Quebec were in the tropics"
Beaux-arts des Ameriques, Montreal, Canada, El Nuevo Herald, May 9, 2010, p
D, Miami.
Bosch, Lynette M.F., Cuban-American Literature and Art: Negotiating Identities, 2009,
State University of New York Press. Carlos M. Luis, “La belleza del papel”, El Nuevo
Herald, Julio 27, 2008, p6D, Miami, Cuban-American Art in Miami, Lund
Humphries, 2004, pp 20, 97,
Carlos M. Luis, “Mario Bencomo y sus Libros de Arte,” El Nuevo Herald, Diciembre 14,
2003, P 8E, Miami, FL
Lynette M. F. Bosch, Cuban-American Art in Miami, Lund Humphries, 2004, pp 20, 97,
126-133
Carlos M. Luis, “Mario Bencomo y sus Libros de Arte,” El Nuevo Herald, Diciembre 14,
2003, P 8E, Miami, FL
Issa M. Benítez Dueñas, Catalog text, “Paradise Lost? Contemporary Landscape in Latin
American Art,” The Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL, 2003
Armando Alvarez Bravo, “La pintura como ansia de ver mundo,” Arte al día
internacional, pp 34-37, No 95-Año 22, Febrero/ Marzo 2003
Memoria, Cuban Art of the 20TH Century, California International Arts Foundation, 2002,
PP 136, 539, 545, 558, 568
Armando Alvarez Bravo, “Mario Bencomo: El Deseo de Viajar,” El Nuevo Herald, Page
1E, January 19,
2003, Miami, FL, • Preston A. Whaley JR, “Where I come from,” Weekly Planet, Vol. 4
No.46, pp 6-11
BIBLIOGRAPHIE SELECTIONNÉE, PUBLICATIONS /
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, PUBLICATIONS continued……
Sarasota Edition, FL and Vol. 15 No. 23, pp 12-17, Edition, Tampa, FL, August 28, 2002
Armando Alvarez Bravo, “The Mirror of Nature”, Arte al día international”, No 81, pp 3235, July 2000
Manuel Alvarez Lezama, “Mario Bencomo en Tamara”, El Nuevo Dia, Por Dentro, April
2, 2000, P77, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Enrique-Jose Varona, Catalog text, “Penetrando el Tropico”, Galeria Tamara, San Juan,
Puerto Rico, May, 2000
Carlos M. Luis, Catalog text, “Far From Cuba”, Museé des Tapisseries, Aix- en Provence,
France, October, 1998
Carlos M. Luis, Catalog text, “Cuban Jewish Art Today”, Mizel Museum of Art, Denver,
CO, December, 1998
Lynette M.F. Bosch, Catalog text, “PAST CUBA: IDENTITY AND IDENTIFICATION IN CUBANAMERICAN ART", Fairfield University, January, 1997, Fairfield, CT
Armando Alvarez Bravo, "Cuatro Paredes y un Continente", El Nuevo Herald, Miami, FL,
January 13, 1997 PP 1c - 3c
Lynette M. F. Bosch, Catalog text, "Verbum", Elite Fine Art, Coral Gables, FL, December,
1996
Armando Alvarez Bravo, "Tres Años sin Bencomo" El Nuevo Herald, December 1, 1996,
Miami, FL
Armando Alvarez Bravo, "Cuatro más para el MET", El Nuevo Herald, NovembeR 26,
1996, pp1c - 3c, Miami, FL
Juan Bufil, "Dentro y Fuera de Cuba", La Vanguardia, November 1, 1996, p 43,
Barcelona, Spain
Maria Luisa Borras, Text, "CUBA SIGLO XX: MODERNIDAD Y SINCRETISMO", CENTRO
ATLANTICO DE ARTE MODERNO, April, 1996, Las Palmas de Gran
Canaria, Spain
Mario Bencomo, artist's text, "La naturaleza como unico deseo", Muséo de Arte
Contemporáneo, October, 1995, Panamá, Panamá
Lynette M. F. Bosch, "The Abstract Drawings of Mario Bencomo" and Ricardo Viera,
"Conversation with Mario Bencomo", Catalog texts, "MARIO BENCOMO: Abstract
Drawings", University Art Galleries Leigh University, September, 1994, Bethlehem,
Edward Lucie-Smith, "Race, Sex and Gender in Contemporary Art", Abrams, 1994 p 73,
NY
Carol Damian, "Mario Bencomo", Art Nexus, Number 58, p 123, April - June, 1994
Armando Alvarez Bravo, "Mario Bencomo, un incesante debate cultural", El Nuevo
Herald, p 2e, September 18, 1994, Miami, FL
Jane Kessler, Catalog text, "Chiaroscuro, A Contemporary Study of Light and Dark",
Montgomery 1994 Biennial, Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
Alejandro Ríos, “El Aroma de Mario Bencomo y La Piedad de Antonia Eiriz”, Arte , Éxito ,
December 8, 1993, p 79, Miami, FL
Sherry Chayat, "2 shows focus on Jewish History and suffering", Syracuse Herald
American, Art pp 25 - 26, October 3, 1993, NY
Lynette M. F. Bosch, Catalog text, "Islands in the Stream, Seven Cuban American Artists",
Dowd Fine Arts Gallery, State University at Cortland, March, 1993, NY • Miles
Unger, Art New England, April - May, 1993
BIBLIOGRAPHIE SELECTIONNÉE, PUBLICATIONS /
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, PUBLICATIONS continued……
Armando Alvarez Bravo, "Bencomo, Naturalmente", El Nuevo Herald, December 4,
1993, Miami, FL
Carlos M. Luis, "Mario Bencomo, Color and Poetry", Catalog text, Elite Fine Art,
December, 1993, Coral Gables, FL
Donald Kuspit, Profile, "Mario Bencomo", Latin American Art, p63-64 Summer, 1992
Cris Hassold, "Mario Bencomo", Art Papers, Volume 16, Number 4, p 44, Atlanta, GA 1992
Carol Damian, "Mario Bencomo", Art Nexus, pp166 - 167, Number 4, April, 1992
Armando Alvarez Bravo, "El poder de los pintores, El Nuevo Herald, pp 1d - 5d, May
31, 1992, Miami, FL
Armando Alvarez Bravo, "Mas alla del color", El Nuevo Herald, December 2, 1992,
Miami, FL
Mireya Novo, "Mario Bencomo, Pintor" Gente, p 62, Éxito, December 9, 1992, Miami, FL
Alice Thorson, "Colliding Realities", New Art Examiner, pp 33 - 36, May, 1991, Chicago, IL
Armando Alvarez-Bravo, "Su Majestad el Color", El Nuevo Herald, December 6, 1991,
Miami, FL
Donald Kuspit, "Nature at the Sensual Extreme: Mario Bencomo's Paintings", Catalog
text, Elite Fine Art, December, 1991, Coral Gables, FL
Carlos M. Luis, "El Transito de la Mirada", SAETA Ediciones, p171 - 173, 1991, Caracas,
Venezuela
Severo Sarduy, "Entre los Cangilones", Guadalimar, Year XVI, Numero 106, April/May,
1990, Madrid, Spain
Juan Espinosa and Severo Sarduy, Catalog texts, "A Review of Twelve Years' Work",
Bacardi Gallery, March, 1990, Miami, FL
Fred Stern, "Artists with Latin American Roots", MIZUE, Number 951, pp 48 - 59, Summer,
1989, Tokyo, Japan
Giulio V. Blanc, Catalog text, "Bencomo's Urgent Dream", Museum of Contemporary
Hispanic Art, January, 1989, New York, NY
Ileana Fuentes and Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Catalog texts for "Outside Cuba", Rutgers
University Press, 1989, New Brunswick, NJ
Cris Hassold, "Mario Bencomo: Wind Paintings", Art Papers, Volume 12, Number 2, pp 52
- 53, March, 1988, Atlanta, GA
Armando Alvarez-Bravo, "La Pintura como Inteligencia", El Nuevo Herald, pp 1 - 2c, May
10, 1988, Miami, FL
Cathy Curtis, Art Review, "Mira! Unites 29 Latinos With Taste for the Fantastic", Los
Angeles Times, pp 1-7, April 20, 1988, Los Angeles, CA
Cheryl Kane, "More Artists are thriving in Dade than ever…” Miami Today, pp 22 - 23,
July 21, 1988, Miami, FL
Diana Montane, "Miami Artist Exemplifies the Thrust of Mira! Show", The Miami News, pp
1- 3c, September 8, 1988, Miami, FL
John Stringer, Catalog text, "Abstract Visions", Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art,
November 1987, New York, NY
Leslie Judd Ahlander, "Miami Art Scene", The Miami News, p 3c, October 30, 1987,
Miami, FL
Jose Gomez-Sicre, "Art of Cuba in Exile", Editorial Munder, 1987, pp 157 - 160, Miami, FL
Peter Plagens, "Miami Slice", Art in America, p 37, November, 1986
Giulio V. Blanc, "Los Colores de Mario Bencomo", Noticias de Arte, Year 8, Numero 1,
January, 1983, New York, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHIE SELECTIONNÉE, PUBLICATIONS /
ELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, PUBLICATIONS continued……
Giulio V. Blanc, Catalog text, "The Miami Generation: Nine Cuban American Artists",
Cuban Museum of Arts and Culture, October, 1983, Miami, FL
Helen L. Kohen, "Miami Generation: Cuban Artists in Transition", The Miami Herald, p 2c,
October 14, 1983, Miami, FL
Helen Kohen, "Subtle Works Require Scrutiny", The Miami Herald, 2d, September 12, 1980
BOURSES / FELLOWSHIPS
1992 - 1993 Individual Artists Fellowship, Painting, Division of Cultural Affairs, State of FL
1984 - 1985 Fellowship in Painting, Cintas Foundation, Institute of International
Education, NY
FILMS / FILMS
"CUBA:USA", FIU In View, FL International University, Interview by Uva Clavijo, WLRN, CH
17, May, 1992, Miami, FL
"GETTING TOGETHER", Interview by Jose Bahamonde, WLRN, CH 17, December 8, 1988,
Miami, FL
“The Miami Generation,” Documentary video for the “Miami Generation, Nine CubanAmerican Artists, Cuban Museum of Art and Culture, 1983, Miami,