Adonis Flores (Sancti Spíritus, Cuba, 1971) Studies 1992

Adonis Flores (Sancti Spíritus, Cuba, 1971) Studies 1992

Adonis Flores (Sancti Spíritus, Cuba, 1971)
Studies
1992-1997 Architecture, Universidad Central de Las Villas, Cuba.
Solo shows (selection)
2015 Pabellón A12, Zona Franca, La Cabaña Fortress, colateral to the XII Havana Biennial.
2014 Perro de Caza (Hound dog), La Cometa Galllery, Bogotá; Malos Pasos (Missteps), Galería
Habana, Havana.
2011-2012 Body Memories, (bipersonal with Cirenaica Moreira), Chashama Gallery, New York, 2011
and New Jersey, 2012.
2010 Memorial, Galería Habana, Havana.
2008 Camuflajes, Pierre Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal.
2007 Carne de Cañón (Cannon Fodder), Galería Habana, Havana; Camuflajes, Myto Gallery, México.
He has performed in Cuba, Canada, Colombia, Brazil and England and has made public art projects as
Fe (Faith) in the XI Havana Biennial, 2012, and Espíritu al servicio de todos (Spirit at everyone’s
service), in the VIII Biennial, Havana, 2003.
Group shows (selection)
2015 Cuba Libre!, Bronx Museum, NY, March 19 to June 21; Arsenal, Arsenal Studio, Old Havana,
collateral to XII Havana Biennial; Detrás del Muro, Malecón habanero, collateral to the XII Havana
Biennial; Nadie sabe lo que puede un cuerpo, Fábrica de Arte Cubano, Havana.
2014 RIAP - Rencontre internationale d’art performance, Quebec; PLAYING WITH FIRE: Political
Interventions, Dissident Acts, and Mischievous Actions, Museo del Barrio, NY; VIDEOPLAY (20042014) International Show of Video Art, MACA - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Argentino, Junín,
Buenos Aires; De lo sublime a lo ridículo, Fábrica de Arte Cubano, Havana; Detrás del Muro,
Rockefeller Fund, NY.
2013 Detrás del Muro, The 8th Floor, Rubin Foundation, NY; Phillips de Pury Auction, USA; ArtBo Fair,
Bogotá; Cuban Forever, Pizzuti Museum, Columbus, Ohio.
2012 Almacenes Afuera, National Fine Arts Museum from Cuba; Regards Croisés, Musée des
Tapisseries, Aix en Provence, France; Detrás del Muro (Behind the Wall), XI Havana Biennial;
Escapando con el paisaje (Scaping with the landscape), Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas y
Diseño, Havana; Travesías, Galería Raúl Oliva; Flyers, La Cabaña, collaterals to the Havana
Biennial.
2011 VI Ventosul Biennial, Curitiba, Brazil; Cuban Visions, Metropolitan Pavillion, NY; Action-Actual,
Museo del Barrio, NY; Shifting World, Magnan-Metz Gallery, NY.
2010 Cuba Avant-Garde, Xin Dong Chen Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing; VIDEO CUBANO, 8th
Floor Space, Rubin Foundation, NY; STRESSISIMO, Galería Habana, Havana; EJECT, Third
International Festival of Videoperformance, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico; Serendipity, Portugal
Arte 10, Portugal; Polaridad Complementaria: Recent Works from Cuba, Newcomb Art Gallery
(Tulane University) and New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans / Sonoma County Museum of
Art, Santa Rosa, CA / Chicago Cultural Center, IL, USA; Confluences II: Inside Cuban Contemporary
Art, National Hispanic Cultural Center, USA.
2009 Camuflajes, Casa Encendida, Madrid, 2009, Espacio para el Arte Caja Madrid, Zaragoza, 2010;
VIVA Art Action, Performance Art Festival, Montreal.
2008 Fotología, International Festival of Photography, Bogotá; States of Exchange, INIVA, London; V
Salon of Contemporary Cuban Art, CDAV, Havana; SCOPE London Art Fair, UK; Arboleda. El cuerpo
es cuerpos, International Festival of Contemporary Art from León, Guanajuato, Mexico;
Glocalizados, Visual Arts from Cuba, International Festival of Culture from Boyacá, Colombia.
2007 European Media Art Festival, Germany; Show Off Fair, Paris.
2006 Sideshow Festival, in parallel to British Art Show, England; Art Forum Fair, Berlin.
2004 and 2005 Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area (CAFKA), Kitchener, Canada.
2003 Action Experience: 30 days (Department of Public Interventions), VIII Havana Biennial.
Awards and residencies (selection)
2013 Noemi Prize and Residency, Gilbert Brownstone Foundation, Paris.
2010 Prize of Curatorship for the solo show Memorial, Havana.
2007 Mention of Curatorship for the solo show Carne de Cañón, Havana.
2006 Residency Batiscafo sponsored by Gasworks from England.
2002 National Grant Juan Francisco Elso, Cuba; Provincial Prize of the Arts from Sancti Spíritus.
Prizes of the City and of the Provincial Salon of the Arts in Sancti Spíritus, Cuba, in several editions.
Publications (selection)
His work has been published and reviewed in magazines such as Arte al Límite, Chile; Arte Cubano,
Cuba; Performance Research, England; Lápiz, Spain; Parachute and ESSE, Montreal; Canadian Art and
C Magazine, Toronto; Art Nexus, Colombia; Art Papers, United States, etc., in many periodical
publications, as Washington Post, USA., The Gazette and Le Devoir, Montreal; The Record, Ontario;
Arteria and El Tiempo, Colombia; different publications of the Montreal Fine Arts Museum and in
several digital magazines, and catalogues of solo and group shows. It appeared also as cover of the
French edition of Tom Wolfe’s novel Ambush at Fort Bragg (Embuscade à Fort Bragg), Editions
Robert Laffont, Paris 2010.
Collections (selection)
Ron Pizzuti (USA); Jorge Pérez (Miami); Howard Farber (USA); the Cuban Artists Fund (USA); the Gilbert
Brownstone Foundation (Paris); the Shelley and Donald Rubin Private Collection (USA); Arte de
Nuestra América, Casa de Las Américas (Havana); Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam
(Havana); National Arts Council (Havana); Xin Dong Chen’s (Beijing); Anette Ballag-Rothschild
(Switzerland); Galila Barzilai (Brussels); the Fonds National d'Art Contemporain FNAC (France); the
Foundation/Collection JUMEX (Mexico); the National Fine Arts Museum from Cuba and the Montreal
Fine Arts Museum (Canada), among others.