Angel Delgado Fuentes Explained

Angel Delgado Fuentes
Birth Date:	July 3, 1965
Birth Place:	Havana, Cuba

Angel Delgado is a Cuban visual artist who lives in Long Beach, California.

Biography

Delgado studied at the Elementary School of Visual Arts of Havana, between 1976 and 1980. He graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro" in 1984 and studied from 1984 to 1986 at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana.The work of Angel Delgado, goes around a point: the freedom of the individual or the lack of this, his artwork is based fundamentally on the limitations, restrictions, prohibitions, controls and lack of freedoms that are imposed on the human being within the society. In May 1990, Delgado created a performance titled "La esperanza es lo último que se está perdiendo" in the group exhibition "El Objeto Esculturado^[1] " at Centro de Desarrollo de Artes Visuales, that led to the prison, where he spent 6 months of deprivation of freedom, this experience marked his life and his work.In 2005, he left Cuba and decided to stay permanently in Mexico City. He lived there until 2013, when he decided to immigrate to the United States. Delgado currently lives and works in Long Beach, CA.

Selected individual exhibitions

• Absent Speech, Building Bridges Art Exchange. Santa Monica, California. 2017
• Discurso Ausente, Galeria Seis Seis. Havana, Cuba. 2017
• Headlines, Galería Omar Alonso. Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, 2017
• Revision, Aluna Art Foundation, Miami, Florida. 2015
• Constancy, Amanda Harris Gallery. Las Vegas, Nevada. 2014
• Uncomfortable Landscape, Building Bridges Art Exchange. Santa Monica, California. 2014
• Inside Outside, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. New Orleans, Louisiana. 2011
• Limite Contínuo, Couturier Gallery. Los Angeles, California. 2009
• Wake Up, Artane Gallery. Istanbul, Turkey. 2007
• Constancias, Galería Nina Menocal. Mexico. 2006
• Memorias acumuladas, Galería Fucares. Madrid, Spain. 2004
• Sombra interior, Galería Nina Menocal. Mexico. 2003

Collective exhibitions

• Unofficial, Kendall Art Center. Miami, Florida. 2018
• Domestic Anxieties, chapter 3 of "On the Horizon. Pérez Art Museum Miami. Miami, Florida. 2018
• Tatuare la Storia. Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea. Milan, Italy, 2016
• An Island Apart: Cuban Artists in Exile. Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University. Westerville, Ohio. 2016
• Mobility and Its Discontents, The 8th Floor. New York. 2015
• Apertura: Photography in Cuba Today, Chazen Museum of Art. Madison, Wisconsin. 2015
• 55 Premio Internazionale Bugatti Segantini, Nova Milanese (MB), 2014
• Neues Sehen – New Vision. Till Richter Museum. Germany. 2013
• Citizens of the World: Cuba in Queens. Queens Museum. Nueva York. 2013
• La Revolución no será televisada, Bronx Museum of the Arts. New York. 2012
• Video Cubano, Rubin Museum of Art. New York. 2011
• Arte no es Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000. Museo del Barrio. New York. 2008

Awards and honors

In 2004, he obtained an artist residency at Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.^[2] In 2008, he won the Museum of Latin American Art award in the category of sculpture and installation in Long Beach, California. In 2016, he is part of The Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL. His work was acquired and it is now included in the collections of the Pérez Art Museum Miami.^{[3] [4]}

Further reading

• Mendoza, Alexis. Angel Delgado. Drawing Inventory: Them and Now.^[5] CdeCuba.org. Magazine 26, January–June, 2019.
• Una mirada cubana a la manipulación mediática.^[6] La Voz de América Noticias, December, 2017.
• Rojas, Luis Felipe. El pintor cubano Angel Delgado y su obsesión por la libertad.^[7] Radio Televisión Martí, July, 2015.
• Revision: Angel Delgado.^[8] Aluna Art Foundation, April, 2015.
• Perez Moreno, Yanet. La obra de Ángel Delgado, preso en 1990 por realizar una performance.^[9] Cubaencuentro, September, 2009.
• Antón Castillo, Héctor. Angel Delgado,^[10] Galería Nina Menocal. Art Nexus. June - August, 2007, p. 129-130
• Espinosa Magaly. Antología de textos críticos: El Nuevo Arte Cubano,^[11] p. 65
• Gallegos, Carina y Martell, Marisol. Art Basel Miami Beach 2005.^[12] Art Nexus, No. 56 2005, p. 118-121
• Hernández, Orlando. Angel Delgado.^[13] Bomb 2002-2003, p. 38-39
• Maccash, Doug. No Artist Is An Island. The Times Picayune,^[14] March 1, 2002, p. 18
• Hernández, Orlando. Letter from Havana.^[15] Art Nexus, No. 40, 2001, p. 72-75
• Israel, Nico. VII Bienal de La Habana.^[16] ArtForum. February 2001, p. 147-148
• Expone en Miami Ángel Delgado, Primer Artista Cubano Preso Por su Obra. Neorika.^[17]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Memoria: El objeto esculturado . inCubadora . 8 Feb 2013.
2. Web site: Memorias acumuladas . 2023-10-20 . Mattress Factory . en-US.
3. Web site: Ángel Delgado . 2023-10-20 . Cuban Art Database . en-US.
4. Web site: Stories . Local . 2018-05-21 . Check out Angel Delgado's Artwork - Voyage LA Magazine LA City Guide . 2023-10-20 . voyagela.com . en-US.
5. Web site: Drawing Inventory: Them and Now. . CdeCuba.
6. Web site: Una mirada cubana a la manipulación mediática. La Voz de América Noticias .
7. Web site: Rojas . Luis Felipe . El pintor cubano Angel Delgado y su obsesión por la libertad. Radio Television Marti .
8. Web site: Revision: Angel Delgado. Aluna Art Foundation .
9. Web site: Perez Moreno . Yanet . La obra de Ángel Delgado, preso en 1990 por realizar una performance. Cubaencuentro .
10. News: Anton Castillo . Hector . Angel Delgado . ArtNexus.
11. Book: Espinosa . Magaly . Casa del Libro . PERCEVAL PRESS . 9780976300946.
12. Web site: Art Basel Miami Beach . ArtNexus.
13. Web site: Hernandez . Orlando . Angel Delgado . Bomb.
14. Web site: No Artist Is An Island . The Times Picayune.
15. Web site: Letter from Havana . ArtNexus.
16. Web site: Navarro . Wendy . VII Bienal de La Habana . ArtForum.
17. Web site: Primer Artista Cubano Preso Por su Obra. Neorika .