CAF & RU announce Neida Peñalver Diaz as Curator-in-Residence (Fall 2024)

In collaboration with Residency Unlimited, CAF is pleased to share some information about CAF's curator-in-residence, Neida Peñalver Diaz.

Neida is a researcher and expert in the life and work of the Cuban painter Servando Cabrera Moreno. She is the curator of the Servando Cabrera Moreno Library Museum and a member of the Commission of Experts for the Certification of Authenticity of this artist’s work. She was curator of the project Detrás del muro / Behind the wall, included in the 14th Havana Biennial (2022), and she was invited with the project to ARCO Madrid in 2021. She has collaborated in exhibition projects with NG Art Gallery in Panama City. Neida was Curator of the traveling exhibition Switzerland-Cuba, with the project: Between genders and worlds. Dr. Favez with the Cantonal Museum of History and Archaeology, Lausanne, Switzerland 2021-2022. Curator of the Itinerant exhibition, project: Todas, en busca de un espacio with the Invisible Film Festival of Bilbao, in collaboration with Kultura Communication Desarrollo (KCD ONGD), Bilbao, 2019. She has been consultant for cultural issues for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). General Coordinator of the cultural platform Fondo de Arte Joven / Youth Art Fund.

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Yohy Suárez names CAF & RU's artist-in-residence (Fall 2024)

In collaboration with our partners at Residency Unlimited, we are pleased to share some information about CAF's upcoming artist-in-residence, Yohy Suárez.

Yohy Suárez’s paintings and drawings—with a language of expressive urgency—are based on the anthropological value of the image and his peculiar way of dialoguing with unusually described architectural scenarios. It has the indisputable stamp of a marked and very personal aesthetic, worked with natural pigments and charcoal.

His work has been exhibited in personal and collective exhibitions in Italy, Panama, United States, Cyprus, Spain and Cuba. Winner of the Special Prize of the Arte Laguna competition in Venice 15, in 2021, and The International Prize Caravaggio, 2018, Milan, Italy.

He has participated in the art residency programs of the Espronceda Institute of Art and Culture, Barcelona, Spain (2021), and of Isolo17 Art Gallery, Verona, Italy (2019, 2021).

His works are part of collections such as: Los Carbonell Foundation, Panama City, Panama; Viñas-Gil Collection, Spain; José Álvarez Collection, Spain; also in private collections in Germany, United States, Italy, Argentina, Cyprus, France and Portugal.

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