René Francisco Rodríguez

RENÉ FRANCISCO RODRÍGUEZ (Cuba, 1960).
Untitled.
Oil on canvas.
Signed.
The canvas is slightly unstretched.
Measurements: 33 x 67 cm; 39 x 73 cm (frame).

Painter and teacher. For many years, René Francisco was a teacher and the director of the DUPP gallery, which had an important ideological impact both locally and internationally. He won - with DUPP gallery - the National Curator's Prize awarded by the National Council of Plastic Arts in 2001; and in 2000, the UNESCO Arts Prize at the 7th Havana Biennial. In 2007, at the Venice Biennial, René Francisco has all the work he has carried out since 2003 in favor of El Romerillo, one of Havana's poor neighborhoods. In 2001, he received an honorary doctorate in fine arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, California. He was artist in residence at various institutions, among them the Mataro Art Center in Barcelona - Spain (2008); the Cuban artists Fondo, New York (2004); the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (2004); Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf - Germany (2003); Artist in Residence Hersliya - Israel (1999); Museum of Fine Arts of La Chaux-de-Fonds - Switzerland (1997); and the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst in Aachen (1996). He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Central and South America, China and Europe. He participated in the Venice Biennial in 1999 and 2007, in the 26th Biennial of Sao Paulo in 2004, in the 2nd Biennial of Thessaloniki in 2009 and he cannot count his participations since 1997 Havana Biennial.

Some of his most notable solo exhibitions are: "yesterday's paintings and tomorrow" (Servando Gallery, Havana, 2010); Interpreter (Villa Manuela Gallery, Havana, 2009) Two views (Pan American Art Projects , Miami, 2008); Nin's patio (9th Havana Biennial, Miramar Mall, Havana, 2006); "waiting list" (Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico City - Mexico City, 2005); "debt adjustment" (8th Havana Biennial, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, 2003), "Down with Rene Francisco" (Gallery 106, Austin, Texas, 2002); and "Tubosutra" (Goch Museum, Germany, 2001 / Havana Gallery, Havana, 1999).

In 2010, he received the National Plastic Arts Award granted by the Cuban Ministry of Culture.