Occupation: Painter Media: Oil. Born Regla Habana, Cuba, December 3, 1929; United States citizen.
Education Ministry Education, MA, 53. Fernando Aguardo Rico Sch Arts & Trades, Havana, 55. Cuyahoga Coll, Cleveland & Temple Univ, Pennsylvania, 60-. studied drawing with Prof Matilde Single, San Alejandro Sch Art, Havana. essentially self-taught.
Teaching Positions private tutoring.
Business and Professional Positions Judge fellow awards, New Jersey State Coun Art, 85-86.
Commissioned Works Oil painting, comn by C Abril, Madrid, Spain, 92; oil painting, Ed America, Miami, 93; tribute to Mexico painter Refino Tamayo (private comn), Princeton, New Jersey, 97.
Public Works Inst Art & Education, New York; Bergen Mus Art & Sci, Paramus, New Jersey; Museum of Modern Art of the Americas, Washington, DC; Jersey City Mus, New Jersey; Art Museum Florida Int Univ, Miami; and others.
Exhibitions Third Biennial Exhibition, Newark Mus, New Jersey, 83; African Currents, Mus Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, 87; Recent Work, Paterson Mus Art, New Jersey, 89 & Bergen Mus Art & Sci, Paramus, New Jersey, 95; Cuba USA The First Generation, Mus Contemporary Art, Chicago, 91; Discovery Celebration, City Mus New York, 92; First Generation Honor Guest Artist, Mus Florida Int Univ, Miami, 92; Caribbean Connections, Discovery Mus, Bridgeport, 98-99; solo exhib, Jadite Galleries, New York, 98, ARS Atelier, Gustavo Valdes Studio, 99; Tribute to Cervantes & Goya, Spain, 2005.
Bibliography Many articles in newspapers & mags, 81-; Judie Dash (author & critic), Life Style Mag, Bergen Record, 3/86; Eileen Watkins (author), Art Section, Star Ledger, Newark, New Jersey, 10/9/89.
Publications Back to Cuba, Xlibris, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Honors and Awards Painting Award, Cinta Found Inst Art & Education, 83; Priority Winner, New Jersey State Coun Arts Fellow, 83-84; National Outstanding Latino Image Award, New Jersey Network, 95-96; Silver Medal Award, French Acad Sci, Art & Lett, 2004; Visual Artist of the Yr, Biographical Center Cambridge Univ, Eng, 2004; Invitational honorary, Tribute to Goya, Zaragoza, Land of the Spanish artist of Spain, 2007.
