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WILFREDO PRIETO
 
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Wilfredo Prieto
1978 born in Sancti-Spíritus, Cuba
Lives in Havana, Cuba
Education

2007 Le Grand Café, Saint-Nazare, France
2006 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, New York, EEUU
2005 Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France
1999/2002 Galeria DUPP, ISA, Havana, CU
1998/2002 Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), Havana, CU
1992/1996 Professional School of Fine Arts, Trinidad, CU

Solo Exhibitions

2016
Ibukijima Community Area, Setouchi, Japan (upcoming)
No se puede hacer una revolución con guantes de seda, Kurimanzutto, México D.F

2015
Loophole, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL (cat.)
Ping Pong Grid, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, CU
System Error, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo del Zulia, Maracaibo, VE

2014
Speaking badly about Stones, S.M.A.K., Gent, BE
The view of the garden of Helene Hollandt, Kunstverein Braunschweig, DE

2013
Under the title "Incidences from the private to the public and from the public to the
private" Workshops, NMAC Foundation, Cadiz, Es
A coffee made by Di, Galeria NoguerasBlanchard, Madrid, ES
An illuminated rock, and unilluminated rock, NoguerasBlanchard, Madrid, ES

2012
Leaving something to chance, Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros, Mexico D.F., Mx Equilibrando la curva, HangarBicocca, Milano, IT
Sad Circus, 11th Havana Bienal, J and Calzada, Havana, Cu

2011
The Emperor’s New Clothes, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Spirito Due, Complesso Monumentalle Santo Spirito in Sassia(curated by Valentina Ciarallo), Roma, IT
Wilfredo Prieto, Pradera constructivista y deconstructivista vista desde el
sofa de la casa con los pies sobre la mesa, (curated by Blanca de la Torre) Praxis, ARTIUM, Vitoria, ES
Amarrado a la pata de la mesa (Tied up to the table leg), Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo (CA2M), Móstoles, Madrid, ES
Left/Right, Museo de Arte Contemporáno de Vigo (Marco), Vigo
Landscape with the fall of Icarus, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon, PR

2010
Negro, mate, seco (Black, matt, dry), NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona, ES

2009
I am making Art, Wilfredo Prieto & Ignacio Uriarte, Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto&Tokio, JP

2008
Mountain, S.M.A.K., Ghent, BE
Nude, Galerie Martin Van Zomeren, Amsterdam, NL

2007
Untitled (Red Carpet), NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona, ES
A moment of silence. Artists Web Projects, Dia Art Foundation, New Cork, US
Walking the dog and eating shit, Lennon Park, Havana, CU

2006
Grease, Soap and Banana, Santa Clara’s convent, Havana, CU
Mute, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Canada, CA
Dead angle, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, FR

2005
Mucho ruido y pocas nueces II, MUSAC, León, ES

2004
Untitled (White Library), NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona, ES
Speech, Galerie Martin Van Zomeren, Ámsterdam, NL

2003
Mucho ruido y pocas nueces I, Galería Habana, Havana, CU

2002
Wilfredo Prieto en el Wifredo Lam, Wilfredo Lam Centre of Contemporary Art,
Havana, CU

2001
Matrioska, Centre for Development of Visual Arts, Havana, CU

2000
Technical details, (with James Bonachea), Cultural Centre ICAIC; Ludwig
Foundation of Cuba, Havana, CU

Group Exhibitions

2016
Galería Acacia y Servando, La Habana, Cuba (upcoming)
Setouchi Triennale, Japan (upcoming)
CUBA. TATUARE LA STORIA, PAC, Milano, Italy (upcoming)
Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, South London Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Gestos mínims d'incidència màxima, ParadaZero, Barcelona, Spain WATCHDOG-LAPDOG-PLAYDOG, NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona, Spain Transhumance, CAB Art Center, Bruselas, Bélgica
Nano-, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, La Habana, Cuba Mistaken Impressions, Root Division Gallery, San Francisco, USA
WHITE CUBE... LITERALLY, Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai

2015
Daniel Buren, Sam Lewitt, Wilfredo Prieto, Charles Ray, Pamela Rosenkranz, Joe Zorrilla. Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA. A.N.T.H.R.O.P.O.C.E.N.E. Meessen De Clercq Gallery, Brussels, Belgium. WAR II. Mostyn, Mostyn, United Kingdom.
After Bretton. De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam.
Imperceptibly and Slowly Opening. Sector 2337, Chicago, USA.
Another Part of the New World. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow. The Metabolic Age. MALBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The Lulennial: A Slight Gestuary. Lulu, Mexico City, Mexico.
Ocho mesas: entre el instante y el gesto pictórico, La Tallera, Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Catch 22, Y-Gallery, New York, USA
Unplace, virtual exhibition, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal. Back to the Future, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam.
Itinerarios XXI. Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain.


2014
Hidden Wood in Trees, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, IL
Collective Collection, BBB Centre D’ Art, Toulouse, France
Ascendent Line, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto, CA
Une Histoire. Art, architecture, design. Des annees 1980 a nos tours, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Some Artists’artists, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Under the same sun: Art from Latin America Today, Guggenheim Museum, NY, US Pure Water. The Most Valuable Resource in the World, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, AT
Doble direccion, Centre d`Art la Panera, Lleida, ES
About Sculpture #1, Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Berlin, DE
ArtBO International Art Fair Bogota, CO
SLAPSTICK, The Art of Comedy, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, AT
Before Day Break, Toronto, CA


2013
If you will it, it is not a dream, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
ArtBO International Art Fair Bogota, CO
Gracia Divina: El Humor como estrategia artistica, Sala Gasco, Santiago de Chile, CL Emergency Pavilion: Rebuilding Utopia, Collateral Event of the 55th Venice Bienal, Venice, IT
The Right to the City, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Amsterdam NL SLAPSTICK!, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, AT
Nessun oggetto e innocente, FRAC Corse, FR
For my eyes only, VJP Collection, UGM Maribor Art Gallery, SI
Open spaces l secret places, MdM Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg, Vienna, AT
Nessun oggetto e' innocente, FRAC Corse, FR
Opinione Latina, Francesca Minini, Milano, IT
Jetztzeit (el tiempo del ahora) + La espalda del ángel, (curated by Manuel Segade) Centre d'art la Panera, Lleida, SP
Objects in Mirror are closer than they appear, Galería Isabel Hurley, Málaga, SP

2012
Primer acto: Inauguración, Museo Tamayo, Mexico D.F, MX Detective, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, AT
Los impolíticos, Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo, UY
Copa América: Videoarte Latino-americana contemporanea, Paço das Artes, Sao Paulo, BR
When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, (curated by Jens Hoffmann)CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, US
about:blank, Kunsthalle Münster, (curated by Carla Donauer and Alexandra Landré) Münster , DE
Collection V. CA2M Fund Selection, CA2M, Madrid, SP
Hacer el fracaso, Casa Encendida, (curated by Daniel Cerrejón), Madrid, SP

2011
Cities and Things That Matter, Lombard Fried Projects, NY, USA
Bananas is my Business: The South American Way, Carmen Miranda Museum, Rio de Janeiro, BR
In-Between, 11th Biennale of Cuenca-Ecuador, Cuenca, EC
Commercial Break, Garage Projects, 54th Venice Bienal, Venice, IT
Future Generation-Art Price @Venice, Palazzo Papadopoli, Venice, IT
Échos musée Nissim de Camondo in collaboration avec les musées des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, FR
Barely there, Museum of Contemporary Art Detrot (MOCAD), (Curated by Luis Croquer) Detroit, US
Our Magic Hour, Yokohama Triennale 2011, (Artistic Director: Akiko Miki), JP Crisisss. América Latina, arte y confrontación 1919-2919, Palacio de Bellas Artes, (Curated by Gerardo Mosquera), México City, MX
A Museum That is Not, Times Museum, curated by Niñita, Yingqian Cal Guangzhou, CN
Untitled (12th Instanbul Biennial), 12th Instanbul Biennial, TR
Coup d'éclat, En résonance / 11e Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon, FR Terrible Beauty: Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance, Dublin Contemporary, Dublin, IR
Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Center, Venice Bienniale, Venice, IT Franchville (Grand Lyon). (Comisariada por Francesca Agnesod, Guillaume Hervier, Andrea Rodriguez Novoa).

2010
Law of the Jungle, Lehmann Maupin, (curated by Tiago Carneiro) Nueva Cork, US Nuit Blanche, Place du Trocadéro, (curated by Martin Béthenod), Paris, FR During Office Hours, (curated by Aaron Moulton), VGF, Berlin
De frente al sol, (curated by Patrick Charpenel), Galerie Martin Janda, Viena, AT Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev, Ukraine, UA
29th Sao Paulo Biennale (curated by Moacir dos Anjos and Agnaldo Farias), Sao Paulo, BR
Beyond Entropy, 12th Venice Architecture Biennale (curated by Stefano
Rabolli), Venice, IT
Panamericana, (curated by Jens Hoffmann), Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, MX
I'm Not Here. An Exhibition Without Francis Alÿs, De Appel Boys’ School, Ámsterdam, NL
Before Everything, (curated by Aimar Arriola and Manuela Moscoso), CA2M, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Móstoles, Madrid, ES
Exhibition, Exhibition, (curated by Adam Carr), Castello di Rivoli, Torino, IT
Electrified 02, Hacking Public Space, (curated by Thibaud Verhoeven), S.M.A.K., Ghent, BE
Cosas que sólo un artista puede hacer, MARCO, Vigo; and MEIAC, (curated by David Arlandis and Javier Marroquí) Badajoz, ES
Pra Começo de Século, O Museu de Arte Contemporânea (MAC) do Centro Dragão do Mar de Arte e Cultura, Fortaleza, BR
GALLERY, GALERIE, GALLERIA, (curated by Adam Carr), Norma Mangione Gallery, Torino, IT

2009
Los Impolíticos, (curated by Laura Bardier), Palazzo delle Arti, Naples, IT Ordinary Revolutions, (curated by Stefanie Kreuzer) Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, DE
Jafre Biennial, (curated by Carolina Grau), Girona, ES
Thessaloniki Biennial, GR
Stowaways, (curated by Jens Hoffmann), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, US
Directions, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, IT
Lisson presents 4, (curated by Elena Grippa), Lisson Gallery, London, UK Hypocrisy: The Sitespecificity of Morality, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, NR
II Biennale Cuvée, Linz, AT
Broken thorn, sweet blackberry, Sikkema Jenkins & CO, New Cork, US
X Habana Biennial, La Habana, CU

2008
Objects of Value, (curated by René Morales) Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA Fuck You Human, Maribel López Gallery, Berlin, DE
Arte, Prezzo e Valore, Arte contemporanea e mercato, La Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, IT
Die Bibliothek, Galerie für Zeitgenössiche Kunst, Leipzig, DE
Sin remedio, Galería Alcuadrado, Bogotá, CO
That’s Not How I Remember It, Anna Helwing, Los Angeles, US
Mondo e Terra, La collezione del FRAC Corsica, MAN, Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, IT
That Was Then...This is Now, (curated by Neville Wakefield) PS1 MoMA, New York, US
The Disobedients, (curated by Jimena Blazquez), Annet Gelink, Ámsterdam, NL
States of Exchange: Artists from Cuba, (curated by Gerardo Mosquera and Cylena Simonds) Iniva, London, UK
Greenwashing environment: peril, promise and perpexlity, (curated by Latitudes and Ilaria Bonacossa), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turín, IT

2007
Time after time, Galica Gallery, Milano (curated by Giovanni Giovane) Territorios, 52 Venice Biennale, Italo-Latinamerican Pavilion, (curated by Irma Arestizabal) Venice, IT
Arts al Palau, Palau Ducal de Gandía, Gandía, ES
Cintas Foundation Award Finalists, Frost Art Museum, Miami, US
Extraordinary Rendition, (curated by Latitudes), Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona, ES Errore di sistema-System error, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, IT
Artists Books: Transgressions/Excess, Space Other Gallery, Boston, US
Zero, San Francisco de Asís convent, Havana, CU

2006
Cluster, Participant inc., Nueva York; El particular Mexico D.F.; Art2102, Los Angeles; Four, Dublin,
1st Singapore Biennial, Curated by Fumio Nanjo, Singapore, SG Untitled (crane), Madrid Abierto, Madrid, ES
Apolitical, Louvre Museum, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, FR

2005
The Hours, (curated by Sebastián López)Visual Arts from Contemporary Latin America, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, IR

2004
Cordially invited, 7 episodes on (ex)changing Europe, BAK, Utrecht, NL Island Nations, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, US Just on Time, Galeria Habana, Havana, CU

2003
VIII Havana Biennial, Wilfredo Lam Centre of Contemporary Art, Havana, CU Stretch, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, CA
Double seduction, INJUVE, Madrid, ES
Common Sense, Galería Habana, Havana, CU

2002
Identity, Santa Clara’s convent; Nicolás Guillén Foundation, Havana, CU
III Estandarte International Biennial, Tijuana Cultural Centre, Tijuana, MX Latinamerican Memorial, paralell exhibition to the XXV Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, BR

2001
III National Salon of Contemporary Cuban Art, Centre for Development of Visual Arts, Havana, CU
Goiás Museum of Contemporary Art, (with DUPP), BR
Contemporary Cuban Art, The Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science, DUPP, Florida, US

2000
VII Havana Biennial, DUPP, Havana, CU
Watamula, International Artists Workshop, Curaçao, CW
Con un pensar abstraído, Galería Habana, DUPP, Havana, CU

1999
II Performance Festival Ana Mendieta, Cuban Pavillion, DUPP, Havana, CU