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Education
 
M. A. Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York, 1977
B.A. Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York, 1976
Etching, Silkscreen, San Fernando University, Madrid, Spain, 1972
Philosophy, Oriene University, Santiago de, Cuba, 1955
Teacher, Educational School, Bayamo, Cuba, 1954
   
1993 The Oscar B. Cintas Fellows Foundation. International Institute of Education.
   
Selected Solo Exhibitions
 
2008 Silliness, Photography, Signature Gallery, Miami, Fl.
  Each Time is Now, Signature Gallery, Miami, Fl
2006 Dibujo en Dos Tiempos, Museo Francisco Goitía, Zacatecas, México
2005 Cada Vez es Ahora, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Aguascalientes, México
  Gladys Triana, New Photography, Alfred Lerner Hall, Columbia University, New York
2004 Confluencias, Cada vez es Ahora, Museo de la Ciudad, Querétaro, México
  Confluencias, Cada vez es Ahora, Centro Cultural Casa El Diezmo, Celaya, México
2003 Cada Vez es Ahora, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  Confluencias, Centro Cultural El Palillero, Ayuntamiento de Cádiz, Cádiz, España
2000 Movement-Transformation, Drawings, Intar Gallery, New York
1997 Jeux de Mémoire, Espace Nesle, Paris, France
  Gladys Triana Paintings, Konstcentrum I, Ronneby, Sweden
  Acuarelas, Pinturas y Libros, Trapecio Gallery, Lima, Peru
1995 The Path to Memory, The Island, Installation, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
1991 El Camino de la Memoria, El Laberinto, Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana
  Gladys Triana, Galeria Nader, Fine Arts, Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana
1990 Gladys Triana, Movement-Transformation, Collages, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York
1988 Gladys Triana Drawings and Paintings, Cuban Museum of Art and Culture, Miami, Florida
1975 Drawings by Gladys Triana, Intar Gallery, New York
1974 Gladys Triana, Drawings and Paintings, Sarduy Gallery, New York
1971 Abstracciones, Galeria Tramontana, Madrid, Spain
1964 Naturalezas Muertas, Ateneo de Marianao Gallery, Habana, Cuba
1963 Dibujos y Pinturas, Galeria El Lyceum, Habana, Cuba
1962 Gladys Triana, Pinturas, Galeria El Lyceum, Habana, Cuba
 

Selected Group  Exhibitions

   
2008 Terapia de Grupo, Galeria Fernando Pradilla, Madrid, Spain Yearnings and Reality, Sutton Art Gallery, New York Latin American Masters from the Ulla and Greger Olson Collection at Stora Frosunda SAS Institute, Sweden. Reflections Contemporary Cuban Art, Silvermine Guiad Arts Center, New Canaan, Conneticut
2007 Cuban Americans in Focus, a photography exhibition from the Lehigh University Collection in Kean University Gallery CAS, Union, New Jersey
2006 Latinoamerican Photography II: Selection from the LUAG  Collection, Arts Center,  Zoellner Main Gallery, Lehigh University Arts Galleries,  Bethlehem, PA
  Layers: Collecting Cuban-American Art , University at  Buffalo Art Gallery/Center for the Arts, College of Arts and Sciences, Buffalo, New York
2004 III ES 2004 Tijuana/Biennial International of Standards, Bienal Internacional de Estandartes, Centro Cultural de Tijuana, Tijuana, México; traveled to the Festival Cervantino, Cancha de Cristal, Universidad de Guanajuato; México
  Discovery: New and Emerging Photography-Six New Visions, Siegel Gallery, Iaccoca Hall, Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
2003 Open ev+a 2003, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
  Contemporary Cuban Art, Universidad de Miami at Casa Bacardi Gallery, Miami, Florida
  Contemporary Cuban Art in New York, Bill Maynes Gallery, Chelsea, New York
  Salida de Emergencia, Arte Cubano en el Exilio, Centro Cultural El Palillero Ayuntamiento de Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain
2002 Contemporary Cuban Art in New York, Bill Maynes Gallery, Chelsea, New York
  Snapshot, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
  Sobre Papel: Obras de Artistas Hispanoamericanos, Agustín Gainza Fine, Miami, Florida
  Cuban Art & Latin-American Art, University of Miami. Florida
2001 Proyecto Emigrantes, Centro de Arte Moderno, Quilmes, Argentina
2000 Snapshot, Contemporary Museum of Baltimore, Baltimore
1999 Prints by Latin American Masters, from the Ulla and Greger Olsson
  Art Collection, Brussels, Château d’Argenteuil, Waterloo, Belgium
1998 Latin American Artist at the End of the Century, Latino Arts Festival ’98
  Queens Theater in the Park, Queens New York
  Breaking Barriers; Selection from the Museum of Art’s Permanent Contemporary Cuban Collection, Tampa, Florida
  Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, SNITE Museum of Notre Dame University, Indiana.,
Latin American Art Museum, Long Beach, California
1997 Crossing Border: Contemporary Art by Latin American Women, College of New Rochelle, Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, New York
  Talk Back! The Community responds to the Permanent Collection, The Bronx Museum of The Arts, Bronx, New York
1996 Latin American Book Arts, Mexico-Arte Museum, Austin, Texas
  Nine Cuban American Artists, Kingsborough Community College, Art Gallery, Brooklyn,
New York
1995 Latin American Book Arts, Center for Book Arts, New York, (traveling exhibit)
  The Papertrail Gallery, National Library of Canada, Otawa, Canada
  The Papertrail Gallery, Center for Book Arts. Minnesota
  Latin American Prints, Robert Blackburn Workshop Collection, Museum of Modern Art,
Santo Domingo, República Dominicana
1994 Symbols and Revelations, A Latin American Exhibit, Henry Street Settlement, New York
  Gathering Medicine Exhibition, Art in General, New York
1993 Miami Art-93, Convention Center, Gary Nader Gallery, Miami. Florida
  Books-Three Approaches, Sotavento Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
  Beyond the Boundaries, Women’s Caucus for Art, Insights Gallery, Seattle, Washington
  Books- Three Approaches, Marta Morante Gallery, New York
  Art Faculty Selection, Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, Connecticut
1992 Five Century after the Collision: Five Contemporary Artist Vision, The Art Gallery,
Brooklyn College, New York
  1492-1992 Un Nouveau Regard Sur les Caraibes, Espace Carpeaux, Paris, France
  1492-1992 Una nueva mirada al Caribe, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena,
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  1492-1992 Una nueva mirada al Caribe Casa de Francia, Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic
1991 African American and Latino American from USA, Bellas Artes Museum,
Santiago de Chile, Chile
1990 Awakening / Despertar, Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, Connecticut
  Sculpture of the Americas into the Nineties, Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, Washington, DC
  Nineties, Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, Washington, DC
  China, June 4th, 1989, Asian American Art Center, Institute of Contemporary Art, P.S. 1. Museum of Long Island City, New York
  Lines of Vision: Drawing by Contemporary Women, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Sofia Imber, Caracas, Venezuela, Museo de Bellas Artes, Mexico, D. F., Mexico
1989 China, June 4th, Asian American Center at Blum Helman Warehouse Gallery, New York
  Earth, Wind & Fire, Straus Gallery, New York
  Lines of Vision: 100 Drawings by Contemporary Women,Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Bronsville. Blum Hellman Gallery, Soho,  New York; traveled to Clara M. Eagle Gallery, Murray State University,  Murray, KY;  Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan; University Art  Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas;  Richard  F. Beush Gallery, St Laurence University, Cantoa, NY; The University of Oklahoma, Museum of Art, Norman, OK; Albany Museum of Art, GA; traveled internationally to Museo de Bellas Artes, México City, México, to Museo de Arte Contempóraneo, Sofia Imber Caracas, Venezuela, Museo de Arte Moderno, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  International Biennial of Prints, Museum of Fine Arts, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, India
1988 Latin American Graphic Arts Biennal, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York
 

Paper Vision II, Housatonic Museum, Bridgeport, Connecticut

  Art of the Americas, International Gallery, Washington DC.
1987 Imaginations and Inventions, Works on paper by four Latin American, Queens, New York
  Contemporaneous, Bohio Gallery, New York
  Exposición – Subasta, Museo Cubano de Arte y Cultura, Miami, Florida
1986 Sacred Secret, Todd Capp Gallery, New York
  Hispanic Roots, Mills Pond House Museum, St. James, New York
  Two of the New, Museo del Barrio, New York
1985 Trends, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York
  Inaugural Exhibit, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York
1982 Art Escandalar, Meeting Point Gallery, Miami, Florida
1979 New York Through Latin Eyes, Queens College, Art Gallery, Queens, New York
  Group Installation: 7 Artists, Cayman Gallery, New York
1977 The 7th Annual Exhibition, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York
1976 Iman; New York, The Center for Inter-American Relation, New York
  Latin American Exhibition, Spanish-American Painters & Sculptures,
Manufacture Hanover Bank, New York
  Iman; New York, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, Museo de Arte, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1975 International Panamerican Exhibition, Museum of Science, Chicago
  First & Second Cuban Festival, Cuban Cultural Center,
Cathedral of
St. John the Divine, New York
1974 Group Show, Cisneros Gallery, New York
1972 Inaugural Exhibit, Mecenas Gallery, Madrid, Spain
  Premio de Pintura, Centro Cultural <Amigos de Segovia>, Segovia, Spain
1971 Group Exhibit  Sala de Arte Gallery. Madrid, Spain
  Salon de Pinturas, Casa de Malaga, Madrid, Spain
1964 Salon Nacional De Pintura y Escultura,  Palacio de Bellas Artes, Habana, Cuba
   
Public Art Commissions
1972 Homage to the Farmer, Iron Sculpture at Pamplona Airport Pamplona, Spain
1967 Design and Construction of Ceramic Lamps with Wood, commission by Instituto Nacional de la Industria Turistica, Habana, Cuba
1966 The Umbrella, mural in wood, metal, and sand, at Loipa Restaurante, commission by Instituto Nacional de la Industria Turistica, Habana, Cuba
  Ephemeral Images, mural: oil on canvas, at Andes Restaurante, Habana, Cuba
1965 Heritage and Roots, mural in wood at Habana Airport, commission by Instituto  Nacional de la Industria Turistica, Habana, Cuba
1964 The Mystic Foliage, mural: oil and wood, at Cienfuegos Hotel, Cienfuegos, commission by Instituto  Nacional de la Industria Turistica, Habana, Cuba
   
BIBLIOGRAPHY - Catalogues and Brochures(Selected)
   
Maya Islas
“Yearnings and Reality”, Gladys Triana, catalogue essay, ( New York: Sutton Art Gallery, Dec 2008)
Omar Pascual Castillo
“Tactiles” in Every Times is Now, brochure essay (Miami: Signature Gallery 2008)
Omar Pascual Castillo
“Gladys Triana”, brochure assay at Terapia de Grupo, (Madrid: Fernando Pradilla Gallery, February 2008)
Ricardo Viera
Layers: Collecting Cuban-American Art, from Lehigh University Art Gallery Collection, from on an interview by Lynnette Bosch in the catalogue essay, (University of Buffalo, The State University of New York, 2006)
Julia Herzberg
“Every Time, is Now”, catalogue essay, ( Buenos Aires: Centro Cultural Recoleta, 2003)
Ricardo Viera
“Gladys Triana’s Photography, in Every time, is Now”, catalogue essay, ( Buenos Aires: Centro Cultural Recoleta, 2003)
Carlota Caulfield
“Hands versed in Objects, in Every Time, is Now”, catalogue essay and poems, ( Buenos Aires: Centro Cultural Recoleta, 2003
Luis Carlos Emerich
“Confluencias”, introducción del catálogo, (Cádiz: Centro Cultural El Palillero, 2003) España
Virginia Pérez-Ratton
“landing in limerick”, “Ev+a 2003, on the border of each other”, in a exhibition of visual art, (Limerick, City Gallery of Art, Carnegie Building, Perry Square”, Limerick)
Zoé Valdés
“Gladys Triana: comme le frolement furtif du flamboyan,” in Jeux de Memoire, brochure essay (Paris: Espace Nesle 1997). France
Greger Olsson
“Contemporary Latin American Art,” from The Ulla and Greger Olsson Contemporary Latin American Art Collection, catalogue introduction (Ronneby: Konstcentrum I, Sweden, 1997)
Marisol Nieves
“Exile and Reconstruction of Identity in the Art of Gladys Triana,” in The Path To The Memory, The Island, brochure essay (Bronx: The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1995)
Marianne de Tolentino
“A Reading of Gladys Triana Painting,” in Gladys Triana, Dibujos, Pinturas e Instalación , catalogue essay (Santo Domingo: Museo de Arte Moderno, 1991
John Stringer
“Gladys Triana Art, in Gladys Triana, Movement- Fragmentation”, catalogue essay (New York: Museum of Contemporary of Hispanic Art, 1990)
Giulio V. Blanc
Gladys Triana /Reynaldo Arenas, catalogue essay (Miami: Cuban Museum of Art and Culture, 1988)
 
Magazines
 
Adriana Herrera
Gladys Triana, arte,al dia, International magazine of Contemporary Latin American (Printed in Argentina No 123, 2008), Reviews Section, page 116
Julia P. Herzberg
“Gladys Triana” Art Nexus, No 55, Volumen 3 ( Columbia: Dec-Feb 2004-5) pp.150-151
Christine Frérot
“Gladys Triana, Espace Nesle.” Art Nexus, No 25, (Colombia: July-Sept.1997). pp. 131-132
Mónica Amor
“Gladys Triana.” Art Nexus, No 18, (Colombia: Oct.-Dec. 1995). pp. 127
Victor Zamudio Taylor
“Latin American Book Arts,” Art Nexus, No 16 (Columbia: April-June, 1995). pp. 129 - 130
Edward J. Sullivan
“The Latin-American Explosion.” Art News, (New York: Summer, 1993). pp.134
Grazziana La Roca
“Ricardo Benaim, Claudia Bielinsky, Gladys Triana,”Art Nexus, No 6 (Columbia: July-Sept. 1993)
Bélgica Rodriguez
“Gladys Triana, Movement-Fragmentation”, Arte en Colombia, No 44 (Colombia: July- Sept.,1990) pp. 120
   
Encyclopedia & Books
   
Gladys Triana, “La Sorpresa de la Palabra y la Línea”
Haz de Incitaciones: Poetas y Artistas Cubanos Hablan, Edición de Jesus J. Barquet y Maricel Mayor Marzán (Miami: Ediciones Baquiana, 2003) p. 54-62
Gladys Triana, “Movimiento y Fragmentación
testimonio de una artista exilada” Creación y Exilio, Memorias del I Encuentro International Con Cuba en la Distancia, Selección y Prólogo, Fabio Murrieta, (Madrid: Editorial Hispano Cubana, 2002) p. 268-2 Memoria, Cuban Art of the 20th Century, California/International Art Foundation (Los Angeles: 2002) p. 349
Díana Alvarez, “La huella y su imagen
La contemporaneidad y la memoria en las artes plásticas cubanas en los Estados Unidos”.1902-2002
Centenario de la República de Cuba, (Miami: Ediciones Universal, 2002)
Robin Kahn, “Time Capsule”
A Concise Encyclopedia by Women Artists (New York, 1995) pp. 340-341
Judith Colliscan Van Wargner, Lines of Vision
Drawings by Contemporary Women (New York: Hudson Hill Edition, 1989) p.142
José Gómez Sicre, Art of Cuba in Exile
Gladys Triana, essay (Miami: M.C. Printer Edition, 1987) pp.165-166.
 
 
Art Fairs
2008
Photo Miami, NW 31st Street and North Miami Avenue, Dec 3 - 9, at hardcore art contemporary Space. Booth No 114
pinta 08, Metropolitan Building in New York Nov 12-16, at hardcore art contemporary Booth 20.
SCOPE, Art Basel, Basel Switzerland, June 4-9, hardcore art contemporary space, Booth No 205
FIA-CARACAS. Feria Iberoamericana de Arte, Hotel Tamanaco, Caracas, Venezuela
Arte Americas ,The Latin American Art Fair, Convention Center, March 28-31 at Signature Gallery, Booth 505, Miami, FL
CIRCA 08, Puerto Rico, Convention Center, April 11- 14, at hardcore Art Contemporary Space, Miami, Booth D4, Puerto Rico
2007
Photo Miami, NW 31st Street and North Miami Avenue, at hardcore art contemporary Space. Booth No 113
Pinta 07, Metropolitan Building, at hardcore art contemporary space, Booth no 33, New York.
Buenos Aires Photo 2007, hardcore art contemporary space, Miami, at Buenos Aires, Argentina
1992
Miami Art-92, Convention Center, Gary Nader Gallery, Miami, Florida
 
Educational Projects
1987-1999
Created and Implemented, “Children Expressions Mural Program” at the Community School Board District #32.
1990-1999
Created and Implemented, “BACA, Bilingual Art Program” at the Community,School District #32
Film credits background
1975
“The Lie”, Roberto Fandiño, film director. Included the painting Illumination in the credits background. Madrid, Spain.
 
Awards & Fellowships
2003
II Encuentro Con Cuba En La Distancia, Reconocimiento por su exposición “Confluencias”, Ayuntamiento de Cádiz, Escudo de la Ciudad de Cádiz.
1993
The Oscar B. Cintas Fellows Foundation. International Institute of Education. New York.
1990
The Queens Borough President of the City of New York, Outstanding Achievement in Visual Art. Queens, New York
Masters and Apprentices Exhibit, Special Mention. The New York City Board of Education. Brooklyn, New York.
1975
International Panamerican Exhibition, Honorary Mention, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago,Illinois.
1974
National Clairol Loving Care Art Program, Educational Scholarship, Washington.
1964
Ateneo de Marianao., Art Competition: 3rd Prize. Havana, Cuba.
 
Jury/ Panel Member
2007
Panel Member, Cuban American in Focus a conference on Photography, Kean University, Auditorium, CAS, Union City, New Jersey
2004
Panel Member, Diana Alvarez, Lecture Presentation, Gladys Triana her Journey, reviewing with the artist, Columbia University, Department of Hispanic Literature by CCC at New York
2003
Panel Member, Haz de Incitaciones: poetas y pintores, Miami Book Fair, Internacional, Miami Dade Collage, Wolfson Campus, Downtown, Miami, FL. 4/11/2003
Panel Member, Haz de Incitaciones: poetas y pintores, I, “II Encuentro Internacional sobre Creación y Exilio, Con Cuba en la Distancia” Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, Universidad de España, Cádiz, 20/5/03
2001
Panel Member, Movimiento y Fragmentation: testimonio de una artista exilada, “I Encuentro Internacional sobre Creación y Exilio, Con Cuba el Distancia” Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, Universidad de España, Cádiz, 7/11/01
2000
Panel Member, Alter Cuba: Cuban Contemporary Artists, at American Society, New York
1999
Panel Member, First Latino American Conference, at Ollantay Gallery, Queens,New York
1979
Member of the Screening Committee, AHA/CETA Artist Program, NY
 
Private & Public Collections
 
The Oscar B. Cintas Fellows Collection at the Art Museum, Miami, Fla.
ASU-Art, Museum of Fine Art at Arizona State University, Arizona
Museum of Arts, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Museo de Bellas Artes, Habana, Cuba
Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Museo de la Ciudad, Querétaro, México
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York
Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana
Housatonic Museum, Bridgeport, Connecticut
Centro Cultural Tijuana, CECUT, Tijuana, México
Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Museo Bacardi at the Universidad de Miami, Miami, Florida
Luag Permanent Collection, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Luag Latin-American Artist/Photographers Collection, Lehigh University
Queens College Collection, Queens, New York
Asian American Art Center, New York
Arnold Ashkenazy Collection, Los Angeles. CA
Augusta Barreda Collection, Lima, Peru
Robert Blackburn Workshop Collection, New York
Georgina Codina Collection, Miami, Fla.
Fundación Hispano Cubana Collection, Madrid, España
Fatima El Alami Collection, Paris, France
Alan Hamburger Collection, Brussels
Ing. Joseph R. Gil-Berlinches, P.E., New York
Jack Kubilium Collection, New York
Romeo Montalvo Jr Collection, Austin, Texas
Francisco Mestre Collection, Miami, Fla.
Pedro Monga & Perla Capriles Collection, Caracas, Venezuela
Jorge Moya Collection, New York
Federico de Montalvo, Madrid, Spain
Ulla & Greger Olsson Collection, Malmo, Sweden
Rogelio Pereda Miranda Collection, México D. F., México
Alain Tergny Collection, Paris, France