White Porch Gallery

Yovani Bauta (Cuba)

Yovani Bauta is a Cuban artist.

He graduated from the National School of Arts in Havana, Cuba, as Professor of Painting and Drawing. He is also an Attorney at Law from the University of Matanzas, Cuba. His artwork has been exhibited in many countries such as Germany, France, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland and the United States, as well as in Cuba. His work have been reviewed and published in different art magazines and books in Mexico, France, and the United States. Mr. Bauta has lectured at the New School of Social Research, in New York; at Florida International University; and at the University of Michigan, among other academic institutions. He founded and performed for 10 years in “Seña del Humor” , a humor ensemble that allowed him to collaborate as an actor in Liborio Wants To Escape a performance by Leandro Soto in United States and Mexico respectively. Another media used by Bauta is installations, such as Male I.D. Artemis PS747, 2000 and University of Miami, 2001.

His essay “Los cuerpos de la nación” was published by Baquiana Editorial in May 2003 and launched at the University of Cadiz, Spain where he participated as a panelist in the conference Intelectuales Cubanos de la Diaspora.

In the last few years his work has been shown in more than twenty solo exhibition and many group shows in Europe and America.

■RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015 Two ways, Irazoqui Art Gallery, Wynwood Florida

2014 Inside Miami, Art Emporium of Miami, November 14 to January 15, Miami.

2013 Invisible Presence, MDC Museum of Arts + Design, Freedom Tower, Miami

Head in the Bathrooms, Installation at restrooms at MDC Museum of Arts + Design.

2012 Faces after Munch, Cuatro Art Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida, September 7.

2011 Laboratorio 1: Los Reyes del Anahuac, Fundacion Arquetopia, Puebla, Mexico, July.

2010 Callejeros, paintings, Art Spoken Alternative Space in Miami, July 2010

■SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015 Scope Art Fair, Miami beach during Art Basel 2015, December.

Art Spot in Spectrum Art Fair, by Castillo Art Gallery

Plastica Cubana Generacion 80’s, Museo de Linares, Monterrey, Mexico.

The Reynardus Collection Cuban Art Exhibit, The Selby Gallery at Ringling College.

Agave y Caña, Instituto Cultural de Mexico en Miami, October.

2014 Spectrum Art fair, December during Art Basel Miami, A. Castillo Gallery.

2013 III Cumbre de Arte Latinoamericana, Museo Karura Art Centre, (mkac), September

Caribbeana, Babacar MBow Gallery, July

2012 Intervenciones, Museo Soumaya, Mexico City, October 23.

Giants in the City, Prome Encuentro Bienal Contemporaneo di Caribe, Paradera, Aruba.

2011 10 Spaces, United States Pavillion in Art Shanghai, China, 2011

after neo-expressionism, Barrio Workshop Art Space, Miami, Dec.11- Jan.12

Sarazota Art fair, Ado Castillo Art gallery, March – April 2011

Naples Art Fair, Aldo Castillo Art Gallery, Naples, March 17 -21 2011

2010 Giants in the city at Dominican Republic Art Fair, Aug.31- Sept.5, 2010

Giants in the city, Miami Beach Botanical Garden, August 2-6, 2010

Palm Beach Art Fair, Palm Beach Convention Center, January 2010.

2009 Asbtractomicina, Cremata Gallery, Miami, December 2009

2008 The Art Mexican Influence in Latin American Art, Colby’s Gallery, Chicago

Rhythms, Highlands Museum of the Arts, Sebring, Florida, October 3^rd.

Miami Dade College Art Collection, Freedom Tower Museum, Miami, Fl. 11/08

Café VIII, “The Journey of Cuban Artists”, Temple Univ. Gallery, Rome, Italy.10/8

■LECTURES

2011 The Walls, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO. 09/11

2008 Mapping Cuban Exile: Art and Revolution, University of Tampa, 11/06

2004 Through my Own Eyes, Arizona State University Art Gallery, Phoenix

A Going Over III Viernes Cultural Calle Ocho, University of Miami, Florida.

■PUBLISHED WORKS

2012 The Walls, twenty years of work of Yovani Bauta. Ed. LinkUSA, July 2012

2011 Cuban Artists Across the Diaspora, by Andrea O’Reilly Herrera, ed. University of Texas Press, cover and pag.169, 170, 171, 172, 173 &174.

On the Street, recent works by Yovani Bauta, ed. Blurb, May 2011

2008 Am I Who I Am, works by Yovani Bauta, Ed. Blurb. October 2008.

Mapping Bodies, Recent artwork by Yovani Bauta, ed. Blurb, May 2008

Hispanic & Iberian Painters, Nuevos Rumbos, Publishing and Editorial, NY.10/08

■COLLECTIONS

Visible Collection, Madrid, Spain.

Lowe art Museum, University of Miami, United States.

Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Velez, Malaga: Maria Zambrano, Spain.

Miami Dade College, Miami, Florida.

Fundacion Valparaiso, Almeria, Spain.

Jorge Reynardus Private Collection, New York, NY, USA

The Davis Lisboa Mini-Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona.

Stambaugh-Garcia Private Collection.

■AWARDS

MasterMinds. Special Mention by Miami New Times. February 2012. Artist in Residence, Arquetopia Foundation, Oaxaca, Mexico. May 2012. A Display of Diversity, Freedom, & Self-Expression at the American Pavilion 10 Artists-10 Spaces, selected to represent United States in Art Shanghai, China, 2011.

Artist in Residence, Arquetopia Foundation, Puebla, Mexico, July 2011

Artist in Residence, Valparaiso Foundation, Almeria, Spain, May 2008.

■WORKSHOPS

Talavera Ceramics, Don Cesar State Certified Talavera Atelier, Puebla, Mexico.

Printing etchings and monotypes at the California Printmakers with Louis F. Dow II.

Printing etchings at Ediciones Malgon, Miami with Joaquin Gonzalez.

Printing Lithography at Taller de Grabados, Tenerife with Alfonso Bertens.

■BIENNIALS AND FORUMS

2011 Biennial Shangai, American Pavillion, China.

2012 Triennial Bangkok, drawing selected, June 2012.

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Looking at the Future

Looking for the Future
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Looking at the Future
Looking for the Future
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Upset Women

Yovani Bauta,
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Upset Women
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Yovani Bauta, Shy, Oil on Linen. 49 x 34, $10,000
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Beaches

Yovani Bauta, acrylic on canvas, 74" X 54", $15,000
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Beaches
Yovani Bauta, acrylic on canvas, 74" X 54", $15,000
The Boomerang

Yovani Bauta, oil on canvas, 48" X 36" $10,000
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The Boomerang
Yovani Bauta, oil on canvas, 48" X 36" $10,000
Old Man in the Park

Yovani Bauta, acrylic on cavas, 38" X 26" $3,000
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Old Man in the Park
Yovani Bauta, acrylic on cavas, 38" X 26" $3,000
Old Women in the Park

Yovani Bauta, acrylic on cavas, 38" X 26" $3,000
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Old Women in the Park
Yovani Bauta, acrylic on cavas, 38" X 26" $3,000