Delgado studied at the Elementary School of Visual Arts of Havana, between 1976 and 1980. He graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro" in 1984 and studied from 1984 to 1986 at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana. The work of Angel Delgado, goes around a point: the freedom of the individual or the lack of this, his artwork is based fundamentally on the limitations, restrictions, prohibitions, controls and lack of freedoms that are imposed on the human being within the society. In May 1990, Delgado created a performance titled "La esperanza es lo último que se está perdiendo" in the group exhibition "El Objeto Esculturado[1]" at Centro de Desarrollo de Artes Visuales, that led to the prison, where he spent six months of deprivation of freedom, this experience marked his life and his work. In 2005, he left Cuba and decided to stay permanently in Mexico City. He lived there until 2013, when he decided to immigrate to the United States. Delgado currently lives and works in Long Beach, CA.
Selected individual exhibitions
Absent Speech, Building Bridges Art Exchange. Santa Monica, California. 2017
Discurso Ausente, Galeria Seis Seis. Havana, Cuba. 2017
Headlines, Galería Omar Alonso. Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, 2017
Revision, Aluna Art Foundation, Miami, Florida. 2015
Constancy, Amanda Harris Gallery. Las Vegas, Nevada. 2014
Uncomfortable Landscape, Building Bridges Art Exchange. Santa Monica, California. 2014
Inside Outside, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. New Orleans, Louisiana. 2011
Limite Contínuo, Couturier Gallery. Los Angeles, California. 2009
Arte no es Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000. Museo del Barrio. New York. 2008
Awards and honors
In 2004, he obtained an artist residency at Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[2] In 2008, he won the Museum of Latin American Art award in the category of sculpture and installation in Long Beach, California. In 2016, he is part of The Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL. His work was acquired and it is now included in the collections of the Pérez Art Museum Miami.[3][4]
Further reading
Mendoza, Alexis. Angel Delgado. Drawing Inventory: Them and Now.[5] CdeCuba.org. Magazine 26, January–June, 2019.
Una mirada cubana a la manipulación mediática.[6] La Voz de América Noticias, December, 2017.
Rojas, Luis Felipe. El pintor cubano Angel Delgado y su obsesión por la libertad.[7] Radio Televisión Martí, July, 2015.
Revision: Angel Delgado.[8] Aluna Art Foundation, April, 2015.
Perez Moreno, Yanet. La obra de Ángel Delgado, preso en 1990 por realizar una performance.[9] Cubaencuentro, September, 2009.
Antón Castillo, Héctor. Angel Delgado,[10] Galería Nina Menocal. Art Nexus. June - August, 2007, p.129-130
Espinosa Magaly. Antología de textos críticos: El Nuevo Arte Cubano,[11] p.65
Gallegos, Carina y Martell, Marisol. Art Basel Miami Beach 2005.[12] Art Nexus, No. 56 2005, p.118-121
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