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Angel Delgado (July 3, 1965, Havana, Cuba)

Multidisciplinary Contemporary Artist. Lives and works in Long Beach, California.

Studied at the University of the Arts in Havana, Cuba, 1984 – 1986; Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts San Alejandro, Havana, Cuba in 1984. Delgado was born in Havana, Cuba in 1965. He become as an artist since he was living in Havana and his career was known in 1990, when made a performance titled "The hope in the last that is being lost" in the collective exhibition "El Objeto Esculturado" that led to the prison, where he spent 6 months of deprivation of freedom, this experience marked his life and his work. In 2003 he began working and being represented by the Nina Menocal Gallery, in Mexico City. In 2005 decides to settle definitively in Mexico where lived until 2013, year that decides to emigrate towards the United States. In 2004 Delgado obtains the Artistic Residence The Mattress Factory Museum, Philadelphia; In 2008 he won the MOLAA (Museum Of Latin American Art) award in the installation category, Long Beach, CA; And in 2016 he obtained the Artistic Residence The Fountainhead Residency, Miami, Fl. He is also currently represented by the Building Bridges Art Exchance Gallery and Foundation in Santa Monica, CA and Art Bastion Gallery in Miami, FL.

He has taken part in individual projects such as Made in Morningside, Fountainhead Residency. Miami, FL, 2016. Revision, Aluna Art Foundation, Miami, Fl, 2015: Uncomfortable Landscape, Building Bridges Art Exchange, Santa Monica, CA, 2015: Constancy, Amanda Harris Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2014; Uncomfortable Landscapes, Nina Menocal Gallery, México, 2013. Inside Outside, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, EUA, 2011; Continous Limit, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; 2009; Wake Up, Artane Gallery, Istanbul; Constancias, Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico City, 2006; Memorias Acumuladas, Galería Fúcares, Madrid, 2004. He also has worked as a curator in different exhibitions and is the creator and director of CLOSE UP International Video Art Festival.

Among his most important collective exhibitions are Cuba. Tatuare la Storia. Padiglione d'arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italia, 2016. An Island Apart: Cuban Artists in Exile. Miller Gallery, Westerville, Ohio, 2016. Mobility and Its Discontents. The 8th Floor, NY, 2015. Apertura: Photography in Cuba Today. Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI, 2015. 55 Premio Internazionale Bugatti Segantini, Nova Milanese (MB), 2014; Neues Sehen – New Vision. Till Richter Museum, Alemania, 2013; Citizens of the World: Cuba in Queens. Queens Museum. NewYork, 2013; La Revolución no será televisada, The Bronx Museum, New York, 2012; Video Cubano, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, 2011; Arte no es Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000. Museo del Barrio. NY. EUA, 2008; Cuba Avant Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber collection, Harn Museum of Art in the University of Florida and John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, FL., 2007; Waiting List, Mestna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2006.

In 2016 Delgado participated in the artistic residence Fountainhead Residency, in Miami, Florida. In 2004 obtained an Artists Residence in The Mattress Factory Museum, Philadelphia; and in 2008 he won the MOLAA 08 Award in the  Sculpture  and tridimensional works category, Long Beach, CA.

Delgado has participated in different International Contemporary Art Fairs as MACO, Art Forum Berlin, Balelatina Basel, Art Miami America, Art Basel Miami, Docks Art Fair, PULSE Miami, PULSE New York, Hot Art Fair, CIRCA, Art Platform, The Armory Show and recently Miami Art in Context.

Selected Public Collections

Prins Claus Fonds, Amsterdam Farber collection, New York/Miami Beach EFC Holdings, Inc., Miami Fine Arts Conservation, Inc., Vancouver International Sculpture Center, New Jersey Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver B.C. MOLAA, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, C.A. Till Richter Museum

Selected Private Collections

Alain Servais, Bruselas, Bélgica Amy Dean & Alan Kluger, Miami, USA Karen & Robert Duncan, Lincoln, NE, USA Dr. Raúl Cervantes, México, D.F. Marco Antonio Beteta, México, D.F. Kathy and Marc LeBaron Rubin Collection Kathryn and Dan Mikesell Collection