La Habana, Cuba. 1971
Studied Fine Arts at Academia San Alejandro, the Instituto Superior de Diseño at Havana, Cuba; and the Graphic Media Development Centre at The Hague, Holland.
Has been visiting professor at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), Havana, Cuba, The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California and The Art Academy of Cincinnati, Ohio, at the U.S.A.
His work features in the following public collections:
Centro Wifredo Lam. La Habana, Cuba. / Champ Libre Foundation. Montréal, Canadá. / Columbus Museum of Arts, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A. / DAROS Latinoamérica, Zürich, Suiza. / Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba / Museum of Art. Fort Lauderdale, Florida. U.S.A. / Museum of Contemporary Art. MOCA, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. / Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Holland. / Neuberger Berman, New York, U.S.A. / Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK), Gent, Belgium/ University of Central Florida Library Collection, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. / Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC), Spain / Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California, U.S.A.
| SELECTED EXHIBITIONS | SELECTED ARTICLES | |
Todo depende del relato. Centro W. Lam, 1996 |
1994-1996 Lecciones de la Vida, Galería Habana, La Habana, Cuba (solo) I Salón de Arte Cubano Contemporáneo, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba (group) Una de Cada Clase, Fundación Ludwig de Cuba, La Habana, Cuba (group) Todo depende del relato: pinturas/videos, Centro Wifredo Lam, La Habana, Cuba (solo) Trabajo reciente: fotografías, Galería 23 y 12, La Habana, Cuba (solo) III Trienal de Grafica Original, Kunthaus, Grenchen, Suiza (group) Bienal Internacional de Pintura de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador (group) |
PASCUAL CASTILLO, Omar. "Bocetos hablados en torno a la obra de Raúl Cordero" / "Diálogos informales con Raúl Cordero" / "Mixed Media Design". The Cau&Co. Newsletter. La Habana, No.2/1994. p 1-7. MARTINEZ, Bárbaro. "Las palabras y los objetos". Cat. Raúl Cordero y J. A.Vincench: Trabajo Reciente. Centro de Arte. 23 y 12, La Habana. 1996. p.1 PASCUAL CASTILLO, Omar. "Las ficciones verdaderas". Cat. Raúl Cordero y J. A. Vincench: Trabajo Reciente. Centro de Arte. 23 y 12, La Habana. 1996. p.4 NOCEDA FERNANDEZ, José Manuel. "Raúl Cordero: La manipulación de la imagen". Cat. Todo depende del relato. Exposición personal de Raúl Cordero. Centro Wifredo Lam, La Habana, Cuba, diciembre, 1996. |
Raúl Cordero: RE-MIXED. Galería Habana,1998 |
1997-1998
Quiz Paintings, Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A (solo) Troisieme Manifestation Internationale Video et Art Electronique, Montreal, Canada (group) Raúl Cordero: RE-MIXED, Galería Habana, La Habana, Cuba (solo) Contemporary Art from Cuba, Urasoe Museum, Okinawa / Hillside Forum Daikanayama, Tokyo / Iwaki City Cultural Hall, Japan (group) Il Salón de Arte Cubano Contemporáneo, Centro Wifredo Lam, La Habana, Cuba (group) Fragmentos a su imán, Galería Latinoamericana, Casa de las Américas, La Habana, Cuba (group) Seducciones, Centro Wifredo Lam, La Habana, Cuba (group) |
OLLMAN, Leah. "Absence Makes His Heart Grow Fonder". Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California. diciembre 14, 1997, p 63-64. MARCHAND, Keith. "Video killed the video star". Mirror. Montréal, Canadá. Vol 13, No. 16, septiembre 18, 1997, p.22. VIVES, Cristina. Cat. Quiz Paintings. Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, California, diciembre. 1997. |
Iturralde Gallery. LA, California. U.S.A., 1999 |
1999-2000
I Miss You Much: Paintings, video-installations and some other stuff. Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. (solo) Raúl Cordero, LiebmanMagnan Gallery, New York, U.S.A. (solo) Video & Technologies: Challenge for Contemporary Cuban Art, Art in General, New York, U.S.A. (group) Raúl Cordero at the New Media Room, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. Cornell University. New York, U.S.A. (solo) Raúl Cordero, Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, California State University, San Bernardino, California, U.S.A. (solo) Mas allá del papel, Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, Madrid, España (group) Visiones Contemporáneas, Lyle O'Reitzel Arte Contemporáneo, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana (group) VII Bienal de La Habana , La Habana, Cuba (group) Vistas Nuevas: Recent Video from Cuba, The Kitchen, New York, U.S.A. (group) Moving Pictures, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.A. (group) One on One, Art in General, New York, U.S.A. (group) Fin de siglo. Nuevo milenio cubano, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, La Habana, Cuba (group) |
ARRATIA, Euridice. "Cityscape. La Habana". FlashArt, New York, febrero, 1999 [entrevista al artista] ARRATIA, Euridice. "Can you say good bye?". Cat. I miss you much. Painting, video- installations and other stuff. Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, California, septiembre 9, 1999 VIVES, Cristina. "Art contemporain, pas précisément cubain/Contemporary (Not Exactly Cuban) Art". ArtPress, Paris, No.249 [illus], pp.34-39, Francia, septiembre, 1999. CLIFFORD, Katie. "Raúl Cordero at LiebmanMagnan". (New York Reviews). ArtNews, New York, Summer 2000, pp.207-208 FERGUSON, Bruce W. "Raúl Codero: Video without Video Equipment" , Ensayo al cat. Raúl Cordero. Publicado por LiebmanMagnan Gallery, New York/Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, California/Cristina Vives, La Habana, 2000, 47 pp. KNAFF, Devorah L. "Trio of Talent", The Press Enterprise, San Bernardino, California, U.S.A., marzo 5, 2000, p. F20 SPAID, Sue. ¨7th La Habana Biennial.¨ Art Text No. 73. Mayo, 2000, [illus], pp.79-80 ULMER, Sean M. "Raúl Cordero". New Media at the Johnson, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York, U.S.A., Summer, 2000. |
San Francisco Art Institute, California, U.S.A., 2001 |
2001
Raúl Cordero. Walter & McBean Galleries. San Francisco Art Institute. San Francisco, California, U.S.A. (solo) Raúl Cordero, Luis Gómez, Elsa Mora, Fernando Rodríguez, José A. Toirac. The Contemporary Arts Center (CAC). Poëziezomer Watou . Watou, Belgica. (group) Present. Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, Holanda (group) Sonsbeek 9-Locus/Focus. Arnhem, Holanda (group) From the Negative. Conceptual Photography from Cuba. North Dakota Museum of Art, North Dakota, U.S.A. (group) |
HOET, Jan. “Raúl Cordero”. Catalog to the exhibition Sonsbeek 9. LocusFocus. Arnhem, Holland, June 3rd - September 23rd, 2001, 034-042. MOSS, Karen. Cat. Raúl Cordero: artist project and residency. San Francisco Art Institute. Walter and McBean Galleries. diciembre 2001. "Raúl Cordero" (entrevista). Beaux Arts, Paris, FRANCE, enero, 2001. RAMOS, Steve. “Video Machismo: At the CAC, two video installations by Raúl Cordero celebrate the art of flirtation”. CityBeat, Cincinnati. Ohio, november 2001.[illus]. SCULLY, Merry. “Let me tell you a video, Six chances and Superpaining”. Cat. Raúl Cordero: artist project and residency. San Francisco Art Institute. Walter and McBean Galleries, diciembre 2001. T. TURNER, Grady. “Cuba II: Seet Dreams”. Art in America. Octubre 2001, [illus], pp.73-77 VIVES, Cristina. "Timing, Lacking, Mixture (Raúl Cordero en los espacios incompletos)". Arte Cubano, La Habana, No.1, 2001, pp.20-23. |
Stages/The Zooming Experience/Shopworn |
2002
Stages - The zooming experience - Shopworn. Iturralde Gallery. Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. (solo) Tres Pinturas. Galería Habana. La Habana, Cuba (solo) El Museo crece. Adquisiciones recientes de arte cubano contemporáneo. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Raúl Cordero (1996-2001). Palacio de Abrantes. Universidad de Salamanca. España (solo) Raúl Cordero (1996-2001). Museo La Ciudadela. Pamplona. España (solo) LA FREEWAVES: TV or not TV. A celebration of experimental media arts throughout Los Angeles. Los Angeles, SuperMover: Video projections from trucks. Photofest. Houston, Texas. U.S.A. (group) III Salón de Arte Cubano Contemporáneo. Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales. La Habana, Cuba (group) Copyright. Centro Cultural de España. La Habana, Cuba (group) |
OLLMAN, Leah.. ¨Raúl Cordero: Recent Work¨. Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, junio 8, 2002 PANERA, Javier. "Una conversación con Raúl Cordero". Cat. Raúl Cordero 1996-2002, Palacio de Abrantes, Universidad de Salamanca, España, 2002. VIVES, Cristina. "Timing, Lacking, Mixture (Raúl Cordero en los espacios incompletos)". Cat. Raúl Cordero 1996-2002, Palacio de Abrantes, Universidad de Salamanca, España, 2002. |
Absolut LA Iternational Biennial 2003 |
2003-2004 The Rolling Landmark. Iturralde Gallery (Absolut International Biennial), Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. (solo) Sin Embargo. Fluid Image, Grenoble, France. (group) Away from home. Wexner Center for the Arts. Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A (group) Zöll Douane. Hamburg, Germany. (group) Domicile: a sense of place. Center of Contemporary Arts (COCA). Seattle, U.S.A. (group) Sign Language. The Museum of Contemporary Arts (MOCA). Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. (group) |
KNIGHT, Christopher. ¨Childhood fantasy rendered with graceful Minimalism¨. Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, julio 25, 2003 AUTORES VARIOS. Cat. Away from Home. Wexner Center for the Arts. The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 2003. CHATTOPADHYAY, Collette. “The 2003 Absolut L.A. International Biennial Art Invitational”. Art Nexus, No. 50, Volume 2, 2003, pp.72–75. VIVES, Cristina. “Raúl Cordero: Art vs Art”. The H Magazine. Winter 2004-05, pp.97-104. |
Adorno. 2005 |
2005 Adorno. Centro Cultural “Fresa y Chocolate”. 27 Festival del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano. La Habana, Cuba. (solo) Contactos y Mediaciones. Poéticas de lo digital en el Arte Cubano. Dunlop Art Gallery. Regina, Canada. (group) Barrocos y Neo-Barrocos: El infierno de lo bello. Palacio de Abrantes / Museo de Arte Contemporaneo. Salamanca, España. (group) In borderlines / En las fronteras. Nuevas piezas en la colección del MEIAC. Instituto Cervantes. Praga, Checoslovaquia. (group) Raul Cordero, Felipe Dulzaides y Alexandre Arrechea en la Casa de las Americas. Casa de las Americas. La Habana, Cuba. (group) III Salón de Arte Cubano Contemporáneo. Fototeca de Cuba. La Habana, Cuba. (group) Raul Cordero / Manuel Losada / José Clemente Orozco. Iturralde Gallery. Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. (group) |
FUSCO, Filomeno. “Hello/Good Bye”. Catalog for the exhibition Zoll Duane (Art along the borders). Hamburg, Germany, 2005, pp.24-25. |
Hello/GoodBye Havana at IX Havana Biennial |
2006 Raúl Cordero. Trabajo Reciente. 9na Bienal de la Habana. Galería Servando. La Habana, Cuba. (solo) IX Bienal de la Habana. La Habana, Cuba. (group) Museo Tomado. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. La Habana, Cuba. (group) Unbroken Ties: Dialogues in Cuban Art. Museum of Latin American Art. Long Beach, California. U.S.A. (group) IMPAKT Festival 2006. Utretch, Holland. (group) Espacios Sagrados: Raúl Cordero, Marta María Pérez y José Manuel Fors. FOTO 30, Galería Wood’s. Guatemala. (group) |
PASCUAL CASTILLO, Omar. "Quizás, quizás, quizás…". Catalog for the exhibition Raúl Cordero, Trabajo reciente. Galería Servando, IX Bienal de la Habana. Cuba. |
Expenditures, at LISTE 2007 |
2007 Raúl Cordero “Expenditures” at MYTO Gallery. Liste, Basel. Switzerland. (solo) Raúl Cordero + Angel Masip. Galería Casado Santapau. Madrid, España. (solo) WAITING LIST. Time and transition in Comtemporary Cuban Art. City Art Museum, Ljubljana - ExitArt, New York, U.S.A. (group) European Media Art Festival. Osnabrück, Germany. (group) LUMO Trienale. Jyväskylä, Finland. (group) |
TEETS, Jennifer: “Raúl Cordero: Expenditures". Catalog for the exhibition Liste 07, Basel Switzerland, pp. 52. GÓMEZ, Silvia. “Raúl Cordero, a creator of ideas”. Cuba Absolutely. Issue 1, 2007, pp.94-97.
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Myto Gallery. Mexico DF |
2008 Raúl Cordero. MYTO Gallery, Mexico DF. (solo) LATINOLATINO. Palazzo della Vicaria, Trapani, Italia. (group) Liste ’08 (MYTO Gallery). Basel, Switzerland. (group) Cuba: Artists Experience Their Country. Hunterdon Museum of Art. New Jersey, U.S.A. (group) TROPICS: A Contemporary View of Haiti, Cuba and Brazil. Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. Los Angeles, California. U.S.A. (group) Identifíquese. Galería Habana. La Habana, Cuba. (group) |
PASCUAL CASTILLO, Raúl Cordero: La pintura como ludismo analítico". Catalog for the exhibition Raúl Cordero, Myto Gallery, Mexico DF. April 22nd – May 30th. MACMASTERS, Merry. “Actualmente, la rebeldía más grande es hacer pintura, asegura Raúl Cordero”. Diario La Jornada, Mexico DF. May 5th, 2008. Cultura, pp. 14a. |
Galeria Acacia. 10th Havana Biennial |
2009 Raúl Cordero "Nuevas Pinturas". Galeria Acacia. 10th Havana Biennial. La Habana, Cuba. (solo) "Last visions of the heroe". Open Studio. La Habana, Cuba (solo) Raúl Cordero. Painting as a state of mind. Project room at CIRCA. San Juan, Puerto Rico. (solo) "Glamour de Occidente". 10th Havana Biennial. Casa de Mexico. La Habana, Cuba. (group) "Glamour de Occidente". Centre Fonds Saint-Jacques. Saint Marie. Martinica (group) "Hendrickje". Servando Gallery. La Habana, Cuba. (solo) |
MACHADO, MAILYN. Tres veces en torno a la pintura de Raúl Cordero. Published in the catalog Raúl Cordero, Nuevas Pinturas. Galeria Acacia, 10th Havana Biennial. |
"Hendrickje". Servando Gallery |
2010 "Slow Paintings". Museum Morsbroich. Leverkusen, Germany. (group) "Text to Speech: L'altro Linguaggio". Bonelli Lab. Caneto sull'Oglio. Mantova, Italy (group) "Confluencias Inside". National Hispanic Cultural Center Museum. Albuquerque. New Mexico. U.S.A. (group) "Pieza Unica". Gobierno del Principado de Asturias. Madrid, España. (group) |
SCHWABSKY, BARRY. Raúl Cordero: An Art of Transition. Published in "Raúl Cordero". Monograph by Turner. POWER, KEVIN. Raúl Cordero: Seing it my way. Published in "Raúl Cordero". Monograph by Turner. PASCUAL CASTILLO, OMAR. Y por que no: La Pintura (Interview). Published in "Raúl Cordero". Monograph by Turner. ZAAR, STEPHANIE. Raúl Cordero. Published in book to the exhibition "Slow Paintings". Museum Morsbroich. 2009-2010. |