Frank Leon 6111 SW 20 COURT Miramar, Florida 33023 phone: 786-233-3193 Email: fleon2000@hotmail,com Web site: www.miamipicture.net Education 1987 – 1991 -Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana, Cuba 1974 – 1979 -Information and Library Science, University of Havana, Cuba Teaching Experience 1999 -Instructor, Florida International University, Elder Hostal Institute, “How to understand the Contemporary visual arts.” 1982 -UNESCO, Regional Commission, experimental art program for disadvantaged people. Solo Shows 2005 -Pembroke Pines Libary Gallery, Florida. "Date Due" a Retrospective exhibition (1985-2005). 2004 -Art @ Work Gallery, Miami, Florida. Exhibition "Irrational Exuberance " 2002-03 -Art Space Virginia Miller Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida. Exhibition: Gyotakus of Hari Trips (the hermeneutic triangle). 1993 -Virginia Miller Gallery, Coral Gables Florida. Exhibition and performance: Thinking is Thought. 1990 -Gallery of the State of Anzoategui, Barcelona, Venezuela. Necesidades comunes, diferencias particulares. 1989 -Museo de la Ciudad, Mexico D.F., Mexico. Exhibition based upon the work of Erich Fromm, Separatidad. 1987 -Ex-Convento del Carmen, Department of Fine Arts, Government of Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico. Codigos Pictograficos. 1985 -The Moraine Valley Community College and tour to nine cultural centers and universities in Chicago, Illinois. ... view more »
Frank Leon 6111 SW 20 COURT Miramar, Florida 33023 phone: 786-233-3193 Email: fleon2000@hotmail,com Web site: www.miamipicture.net Education 1987 – 1991 -Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana, Cuba 1974 – 1979 -Information and Library Science, University of Havana, Cuba Teaching Experience 1999 -Instructor, Florida International University, Elder Hostal Institute, “How to understand the Contemporary visual arts.” 1982 -UNESCO, Regional Commission, experimental art program for disadvantaged people. Solo Shows 2005 -Pembroke Pines Libary Gallery, Florida. "Date Due" a Retrospective exhibition (1985-2005). 2004 -Art @ Work Gallery, Miami, Florida. Exhibition "Irrational Exuberance " 2002-03 -Art Space Virginia Miller Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida. Exhibition: Gyotakus of Hari Trips (the hermeneutic triangle). 1993 -Virginia Miller Gallery, Coral Gables Florida. Exhibition and performance: Thinking is Thought. 1990 -Gallery of the State of Anzoategui, Barcelona, Venezuela. Necesidades comunes, diferencias particulares. 1989 -Museo de la Ciudad, Mexico D.F., Mexico. Exhibition based upon the work of Erich Fromm, Separatidad. 1987 -Ex-Convento del Carmen, Department of Fine Arts, Government of Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico. Codigos Pictograficos. 1985 -The Moraine Valley Community College and tour to nine cultural centers and universities in Chicago, Illinois. -Galería de la Casa, Estudiantil Universitaria, University of Havana, Cuba. Encuentro entre dos mundos. 1983 -Galería de la Casa de la Cultura Plaza, Habana, Cuba. Arte y Poesia. Selected Group Exhibitions 2010 -Freedom Tower Miami, Florida. Ways of Worldmaking. Dr Arturo and Liza Mosquera Collection Exibition. 2007 -Arizona State University, Interdisciplinary Arts And Perfomance Gallery. Cafè VII: The Journeys of Cuban Artists. 2000 -Art Space, Virginia Miller Gallery.Director’s Summer Choice. 1998 -Art Space, Virginia Miller Gallery, Director’s Choice. 1993 -Galería Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica. Fuera del Juego. -Design Center of the Americas, Dania, Florida. Son 14. 1992 -Cuban Museum of Art and Culture, Miami, Florida. Performance and exhibition: ACUPUNCTURE. 1991 -International Biennial, Chamaliers, France. Exhibition of small prints. 1990 -Museo de Cultura “Braulio Salazar,” Valencia, Venezuela. Encuentro Nacional de Artistas Plasticos 1988 -Las Caba?as Cultural Institute, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Cuban engraving in Guadalajara. -International Biennial, Chamaliers, France. Exhibition of small prints. 1986 -In conjunction with the second Havana Bienal. Necesidades y Creación. 1980 -Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba.Salon Nacional Juvenil de Artes Plasticas. Lectures 1993 -Cuban Museum of Art and Culture, Miami Florida. Panelist, Art as a Bridge 1992 -Moraine Valley Community College, Chicago, Illinois. Encuentro entre dos Mundos. 1990 -Valencia, Venezuela. UNESCO-sponsored lecture on Cuban contemporary art: Creativdad 90. -National Museum of Fine Arts, Caracas, Venezuela. New Visual Arts in Cuba. -Mérida University, Mérida, Venezuela. Arte cubano de los 80. Other Activities and Publications 2004 -Carlos M. Luis, Artes y Letras, El Nuevo Herald, Septiembre 26 2004, "Frank Leon: Transitando caminos limitrofes" 2002 -Armando Alvarez Bravo, Artes y Letras, El Nuevo Herald, January 13 2002, "Frank Leon: La Navegacion Interminable". 2001 -Ana Veciana Suarez, Living and Arts,The Miami Herald, May 1rst, 2001, Tackling Art. 2000 -El Nuevo Herald, March 5, 2000, “Gana Donacíón.” 1994 -Giulio V. Blanc, Art Nexus, no. 57, January – March, “Frank Leon at Virginia Miller Gallery.” 1993 -Cuban Museum of Art and Culture, Miami Florida. Panelist, Art as a Bridge. -Alberto Meza, Art Papers, No. 38, Atlanta, Georgia, “Frank Leon, Virginia Miller Gallery.” 1992 -Helen Cohen, The Miami Herald, July, 1992, “Acupuncture of pain.” 1989 – Publishing of the book "Fuse" by the Chicago poet Phyllis Janik. Awards 2000 -The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, New York 2011 -The Artists’ Fellowship Inc. Grant . New York, N.Y. Collections Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida. Florida International University Art Museum, Miami Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami Museo Jaliscience de Arte e Historia, Guadalajara, Mexico Mr. Arturo and Liza Mosquera, Miami Florida. Mrs. Dolores Smithies, Key Biscayne, Florida Mr. & Mrs. Bruce R. Orosz and Kathrynn Orosz, Key Biscayne, Florida Mr. Mario Bello, Miami, Florida Ms. Susanne Ronai, Miami Beach, Florida Mr. Manolo Rivero, Merida, Mexico Ms. Cecilia Montante, Mexico, D.F., Mexico
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