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Biography of artist Lorenzo Muriedas
Lorenzo Muriedas was
born January 1, 1959 in Havana, Cuba. Since childhood, Lorenzo showed a deep
inclination towards the arts, participating in various painting competitions
along its primary, secondary and pre-university. He attended and graduated from the
Polytechnic Institute "Jose Antonio Echeverria" chemical engineering
in 1987 and worked as an engineer in the film industry until 1994.Lorenzo was a
great student of master painters such as Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, Salvador
Dali, Henri Matisse, Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, and many more. All his work
is artistic and creative and spontaneous self. He attended various courses
between 1988 and 1990 in the National Art School (ENA), as well as conferences
and seminars at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) ... art institution would
have loved to graduate as top-level about the artist. He belonged to the
Hermanos Saiz Association, participating in exhibitions and art
sales of that association from 1984 to 1993. He also served as assistant art in
various arts video productions as contemporary Cuban artists: Ever Fonseca,
Zaida del Río, Flora Fong, Nelson Dominguez and Roberto Fabelo. In the late
90's had a very strong inclination to poetry for him poetry and painting had a
close relationship so he decided to devote some time to poetry. It currently
has over 300 poems finished between sonnets and free poetry-themed social sense
and love. Lorenzo participated in several solo and group exhibitions in Cuba
and now in the U.S.
EXHIBITIONS
- Castillo de los Tres Reyes del Morro. Havana, Cuba 1991.
- The Burrow. Havana, Cuba 1992.
- Museum of Máximo Gómez. Havana, Cuba 1992 and 1993.
- Havana Cathedral Art Exhibition, Havana, Cuba 1993.
- The Bohemia Arts Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida, USA 2002.
- Saint Louis Catholic Church. Pinecrest, Florida, USA 2003.
- Botticelli Trattoria Art Exhibition, Miami, Florida, USA 2004.
- Coral Gables International Art Center, Miami, Florida, USA 2006.
- Auction Exhibition Hyatt Hotel, Miami, Florida, USA 2006.
CONTESTS
International Fine Art
Competition Chelsea, Agora Gallery, New York, 2003, 2006 and 2011. More than
600 works of art were sold to private collectors in Cuba from 1991-1994 and
from 1999-2003 in the U.S.
