In 1927 he travelled to Havana, where he met important intellectuals of the epoch, joined to the so-called Grupo Minorista and he is presented in a conference of the Hispanic-Cuban Culture Institution, publishing caricatures in social magazines of the epoch. In 1930 he entered San Alejandro, finishing these studies in 1934 at professor Secre´s workshop; then he published caricatures at the Magazine Karicato, directed by Ramón Arroyo Cisneros and made a solo exhibition of direct carving, drawings and modelings at the Architects School of Havana. He obtained a schoolarship of Education Secretary to study a year and a half in Europe, that´s why he travelled to France and Berlin, in this last country he studied sculpture during three months with Ernesto di Fiore. He returned to France and entered Ranson Academy, Paris, sponsored by sculptor Arístides Maillol. He studied sculpture with Charles Alexandre Malfray, his presence at Ramso Academy was extended until 1937, in that year he travelled to New York, USA. He worked there eventually at Clay Club Gallery and some other places as drawer and he made politic caricatures for different publications from many countries. To acknowledge his excellent work, he was named Honoured Guest of the American Artists Congress for his remarkable labor as against-fascism drawer.

In 1939 he returned to Cuba working as politic drawer in the newspaper Today and he exposed sculptures, watercolors and drawings in the Lyceum. In 1940 he participated in the Popular Graphic Workshop, in Mexico, with important Mexican artists, exhibiting with them in that country and in Cuba with the Cuban engraver and drawer Jorge Rigol. He also worked with Alfaro Siqueiros in a Mural. He obtained a schoolarship to study in the United States.

1941 -He made litographies in Art Students League, in an irregular form.
1943 -Returned to Brooklyn after the war. He abandoned sculpture and dedicated to painting definitely. He travelled to Havana, participating in numerous group exhibitions in Cuba, Mexico, Argentine and United States.
1948 -Exhibition at Havana Lyceum, solo exhibits on oil paintings, gouaches and drawings having a figurative character.
1950 -He resided in New Jersey. Entered Art League of New York. He jumpstarted his first abstracts paintings.
1954 - Solo exhibition in Artist's Gallery, New York on February. He travelled to Havana and exhibited at Havana University.
1956 -He exhibited regularly at Bertha Schaefer Gallery of New York and other important museums and galleries of EUA and Europe, in solo with painters of the North American Abstract Expressionism. Adquisition Prize for his work in the VIII National Painting and Sculpture Salon, Fine Arts Museum, Havana.
1957 -Participated in important group exhibitions in EUA, among them, Collage in America, Collage International from Picasso to the present and American Paintings 1945-1957.
1958 - His oil painting Conflicto was appraised by Adquisition Prize at the Exposition Work by New Jersey Artists, celebrated in Newark Museum. He exhibited a solo exhibition at Color-Light exhibits in Havana.

1959 - Solo Exhibitions at Bertha Schaefer Gallery of New York and in the Arts Club of Chicago. Exhibitions on Hannover and Kassel, RFA.
1961 - He participated in a group exhibitions as an homage to the First National Congress of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), Fine Arts Museum, Havana, Cuba.
1965 to 67 - He returned to New Jersey and made collages using papers, cardboard, canvas, woods and some metallic elements which were exhibited in United States. One of these collages gained Adquisition Prize in New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, N, J.
1968 - Since this year he travelled to Cuba every year.
1978 to 79 -He teaches drawings at the Superior Institute of Art. He exhibited a solo exhibition of drawings and oil paintings in paper at Plaza Culture House, Havana.
1980 - Calligraphies, exhibition of abstract tints and crayons at Plaza Culture House, from January to May.
1981-83 -He made Testimonies, a serie of figurative works in tint, oil drawings and abstract paintings. 1983-84 he exhibited in Cuba, Havana Gallery.
1984 - He participated in I Biennial of Havana with three abstract oil painting: Telephonic Conversation. Nos, 1, 2 and 3.
1986 - He was invited to participate in the II Biennial of Havana. He has made exhibitions in Havana, Paris, New York, Frankfurt, Madrid, England, Caracas and Miami.

Group Exhibitions
1954 Contemporary Plastic, Havana.
1956 L´Etoile Scellée gallery, Paris. Suzanne de Connink, Paris. La Jeune Sculpture Salon, Paris. Realites Nouvelles, Paris.
1967 Biennale de Carrara, Italy Le Jardin de LA Sculpture, Relais de Vaux-de-Cernag-Yvelines. Salon de la Jeune Sculpture. Salon de Mai, Paris.
1968 Surrealistics Exhibition Princip slati, Czechoslovakia. Salon de la Jeune Sculpture. Salon de Mai, París.
1969 Biennale de Carrara, Italy Avignon Festival Bienale de Sculpture, Antwerp. Depois Rodin, Musée de Saint-Germain- en Laye. Salon de la Jeune Sculpture. Salon de Mai, París.
1970 Sculpture dans le Cité, Rouen. Sculpture á Ciel Ouvert, Macon, Visione 24, Rome. Huitième Biennale, Menton. Surrealism Moderna Museum, Stockholm. Salon de la Jeune Sculpture. Salon de Mai, Paris.
1971 Galerie de Beaux Arts, Bourdeaux Latin American Art in Scandinavia, Oslo Museum. International Exhibition of Surrealism, Cologne. 7 Artistes Latino-Americains, Galerie du Dragon. Salon de la Jeune Sculpture. Salon de Mai, París.
1976 Forms in the Space,Theo Gallery, Madrid.
1980 Collective Exhibition, Japan.
1985 FIAC, París. Hommage á Alicia Penalba, Tarbes, France.
1986 Exposition International de Sculpture Contemporaine, Collioeur, France.
1987 Yorkshire Open Air Museum, England.
1988 Autour d´Edouard Glissant, Galerie du Dragon, Paris.
1989 Salon de Mars, Paris. Sculpire, Carrara and Pietrasanta, Italia. Galería Durban, Caracas. 1990 Salon de Mars, Paris. J:G:M:, Galerie, Paris. Figuración, Fabulación, Museo de Bellas Artes, de Caracas.
1992 J.G.M. Galerie, Paris.
1993 IAM, Miami.
1996 La Magia del Volumen, Casa de las Américas, La Habana.

Placed Works
1961 Placed Work in the Symposium of Monumental Sculpture, Austria. 1962 work in the Symposium of Monumental Sculpture, Israel. 1963 work at Symposium of Monumental Sculpture, Japan. 1964 work in the Symposium of Monumental Sculpture, Canada. 1967 Work on stone, in C.E.S. Auxerre,Yonne. 1968 Work in Brass at the Lycée Technique, Redon, Ile-Et-Velaine. 1969 Work on stone in C:E:S:Les Minguettes, Venissieux, Rhone and Enseble Universitaire.In Saint`Denis, Seine St`Denis. 1972 work in the Lycée Classique, Moderne et Technique, Creutzwald, Moselle. 1979 work in C:E:S: Noget`Sur`Marne,Val de Marne. 1987 work in Symposium of Monumental Scuñlpture, Seul, South Corea.

Prizes
1955 Scholarship in Paris.
1961 Prize of Sculpture in the Paris Biennial.
1998 National Plastic Arts Prize, Havana.

(Photograph from Ricardo G. Elías)

He died at Havana City on December 24, 2002.

More information at Bijirita and National Council of Plastic Arts.