Ceramist and Painter. Graduated from the annexed school of San Alejandro Academy, Havana City, Cuba in 1955.

Nature, birds and fishes are permanent motifs in his work. Until the year of 2000, he had participated in more than sixty group exhibitions, performing also about thirty solo exhibits. His ceramic recreates the nature and human body forms. His pictorial creations, are permeated by vegetable shapes mixing mechanic elements in a surrealist expression present on paintings and murals.

His works are displayed at National Fine Arts and Real Fuerza of Havana Museums.

Remarkable Prizes
First Prize in Litography, Drawing and Graphic National Museum UNEAC, (Cuba 1969); Gold Medal XXXIV at Contemporary Ceramic International Contest, (Faenza, Italy, 1976); Victor Manuel Triennial of Engrave (Havana,1979); National Distinction for Culture (Havana, 1981); Prize of Sculpture, Landscape Salon National Fine Arts Museum (Cuba, 1982); Honor Diploma, Cuatrienal of Decorative Arts (Erfurt, Germany, 1986); Alejo Carpentier (Havana,1988); Félix Varela Order (Havana,1994) and National Prize of plastic Arts (Cuba 1997).

Solo Exhibitions
Oil Paintings and Drawings, Sala Atelier, Havana, 1958; 10 Oil Paintings, La Rampa Movies Gallery, 1959; Oil Paintings, Reporters Association of Havana Gallery, 1960; Oil Paintings and Tints, Havana Gallery, 1964; Oil Paintings and Ceramics, Havana Gallery, 1967; Litographies, Zentrifuge Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 1969; Litographies Plastics Artists Union of Cracovia, Polonia, 1971; Ceramics, Litographies, Drawings and Collages, Havana Gallery, 1978 ; Engrave Posters, Fine Arts National Museum, Havana, 1979; Sosabravo on Decorative Arts, Ceramics, Decorative Arts National Museum, Havana, 1986; Anatomicus, Sculptures, Ceramics, Franz Mayer Museum (Mexico DF., 1988); Anthologist Exposition (Retrospective with 310 works), Fine Arts National Museum, Havana, 1990; Sosabravo in Tenerife, La Ermita Gallery, La Laguna, Tenerife (Canarias Islands, 1993); Albisola Ceramic, Priamar Gallery, Savona (Italy, 1993); Litographies Retrospective 1965-1991, Estampa National Museum (Mexico DF); Graphic and Sculpture, Baumann House, Terrassa, Cataluña (Spain, 1994); El Piatto dell´Estate Exposition, Villa Faraggiana, Albisola (Italy, 1994); Personal Permanent Salon of Ceramics, National Museum, Castillo de la Real Fuerza (Havana, 1995); Menno Meyer Gallery, Gouda, Holland; El Guardián de lo Pequeño Gallery, Madrid (Spain, 1997).

Group Exhibitions
II International Biennial of Mexico, Paintings, Mexico D.F, 1960; I American Biennial of Engrave, Santiago de Chile, 1963; V Engrave Biennial of Tokio, Japan, 1966; Graphic Biennial of Biella, Italy, 1967; VII International Biennial of Engrave, Yugoslavia,1967; Second Biennial of Graphic, Cracovia, Polonia, 1968; II Engrave Biennial, Pecia, Italy, 1968; Current Cuban Painting, Roma, Italy, 1968; VII Drawing Exposition, Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain, 1969; II International Biennial of Ceramics, Vellauris, France, 1970; III Graphic Biennial, Cracovia, Polonia, 1970; International Conquest of Ceramics, Faenza, Italy, 1970; 70 Salon, Fine Arts National Museum, Havana,1970; Panorama of Cuban Art in Mexico, Mexico D.F, 1975; XXXIV International Conquest of Ceramics, Faenza, Italy, 1976; Cuban Plastic Arts, Sweden, Norweigan, Denmark, Finnland, 1976; International Exposition of Ceramics, Nagoya, Japan, 1977; Cuban Paintings and Graphics, Modern Art Museum, París, France, 1977; Venecia Biennial, Italy, 1982; IX International Biennial of Ceramics of Vallauris, France, 1984; I Havana Biennial, Drawings, 1984; I International Triennial of small format Ceramic, Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1984; "Towards to Latin Culture Discovering" event, Paris, France, 1984; IV Cuatrienal of Applied Arts, Erfurt, Germany, 1986; Havana in Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 1989; Three Decades of Plastic Expression, Universitary Museum of Mexico, 1990; Mud of America Exposition, Modern Art Museum of Caracas, Venezuelan, 1992; Cuban Art, Alaine Benson Gallery, New York, United States, 1992; Cuban Art, the Last Sixty Years, Panamerican Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA, 1994; Cuban Painters Exposition, Copenhage, Denmark, 1995; IV Plastic Arts Iberoamerican Salon, Washington, USA; 1995; Nature, Man, Deities. Royal Palace of Milan, Italy, 1995; Twelve Pilgrims Stories Exposition. Casa de las Américas Gallery (Havana,1995); 1st Salon of Contemporary Cuban Art, Havana, 1995; ARCO´96, Madrid, Spain, 1996; The Cuban Art Space, Metropolitan Book Center, New York (United States, 1996; Contemporary Cuban Painters, The Kennedy Gallery, Grand Cayman, 1997.


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