Glexis Novoa |bio

Photo by: Timothy Greenfield ©

Born in Holguin, Cuba, 1964.
Resides in Miami, Florida since September 1995.


EDUCATION

1998 Skowhegan School of Painting
and Sculpture Skowhegan, Maine.
1980-1984 National School Art (ENA)
Havana, Cuba.
1979-1980 National School of Design
Havana, Cuba.


INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

2005
Glexis Novoa Lowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida. (Upcoming)

2003
New Works, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Worcester Art Museum Worcester, Massachusetts.
Locust Project Miami, Florida.

2002
Safe and Quiet Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida (*).

2001
New Works Miami Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida (*).
New vision of the Basilica of Sacred Heart The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame,
Indiana.
Patient: Glexis Novoa (initial records) Mosquera Orthodontics,
Miami, Florida (*).

2000
Ciudades del Dia Despues Galeria Art Al Rec, Barcelona, Spain. (*)

1999
Recent Works Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Obra Reciente Galeria Emma Molina, Monterrey, Mexico.
Te Quiero, Te Quiero, Te Quiero... Frances Wolfson Gallery,
Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, Florida.

1996
La Habana Oscura Ambrosino Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida.

1994
Daño Espacio Aglutinador, Havana, Cuba. (*)

1993
El Poder Galería Nina Menocal, Mexico City,
Mexico and Ambrosino Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida. (*)

1990
GaIeria Ariman Lund, Sweden. (*)

1989
Patria o Muerte Castillo de la Real Fuerza,
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Old Havana, Cuba. (*)

1983
El Reino de Este Mundo Galería de Arte Universal,
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. (*)


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2003
Basel / Miami Beach International Art Fair Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida. (*)
10 Floridians, Miami Art Central, Miami, Florida. (*)
A Matter of Facts Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, New York.
Inside/Outside:Contemporary Cuban Art
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem,
North Carolina.
Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism
DePauw University Art Gallery, Greencastle, IN (*).
Save your pennies! Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida, May 2003.
Latin American Art Palazzo Mediceo, San Leo, Italy, April 2003. Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism
The University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, (March 18 - May 11, 2003) &
University Galeries, Ilinois State University, Normal, Illinois, (September-October 2003) (*)
Paradise Lost? Aspects of landscape in Latin American Art
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami,
Coral Gables, Florida, January, 2003. (*)
Drawings Conclusions Buena Vista Building (DACRA,
Miami Design District), January 2003. (*)

2002
Basel / Miami Beach International Art Fair
Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida. (*)
Miami Currents Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida.
CAFÉ: The Journeys of Cuban Artists
Art Gallery of University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado. NO SHOW Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami,
Florida.
Parallel Zone Buick Building (Dacra),
Miami Design District, Miami, Florida. (*)
That Place Mia Gallery, Miami-Dade Aviation Department Division of Fine Art & Cultural Affairs, Miami, Florida.
(*)
Effexor 75 Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, Florida.
The Miami Alphabet, A-Z Miami-Dade Public Library,
Miami, Florida.
That Place More and Buick Buildings (Dacra), Miami Design District, Miami, Florida. (*)
Florida Landscape / Escape Miami-Dade Public Library,
Miami, Florida.

2001
globe>miami>island Bass Museum, Miami Beach, Florida. (*)
Art Miami International Art Fair NFA Space, Chicago, Ilinois and
Arteauction.com (Arte Mundi), Miami, Florida (*).
Breaking Barriers Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida (*)
Seven Thirty Cuban Masters Collection, Miami, Florida.

2000
Publikulture Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (*)
La Gente en Casa Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes ( 7a Bienal de la Habana), Old Havana, Cuba. (*)
Freedom Rocks Miami Design District, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Dimensions Variable NFA Space, Chicago, Illinois.
Sarasota Biennial 2000 Ringling Museum of Art, Florida (*)
Home Invasion 890 N.E.90 ST, Miami, Florida.
Inundaciones Centro de Cultura Contemporanea,
Barcelona, Spain.
Art Al Hothel Hotel Ingles, Galeria Art Al Rec (Barcelona), Valencia, Spain.
Art Miami International Art Fair Ambrosino Gallery,
Miami Beach, Florida.
Departing Perspective former Spiritu Santo Bank,
Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Palmas Reales y Bitrales Jose Alonso Fine Arts, Miami, Florida.
Breaking Barriers The Snite Museum of Art,
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. (*)

1999
Hort 41 Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (*)
Hot Spots Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina and Pittsburgh
Center for the Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (*)
Art Gang @ The Warehouse, Miami, Florida.
There is no ‘I’ in Team NFA Space, Chicago, Illinois, (*).

1998
Bank Holiday Former Key Bank Building, Skowhegan, Maine.
Abierto 24 Horas Festival de Fallas, Valencia, Spain. (*)
Cuban Performance Art of the 80's (Chronology)
InterAmerican Gallery, Miami Dade Community College,
Miami, Florida (*)
The Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair New York,
Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Metaphors American International College, Springfield, Massachusetts.
The Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair
Miami Beach, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, Florida.

1997
The Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair
Los Angeles, CA; Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Breaking Barriers Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (*)
Regional Artists: A Survey Museum of Art,
Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Life Cycle Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Drawing the Line Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, Florida.

1996
Art Chicago International Art Fair Ambrosino Gallery,
Coral Gables, Florida.
Cuba Siglo XX Modernidad y Sincretismo Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, also
traveled to Fundación CAIXA, Palma de Mallorca; and Centro de Arte Santa Mónica, Barcelona, Spain. (*)

1995
Black Box Ground Level Gallery, South Florida Art Center,
Miami Beach, Florida.
Carne Asada Universidad de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico.(*)
Symbolism in Contemporary Cuban Art Porter Randall Gallery,
La Jolla, California, U.S.A.

1994
Vanguardia de Artistas Cubanos Contemporáneos
Centro de Arte Euroamericano, Caracas, Venezuela, (*)
Art Miami International Art Fair Ambrosino Gallery,
Coral Gables, Florida.
Cuban Art. The Last Sixty Years Panamerican Art Gallery,
Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.


PERFORMANCES

Personal Performances

1998
Espíritu Delirante InterAmerican Gallery, Miami, Florida (*)

1988
No es Sólo lo que Ves Universidad de La Habana, Havana, Cuba.
Levitar Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba.

Group Performances

1988
Todos Estrellas (La Plástica Joven se Dedica al Baseball) Círculo Social Obrero (CSO), José Antonio
Echevarría, Havana, Cuba.
Mesa Redonda Carlos R. Cárdenas, Tomás Esson and Glexis Novoa Centro Cultural Alejo Carpentier, Havana,
Cuba.

Performances with the "Grupo Provisional"

1988
Japón Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba, Havana, Cuba.
Very Good Rauschenberg (intervention during Robert Rauschenberg’s press conference and interview with the
general public at his exhibition Roci-Cuba,
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba.(*)
Rock Campesino Galería L, Havana, Cuba.

Performances with the Grupo Cívico

1987
Al Final Todos Bailan Juntos Galería Habana, Havana, Cuba.
Suave y Fresco (bajito de sal para el diabético)
Galería Plaza


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

American Express Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona (site specific marble wall drawing),
Barcelona, Spain.
Centro Wifredo Lam Havana, Cuba.
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Atlanta, Georgia.
Fondo Cubano de Bienes Culturales Havana, Cuba.
Funds Grants Resources Inc. Miami, Florida.
Ludwig Forum Fur Internationale Kunst
Aachen, Germany.
Museo Histórico de Santa Clara Santa Clara, Cuba.
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes Old Havana, Cuba.
Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Nassau County Museum Long Island, New York.
Sprint Kansas City, Kansas.


PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

2003
The Four Season Miami Art Collection Miami, Florida.
Related Group Collection, Murano Grande
Miami Beach, Florida.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

2004
Artist draws on the past to create a vision of
Worcester's future (periodical), Cate McQuaid,
Boston Globe, January 23, 2004.
Worcester: gold and smoke (brochure), Susan L. Stoops, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester,
Massachusetts, January 2004.

2003
Enligtening Enterprise (periodical),
Tom Patterson, Winston-Salem Journal, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, December 28, 2003.
Conozca a los que dictan la pauta en la escena local (periodical), Elisa Turner,
El Nuevo Herald, Miami, Florida, Dec. 01, 2003.
Local Views For Basel (periodical), Alfredo Triff,
New Times, Miami, Florida, December 4, 2003.
New space -- and its artists -- has a lot of potential (periodical), Elisa Turner, The Miami Herald, November 30,
2003.
This is hotel art like you've never seen before (periodical), Elisa Turner, The Miami Herald,December 1, 2003.
Report from Miami / Expanding Horizons (periodical),
Roni Feinstein, Artin America, December 2003.
Basel / Miami Beach International Art Fair (catalogue), Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida. (*)
10 Floridians, (cataloge), Marcelo Pacheco, Miami Art Central, Miami, Florida.
Rounding Up Art in Miami (periodical) Joel Weinstein, LatinArt.com, http://www.latinart.com/spanish/aiview.
cfm?start=3&id=178, 2003.
Art bites (periodical) Elisa Turner, The Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, Jun. 08, 2003.
On display: the creepy and the kinky (periodical) Elisa Turner, The Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, Apr. 23,
2003.
Art Sited (periodical), Judy Cantor, The Miami Herald (Home & Design),
Miami, Florida, April-May 2003.
Soocial Strategies, Redefining Social Realism (catalog), Pamela Auchincloss & Klaus Ottmann, University of
Washington Press, Seattle, WA, March 2003.
From dreamland to despair (periodical) Elisa Turner, The Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, Mar. 09, 2003.
Neonlicht (radio), Deutschlandradio,
www.dradio.de 2003.
Glexis Novoa, Review (Periodical), Elisa Turner,
ARTnews magazine, (Volume 102/Number 2), Miami, Florida, February 2003.
Paradise Lost? Aspects of Landscape in Latin American Art (catalog), Issa Ma. Benitez Dueñas, Lowe Art
Museum, University of Miami,
Coral Gables, Florida, January 2003.
Glexis Novoa (periodical), Michelle Weinberg, Tema Celeste, Milan, Italy, January 2003.
Plenty on the palette at Art Miami fest (periodical) Elisa Turner, The Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, January
2003.
Drawings Conclusions (catalog) Nina Arias, (DACRA, Miami Design District), Miami, Florida, January 2003.

2002
ART SEEN/Art overdose(periodical) Damarys Ocan~a, Street, Miami, Florida, December 13, 2002.
Summer’s Heavy and Light (periodical), Alfredo Triff, New Times, Miami, Florida, August 2002.
Memoria, Cuban Art of the 20 Century (book), California/International Art Foundation, Jose Veigas, Cristina
Vives, Adolfo V. Nodal, Valia Garzon and Dannys Montes de Oca, Los Angeles, California, September 2002.
Medicine Show (periodical), Damarys Ocana, Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, jul. 28, 2002.
That Place (catalog), Cesar Trasovares and Yolanda Sanchez, Mia Gallery, Miami-Dade Aviation Department
Division of Fine Art & Cultural Affairs, Miami, Florida, July 25, 2002.
Report from Miami, Bass Forward (periodical), Art in America, Paula Harper, New York, New York, june 2002.
Glexis Novoa at the Miami Art Museum(periodical), Art in America, Ann Wilson Lloyd, New York, New York,
june 2002.
That Place (catalog), Dacra, Judy Cantor, Cesar Trasovares and Rosa de la Cruz, Miami Design District
(Dacra), Miami, Florida, April 2002.
Bad Painting and Tired Revolutionaries (periodical), Art Papers magazine,
Joel Weinstein, Atlanta, Georgia, March-April 2002.
The modernism and the post Socialist Condition (book), Gerardo Mosquera, Ales Erjavec, University of
California Press, 2002.

2001
Take a Bow Wo cares about ArtBasel? The Bass exhibition proves Miami already had it goin on (periodical),
Alfredo Triff, New Times,
Miami, Florida, 2001.
globe>miami>island (Catalogue), Amy Cappellazzo, Bass Museum, Miami Beach, Florida, December, 2001.
Best of Miami, 2001, best local artist (periodical), New Times, Miami, Florida, 2001.
Art Basel Miami Beach Cancellation (periodical), Gabriuszine, Kenny Schachter, New York, New York,
November, 2001.
Is The Museum a Junkyard (periodical), David Meeks, Lifestyle, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 2001.
Beyond the Ashcan (periodical), Candice Russell, City link, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 2001.
Interaction at the M.O.A. (periodical), KOSH, Eastsider, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 2001.
8 artists drop avant-garde on public (periodical), Elisa Turner, Miami Herald ,
Miami, Florida, 2001.
Coctel de politica y dinero en el arte cubano (periodical), Wilfredo Cancio Isla,
El Nuevo Herald, Miami, Florida, 2001.
"A Capital in Technicolor"(Periodical), Elisa Turner, ARTnews magazine, 02-2001.

2000
Dimensions Variable: Wall Drawings by Paul Coffey, Katy Fischer, Rovert Lentz, Glexis Novoa (periodical),
Jay Reed, Ten by Ten magazine,
Chicago, Illinois, 2000.
Artist’ odd, risky visions opening minds to Miami (periodical), Elisa Turner, Miami Herald,
Miami, Florida, 2000.
Interaction is welcome at complex MAM exhibit (periodical), Elisa Turner,
Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, 2000.
Performance Cubano en los años ochenta (periodical), Francine Birbragher,
Art Nexus magazine, Bogota, Colombia, September 2000.
Trasgressio de generes (periodical), El Pais, Barcelona, Spain, 2000.
El CCCB evoca els canvis esdevinguts a escala en l’ ultima decada arran de la caiguda del mur (periodical), F.
E., Punt, Tarragona, Spain, 2000.
El CCCB abre en su sede y en internet la nueva fase de "Inundacions" (periodical), La Vanguardia, Barcelona,
Spain, 2000.
Cinco artistas invaden el CCCB y recrean el paisaje fragmentado despues del muro (periodical), Angela
Molina, ABC, Barcelona, Spain, 2000.
Los restos de el naufragio (periodical), Jaume Vidal, El Pais, Barcelona, Spain, 2000.

1999
El CCCB presenta un libro y un ciclo artistico sobre la caida del muro (periodical), Jaume Vidal, El Pais,
Madrid, Spain, 1999.
La Gente en Casa (catalogue), Corina Matamoros,
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Old Havana, Cuba.
Report from Miami:part I Museum Salsa,(periodical),Roni Feinstein,
Art in America magazine, 1999.
Hot Spots Los Angeles, Houston and Miami (Catalogue), Goran Tomic,
Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina, 1999.
There is no ‘I’ in Team (Catalogue), NFA Space, Chicago, Ilinois, 1999.
Te Quiero (Periodical), Elisa Turner, The Miami Herald, 1999.

1998
Breaking Barriers (Periodical), Francine Birbragher, Art Nexus magazine,
Bogota, Colombia, 1998.
Thrills of Talent: Critics Highlight a Dazzling Dozen (periodical), Elisa Turner,
The Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, 1998.
The Ticket, Cuban Performance Art of the 80’s (periodical), Elisa Turner,
The Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, 1998.
Abierto 24 Horas (Catalogue), Jose Arino y Oscar Mora, Valencia, Spain, 1998
Cuban Art in Spotlight (periodical), Pat Cahill, Union News, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1998.
AIC Hosts Cuban Art Show (periodical), John De Bonville, AIC Alumni News, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1998.

A.K.A. Place Displace (art book), Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, Florida, 1998.

1997
Breaking Barriers (catalogue), Ivan de la Nuez, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida,1997.
El Paisaje de los Discursos (periodical), Ivan de la Nuez, Revista Lápiz, Madrid, Spain, 1997.
Visions in Exile (periodical), Elisa Turner, The Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, 1997.

1996
Arte en Miami (periodical), Ivan de la Nuez, Revista Lapiz, Madrid, Spain, 1996.
The Landscape of the Speeches (periodical), Ivan de la Nuez, Miami Art Paper, Miami, Florida, 1996.
Miami, La Ciudad Poscomunista (periodical), Ivan de La Nuez, Lateral, Barcelona, Spain, 1996.
La Habana Oscura, after the painting of Glexis Novoa (periodical), Ricardo Pau-Llossa, Mid-American Review,
Bowling Green State University,
Bowling Green, Ohio, 1996.
Cuba Siglo XX, Modernidad y Sincretismo (catalogue), Antonio Eligio (Tonel), Antonio Zaya; Centro Atlantico
de Arte Moderno, Canary Islands, Spain,1996.
La Habana Oscura (periodical), Armando Alvarez Bravo, El Nuevo Herald, Miami, Florida, 1996.
The Bleak and the Beautiful (periodical), Judy Cantor, New Times, Miami, Florida, 1996.
Cuban Artist’s "Dark Havana" a haunting show of oppression (periodical), Elisa Turner,
The Miami Herald, 1996.

1995
Carne Asada (catalogue), Ana Fernandez, Universidad de Monterrey,
Monterrey, Mexico, 1995.
Un Acermamiento al Palimpsesto Janet Batet and Elvia Dieguez,
Arte Cubano Magazine, Havana, Cuba, 1995.
Daño (catalogue), Orlando Hernandez, Espacio Aglutinador, Havana, Cuba, 1995.
Un Sitio en la Nostalgia de la Epoca de Oro (periodical), Carina Pino-Santos,
Revista Revolucion y Cultura, Havana, Cuba, 1995.

1994
Conocen a Pintores en Cena Entrevista (periodical), Maricruz Gutierrez,
El Diario de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico, 1994.
Estableceran Dialogo Creativo en Marco (periodical), Gerardo Lopez Moya,
El Porvenir, Monterrey, Mexico, 1994.
Salen de Cuba para entrar al mercado del Arte Regio (periodical),
Marcela García Machuca, El Norte, Monterrey, Mexico, 1994.