Armando Marino

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ARMANDO MARINO

Armando Mariño was born in Santiago, Cuba in 1968 where he completed Elementary & High School at the School of Art de Santiago. He moved to Havana in 1987 where he continued advanced studies at the Jose Varona Pedagogical Institute again concentrating on Art & graduating in 1992. Today he lives and works in New York, USA.

Hen began his artistic career by participating in various group exhibitions like The First National Salon of Cuban Contemporary Art. Castillo de la Fuerza y Palacio de Bellas Artes. La Habana. Cuba 1996 ,Río Almendrales. Ni fresa ni chocolate. CENCREM. La Habana. Cuba.1996

The III Caribean Biennal. Modern Art Museum of Santo Domingo República Dominicana. 1996 Four Cuban Artist. Salle Allende. Université Libre de Bruxelles Bélgium. 1997, culminating in his participation in the VI Bienal de la Habana Cuba 1997. At this time, he received several prestigious prizes including the Second Prize in the Nacional Salon of Contemporary Art in Cuba 1997 & the Honor Prize at the XXX Festival Internacional de la Peinture, Chateau-Musee Grimaldi, Cagnes sur Mer, Nice 1998

A quick succession of group exhibitions & residencies follows such as “Inside”. International Art Exhibition. Kassel. Germany 1997,Hidden Art of Revolution. Contemporary Cuban Art. Toronto. Ontario. Canadá.1998,Caribe, exclusión, fragmentación y paraíso M.E.A.C. (Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo. Badajoz. España. Art Omi Artist in residecy in 1998 among others. At this time, he started to exhibit in commercial galleries such as Angel Romero in Madrid & Gary Nader in Miami.

In 2000 he resided in Madrid & was awarded by the Marcelino Botin Fellowship 2001. At this time, he was invited to participate in several exhibitions including Paraíso Cero. Eventa 5. Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo. Uppsala. Sweden 2000,The 90 & The Berardo Modern Art at Museo Sintra in Portugal. 2002 , Atravesados Fundacion Telefonica in Madrid 2002; Basura y Foro, Sur Caseres, Extremadura, Spain 2002, Der Global Komplez OK; Centrum fur Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria 2003; Catastrofe Minime .Museo de Nuoro, Cerdena, Italy 2003 and finally, for the second time The VIII Bienal de la Habana, Cuba 2003

In 2004, he won the prestigious Rijsakademie Fellowship in Amsterdam & for the following two years he began a new period of painting under the guidance of his new advisors, Luc Tuyman & Bernard Frieze. This helped him switch gears & gave him the freedom to take his work to another level. Following Rijsakademie, Mariño found himself working with three European galleries; Jean Brolly in Paris, Grusenmayer Art in Belgium & Hof & Huyser in Holland. At this time, foundations like CBK Amsterdam,The Coca Cola Foundation ,corporations such as Bank of the Netherlands & private European collectors began collecting his work.

In 2006 he showed The Night Inside of the Painter’s House at Jean Brolly Gallery in Paris. This was followed by Crash & Clash at Hof & Huyser Amsterdam 2006; & Tervuren’s Tales in Grusenmayer Art Gallery Deurle, Belgium 2007.

During that time, he was invited to participate in several exhibitions like the Cuban Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection at The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Florida.
Visiones Publicas .Pasiones Privadas. Contemporary Museum of Vigo. Spain 2008, Something and Something Else . Oce Art Foundation Museum Van Bommel van Dam.Venlo Holland 2009 and Without Mask. Contemporary Afro-Cuban Art. Johannesburg Art Gallery. South Africa 2010 among others.
In 2010 he traveled to the United States as part of the ISCP Brooklyn for one year.  That same year, he received excellent reviews as a result of his participation in the Keloids exhibition at the Mattress Factory Museum in Pittsburgh.  His installation for the exhibit, entitled The Raft, is a 1950s American automobile mounted on numerous legs, instead of wheels.  The work was acquired by the 21c Museum in Kentucky.  Between 2010 & 2012 his work drew the attention of critics & curators in New York, leading to an invitation to participate in El Museo del Barrio’s, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, Biennal (S) Files 2011.  He followed that show with Building Identities, Contemporary Art from the Shelly & Donald Rubin Private Collection & Cleveland Clinic’s Arts Program, Arts & Medicine Institute, Ohio 2012. In the summer of 2011 he was invited by the Bronx Museum of the Arts for the Artist Studio in residency program & was awarded The Pollock Krasner Grant.2011/2012  At this time, private collectors continued to purchase his work.  The Donald & Shelley Rubin Collection added his work to their collection as well as the Deutsche Bank Collection, USA.

In 2012 he had his first solo show in New York, Recent Paintings from the Year of the Protester, at The 8th Floor Space, with the support of the Rubin Foundation & the Bronx Museum of the Arts.  This show led to an invitation to participate in Project V at HVCC Peekskill, September 29th, VOLTA NY 2013 ,Skyline Adrift at Art Omi, and Fifteen.Recent Adquisitions from the Deutsche Bank Collection. USA 2013
He resides & works in New York .
New York 2013

EDUCATION
1980-1987 Escuela Provincial de Arte “Joaquín Tejada”. Santiago de Cuba. Cuba.

1987-1992 Facultad de Educación Artística del Instituto Superior Pedagógico
“Enrique José Varona”. Havana. Cuba.

2004-2005 Rijksakademie van beldeende kunsten. Amsterdam .Holland

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026 What’s Remains, Roof A Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

2025 The Shine, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2021 Still I’ll Rise, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France.

2021 Fake Landscape, Galerie Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2019 La Selva Oscura, Faction Art Projects, New York, USA.

2017 Watercolors, Janine Bean Gallery, Berlin, Germany.

2016 Sweet Dreams, The Watermill Center, Artist in Residence, New York, USA.

2016 Recent Paintings, Coates and Scarry Gallery, London, UK.

2015 Not All Who Wander Are Lost, Galerie Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2014 Recent Paintings after the Long Winter, 532 Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York, USA.

2014 Pinturas recientes, Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid, Spain.

2013 Under the Red Light, Galerie Christoffer Egelung, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2012 Recent Paintings from the Year of the Protester, 8th Floor Space, New York, NY, USA.

2012 The Waste Land, Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York, NY, USA.

2009 Drilling America, Pan American Art Projects, Miami, FL, USA.

2007 Tervuern’s Tales, Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle, Belgium.

2007 Interiors, Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid, Spain.

2006 Crash/Clash, Hof & Huyser Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2006 The Night Inside of the Painter’s House, Galerie Jean Brolly, Paris, France.

2005 Beautiful World, Project Room Oost, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Holland.

2005 Amsterdam. Recent Paintings, Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid, Spain.

2004 Paintings, Project Room East, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, Holland.

2003 Estéticamente correcto, Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid, Spain.

2002 Arte en las Venas, Sala Rivadavia, Fundación de la Diputación Provincial de Cádiz, Spain.

2002 Arte en las Venas, Museo Cruz Herrera, La Línea de la Concepción, Cádiz, Spain.

2002 From My Bathtub, Galería RAY GUN, Valencia, Spain.

2002 Con permiso de mi antropólogo, Galería Ad Hoc, Vigo, Spain.

2001 Más Allá, Museo Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain.

2001 La angustia de las influencias, Galería Theredoom, Barcelona, Spain.

2001 In Utero, Gary Nader Fine Art, Miami, USA.

2000 Más Allá, Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba.

2000 Recent Paintings, International Art Studio Valjevo, Yugoslavia.

1999 Recent Works, Gary Nader Fine Art, Miami, USA.

1999 ROPA USADA. Para los otros del tercer mundo, Galería Ángel Romero, Madrid, Spain.

1998 Obra Reciente, Sala de Exposiciones Palacio de Abrantes, Salamanca, Spain.

1997 Obra Reciente, Galería Ángel Romero, Madrid, Spain.

1996 Nostra Nusquama, Galería Espacio Estudio, Havana, Cuba.

1996 Des-Colon-izando el entorno, Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba.

1993 Arqueología de la Simulación, Centro de Arte 23 y 12, Havana, Cuba.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 XMAS’25 THE ANNUAL WINTER SHOW, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2010 Without Mask, Contemporary Afro-Cuban Art, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.

2010 Cuban Avant-garde Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Lowe Art Museum, USA.

2009 Peregrinatio, Arte en las Ermitas de Sagunto, Sagunto, Valencia, Spain.

2009 Cuban Avant-garde Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada.

2008 Cuban Avant-garde Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, California, USA.

2008 Visiones Públicas, Pasiones Privadas, Contemporary Art Museum of Vigo, Vigo, Spain.

2008 Something and Something Else, Exhibition Oce Art Foundation in Museum Van Bommel van Dam, Venlo, Holland.

2007 Cuban Avant-garde Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Harn Museum of Art, Florida, USA.

2007 Restos, Estudio Arteológico, Muestra temática de la colección permanente, Contemporary Art Museum of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2006 New Acquisitions, CBK Amsterdam, Holland.

2006 Looking Back, Looking Black, African-American, African, and Latino Images from the Robert E. Holmes Collection, The Kansas African-American Museum, Kansas, USA.

2006 More than Meets the Eye, Perspectives from The Robert E. Holmes Collection, California African-American Museum, Los Angeles, USA.

2005 Mi Cuerpo, Mi País, Cuban Art Today, U.V.A. Art Museum, University of Virginia, Virginia, USA.

2005 Open Ateliers, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, Holland.

2005 Berezdivin Collection, Espacio 1414, Opening Exhibition, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2005 Young Painters, Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle, Belgium.

2005 New Acquisitions, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, Holland.

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Deutsche Bank Collection USA
21cMuseum.Kentucky.USA
Shelley and Donald Rubin Private Collection. New York. USA
Sarah and Darius Anderson Collection. California.USA
Howard Farber Collection. New York .USA
Centro Wifredo Lam. Havana. Cuba.
ART/OMI Residency. Nueva York. USA
ASU Art Museum: Arizona. USA
Colección Berardo Museo de Arte Moderna.. Sintra. Portugal
Museo Extremeño Iberamericano de Arte Contemporáneo. MEIAC.
Marcelino Botín Foundation.Spain
National Museum of Valjevo. Yugoslavia.
Espacio C. Camargo. Cantabria. Spain.
Diputación Provicial de Cadiz .Sala Rivadavia. Cadiz. Spain
Coca Cola Foundation.Spain
CEGAM.Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporaneo.Galicia .Spain
University of Virginia Art Museum. Virginia. USA
Rijskakademie van beeldende kunsten . Amsterdam. Holland.
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Havana . Cuba.
Stichting Oce Kunstbezitp. Venlo. Holland
De Nederlandshe Bank. Holland.
Arttoteek Den Hagg. Holland

SELECTED AWARDS, RECIDENCIES AND OTHER
2011 Artist Studio in Residency, Bronx Museum, New York, USA
2011 Chashama Studios, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2011 The Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, USA
2010 The Christopher Reynolds Foundation, New York, USA
2010 Mattress Factory Residency Programs, Pittsburgh, USA
2010 2011 ISCP (International Studio & Curatorial Program), Brooklyn, NY, USA
2009 Raid Project, Los Angeles, California, USA
2005 Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DCO/IC
2004 Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DCO/IC
2004 2005 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
2000 Fundación Marcelino Botín, España
1999 ART OMI Residency, New York, USA
1998 Mención de Honor, XXXe Festival International de la Peinture, Château Musée Grimaldi, Cagnes sur Mer, France
1997 Segundo Premio, I Salón Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo Cubano, Castillo de la Fuerza y Palacio de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba