FABELO HUNG

Artist Name: FABELO HUNG
Residency Dates: April – May 2026
Born: 1991
Hometown: Havana, Cuba
Lives & Works: Miami, Florida
Instagram: @fabelohung

Education:

2017 — University of the Arts (ISA), Havana, Cuba
2010 — San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba

Bio/Statement:

FABELO HUNG works across an expansive terrain of media — painting, sculpture, performance, installation, photography, video, virtual reality, and robotics — not out of restlessness, but out of a conviction that no single form can contain what he is trying to say. Born in Cuba and now based in Miami, his practice is shaped by cultural displacement and the awareness that images and histories are never neutral. At its core is a gesture he calls visual piracy: moving through culture as a scavenger and saboteur, collecting fragments charged by power and returning them altered, destabilized, freed from their original discourse. This is not mere appropriation but something closer to metabolization — absorbing cultural material and letting it pass through chaos and uncertainty until it emerges belonging to neither its source nor any fixed new meaning. That instability is deliberate. It is, for him, a form of freedom.

FABELO HUNG’s solo shows include Color and Light, NG Gallery, Panama (2022), and Mourners, G.T.G., Havana (2019). He has also been part of group exhibitions, such as REACH to FOREST, The Kennedy Center (2024); 13th Havana Biennial (2019); Pioneer Works (2019); Museum of Black Civilizations, Dakar (2018); DA2 Domus Artium, Salamanca (2019); 12th Havana Biennial (2015). He received grants from The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, New York (2014), and The Rockefeller Brothers Fund in collaboration with Pioneer Works, New York (2017). He is the founding member of the STAINLESS art collective (2010–2017). FABELO HUNG’s work is in the following collections: Chrysler Museum, VA; MOLAA, LA; Gilbert Brownstone Foundation, Paris; FP Journe Collection, Geneva.