Artist Name: Jose Capaz
Residency Dates: October – November 2025
Born: 1988
Hometown: Regla, Havana, Cuba
Lives & Works: Havana, Cuba
URL: josecapaz.com | Instagram @jose_capaz
Gallery: Servando Art Gallery & Mestre Projects
Education:
2010 – MFA in Painting, Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro, Havana, Cuba
Bio/Statement:
José Capaz’s work is rooted in a process of introspection, in which he reflects on his past and interprets history from a psychological perspective. Through this process, he offers new readings, narrates, and reconstructs his artistic language. He creates scenographies filled with symbols drawn from memory, ultimately constructing landscapes that are, in a way, endless. These landscapes always reach toward infinity and space, a theme he considers fundamental to his paintings. This is why he often produces works of large dimensions, which may be connected to the trauma of being born in a small town that, to him, is a big place full of industrialization and machinery.
José Capaz’s work is represented by Mestre Projects in The Bahamas and Servando Art Gallery in Havana, where he had his first major solo exhibition Inminencia (2025). In 2022, Capaz was awarded by the prestigious Vermont Studio Center in Vermont, USA. During the 11th (2012) and 12th (2015) editions of the Havana Biennial, the artist participated in major public projects. He has also exhibited at group exhibitions including the Freies Museum Berlin, Berlin; The 8th Floor Gallery, New York; Robert Miller Gallery, New York; Gare Saint Sauveur in Lille, France. He has received grants from the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, New York (2014). Capaz entered the collection of the ICA Miami Institute of Contemporary Arts in 2022. The artist’s work is in private and public collections around the world, notably in the Gilbert Brownstone Foundation.
Support: José Capaz’s residency is made possible with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Cuban Artists Fund.
