Artist Name: Neida Peñalver Díaz
Residency Dates: September – October 2024
Born: 1983
Hometown: Pinar del Río, Cuba
Lives & Works: Havana, Cuba
URL: artejoven.org| Instagram: @neidyp_d | Facebook: neida.penalverdiaz
Education: 2014 | Master in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Havana
2007 | Bachelor of History, University of Havana
Bio/Statement:
Neida Peñalver Díaz is a researcher and expert in the life and work of the Cuban painter Servando Cabrera Moreno. She is the curator of the Servando Cabrera Moreno Library Museum and a member of the Commission of Experts for the Certification of Authenticity of this artist’s work. She was curator of the project Detrás del muro / Behind the wall, included in the 14th Havana Biennial (2022), and she was invited with the project to ARCO Madrid in 2021. She has collaborated in exhibition projects with NG Art Gallery in Panama City. Neida was Curator of the traveling exhibition Switzerland-Cuba, with the project: Between genders and worlds. Dr. Favez with the Cantonal Museum of History and Archaeology, Lausanne, Switzerland 2021-2022. Curator of the Itinerant exhibition, project: Todas, en busca de un espacio with the Invisible Film Festival of Bilbao, in collaboration with Kultura Communication Desarrollo (KCD ONGD), Bilbao, 2019. She has been consultant for cultural issues for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). General Coordinator of the cultural platform Fondo de Arte Joven / Youth Art Fund.
Some of Neida Peñalver Díaz’ main publications include: Sin embargo, es la vida, works by Servando Cabrera Moreno at NG Art Gallery, in Catalog of the Servando Cabrera Moreno exhibition, NG Editions, Panama City (2019); La hora azul Servando Cabrera Moreno at Los Carbonell Foundation. NG Editions, Panama City (2023); Mírame así, Habaneras y Guajiros de Servando Cabrera, Polymita Editions, Guatemala City (2017); and Epifanía del cuerpo, Eroticism and homoeroticism in the work of Cabrera Moreno, [Compilation of texts], Edited by the Servando Cabrera Moreno Library Museum, Havana (2014).
Support: Neida Peñalver Díaz‘s residency is made possible with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Cuban Artists Fund.
