Artist Name: Yohy Suárez
Residency Dates: September – October 2024
Born: 1989
Hometown: Havana, Cuba
Lives & Works: Havana, Cuba
URL: yohy-suarez.com | Instagram: @yohysuarez
Gallery: NG Art Gallery
Education: 2010 | Bachelor of Fine Arts at the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts in Havana
Bio/Statement
Yohy Suárez’s paintings and drawings—with a language of expressive urgency—are based on the anthropological value of the image and his peculiar way of dialoguing with unusually described architectural scenarios. It has the indisputable stamp of a marked and very personal aesthetic, worked with natural pigments and charcoal.
His work has been exhibited in personal and collective exhibitions in Italy, Panama, United States, Cyprus, Spain and Cuba. Winner of the Special Prize of the Arte Laguna competition in Venice 15, in 2021, and The International Prize Caravaggio, 2018, Milan, Italy.
He has participated in the art residency programs of the Espronceda Institute of Art and Culture, Barcelona, Spain (2021), and of Isolo17 Art Gallery, Verona, Italy (2019, 2021). His works are part of collections such as: Los Carbonell Foundation, Panama City, Panama; Viñas-Gil Collection, Spain; José Álvarez Collection, Spain; also in private collections in Germany, United States, Italy, Argentina, Cyprus, France and Portugal.
Support: Yohy Suárez’s residency is made possible with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Cuban Artists Fund.
