Rogelio López Marín | Gory

Curriculum

Born in Havana, Cuba, July 24 of 1953.

Academic Studies

1978
Master of Art in Art History, The University of Havana

1976
Photografic and Graphic Design course under the tutorial of the Cuban artist Raul Martínez

1973
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, National School of Art, Cubanacan Havana, Cuba

Professional Experience

1975-1991
Photographer of Cuban Cultural Ministry Magazine

1978-1991
Photographer and Graphic Designer, record albums covers, Cuban Record Company EGREM

1992-2008
Painter and Photographer showing with differents galleries and Museum in USA

Publications

Books

2008
“Nowhere Land”, photos by Gory, ed. Blurb, USA

2008
“Because of The City”, photos by Gory, ed. Blurb, USA

1994
“New Art of Cuba”, Luis Camnitzer, University of Texas Press, Austin,TX, USA

1979
“Time Life Year Book”, Alexandria, Virginia, USA

Catalogs

2008
Cuba, Art and History From 1868 to Today, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada

2006
Latin American Photography 2, Selections from the Lehigh University Art Gallery Collection, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA

2001
Latin American Artist - Photographers From The Lehigh University Art Galleries Collection, Bethehem, PA, USA

2001
Shifting Tides - Cuban Photography after Revolution, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, USA

2001
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba, Colección de Arte Cubano, pag. 230-231, La Habana, Cuba

1997
Breaking Barriers, Museum of Art of Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA

1996
Cuba Siglo XX, Modernidad y Sincretismo, Atlantic Center of Modern Art, Las palmas de Gran Canarias, Spain

1996
Foto-Fest 96, Houston, TX, USA

1994
Foto-Fest 94, Houston, TX, USA

1992
Foto-Fest 92, Houston, TX, USA

1992
Cambio de Foco (Ante América), Banco de la República, Luis Angel Arango Library, Santa Fé de Bogotá, Colombia

1990
No Man is an Island, Cuban Young Art, Museum of Pori, Finland

1981
Hecho en Latinoamerica II, Mexican Council of Photography, Mexico, DF

1978
Hecho en Latinoamerica I, Mexican Council of Photography, Mexico, DF

Magazines & Newspaper

2005
Treasure from the Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, engagement calendar of LACMA 2005 (July), Los Angeles, CA, USA

2004
at LACMA, Museum members magazine, Oct/Nov/Dec 2004. Permanent Colection-Discovering LACMA. Los Angeles, CA, USA

2003
Atlantica Revista de Arte y Pensamiento No 36, Otoño de 2003, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

2003
Nueva Luz, photographic journal Volume 8 No.3 En Foco Inc. New York, NY, USA

2001
Art in America, October 2001, “From Revolution to Reverie”, by Leah Ollman, New York, USA

2001
The New York Times Weekend, Friday September 7, 2001, “Stylists of the Epic and the Surreal” by Holland Cotter, New York, USA

2001
Art News, September 2001 (advertisement) Pag. 28, New York, USA

1995
Aperture, winter 1995 isue, New York, USA

1993
Art Nexus #55, June-August 93, “Cambio de Foco”, by Natalia Gutierrez, FL, USA

1987
Esquire & Derby, Italian edition, “Lo Especchio nello Especchio di Gory”, Milan, Italy

1979
Fotografía en Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

Awards

2001
Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant in the field of the Visual Arts, New York, USA

1990
Photography Prize, National Salon of the Cuban Union of writers and Artists, Havana, Cuba

1984
Photography Prize “Tina Modotti” at the First Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba

1982
Prize at the National Landscape Salon, Havana, Cuba

1981
Latinoamerican and Caribean Photography Prize of “Casa de las Américas”, Havana, Cuba

Group Exhibitions

2008
“Los Paisajes de la Memoria”, Galería Allegro, Ciudad de Panamá, Centroamerica

2008
Cuba, Art and History From 1868 to Today, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada

2007
A Través del Espejo, Arte Cubano Hoy, Allegro Galería, Panamá

2006
Latin American Photography 2, Selections from the Lehigh University Art Gallery Collection, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA

2005
Icons, Memories & Reminders, Naomi Silva Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA

2005
Alter Realities, Art Center/South Florida, miami Beach. FL, USA

2004
Tres, GDS Gallery, San Jose, Costa Rica

2004
Through the lens: Eigh Photographers, C Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD, USA

2003
Visual Poetics: Art and the Word, Miami Art Nuseum, FL, USA

2002
Shifting Tides-Cuban Photography after Revolution: Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL

2001
Shifting Tides-Cuban Photography after Revolution: Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NY, USA

LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), CA, USA

2001
Latin American Artist-Photographers From the Lehigh University Art Galleries Collection, DuBois Gallery, Maginnes Hall, Lehigh University, PA, USA
El Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico
El Museo del Barrio, New York, USA (Oct. 2000)

1999
Fin de Mundo, Fine Arts Museum Fundation, Caracas, Venezuela

1998
Developing Ilussion, 1873-1998: Photographs from the Corcoran Collection, Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC, USA

1998
Breaking Barriers, from the collection of the Museum of Art of Fort Lauderdale, Dali Museum, Tampa, FL, USA

1997
Breaking Barriers, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA

1997
American Voices, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA

1996
Cuba Siglo XX, Modernidad y Sincretismo, Atlantic Center of Modern Art, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; “La Caixa” Fundation, Palma, Balears Isles; Centre d’Art Santa Mónica Cataluña, Spain

1996
Discoveries of the Meeting Place, Old Cotton Exchange Building, Houston, TX, USA

1995
Reverberations: Diptychs & Triptychs from the Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL, USA

1994
American Voices, George Brown Convention Center, Houston, TX, USA

1992
Cambio de Foco (Ante América) , Banco de la República, Luis Angel Arango Library, Santa Fé de Bogotá, Colombia

1986
Second Havana Biennial, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba

1984
First Havana Biennial, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba

1981
Hecho en Latinoamérica II, Fine Arts Palace, Mexico, DF

1981
Sano y Sabroso, 12 y 23 Gallery, Havana, Cuba

1981
Volumen I, International Art Center, Havana, Cuba

1979
Pintura Fresca, Art Gallery of Cienfuegos, Cuba

1978
Hecho en Latinoamérica I, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico, DF

One Man Shows

2008
Because of The City, Pan American Art Projects. Miami, FL. USA

2006
Innerland, Online exhibition, www.cubaartny.org New York, USA

2006
Innerland, Chelsea Galleria, Miami, FL, USA

2004
A Small Retrospective, Chelsea Galleria, Miami, FL, USA

2003
The City, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2002
Photographs and Memories, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

2001
Beyond Cuba- Mirages of Absence, Beadleston Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2000
Gory, Recents Works, Tamara Gallery, San Juán, Purto Rico

1996
Gory, Recents Works, Elite Fine Art Gallery, Coral Gables, FL, USA

1995
Sharing Roots, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA

1994
Gory: Photoworks – A Midcareer Retrospective, Fondo del Sol, Washington DC, USA

1993
Photographs of Gory, Lehigh University, Dubois Gallery, Bethlehem, Pensylvania, USA

1992
Foto-Fest 92, Institute of Hispanic Culture, Houston, TX, USA

1991
Retrospective, Fourth Havana Biennial, The Three Kings of the Morro Gallery, Havana, Cuba

1991
Ausencias, Kahlo Coronel Gallery, Mexico, DF

1991
Ausencias, Manolo Rivero Gallery, Mérida, Yucatán, México

1990
An American Dream, Khalo Coronel Gallery, Mexico, DF
An American Dream, Cienfuego’s Art Gallery, Cuba
An American Dream, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba

1988
Its Only Water in a Strangers Tear, Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario, Canada
Its Only Water in a Strangers Tear, Gallery 76, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Its Only Water in a Strangers Tear, García Monge Gallery, National Theatre, San José, Costa Rica

1987
Its Only Water in a Strangers Tear, Kahlo Coronel Gallery, Mexico, DF

1986
Un Paseo por la Tierra de los Anamitas, Mexican Council of Photography, Mexico, DF
Un Paseo por la Tierra de los Anamitas, Costarrican Museum of Art, San José, Costa Rica

1982
Sólo Entrada, Cultural House of Plaza, Havana, Cuba

Public Collections

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 20th Century Art Permanent Collection, New York, USA. (Painting)
LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) permanent collection (photography), CA, USA
The Corcoran Gallery of Art (Corcoran’s Permanent Collection of Photographs), Washington DC, USA
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, USA
Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL, USA
Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX. USA. (Photography)
Museum of Art of Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA. (Painting and Photography)
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pensylvania, USA. (Photography)
MAM (Miami Art Museum), Miami, FL, USA
Museum of Pori, Finland. (Photography)
Teatro Nacional, La Habana, Cuba. (Painting)
Centro Wifredo Lam, La Habana, Cuba, (photography)
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba. (Painting and Photography)
Biblioteca Nacional, La Habana, Cuba. (Photography)
Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba. (Photography)

Gallery

• mr fantasy
• because of the city
• nowhere land
• new york
• the city
• ausencias
• american dream
• 1836-1936-1984
• it’s only water
• un paseo por la tierra de los anamitas
• nicaragua
• solo entrada
• retratos

Contact

• Rogelio López Marín | Gory
  fotogory@comcast.net
• Jorge Moya
  jmoya@artphotoproject.com
• PanAmerican ArtProjects
  2450 NW 2nd Avenue
  Miami, FL 33127
  t 305.573.2400
  f 305.573.0720
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• Bentley Gallery
  4161 North Marshall Way
  Scottsdale, AZ 85251
  t 480.946.6060
  www.bentleygallery.com