San Gimignano
Beijing
Les Moulins
Habana
Roma
Sao Paulo
Paris
Yoan Capote
Yoan Capote was born in Pinar del Río, Cuba, in 1977. He graduated from the National School of Art in 1995 and from the Higher Institute of Art in Havana in 2001. He currently lives and works in Havana.
He has received distinctions such as the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2006), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award (2006) and the Vermont Study Center Fellowship (2002). During the 7th Havana Biennial (2000), he received the UNESCO Prize, together with the DUPP artists' collective. His work was part of the group exhibition at the Cuban Pavilion of the 54th Venice Biennale (2011), as well as the Gwangju Biennale (2018), Chengdu Biennale (2021) and Biennale of Sydney (2022). A large-scale painting was exhibited in Art Basel Unlimited, 2022.
His work focuses on the examination of behaviors and psychological states (personal or collective), from the most intangible to the most visceral. His work reflects on shared or thematic conflicts where the identity of the individual subject, sometimes ceases to be important in order to be subordinated to a more global and collective reflection. He is interested in themes such as emigration, resistance, manipulation, stress, alienation, all of which are common experiences of contemporary human beings, regardless of their differences in context. Yoan Capote has achieved a recogniseable personal stamp with his well-known paintings done with hooks, from the Island series, which illustrates some of these issues.
Amongst his most important exhibitions are: Espinario (2024), Galleria Continua, Paris, France; This far and further (2023), Museum Voorlinden, The Netherlands; Escala Humana, an exhibition with the Italian master Michelangelo Pistoletto; Galleria Continua, Havana (2022); Elegy, Galleria Continua, Rome (2022); Mirador Circular, Galleria Continua, Havana (2020); La Brèche, Galleria Continua, Paris, France; Landlors Color, Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan, USA (2019); Sujeto Omitido, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy (2019); How the lights get in, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Cornell University, Ithaca, USA (2019); Baggage Claims, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA (2019); Ola Cuba, Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille, France (2018); Cuban Art, traveling exhibition co-organized by the Mid-America Arts Alliance with the Center for Cuban Studies (NYC) (2018); Cuba mi amor, Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, France (2017); Art x Cuba, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst , Aachen, Germany (2017); Overseas, Center for Contemporary Art Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany (2017); Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, organized by Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA and The Getty. Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach, CA, USA (2017); On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida, USA (2017); Adios Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art, 1950-2015, traveling exhibition at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. and The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (2017); Cuba Libre, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz (2016).
His work is included in several collections, among them: Voorlinden Museum, Daros Latin America AG Collection, Zurich, Switzerland; National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA; Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada; Perez Art Museum, Florida, USA; Farber Collection, Miami, USA; Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts, USA; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, USA; Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, USA; Beelden aan Zee Museum, The Hague, Netherlands; The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Winter Park, USA; Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio, USA; Ella Fontanels-Cisneros Collection, Miami, USA; Steven Cohen Collection, Connecticut, USA; among others.
2001-2003
Professor of Visual Art, Higher Institute of Art (ISA), Havana
1996-2001
Higher Institute of Art (ISA), Havana
1991-1995
National School of Art (ENA), Havana
1988-1991
Provincial School of Art, Pinar del Rio
2022
Elegy, Galleria Continua, Roma, Italia
Art Basel Unlimited, Switzerland
2021
Requiem, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK
2019
Sujeto omitido, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italia
Territorial Waters, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong
2017
Palangre, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2015
Isla, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, Uk
Yoan Capote: Collective Unconscious, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2014
Open Mind, outdoor installation at Canoe Landing Park, Pinar del Rio, Cuba
2013
Emotional Objects, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK
The Other Nature of Things (Rerum Alter Natura), Long House Reserve, East Hampton, NY, USA
2012
Fonemas y Morfemas II, with Iván Capote, Galería Habana, Havana, Cuba
Momentum, XI Havana Biennial, El Nukleo + El Bunker Studio, Havana, Cuba
2011
In Tran-sit, 21c Museum, Louisville, KY, USA
Fonemas y Morfemas, with Iván Capote, Galería Habana, Havana, Cuba
2010
Mental States, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2008
Psicomorfosis, Galería Habana, Havana, Cuba
2006
Pensamientos Paralelos, Havana Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2004
Animica - New Sculpture and Drawings, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Between the Lines, Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, NY, USA
Preparations: Studies for Sculpture on Paper, Andre Zarre Gallery, Ny, USA
2003
Drawings and Projects, Brownstone Foundation, Paris, France
2001
El Diseño de lo Híbrido, Galería Habana, Havana, Cuba
1999
ULM (Huéleme), Galería Carmelo González, Havana, Cuba
1998
Tracc Bakk Track, Galería 23 y 12, Havana, Cuba
2022
23rd Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
New wave, Galleria Continua, Dubai
2021
La Brèche, Galleria Continua, Paris, France
Latin America, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
Truc a faire, Galleria Continua, Paris, France
2020
Mirador Circular, Galleria Continua, Havana, Cuba
Cuba mi amor, Galerie Miterrand, Paris, France
Cuba Talks , Peyrassol, France
Por siempre una y otra vez, Galleria Continua, Havana, Cuba
2019
Landlords Colors, Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan, USA
How the light gets in, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
Baggage Claims, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Intersecciones, Factoría Habana, Collateral exhibition at the XIII Biennial of Havana
2018
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
Como está el agua, Galleria Continua, Havana
Parking on Pavement, Jack Shainman, The School, New York, NY, USA
Arte Cubano, traveling exhibition co-organized by the Mid - American Arts Alliance with the Center for Cuban Studies (NYC), Annville, PA; Milwaukee, WI
Imagined Borders, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
Ola Cuba!, Lille 3000, La Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille, France
Diamante en Bruto, Galleria Continua, Havana, Cuba
2017
Las Ciudades Invisibles, Galleria Continua, UNAICC, Havana, Cuba
Cuba Mi Amor, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, France
Overseas, Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany.
Kalei2copio Havana, Galeria Mario Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
Baggage Claims, Ezra and Ceclie Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Connecticut, USA
Art x Cuba – Contemporary Perspectives since 1989, Lugwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
On the Horizon: Contemporary, Cuban Art from Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL, USA
Cuba and The Bahamas. Contemporary Art from the Caribbean, HALLE 14, Leipzig, Germany
Adiós Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art, 1950-2015, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX, USA; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C., USA; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA; the Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA
Wrong Side of History, Bullet Space (An Urban Artist Collaborative), NY, USA
Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach, CA, USA
Home Room: Group Exhibition, The School Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, NY, USA
2016
(In) Mobilario, Galería Habana, Havana, Cuba
Complicated Beauty: Contemporary Cuban Art, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, USA
Cuba Libre, Ludwig Museum Koblenz, Koblenz, Germany
Contigent Beauty: Contemporary Art from Latin America, Museo de Bellas Artes, Houston, TX, USA
2015
Cuba Ficción y fantasía, Casa Daros, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Enhanced! Photographic Works from the Drapkin Collections with Contemporary Light-Based Media, Contemporary Art Museum, Institute for Research in Art, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
When Artist’s Speak Truth… The 8th Floor, New York, NY, USA
Winter in America, The School, Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, NY, USA
2014
Nuit Blanche, Toronto, ON, Canada
Beyond the Classical: Imagining the Ideal Across Time, National Academy Museum, New York, NY, USA
Cuban America: An Empire State of Mind, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY,USA
Mise en Scène, The School, Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook
2013
Cuban Forever, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH, USA
Permission To Be Global/ Practicas Globales: Latin American Art from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Fontanals-Cisneros Art Foundation, Miami, FL, USA
2012
HB, XI Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
Entre Trópicos, Caiza Cultural, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Caos, Galería Havana, Havana, Cuba
Fonemas y Morfemas II, GalerÍa Habana, Havana, Cuba
Construir, Deconstruir y Destruir, Carlos Garaicoa Studio, Madrid, Spain
Círculos, Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid, Spain
Adjoining Islands: The Cuban Pavilion in Manhattan, SRDR Enterprises, New York, NY , USA
2011
LIV Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
L’Insoutenable légèreté de l’être, Galerie Yvon Lambert, New York, NY, USA
Cuba Now, 21c Museum, Louisville, KY, USA
2010
Portugal Arte 10, Primera Bienal de Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal
Without Mask, Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), Johannesburg, Australia
En Otra Dimensión, Galería Habana, Havana, Cuba
Los Impolíticos, Palazzo delle Arti Napoli (PAN), Naples, Italy
Polaridades Complementarias, New Orleans Art Museum, New Orleans, LA Panamericano, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico
Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from Farber Collection, Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA
2009
Las Américas Latinas - Las fatigas del querer, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy
Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
Confluencias II: Inside Arte Cubano Contemporáneo, The National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM X Havana Biennial, La Cabaña Fortress, Havana, Cuba
HB, X Havana Biennial, Pabexpo Exhibition Complex, Havana, Cuba
2008
Erótica, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba
Contemporary Cuban Art, New Jersey, NJ, USA
State of Exchange, Institute of International Visual Art (INIVA), London, UK
Surrounded by Water, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
2007
Killing Time, Exit Art, New York, NY, USA
Inside/Outside, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Waiting List: Time and Transition in Contemporary Cuban Art, City Art Museum of Ljubljana (MGML), Ljubljana, Slovenia
Cero, Salón Blanco del Convento San Francisco de Asís, Havana, Cuba
2006
Case Studies: Art in a Valise, Katonah Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Contemporary Cuban Drawing, Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, New York, NY, USA
Pacemaker: Contemporary Cuban Art, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
Obsessions, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, ON Inner Cities, Centro de Artes Visuales “Luz y Oficio”, Havana, Cuba
Doble Blanco, Galería Villa Manuela, Havana, Cuba
In the Nature of Things, George Adams Gallery, NY, USA
2005
Wunderkammer I, Galería Nina Menocal, DF., Mexico, Mexico
Body Language, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2004
Cuba from the Inside Looking Out I, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
New Installations, Artists in Residence: Cuba, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Benchmark, Longhouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY, USa
Just on Time, Galería Habana, Havana, Cuba
The Future is Now, Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, New York, NY, USA
Collector’s Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, USA
Bush-Whack!, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2003
VIII Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
Ciudad Múltiple, International Exhibition in Public Spaces, Panama City Sentido Común, Galería Habana, Havana, Cuba
Sentido Común, Galería Habana, Havana
2002
International Show, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, USA
La Huella Múltiple, CDAV, Havana, Cuba
100 Years of Art in Pinar del Rio, Pinar del Rio Art Museum (MAPRI), Pinar del Rio, Cuba
La Huella Múltiple, Havana Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
ISA Graduated, Havana Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2000
VII Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
Zoom, Galería Convenio Andrés Bello, Bogotá, Colombia
Con un Pensar Abstraído, Proyecto DUPP, Galería Habana, Havana, Cuba
ARCO Contemporary Art Fair, Fair Site Juan Carlos I, Madrid, Spain
1999
A Ras de Tierra, Architects College, Havana, Cuba
Los Desvelos del Cíclope, Espacio Abierto, Havana, Cuba
II Festival de Performance, Proyecto DUPP, Havana, Cuba
Con un Pensar Abstraído, Proyecto DUPP, Havana, Cuba
La Época, Centro Comercial La Época, Havana, Cuba
VII Salon of Erotic Art, Mariano Rodriguez Gallery, Havana, Cuba
The Performatical Condition, Wifredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba
With an Abstract View, Public Intervention, DUPP Project, La Rampa, Havana, Cuba
1998
II Salón de Arte Contemporáneo, La Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba
II Bienal de Escultura, Havana, Cuba
I Performance Festival "Ana Mendieta", Galería UNEAC, Havana, Cuba
Pizza Pizza, Postimposibility, CDAV, Cuba and Fine Arts University, Paris, France
Building Cultural Bridges, Cornell, Atlantic and William Patterson Universities, NJ, USA
1997
VI Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
Antes de la lluvia, Galería del ISA, VI Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
1996
Se Mandaron pa’ home, CDAV, Havana, Cuba
1995
El Molino Rojo, Casa del Joven Creador, Havana, Cuba
1994
ENA, Una Vez, Galería ENA, V Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
2006
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, New York, NY, USA
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY, USA
2004
Grant and fellowship, Cuban Artists Fund, New York, NY, USA
2002
Mention (Curator Prize), Consejo Nacional de las Artes Plásticas, Havana, Cuba
2000
UNESCO Prize, VII Havana Biennial (with Galeria DUPP), Havana, Cuba
Curator Prize, Consejo Nacional de las Artes Plásticas (with Galeria DUPP), Havana, Cuba
1998
First Prize, II Sculpture Biennial, Galería Teodoro Ramos Blanco, Havana, Cuba
2004
Residency, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2003
Residency, Brownstone Foundation, Paris, France
2002
Residency, American Friends of the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba, New York, NY
21c Museum Hotel, Louisville, KY, Usa
The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Winter Park, FL, Usa
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ, USa
Beelden aan Zee Museum, The Hague, Holland
Buhl Collection, New York, NY, USA
CIFO, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, FL, USA
Daros Latinamerica AG, Zurich, Switzerland
Farber Collection, New York, NY, USA
Kadist Art Foundation, Paris and San Francisco, CA, USA
Karen and Robert Duncan, Lincoln, NE, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, USA
Pérez Art Museum of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH, USA
