Diana Fonseca

A 2005 graduate of the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), Diana is one of Cuba's most interesting and gestural contemporary artists. She has held numerous solo exhibitions both on and off the island. Among her most notable solo projects are "Cara a cara," a two-person show with Jacques Villeglé at the Brownstone Foundation in Paris, France; "Diana Fonseca," at the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York, USA; "Viaje a la semilla," a joint exhibition with Aimée García at Factoría Habana; and "Extraña verdad," at El Apartamento, both in Havana, Cuba. Her work has also been included in notable group exhibitions such as "Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, and Materiality," at the Cranbrook Art Museum in Michigan, USA; "Illness has a Colour," a collateral exhibition for the 13th Havana Biennial and held at Estudio 50; “The Cuban Matrix” (Torrence Art Museum, Los Angeles, USA), “Wild Noise” (Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, USA), “Fireflies in the Night” (Stravos Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens, Greece), and “Transhumance, Beyond Cuban Horizons” (CAB Art Center, Brussels, Belgium). He has also participated in prestigious art fairs such as ArtBo, The Armory Show, Untitled Art Fair, ARCO Madrid, Expo Chicago, and LISTE Art Fair Basel.

In 2015, she was awarded the EFG Bank & ArtNexus Acquisition Prize in Bogotá, Colombia. She has also been a recipient of the Cast Research residency in Melbourne, Australia (2016) and JustMad in Asturias, Spain (2017).