Alberto J. Carol :: Self Portrait “Endurance”
Acrylic/canvas, 30 x 30 in, 2008

Curriculum Vitae

Alberto Jorge Carol

Education

Graduated from the National School of Art (ENA) with a major in Painting.  Havana, Cuba.

Academic Employment

Professor of Drawing at the Fine Arts School of San Alejandro, Havana, Cuba

1979 National Advisor to the Ministry of Culture for the Plastic Arts and Artistic Teaching, Havana, Cuba

1971 Professor of Perception at the School of Industrial Design, Havana, Cuba

One-person Shows

2009 “Portraits of Nature.” Longstreth & Goldberg Gallery, Naples FL

2004 Sande García Fine Arts, Miami FL

2002-03 Maxoly Gallery, Miami FL

1997-98 “The Calm and the Fury” [ a ten-year retrospective of paintings from 1988-97].  Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables, FL USA.

“Desde Cuba al Mundo (From Cuba to the World).”  Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables, FL USA.

Art Miami ’93 Miami Beach, Florida USA

The Hornby Gallery, Delray Beach, FL USA

Moscoso Gallery, Washington D.C., USA

1992  Europ’Art, Geneva, Switzerland

“Trópico.” Javier Lumbreras Fine Art, Coral Gables, FL USA

“Trópico.” Galería Heller, Madrid, Spain

“Pinturas.”Galería Gisbert, Alicante, Spain

“Dibujos,” Teatro Karl Marx, Havana, Cuba

“Puro Trópico,” Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba

“Trópico II,” School of Arts, University of Havana, Cuba

“Trópico,” Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba

“Cuadro-Debates” with Juan García Miló at the Theater Group  Escambray, Cuba

Awards

Certificate of Recognition (for Artistic Achievements), Miami Dade County Legislative Delegation, Miami, FL

2004 Certificate of Appreciation (for Artistic Achievements), Office of the Mayor and the Board of Commissioners of Miami-Dade County, Miami, FL

Judge’s Recognition Award.  The Sixth Annual Tri-County Exhibition.  Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs, FL

1998 Keys of the City of Miami, Miami FL

National Culture Distinction (Medal), Havana Cuba

Máximo Gómez Award (for artistic career), Havana, Cuba

Award in Drawing and Honorable Mention in Painting, Contest “13th of March,” Galería L, Havana, Cuba

Honorable Mention in Painting, Salón Playa, Servando Cabrera Moreno Gallery, Havana, Cuba

Diploma of Outstanding Artist in 1985

1984 Award from UNESCO, Award from the City of Havana and Award from the University of Havana at 1st Havana Biennial, Pabellón Cuba, Havana

Honorable Mention in Painting, Salón UNEAC, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba

Honorable Mention in Drawing, Rubén Martínez Villena Gallery, Havana, Cuba

1980 Honorable Mention in Painting, Salón de Julio, Museo Nacional de  Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba

Co-Winner of the “Adam Montparnasse Award,” Salon du Mai, Paris, France

Selected permanent collections

Collections of SSMM, the Kings of Spain, Madrid, Spain

Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs, FL

Collection of the United States State Department

Oceania Cruise Line, USA

Holland and Knight, Miami, FL

Jimmy Rice Memorial Fund, Miami Beach, FL

Club San Carlos, Key West, FL

New Masters Gallery, Dresden, Germany

Korpus Korovin, Gursuf, Russia

Moravska Tvehova, Zamek Czech Republic

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba

Consejo de Estado de la República de Cuba, Havana, Cuba

Fondo Cubano de Bienes Culturales, Havana, Cuba

Comité Estatal de Abastecimiento Técnico Material, Havana, Cuba

Centro de Ingeniería Genética y Biotecnología, Havana, Cuba

Centro de Inmuno Ensayo, Havana, Cuba

Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Havana, Cuba

Palacio de las Convenciones, Havana, Cuba

Centro de Estudios Martianos, Havana, Cuba

Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba

Museo Municipal de San Miguel de Padrón, Havana, Cuba

Casa de Cultura de la Habana del Este, Havana, Cuba

Hotel Paradiso, Havana, Cuba

Hotel Biocaribe, Havana, Cuba

Hospital Hermanos Ameijeiras, Havana, Cuba

Sanatorio de Topes de Collante, Sancti Spiritus, Cuba

Grupo de Teatro Escambray, La Macagua, Villa Clara, Cuba

My works have been exhibited in several group shows in North and South America, Europe and Asia.  They are in private collections in the United States, Spain, France, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Sweden, Austria, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Portugal, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Panama, Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Korea and Japan.

Group shows

2011

Art Palm Beach (Cremata Fine Art), Palm Beach Convention Center, Palm Beach, FL

“Gallery Artists.” Cremata Fine Art, Miami FL

“Gallery Artists. ” Longstreth & Goldberg, Naples, FL

2010

“Florida Contemporary 2010” (Annual Invitational Exhibition), Naples Museum of Art, Naples FL

“Gallery Artists.” Longstreth & Goldberg, Naples FL

2009

“Abstractomicina.” Cremata Fine Art, Miami FL

“Gallery Artists.” Longstreth & Goldberg, Naples, FL

2008

“Gallery Artists.” Longstreth & Goldberg, Naples, FL

2006

“Second Major Group Show of Cuban Art.” Galería Tamara, Puerto Nuevo, PR

B.Deemer Gallery, Louisville, KY

2005

B.Deemer Gallery, Louisville, KY

2004

“Artistic Development and Iberoamerican Integration.” One Brickell Square, Miami FL

Oñate Gallery, Miami, FL

“Paradise Lost? Aspects of Landscape in Latin American Art.”

The Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables FL

Oñate Gallery, Miami. FL

2002

Tri-County Exhibition, Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs FL

51 Anniversary Juried Exhibition, Broward Art Guild,

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Maxoly Gallery, Miami, FL

“The Connection,” SONO Art Gallery, New York, NY

Oñate Gallery, South Miami, FL

“Passion and Beauty:  Three Artists from Cuba.” Institute for International Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

“Magic in Motion.” Salvadorean-American Health Foundation,

Sonesta Hotel, Key Biscayne, FL

1999

“Small-Scale Works.” La Bohème Fine Art, Coral Gables FL

“Autumn Show.” La Bohème Fine Art, Coral Gables, FL

“Gallery Artists.” Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables FL

Carrboro Branch Library, Carrboro, NC

“Masters of the Present and the Future.” Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables, FL

“Visions of Landscape.” Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables, FL

Jorge M. Sorí Fine Art, Coral Gables, FL

“Cuban Art Works” (Silent Auction) Crandon Golf Course, Key Biscayne, FL

Colecciones Heller, Galería Heller, Madrid, Spain

1995

Colecciones Heller, Galería Heller, Madrid, Spain

“Culture Shock.” Kessler Gallery, Miami Beach, FL

Colecciones Heller, Galería Heller, Madrid, Spain

“Encuentro 1.” Moscoso Gallery, Washington, D.C.

The Hornby Gallery, Delray Beach, FL

“Poliscopio Cubano.” Galería Heller, Madrid, Spain

Colecciones Heller, Galería Heller, Madrid, Spain

Casa de Cultura de la Moncloa, Madrid, Spain

Colecciones Heller, Galería Heller, Madrid, Spain

1990

José Martí en el Salón de los Pintores de Hoy, Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas y Diseño, Havana, Cuba

Galería La Acacia, Havana, Cuba

La Maison, Havana, Cuba

Salón UNEAC, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba

Museo Máximo Gómez, Havana, Cuba

1989

“Rouge, Blanc et Bleu.” Galería Rubén Martínez Villena, UNEAC, Havana, Cuba

La Maison, Havana, Cuba

III Biennial of Havana, Havana, Cuba

Salón UNEAC, Pabellón Cuba, Havana, Cuba

“Cuban Painters.” Izmailovo, Moscow, Russia

TELARTE V, Salón DOR, Santa Clara, Cuba

“Lo Util y lo Bello.” Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba

INTERART 88, Poznan, Poland

Salas Cubanas, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba

1987

TELARTE 1V, Salón DOR, Santa Clara, Cuba

“Lo Util y lo Bello.” Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba

INTERART 87, Poznan, Poland

1986

TELARTE III, Salón DOR, Santa Clara, Cuba

“Lo Util y lo Bello.” Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba

Galería Leopoldo Romañach, San Alejandro, Havana, Cuba

VI Triennial Lalit Kala of Contemporary Art, New Delhi, India

Salón 13 de Marzo, Galería L, Havana, Cuba

Salón de la Ciudad, Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas y Diseño, Havana, Cuba

1985

Galería Leopoldo Romañach, San Alejandro, Havana, Cuba

UNEAC, Havana, Cuba

Galería de la Habana, Havana, Cuba

Concurso 13 de Marzo, Galería L, Havana, Cuba

Joan Miró Contest, Barcelona, Spain

Salón UNEAC, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba

Salón PLAYA, Galería Servando Cabrera Moreno, Havana, Cuba

1984

I Biennial of Havana, Pabellón Cuba, Havana, Cuba

IV Ibero-American Biennial, Mexico City, Mexico

“Dos en Uno.” Galería de la Habana, Havana, Cuba

Galería Leopoldo Romañach, Havana, Cuba

Galería Servando Cabrera Moreno, Havana, Cuba

“Premiados de la Bienal.” Galería Servando Cabrera Moreno, Havana, Cuba

Salón UNEAC, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba

Galería Marriot Caesar, Park Hotel, Panama City, Panama

Galería Numaga, Bern, Switzerland

“Cuban Painters.” Gallery of the Union of Painters, Moscow, Russia

“Dibujos Cubanos.” Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba

“Homenaje a José Martí.” Galería 23 y 12, Havana, Cuba

Galería Leopoldo Romañach, San Alejandro, Havana, Cuba

“Homenaje a José Martí.” Galería Leopoldo Romañach, San Alejandro, Havana, Cuba

International Art Auction, Palazzo Rosso, Genoa, Italy

“Encuentro de Jóvenes Creadores Latinoamericanos.” Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba

“Así fuimos y así somos.” Galería de la Habana, Havana, Cuba

“Cuban Drawings and Etchings.” A Traveling Exhibition.

1982

“Sala Permanente de Jóvenes.” Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba

“La Literatura en la Plástica.” Galería Rubén Martínez Villena, UNEAC, Havana, Cuba

Museum fur Furstentum, Luneburg, Germany

“Imagen de Martí.” Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba

“Jornada de la Cultura Cubana.” Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas y Diseño, Havana, Cuba

“Salón UNEAC.” Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba

“Salón de la Ciudad.” Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas y Diseño, Havana, Cuba

“Homenaje a Martí.” Teatro Nacional, Havana, Cuba

“Salón de la Ciudad.” Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas y Diseño, Havana, Cuba

“Retrospectiva de Jóvenes Artistas Plásticos.” Galería Lalo Carrasco, Havana, Cuba

Galería Leopoldo Romañach, San Alejandro, Havana, Cuba

“Salón UNEAC.” Centro de Arte, Havana, Cuba

“Salón Carlos Enríquez.” Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba

“Intergrafik.” Berlin, Germany

“Salón de Jóvenes.” Museo Nacional de Arte, Havana, Cuba

1979

“III Encuentro de Plástica Latinoamericana.” Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba

Biennial of Realism, Sofia, Bulgaria

“Carifesta.” Galería de la Habana, Havana, Cuba

Biennial of Kosice, Chekoslovakia

“Salón UNEAC.” Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba

Centro de Arte, Havana, Cuba

1975

“Sala Permanente de Jóvenes.” Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba

“Salón Nacional de Jóvenes.” Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba

1974

“Cuban Painters.” Kingston, Jamaica

“Images of Cuba.” Liljevalchs Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (Traveling Exhibition to Poland, Hungary, Rumania, Chekoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia)

“Imágenes de Cuba 1953-1973.” Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba

“Salón Nacional de Carteles.” Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

“II Encuentro de Plástica Latinoamericana.” Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba

Galería L, Havana, Cuba

“Homenaje a Martí.” Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba

Galería L e Instituto de Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Havana, Cuba

“I Encuentro de Plástica Latinoamericana.” Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba

“Homenaje a Nicolás Guillén.” UNEAC, Havana, Cuba

Installation for the play “La Vitrina.” Escambray, Cuba

“Salón Nacional de Jóvenes.” Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba

“Exposición Cuba-Chile.” Casa de las Américas-Instituto de Arte Latinoamericano de la Universidad de Chile, Havana, Cuba, and Santiago de Chile, Chile

“Cuban Painters.” Kingston, Jamaica

Galería L, Havana, Cuba

1970

“Salón 70.” Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba

Maison de la Culture, Grenoble, France

Galería de Santa Clara, Cuba

“XXIV May Salon.” Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France

1969

Maison de la Culture, Grenoble, France

Galería de Santa Clara, Cuba

1968

“XXIV May Salon.” Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France