Juan Roberto Diago Durruthy

Juan Roberto Diago Durruthy "Diago" (Born 1971 in Havana) is a Cuban contemporary artist, he graduated at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro" Habana. Grandson of artist Roberto Juan Diago Querol, his grandmother was a first violinist in the Havana Symphony Orchestra. Born in an intellectual background he nevertheless lived his childhood in a poor neighborhood, el barrio of Pogolotti.

Contents

• Magnan metz juan roberto diago durruthy
• Exhibitions
• Awards
• References

Influences by his own past, in his work he confronts the Cuban oficial racial narrative, rewriting history to include the slavery and shame the country has tried to forget, working with material like calico he refers to what slaves used to wear. 

Exhibitions

1997 Venice Biennale

1999 International Contemporary Art Fair (FIAC)

2005 Pan American Art Gallery. Dallas, Texas, EEUU. 

2006 Galería (e)spacio. Madrid, España.

2008 Galería El Torco. Cantabria, España

2010-12 Queloides: Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art, Havana-Pittsburgh-New York City-Cambridge, Ma.

2013 Drapetomania: Grupo Antillano and the Art of Afro-Cuba

2013 Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam. La Habana, Cuba

2014 Galería de la Biblioteca Pública Rubén Martínez Villena. La Habana, Cuba

2014 Galería Tristá. Trinidad, Cuba./ Sobre mis pasos.  

2015 Panamerican Art Projects. Miami, Florida, EEUU. / Tracing Ashes. Galerie Crone,Berlin. Alemania. 

2016 MagnanMetz Gallery, New York: Imprint of a Memory. EEUU./ Sobre mis pasos ( Sur mes pas)

2016 Vallois Galerie. Paris, Francia/ 

2017 Ethelbert Cooper Gallery, Harward

Awards

1995: “Juan Francisco Elso” Prize (Académie des Beaux-Arts de Cuba)

1999: “ Amédée Maratier” Award (Fondation Kikoïne, Paris)

2000: “Abril 2000” Prize (UJC Nacional)