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Luis Gómez Armenteros

Luis Gómez Armenteros was born in Havana in 1968. In 1980, he enrolled in the Escuela Elemental de Artes Plásticas, where he studied under prestigious teachers and artists such as Juan Francisco Elso Padilla, Emilio Rodríguez, and Eva Rojas. His education continued from 1983 to 1987 at the Academia de San Alejandro, and then at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) from 1987 to 1992.
During the first two years, he participated in several exhibitions, including Raíces en Acción, curated by Gerardo Mosquera at the Museo Carrillo Gil in Mexico City, and No por mucho Madrugar amanece más temprano at the Fototeca de Cuba. In 1988, he took part in the action La Plástica Joven se dedica al Baseball in Havana. Later, in 1990, he stayed in Mexico, where he exhibited alongside Carlos Cárdenas and Fernando García in galleries and institutions such as La Agencia, NinArt, and the Centro Cultural San Ángel. Upon his return, he prepared his first solo exhibition, Visión del dolor (1991), at the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales. His work has appeared in numerous exhibitions, including the IV Bienal de la Habana, Art in Configura (Germany), and Los Hijos de Guillermo Tell (Caracas and Bogotá). Funded by the Peter Ludwig Foundation, he earned a residency in Aachen, Germany, which he completed in 1992. He represented his country for the second time at the Venice Biennale in 2015 and participated in the exhibition Cuba. Tatuare la storia at the PAC (Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea) in Milan the following year.
In 2017, he held his first solo exhibition at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Cuba and the Diana Lowenstein Gallery in Miami. Since 2004, he has been a professor at the Instituto Superior de Arte and, since 2007, the founder and director of the New Media Lab.
He has delivered lectures, talks, and workshops at various universities and museums, including the Universidad Europea in Madrid, the Universidad de Arte in Malaga, the University of Calgary in Canada, and the State Universities of Indiana and Arizona in the United States.
His work is featured in various private and public collections, including those of the Museum Ludwig (Germany), the Museo de Bellas Artes (Cuba), and the Wakita Museum (Japan).