Glexis Novoa
Born in Holguin, Cuba 1964; lives and works in Miami, FL
Education
1998
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, MN
1980-1984
National School of Art (ENA), Havana, Cuba
1979-1980
National School of Design, Havana, Cuba
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008
Old/New, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL (November 2008)
2007
Ziggurat, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
2006
Visionary Artist, Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL
2003
New Works, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
Gold and Smoke, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
2002
Safe and Quiet, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
2001
New Works, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
New vision of the Basilica of Sacred Heart, The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
2000
Ciudades del Dia Despues, Galeria Art Al Rec, Barcelona, Spain
1999
Recent Works, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
Obra Reciente, Galeria Emma Molina, Monterrey, Mexico
Te Quiero, Te Quiero, Te Quiero... Frances Wolfson Gallery,Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL
1996
La Habana Oscura, Ambrosino Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
1994
Dano, Espacio Aglutinador, Havana, Cuba
1993
El Poder, Galeria Nina Menocal, Mexico City, Mexico
El Poder, Ambrosino Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
Galeria Ariman Lund, Sweden
1989
Patria o Muerte, Castillo de la Real Fuerza, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Old Havana, Cuba
1984
El Reino de Este Mundo, Galería de Arte Universal, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Group Exhibitions
2010
The Sixth Borough on Governors Island, No Longer Empty at Governors Island, New York
Gallery Projects, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
America Latina: arte y confrontación 1910-2010, curated by Gerardo Mosquera, Museo Del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
Project Rowhouse, Houston, TX
Arte ≠ Vida: Actions by artists of the Americas, 1960-2000, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Arte ≠ Vida: Actions by artists of the Americas, 1960-2000, Blaffer Gallery, University of Texas, Houston
2009
TIME + TEMP: Surveying the shifting climate of current painting in South Florida, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL
Untitled (land-scape), Abrons Arts Center, New York
Gallery Projects, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
2008
Five Solo Shows, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, Florida
Temporary Contemporary: Glexis Novoa: Landscape of Events, Cheekwood Art and Gardens, Nashville, TN
Unbroken Ties: Dialogues in Cuban Art, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Arte Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
2007
Miami Contemporary Artists: Creating a Scene, Freedom Tower, Miami, FL
Los Nuevos Leones, Forum Universal de las Culturas, Sala de Generadores, Parque Fundidora, Monterrey, Mexico
Latin Masters, Nassau County Museum, Roslyn Harbor, NY
Killing Time, Exit Art, New York, NY
2006
Waiting List, Time and Process in Contemporary Cuban Art, City Art Museum Ljublana, Ljublana, Slovenia
A Timely Response, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
Unbroken Ties: Dialogues in Cuban Art, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
The Square Roots of Drawing, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Miami in Transition, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Cafe V: The Journeys of Cuban Artists, Edna Vihel Center for the Arts, Tempe, AZ
2005
Misioneros Claretianos, Centro Cultural y de Animacin Misionera, San Antonio
Maria Claret, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
In Place of Place, One Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Miami, Visions of Now, J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, FL
Mayo Abstracto, Centro de Arte Contempor√°neo Wilfredo Lam, Old Havana, Cuba
Its For the Birds, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
2003
10 Floridians, Miami Art Central, Miami, FL
A Matter of Facts, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
Save your pennies! Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
Latin American Art, Palazzo Mediceo, San Leo, Italy
Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism, The University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IN; DePauw University Art Gallery, Greencastle, IN
Paradise Lost? Aspects of landscape in Latin American Art, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
2002
Miami Currents, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
No Show, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
That Place, Mia Gallery, Miami-Dade Aviation Department Division of Fine Art & Cultural Affairs, Miami, FL
Effexor 75, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL
The Miami Alphabet, A-Z Miami-Dade Public Library, Miami, FL
Bibliography
Suarez de Jesus, Carlos, “Wynwood Wonder,” Miami New Times, May 27, 2009
Thomason, Jonathan, “The Wild Bunch,” City Link, May 27, 2009
Herrera, Adriana, Glexis Novoa y la estetica del poder, el nuevo herald, Dec. 3, 2008
New book is a who's who of top Miami artists, Miami Herald, Fabiola Santiago, Dec. 02, 2007
Miami Contemporary Artists (Book), Paul Clemence & Julie Davidow, foreword by Elisa Turner, Schifer, Pennsylvania 2007
Art Capsules Current shows (periodical), Carlos Suarez De Jesus, New Times, Miami, Florida, November 15, 2007
Los Nuevos Leones (Catalogue), Forum Universal de las Culturas, Sala de Generadores, Parque Fundidora, Monterrey, Mexico 2007
Citysmart Magazine City Living, The art of expression, November 2007
MoLAA Exhibit Delves Into Cuban Identity (periodical), Julian Bermudez, Gazette Newspapers, Long Beach, California, November, 16, 2006
Unbroken Ties: Dialogues in Cuban Art (catalogue), Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California, November 2006
In the right space (periodical), Florida International Magazine, Jayme Agee, November 2006
Glexis Novoa at the Lowe Art Museum (periodical), Art in America, Paula Harper, October 2006
Glexis Novoa/Lowe Art Museum (Periodical), Art Nexus, Irina Leiva, October 2006.
CIRCA 2006 (Periodical), Art Nexus, Joel Wenstein, October 2006.
IKF Latin American Art Auction 2006 (Catalogue), International Kids Foundation, Jackson Memorial Foundation, Miami, Florida
Arts, entertainment still struggling to come grips with 9/11 (periodical), Jackson Clarion Ledger, Evelyn Mc Donnell, Mississippi, September 10, 2006
Five years later, this picture's not complete (Periodical), Spartanburgs Herald Journal, Evelyn Mc Donnell, South Carolina, September 10, 2006.
Arts, entertainment still struggling to come grips with 9/11 (periodical), Pop Matters, Evelyn McDonnell, Illinois, September 10, 2006
Apocalypse now: Sept. 11's influence on arts and entertainment (periodical), Miami Herald, Evelyn McDonnell, Miami, Florida, September 10, 2006
The First International Art Fair in the Caribbean (Periodical), NY Arts, July-August 2006
Cultural road trip: Experience Latin American Art (Periodical), Helen Eckinger, Orlando Sentinel, Orlando, Florida, July 30, 2006
Travel the country for the best in Latin-American Art (Periodical), Helen Eckinger, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, California, July 24, 2006; Mercury Times, San Jose, California, July 24, 2006
LegalArt's "Enriched" (Periodical), South Beach Magazine, South Beach, Florida, May 23, 2006
Immigrant Art Exhibitions: Insights of Passage (Periodical), Rich Beattie, New York Times, May 19, 2006
La noche del arte cubano (periodical), Adriana Herrera, El Nuevo Herald, May 13, 2006
Drawing on architecture: Miami artist Glexis Novoa finds both beauty and sadness in cityscapes (Periodical), Elisa Turner, The Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, May 07, 2006
Exhibicion visionaria de Glexis Novoa en el Lowe (periodical), Adriana Herrera, El Nuevo Herald, Apr. 16, 2006
Glexis Novoa, Visionary Artist (Catalogue), Denise M. Gerson & Paula Harper, Lowe Museum, Coral Gables, Miami, Florida 2006
Una suiza en las playas de Miami (periodical), Javier Martinez de Pinzon, El Pais, Barcelona, Espana, December 10, 2005
Arte en la Rivera (periodical), Adriana Herrera, El Nuevo Herald, December 10, 2005
Vitamin D (book), Emma Dexter, Phaidon Press, New York, 2005
Gran subasta silenciosa en Cuba Art New York 2005 (periodical), Adriana Herrera, El Nuevo Herald, April 24, 2005
City Views and Latin News (periodical), Alfredo Triff, New Times, Miami, Florida, April 22, 2005
El Pesimismo Creativo (periodical), Emilio Ichikawa, Cubaencuentro.com, February 4, 2005
Elite crowd eager buyers at art fair (periodical), Jane Wooldrige and Daniel Chang, The Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, Dec. 02, 2004
La abstraccion como coartada (periodical), Javier Negrin, La Gaceta de Cuba, Habana, Cuba, Sptember 2004
Bases llenas!... o el arte en la calle (periodical), Cristina Vives, Revista del Instituto de Cultura Portorriqueña, July 2004
Guarda abstraccion para mayo (catalogue), Nelson Herrera Ysla, Centro de Arte Contempor√°neo Wifredo Lam, Old Habana, May 2004.
The Florida Contemporary (periodical), Shawn Bean, Florida International Magazine, Miami, Florida, October 2004
Miami, visions of now (periodical), Paula Harper, Arbus, Jacksonville, Florida, September 2004
Miami, visions of now (catalogue), Paula Harper, J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, Florida, September 2004
Social Studies (periodical), D. Eric Bookhardt, The best of new Orleans, New Orleans, September 07, 2004
Public space/Private encounters, The wall(s) at WAM (periodical), Joyce Cohen, Art New England, Brighton, Massachusetts, April, May 2005
Dystopian Futurism (periodical), Alfredo Triff, Arte al Dia Internacional, Miami, Florida, 2004
More at MOA (periodical), Michael Mills, New Times, Broward, August 12, 2004
Artistas plasticos holguineros en el Museo de Bellas Artes (periodical), Lisbeth Ricardo Pupo, Ahora, Holguin, Cuba, June 1, 2004
It’s For the Birds (catalogue), Mark Ormond & Joel Weinstein, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida, 2004
The Jury is In; One Miami Riverwalk Art Finalists Selected; National Panel Selects Finalists to Showcase Art at The One Miami Riverwalk (periodical), Business Wire, New York, New York, March 29, 2004
Artwork to add star power to Miami Riverwalk (periodical), Andres Viglucci, The Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, March 10, 2004
Art's Big New Home A fine first show for a splendid space (periodical), Alfredo Triff, New Times, Miami, Florida, February 26, 2004
Private Property: Ambitious and large-scale takes on contemporary art are offered in two venues funded primarily by South Florida collectors (periodical), Elisa Turner, El Nuevo Herald, Miami, Florida, Feb. 01, 2004
Artist draws on the past to create a vision of Worcester's future (periodical), Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, January 23, 2004
Worcester: Gold and Smoke (brochure), Susan L. Stoops, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, January 2004
10 Floridians: New Art from Miami (periodical) Milagros Bello, Arte al Dia news USA, Miami, Florida, January 2004
Enlightening Enterprise (periodical), Tom Patterson, Winston-Salem Journal, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, December 28, 2003
Conozca a los que dictan la pauta en la escena local (periodical), Elisa Turner, El Nuevo Herald, Miami, Florida, Dec. 01, 2003
Local Views For Basel (periodical), Alfredo Triff, New Times, Miami, Florida, December 4, 2003
New space -- and its artists -- has a lot of potential (periodical), Elisa Turner, The Miami Herald, November 30, 2003
This is hotel art like you've never seen before (periodical), Elisa Turner, The Miami Herald, December 1, 2003
Report from Miami / Expanding Horizons (periodical), Roni Feinstein, Art in America, December 2003
10 Floridians (catalogue), Marcelo Pacheco, Miami Art Central, November 2003
Voices from Cuba (periodical), Tom Patterson, Winston-Salem Journal, Winston-Salem,
North Carolina, November 23, 2003
Inside / Outside, Contemporary Cuban Art (catalog), David Hart, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, October 2003
Pencil in Worcester (periodical), Melissa Castellanos, Worcester Magazine, Worcester, Massachusetts, October 23, 2003
Cuban art to spice up campus (periodical), Jessica Pritchard, Old Gold and Black, (The Student Newspaper of Wake Forest University), Winston-Salem, North Carolina, October 23, 2004
A Matter of Facts (periodical), New York Times, New York, September 26, 2003
Postmodernism and the Postsocialist Condition (book), Ales Erjavec, Boris Grois, University California Press, September 1, 2003
Now That It’s Summertime, go Local (periodical), Alfredo Triff, New Times, Miami, Florida, August 7, 2003
Rounding Up Art in Miami (periodical) Joel Weinstein, LatinArt.com, 2003
Es esto felicidad (periodical), Carmen Paula Bermudez, Cubaencuentro, Madrid, Spain, July 18, 2003
El lenguaje como virus (periodical), Dennys Matos, Cubaencuentro, Madrid, Spain, Jun 9, 2003
Art bites (periodical) Elisa Turner, The Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, Jun. 08, 2003
On display: the creepy and the kinky (periodical) Elisa Turner, The Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, Apr. 23, 2003
Art Sited (periodical), Judy Cantor, The Miami Herald (Home & Design), Miami, Florida, April-May 2003
A Collection to Sink Your Teeth Into: (periodical), Joel Weinstein, Art Papers, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2003
Social Strategies, Redefining Social Realism (catalog), Pamela Auchincloss & Klaus Ottmann, University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA, March 2003
From dreamland to despair (periodical) Elisa Turner, The Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, Mar. 09, 2003
Neonlicht (radio), Deutschlandradio, www.dradio.de 2003
Glexis Novoa, Review (Periodical), Elisa Turner, ARTnews magazine, (Volume 102/Number 2), February 2003
New Art of Cuba: Revised Edition Luis Camnitzer, University of Texas Press, February 1, 2003
Paradise Lost? Aspects of Landscape in Latin American Art (catalog), Issa Ma. Benitez Dueñas, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, January 2003
Glexis Novoa (periodical), Michelle Weinberg, Tema Celeste, Milan, Italy, January 2003
Plenty on the palette at Art Miami fest (periodical) Elisa Turner, The Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, January 2003
Drawings Conclusions (catalog) Nina Arias, (DACRA, Miami Design District), Miami, Florida, January 2003
Art Basel is only the beginning (periodical) Elisa Turner, The Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, December 2002
ART SEEN/Art overdose (periodical) Damarys Ocana, Street, Miami, Florida, December 2002
The Personage: Craig Robins (periodical) Milagros Bello, Arte al dia news, Miami, Florida 2002
El olor del cafe (periodical) Leandro Soto, cubaencuentro.com, Madrid, November 8, 2002
Dejame que te cuente. Antologia de la critica en los 80" (book), Margarita Gonzalez, Tania Parson y Jose Veigas, Artecubano Ediciones, Consejo Nacional de las Artes Plasticas, Pag. 41, 57, 169, 183, 215, 264, 265, 280, 289, 299, 303; 2002
Off the wall (periodical), Elisa Turner, The Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, November 3, 2002
Staying Power (periodical), Damarys Ocana, Street, Miami, Florida, November 1, 2002
El poder obliga en todas partes (periodical) Dennys Matos, cubaencuentro.com, Madrid, October 30, 2002
La Ilustracion hecha anicos (periodical), Matilde Sanchez, Clarin, cultura y nacion, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 2002
Safe and Quiet (invitation), Kaira Cabanas, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, October 2002
Summer’s Heavy and Light (periodical), Alfredo Triff, New Times, Miami, Florida, August 2002
Memoria, Cuban Art of the 20 Century (book), Jose Veigas, Cristina Vives, Adolfo V. Nodal, Valia Garzon and Dannys Montes de Oca, California/International Art Foundation, Los Angeles, California, September 2002
Medicine Show (periodical), Damarys Ocana, Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, July 28, 2002
That Place (catalog), Cesar Trasovares and Yolanda Sanchez, Mia Gallery, Miami-Dade Aviation Department Division of Fine Art & Cultural Affairs, Miami, Florida, July 25, 2002
Report from Miami, Bass Forward (periodical), Art in America, Paula Harper, New York, New York, June 2002
Glexis Novoa at the Miami Art Museum (periodical), Art in America, Ann Wilson Lloyd, New York, New York, June 2002
Naomi Fisher-Glexis Novoa (periodical), Carol Damian, ArtNexus, Bogota, Colombia.2002
That Place (catalog), Judy Cantor, Cesar Trasovares and Rosa de la Cruz, Miami Design District (Dacra), Miami, Florida, April 2002
Bad Painting and Tired Revolutionaries (periodical), Art Papers, Joel Weinstein, Atlanta, Georgia, March-April 2002
The modernism and the post Socialist Condition (book), Gerardo Mosquera, Ales Erjavec, University of California Press, 2002
Art of Latin America 1981-2000 Inter-American Development Bank, 2001
Take a Bow Who cares about ArtBasel? The Bass exhibition proves Miami already had it going on (periodical), Alfredo Triff, New Times, Miami, Florida, 2001
Globe>Miami>Island (Catalogue), Amy Cappellazzo, Bass Museum, Miami Beach, Florida, December, 2001
Best of Miami 2001, Best Local Artist (periodical), New Times, Miami, Florida, 2001
Art Basel Miami Beach Cancellation (periodical), Gabriuszine, Kenny Schachter, New York, New York, November, 2001
Is The Museum a Junkyard (periodical), David Meeks, Lifestyle, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 2001
Beyond the Ashcan (periodical), Candice Russell, City link, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 2001
Interaction at the M.O.A. (periodical), KOSH, Eastsider, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 2001
8 artists drop avant-garde on public (periodical), Elisa Turner, Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, 2001
Coctel de politica y dinero en el arte cubano (periodical), Wilfredo Cancio Isla, El Nuevo Herald, Miami, Florida, 2001
"A Capital in Technicolor"(Periodical), Elisa Turner, Art News, 02-2001
Dimensions Variable: Wall Drawings by Paul Coffey, Katy Fischer, Rovert Lentz, Glexis Novoa (periodical), Jay Reed, Ten by Ten, Chicago, Illinois, 2000
Artists’ odd, risky visions opening minds to Miami (periodical), Elisa Turner, Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, 2000
Interaction is welcome at complex MAM exhibit (periodical), Elisa Turner, Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, 2000
Performance Cubano en los anos ochenta (periodical), Francine Birbragher, Art Nexus, Bogota, Colombia, September 2000
Trasgressio de generes (periodical), El Pais, Barcelona, Spain, 2000
El CCCB evoca els canvis esdevinguts a escala en l ultima decada arran de la caiguda del mur (periodical), F.E., Punt, Tarragona, Spain, 2000
El CCCB abre en su sede y en internet la nueva fase de "Inundacions" (periodical), La Vanguardia, Barcelona, Spain, 2000
Cinco artistas invaden el CCCB y recrean el paisaje fragmentado despues del muro (periodical), Angela Molina, ABC, Barcelona, Spain, 2000
Los restos de el naufragio (periodical), Jaume Vidal, El Pais, Barcelona, Spain, 2000