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Rodolfo Peraza is a Cuban-born multimedia artist who works between Cuba and the US. His work focuses on public spaces, both virtual and physical, as well as DataVis of matters related to the Internet culture and the footprint it leaves in society.

Peraza is the founder of Fanguito Estudio in Havana (2009). In 20013, he launched the VRLab for the development of browser-based VR technology. The VRLab is devoted to both explore and promote the intersections between data, art, and the internet. Peraza also created MUD Foundation (Miami, 2016) to advance the intersections between art and digital technologies by implementing artistic and educational programs.

Peraza holds a master’s degree in Visual Arts from The University of Arts of Cuba (Instituto Superior de Arte). His work has been exhibited internationally at events such as SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles California; the Pérez Art Museum, Miami, Florida; the Wifredo Lam Center for Contemporary Art, Havana, Cuba; the XII and XIII Havana Biennial; Künstlerhaus, Vienna; the Jumex Collection, Mexico City, among others. His work has also been included in the AGO Museum, Toronto, Canada, and the JUMEX permanent collections. Among other recognitions, his project Pilgram: Naked Link 2.0, received the Cannonball’s WaveMaker Grant. In 2021 was awarded with The Knight Arts + Tech Fellowship.

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Rodolfo Peraza
Multimedia artist based in the US and Cuba

Education

2005 MFA in Sculpture. Higher Institute of Art (ISA), Havana, Cuba

1999 Visual Arts Degree. School of Visual Arts. Camagüey, Cuba

Awards

2021 The Knight Arts + Tech Fellowship

2016 WaveMaker Grant, Cannonball, Miami, US

2005 Grant. AECIC (Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo), Havana, Cuba

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2012

“Solo Room Show”, LOOP International Video Fair, Barcelona, Spain

2009

“Con Espíritu Deportivo”, Fanguito Open Studio, Havana, Cuba

2008

“Juega y Aprende”, Nina Menocal Gallery, Distrito Federal, México

2006

“For your Safety” (Urban Interventions in Havana City,) Havana, Cuba

2005

“Circuito Cerrado”, Cuban Cinematheque, Havana, Cuba

“Nada fuera todo dentro”, Galería de Luz y Oficios, Havana, Cuba

2004

“La Aspiración del Hombre Concreto”, Cuba Pavilion, Havana, Cuba

2001

“Nada es en Vano, Todo es por Gusto”, Office of the Historian of the Camaguey, Cuba

2000

“Objeto Inaparente”, Center for the Development of the Visual Arts, Camaguey, Cuba

1999

“S.E.D” (Sistema de Entrenamiento de Dictadores), Alejo Carpentier Gallery, Camaguey, Cuba

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019

NPC: Non-Playable Character”, Fanguito Open Studio, XIII Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba

2018

“Just in Time to Play”, Galeria El Oficio, Havana, Cuba.

“Guerrilla Hotspot”, Creative Summit 2018, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), US

“Exilio, outside pero inside too”, Espacio Aglutinador, Havana, Cuba.

“Solid Abstraction. Disobedience strategies in contemporary Cuban Art”, Miami Biennale, US

“Implosion: fragmentos y posibilidades”. Diagonal. Puerto Rico.

“#00 Bienal in Miami”. Mud Foundation. US

“Anima” Carlos Garaicoa Open-Studio. Madrid, Spain

“Media Under Dystopia 1.0”, MUD Foundation, US

2017

“HOPE”. The Pacific Standard Time Project, ESMoA, California, US

“SIGGRAPH 2017”. Unsettled Artifacts: Technological Speculations from Latin America. Los Angeles Convention Center, California, US

“Spots, Dots, Pips, Tiles: An exhibition about Dominoes”, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), US

“Censura • Desconexión”. Diagonal. San Juan, Puerto Rico

2016

“Historia Irracional de un Conjunto de Medida Nula”, Center for the Development of the  Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba

“Spots, Dots, Pips, Tiles: An exhibition about Dominoes”, Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York, USA

“Jugar En Serio: Pintura Expandida”. Center for the Development of the Visual Arts,  Havana, Cuba

“Cool War: Game Art across the Straits”, Fanguito Estudio & Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Havana, Cuba

“Nano”. Center for the Development of the Visual Arts,  Havana, Cuba.

“Arte Con-texto”, University of Antioquia and National University of Colombia, Antioquia and Medellín respectively, Colombia

“Ten More Ten – Onward”, Umberto Di Marino Gallery, Naples, Italy

2015

“VIDEO & STEREO”. Open Studio, Miami, US

“LIKE Cuba: Emerging Virtual Narratives”, BOFFO Foundation, New York, US

“VR HOLE (MALLA NET 2.0)”, 12th Havana Biennial, Wifredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba

“Postcards to Toronto”, Luminato Festival, Toronto, Canada

2013

“Cuban Virtualities: New Media Art from the Island”, Tufts University Art Gallery, Aidekman Arts Center, Boston, US

“Cachita, La Infinita Levedad del Ser”. Saladrigas Gallery, Ignatian Center for the Arts, Miami, US

“Cuban Virtualities: New Media Art from the Island”. Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, US

2012

“Play and Learn 2.0: Half Monk, Half Soldier”, Senda Gallery.  ARCO Fair, Madrid, Spain

“Designing post-Communism”. Collage Gallery, Florida, US

“TIME(LESS) SIGNS”, Gegenwartskunst in referenz zu Otto Neurath. Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria

2011

“Ya Sé Leer”. Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Havana, Cuba

“Use Your Head 2.0”, Cuban Art Projects, Art America Fair, Miami, US

“The Labyrinth of Hate”, Nina Menocal Gallery,  Distrito Federal, México

“La bodega de paquito”, La bodega de Paquito, Havana, Cuba

2010

“I Shot the Sheriff” (Héroes y Villanos). Open Studio 4.0, Madrid, Spain

“Utrópicos”. 31st Biennial of Pontevedra, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain

“Canciones para mi mochila”. LOOP International Video Fair, Barcelona, Spain

“Ensayos Públicos #5”. LASA, Havana, Cuba

“Pieza Única”. Auditorium of the Delegation of the Principality of Asturias, Madrid, Spain

“Descobrir, Defensar, Difondre L’art”. Senda Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

2009

“Con Espíritu Deportivo”. Fanguito Open Studio, Havana, Cuba

2008

“Estrategias de Resistencia”. Senda Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

“Hablando Alto”. Luz y Oficios Gallery,  Havana, Cuba

“Health, Sport and Control”, Umberto Di Marino Gallery, Naples, Italy

“LanÇa Cuba”. Gentil Carioca Gallery,  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

“Open Studio 2.0”. Carlos Garaicoa Studio,  Madrid, Spain

“Group Therapy”, Fernando Pradilla Gallery,  Madrid, Spain

“Close Up”, Pasagüero Center, Distrito Federal, México

2006

“Rising Stars: North Latin Americans”. Miami, US

“Marcapasos” (Pacemaker). Edward Day Gallery & MOCCA, Toronto, Canada

“SITAC”, Nina Menocal Gallery. International Symposium of Theory about Contemporary Art, México DF.

“La Huella Múltiple”. San Francisco de Asís Gallery, Havana, Cuba

“GNTEx5”, Luz y Oficios Gallery, Havana, Cuba

“New I”, Luz y Oficios Gallery, Havana, Cuba

2005

“Circuito Cerrado”. Cuban Cinematheque,  Havana, Cuba

2004

“The Concrete Man has Died”. Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil

“Nada fuera todo dentro”. Galería de Luz y Oficios, Havana, Cuba

“The Concrete Man’s Coming”. Cuba Pavilion, Havana, Cuba

“Llover sobre mojado”, Higher Institute of Art (ISA),  Havana, Cuba

“Nada es en vano; todo es prohibido”,  VII Havana Biennial, Higher Institute of Arts (ISA), Havana, Cuba

Collections

Jumex Collection, Mexico DF

AGO Museum Collection, Toronto, Canada

PROJECTS/

To facilitate educational and artistic projects where the internet, data, virtual reality, and art converge. We raise awareness of contemporary digital culture and its footprints.

Artist run space based in Havana, Cuba, to promote and develop projects in the art and tech interception.

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