Geandy Pavon

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Aural Images / Imágenes de la escucha

Las imágenes más que explicar la realidad la complican, cada nueva representación es un nuevo enigma. Esta aserción, en mi caso, entraña una gran contradicción, porque siendo un creador de imágenes, mi relación con esa actividad esta marcada por la sospecha, por una tradición iconoclasta que cada día adquiere más fuerza, no solo en lo estético, sino también en lo ético y lo político.

En el mundo en que vivo se derriban estatuas y se destruyen paradigmas.

Aural Images no pretende la restauración del viejo panteón, sino la construcción de un nuevo paradigma con las ruinas del anterior, sobre los pedestales vaciados. Cada imagen de esta serie es un Mise en scène, como el retrato victoriano de un cadáver que simula estar vivo, elementos de un mundo ya extinto y otro por venir. Aural Images nace del pasado y el presente, de la idolatría y la iconoclasia, de la tradición y la actualidad.

Curriculum

Geandy Pavón is a multi-disciplinary artist who explores the ills that plague global society. His observations into totalitarianism and displays of power are expressed through paint, photography and video. An example of the provocative work that brought his name to light is Nemesis (2010-2012) – a part of a body of work that entails guerrilla projections of photographs of renowned dissidents and political prisoners on the facades of their corresponding embassies and consulates.

His work has gained praise and positive critical reviews from esteemed figures such as Holland Cotter, of The New York Times.

Pavón’s work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions such as Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, at The Studio Museum of Harlem and PAMM; The X Files Bienal at El Museo del Barrio; the Annenberg Space for Photography as part of Pacific Time LA/LA; and at the USF Contemporary Museum of Art in Tampa, Florida. His photo series The Cuban-Americans was recently added to the permanent collection of El Museo del Barrio.

Education: B.F.A., Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas (National School of Fine Arts) Havana, Cuba
Escuela de Artes Plásticas (School of Fine Arts) Las Tunas, Cuba

Awards: 2021 Cintas Fellowship

Recent Selected
Solo Exhibitions
Quarantine: 40 Days and 40 Nights Art Museum of the Americas
Washington, DC

MARCH 10 – JUNE 9, 2022
Quarantine: 40 Days and 40 Nights Coral Gables Museum
Coral Gables, FL

DECEMBER 1, 2020 – JANUARY 21, 2021
Quarantine: 40 Days and 40 Nights Art Museum of the Americas
Washington, DC

SEPTEMBER 3 – OCTOBER 13, 2020 (ONLINE)
Vae Victis Vanitas
William Paterson University Galleries
Wayne, NJ

2018
The Cuban Americans II
Weitz Center for the Arts
Minnesota, MN

2017
Political Fold
Mindy Solomon Gallery
Miami, FL

2016
The Cuban Americans
Cervantes Institute of New York
The Cuban Cultural Center of New York,
New York, NY

2016
Cardinal Points
Ca D’Oro Gallery
New York, NY

2015

Recent Selected
Group Exhibitions
Commonplace Attachments: Artistic Practice During the Covid-19 Pandemic

2021

Lore Degenstein Gallery at Susquehanna University. Izabel Galliera, Curator
Susquehanna, PA

SEPTEMBER 4 – OCTOBER 24, 2021
Kindred Spirits: Ten Artists by the Hudson Coral Gables Museum
Coral Gables, FL

2018
Cubans: Post Truth, Pleasure and Pain. SECCA Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art Winston Salem, NC

2018
All You Have is Your Soul
Faction Projects Gallery
Harlem, NY

2018
Cuba Is.
Annenberg Space for Photography Pacific Time LA
Los Angeles, CA

2017
Iconocracia: Las Imágenes del Poder y El Poder de las Imágenes
Artrium Museum
Vitoria, Spain

2015
Caribbean: Crossroads of the World
PAMM.
Miami, FL

2015
Cuban American: An Empire State of Mind Lehman College Art Gallery
Bronx, NY

2015
Habitar, Construir, Pensar
USF Contemporary Museum of Art Tampa, FL

2013
Caribbean: Crossroads of the World
Studio Museum of Harlem
Harlem, NY

2012