J E N N I F E R  R I C O  | | |  biography

[b. 1985, Havana, Cuba] 

JENNIFER RICO is a cutting edge photography and installation artist from Havana, Cuba. She graduated from the Havana ́s Design Institute in 2009. Her work, extensively exhibited nationally and internationationally, mainly photography based explores the interaction between design and photography with elegance and simplicity, making a strong reference to her cuban identity, using motifs from her environment such as mosaics, wall, colors and textiles.

Has been awarded by Fototeca de Cuba Award in the Alfredo Sarabia Biennial, Premium to the Curatorial Scholarship of Center of Visual Arts and Special mention from Creation Scholarship ̈Raúl Corrales ̈ 2012.

My work as an artist reflects on themes such as identity, physical transformation, cultural heritage, the relationship with the present, past and future, as well as the interpretation of dreams and subjectivity.

As part of my identity as a Cuban, I am interested in the elements and motifs that have been part of the visuality of my environment, such as the design of mosaics and floors, saturated colors, light, architecture, interior design, textiles and all the stories that each of them hold.

Being a graphic design graduate, I always somehow combine design with art, using concepts and tools as a vehicle to get to communicate my ideas in a more personal way. Most of the time the result is abstract images, where personal experiences and imagination close the cycle between the viewer and my work.

EDUCATION

Institute of Design (ISDi)
Graphic Designer. Graduated in 2009.
Basic Design, Editorial Design, Visual Identity, Signal Sistem and Stand, Audiovisual Design, Advertising and Interface. Marketing. Typography. Psychology. Geometry and Perspective. Natural Draw. Representation Techniques. Illustration and Animation. Materials and Process. Ergonomic. Semiotic. History of Design. Photography. Technology of Graphic Arts. Design Software.

University of Havana
History
Antique History. Middle History. History of Literature and Art, History of Philosophy.

Institute of Design (ISDi)
Post-grade "History of Costume". Graduated in 2010. Post-grade "Pattern and their Confection". Graduated in 2010. Original patterns and modifications. Cut and manufacture.

Institute of Design (ISDi)
Post-grade "Pedagogy and Methodology". Graduated in 2011. Pedagogy, Research Methodology.

Workshop of Graphic Design “Occupy Havana”. 11th Havana Biennial.

SELECT EXHIBITION HISTORY

2022   Fototeca de Cuba, PHoto ESPAÑA “Utopías Caribe”. Havana, Cuba.

2019   Fototeca de Cuba
           “La Habana 500”. Havana, Cuba.

           Gallery of Gran Hotel Manzana Kempinski “La Habana Joven”. Havana, Cuba.

           Revolution Art Space
          “Aquí no se rinde nadie”. Havana, Cuba.

2018   Foto-FAC, Fábrica de Arte Cubano “Posturas e Imposturas”, “Que quiere una, Anarcofeminista”. Havana, Cuba.

2017   Museo del Ron
          “Colección Fototeca de Cuba”. Havana, Cuba.

          RosPhoto National Center of Russian Photography

          “Shifting Metaphors, Cuba in changing times”. San Petersburg, Russia.

2016   Pingyao International Photo Festival
           “Las Ciudades Invisibles”. Pingyao, China.

           Ille Art Gallery “Four Cuban Artist”.

           Hamptoms, New York, USA.

2014   Habana Art Gallery Barcelona, Spain.

SOLO SHOWS

2018   Francis Picabia Gallery, Alianza Francesa de Cuba

           “havana PANTONE”. Havana, Cuba.

2016    Fototeca de Cuba
            “La Ciudad Infinita”. Havana, Cuba.

2015     Photography Biennial Alfredo Sarabia “Deja vu, África”. Pinar del Río, Cuba

2013     Fototeca de Cuba
            “Sustitución de Importaciones”. Havana, Cuba.

2012     Patrimony Office in Havana.
             Collateral Exhibition in the 11th Havana Biennial. “POV Cámara Oscura”. Havana, Cuba.

2012    Center of Visual Arts.
            “X2”. Premium to the Curatorial Scholarship of Center of Visual Arts. Havana, Cuba.

COLLECTIONS 

Fototeca de Cuba Private Collections

AWARDS

2015    Fototeca de Cuba Award in the Alfredo Sarabia Biennial. Project “Deja vu, África”.

2012    Premium to the Curatorial Scholarship of Center of Visual Arts. Havana, Cuba. 2012 Special mention from Creation Scholarship “Raúl Corrales” 2012.

ARTICLES - CRITICS

Todos a una.
By: Nelson Herrera Isla Curator and Art Critic.

Mundos complementarios (Sustitución de importaciones). By Nelson Ramirez de Arellano
Visual Atist. Director of Fototeca de Cuba

La creación... (del cuerpo femenino).
By: Yailuma Vázquez.
Licenced in Literature. Professor of Havana University.