Rogelio López Marín (Gory)
Born Havana, Cuba 1953
Resides in Miami, Florida, United States
EDUCATION
1978
Master of Art in Art History, The University of Havana, Havana, Cuba.
1973
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, National School of Art, Havana, Cuba.
PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
1975-1991
Photographer of Cuban Cultural Ministry Magazine.
1978-1991
Photographer and Graphic Designer, record albums covers, Cuban Record Company EGREM.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 20th Century Art Permanent Collection, New York, USA. (Painting).
LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) permanent collection (photography), CA, USA.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art (Corcoran’s Permanent Collection of Photographs), Washington DC, USA.
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, USA.
Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL, USA.
Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX. USA. (Photography)
Museum of Art of Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA. (Painting and Photography).
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA. (Photography).
PAMM (Perez Art Museum), Miami, FL, USA.
Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU, Miami, FL. USA.
Museum of Pori, Finland. (Photography).
Teatro Nacional, La Habana, Cuba. (Painting).
Centro Wifredo Lam, La Habana, Cuba, (Photography).
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba. (Painting and Photography).
Biblioteca Nacional, La Habana, Cuba. (Photography).
Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba. (Photography)
AWARDS
2017
Pollock- Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY USA.
2001
Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant in the field of the Visual Arts, New York, USA.
1990
Photography Prize, National Salon of the Cuban Union of Writers and Artists, Havana, Cuba.
1984
Photography Prize “Tina Modotti” at the First Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba.
1982
Prize at the National Landscape Salon, Havana, Cuba.
1981
Latinoamerican and Caribean Photography Prize of “Casa de las Américas”, Havana, Cuba.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
Gory (Rogelio López Marín) The Decisive Dream, S. Tucker Cooke Gallery, Owen Hall, UNCA, North Carolina University Asheville, USA.
2015
Rogelio López Marín (Gory) Notes for a Retrospective, Aluna Art Foundation, Miami, FL, USA.
2009
Diptychs, One Lens, Two Visions, (photographs by Gory and Adrián López-Ballester) Panamerican Art Projects, Miami, FL. USA.
American Fictions, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ. USA.
2008
Because of The City, Pan American Art Projects. Miami, FL. USA.
2006
Innerland, Online exhibition, www.cubaartny.org New York, USA.
Innerland, Chelsea Galleria, Miami, FL, USA.
2004
A Small Retrospective, Chelsea Galleria, Miami, FL, USA.
2003
The City, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
2002
Photographs and Memories, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
2001
Beyond Cuba- Mirages of Absence, Beadleston Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
2000
Gory, Recents Works, Tamara Gallery, San Juán, Purto Rico.
1996
Gory, Recents Works, Elite Fine Art Gallery, Coral Gables, FL, USA.
1995
Sharing Roots, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA.
1994
Gory: Photoworks – A Midcareer Retrospective, Fondo del Sol, Washington DC, USA.
1993
Photographs of Gory, Lehigh University, Dubois Gallery, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA.
1992
Foto-Fest 92, Institute of Hispanic Culture, Houston, TX, USA.
1991
Retrospective, Fourth Havana Biennial, The Three Kings of the Morro Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
Ausencias, Kahlo Coronel Gallery, Mexico, DF.
Ausencias, Manolo Rivero Gallery, Mérida, Yucatán, México.
1990
An American Dream, Khalo Coronel Gallery, Mexico, DF.
An American Dream, Cienfuego’s Art Gallery, Cuba.
An American Dream, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba.
1988
Its Only Water in a Strangers Tear, Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario, Canada.
Its Only Water in a Strangers Tear, Gallery 76, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Its Only Water in a Strangers Tear, García Monge Gallery, National Theatre, San José, Costa Rica.
1987
Its Only Water in a Strangers Tear, Kahlo Coronel Gallery, Mexico, DF.
1986
Un Paseo por la Tierra de los Anamitas, Mexican Council of Photography, Mexico, DF.
Un Paseo por la Tierra de los Anamitas, Costarrican Museum of Art, San José, Costa Rica.
1982
Sólo Entrada, Cultural House of Plaza, Havana, Cuba.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA.
2016
La Banalidad del Mar, Fotografía Cubana Contemporanea, Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana.
2015
¡Cuba, Cuba! 65 Years of Photography, International Center of Photography, Southampton Art Center, New York.
Iconocracia, Artium Centro – Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo Vitoria – Gasteiz, España.
2009
Cuba, Art and History From 1868 to Today, Groninger Museum, Netherlands.
2008
“Los Paisajes de la Memoria”, Galería Allegro, Ciudad de Panamá, Centroamerica.
Cuba, Art and History From 1868 to Today, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
2007
A Través del Espejo, Arte Cubano Hoy, Allegro Galería, Panamá.
2006
Latin American Photography 2, Selections from the Lehigh University Art Gallery Collection, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA.
2005
Icons, Memories & Reminders, Naomi Silva Gallery, Atlanta, GA,USA.
Alter Realities, Art Center/South Florida, miami Beach. FL, USA.
2004
Tres, GDS Gallery, San Jose, Costa Rica.
Through the lens: Eight Photographers, C Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD, USA.
2003
Visual Poetics: Art and the Word, Miami Art Museum, FL, USA.
2002
Shifting Tides-Cuban Photography after Revolution: Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, USA.
2001
Shifting Tides-Cuban Photography after Revolution: Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NY, USA.
LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), CA, USA.
Latin American Artist-Photographers From the Lehigh University
Art Galleries Collection, DuBois Gallery, Maginnes Hall, Lehigh University, PA, USA.
El Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2000
El Museo del Barrio, New York, USA
1999
Fin de Mundo, Fine Arts Museum Fundation, Caracas, Venezuela.
1998
Developing Illusion, 1873-1998: Photographs from the Corcoran Collection, Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC, USA.
Breaking Barriers, from the collection of the Museum of Art of Fort Lauderdale, Dali Museum, Tampa, FL, USA.
1997
Breaking Barriers, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA.
American Voices, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA.
1996
Cuba Siglo XX, Modernidad y Sincretismo, Atlantic Center of Modern Art, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
“La Caixa” Fundation, Palma, Balears Isles; Centre d’Art Santa Mónica, Cataluña, Spain.
Discoveries of the Meeting Place, Old Cotton Exchange Building, Houston, TX, USA.
1995
Reverberations: Diptychs & Triptychs from the Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL, USA.
1994
American Voices, George Brown Convention Center, Houston, TX, USA.
1992
Cambio de Foco (Ante América) , Banco de la República, Luis Angel Arango Library, Santa Fé de Bogotá, Colombia.
1986
Second Havana Biennial, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba.
1984
First Havana Biennial, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba.
1981
Hecho en Latinoamérica II, Fine Arts Palace, Mexico, DF.
Sano y Sabroso, 12 y 23 Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
Volumen I, International Art Center, Havana, Cuba.
1979
Pintura Fresca, Art Gallery of Cienfuegos, Cuba.
1978
Hecho en Latinoamérica I, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico, DF.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books
2012
“Moonlight Serenade”, Photography by Gory, poems by Lucía Ballester
2009
“Diptychs, One lens, Two Visions” photos by Gory & Adrián López- Ballester, ed.Blurb, USA.
2008
“Nowhere Land”, photos by Gory, ed. Blurb, USA.
“Because of The City”, photos by Gory, ed. Blurb, USA.
1994
“New Art of Cuba”, Luis Camnitzer, University of Texas Press, Austin, TX, USA.
1979
“Time Life Year Book”, Alexandria, Virginia, USA.
Catalogues
2016
Of The Americas Contemporary Latin American Art from the LUAG Teaching Collection, Lehight University, Bethlehem, Pensylvania, USA.
2008
Cuba, Art and History From 1868 to Today, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada.
2006
Latin American Photography 2, Selections from the Lehigh University Art Gallery Collection, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA.
2001
Latin American Artist-Photographers From The Lehigh University Art Galleries Collection, Bethehem, PA, USA.
Shifting Tides-Cuban Photography after Revolution, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, USA.
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba, Colección de Arte Cubano, pag. 230-231, La Habana, Cuba.
1997
Breaking Barriers, Museum of Art of Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA.
1996
Cuba Siglo XX, Modernidad y Sincretismo, Atlantic Center of Modern Art, Las palmas de Gran Canarias, Spain.
Foto-Fest 96, Houston, TX, USA.
1994
Foto-Fest 94, Houston, TX, USA.
1992
Foto-Fest 92, Houston, TX, USA.
Cambio de Foco (Ante América), Banco de la República, Luis Angel Arango Library, Santa Fé de Bogotá, Colombia.
1990
No Man is an Island, Cuban Young Art, Museum of Pori, Finland.
1981
Hecho en Latinoamerica II, Mexican Council of Photography, Mexico, DF.
1978
Hecho en Latinoamerica I, Mexican Council of Photography, Mexico, DF.
Magazines & Newspaper
2005
Treasure from the Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, engagement calendar of LACMA 2005 (July), Los Angeles, CA, USA.
2004
At LACMA, Museum members magazine, Oct/Nov/Dec 2004. Permanent Colection-Discovering LACMA. Los Angeles, CA, USA.
2003
Atlantica Revista de Arte y Pensamiento No 36, Otoño de 2003, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
Nueva Luz, photographic journal Volume 8 No.3 En Foco Inc. New York, NY, USA.
2001
Art in America, October 2001, “From Revolution to Reverie”, by Leah Ollman, New York, USA.
The New York Times Weekend, Friday September 7, 2001, “Stylists of the Epic and the Surreal” by Holland Cotter, New York, USA.
Art News, September 2001 (advertisement) Page. 28, New York, USA
1995
Aperture, winter 1995 isue, New York, USA.
1993
Art Nexus #55, June-August 93, “Cambio de Foco”, by Natalia Gutierrez, FL, USA.
1987
Esquire & Derby, Italian edition, “Lo Especchio nello Especchio di Gory”, Milan, Italy.
1979
Fotografía en Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.