TOMAS SÁNCHEZ
Born in Cienfuegos, Cuba 1948
Resides and works between in Florida (USA) & Costa Rica
EDUCATION
Studies at Escuela National de Bellas Artes San Alejandro, Havana, Cuba
Graduated from Escuela National de Artes, Havana, Cuba (1971)
AWARDS
1988
Honour for National Culture
Awarded by the State Council of the Cuban Republic
1987
Honorable Mention
I International Biennial of Painting
1986
Medal
American Biennial of Engraving, Cali, Colombia
Honorable Mention
II Biennial of Havana, Cuba
1984
National Award of Painting, “Amelia Pelaez”
I Biennial of Havana, Cuba
1980
XIX International Prize of Drawing, “Joan Miró”
Barcelona, Spain
First Prize
National Landscape Exhibition, Leopoldo Romañach, Guantánamo, Cuba
1975
First prize in painting and first prize in lithography
III National Exhibition of Teachers and Instructors of Plastic Arts, Havana, Cuba
1973
Works selected as national heritage
III Youth National Exhibition of Plastic Arts, Havana, Cuba
Second prize of lithography
National Exhibition of Engraving, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
1972
Works selected as national heritage
II Youth National Exhibition of Plastic Arts, Havana, Cub
1971
First prize in lithography
I Youth National Exhibition, Havana, Cuba
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2001
Tomás Sánchez, obras recientes
FIAC 2001, Paris France / Marlborough, Madrid, Spain
October
1999
Tomás Sánchez, New Paintings and Drawings
Marlborough, New York, USA
May 24 – June 26
1997
Tomás Sánchez, Works on Paper
Jorge M. Sorí Fine Art, Coral Gables, Florida, USA
April 1 – April 30
1996
Tomás Sánchez Different Worlds
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
February 2 – May 19
1995
Tomás Sánchez and Ramón Alejandro
Weiss Sorí Fine Art, Inc., Coral Gables, Florida, USA
November 3 – November 30
Tomás Sánchez, Recent Works
Weiss Sorí Fine Art, Coral Gables, Florida, USA.
1994
Pinturas de Tomás Sánchez
Galería PEMIX, Mexico DF, Mexico
1993
Tomás Sánchez, Andrés Puig. De Cuba a Cuba: El arte como Puente / From Cuba to Cuba: Art as Bridge
Cuban Museum of Art and Culture, Miami, Florida, USA
February 19 – April 11
1989
Quince obras de Tomás Sánchez
Galería Arvil, Mexico DF, Mexico
November 16 – December 16
1988
Paisajes de Tomás Sánchez
Galería Exponarte, Panama City, Panama
Pinturas de Catalina Requeiro y Tomás Sánchez
Galerica de San Miguel del Padrón y Galería Havana, Cuba
Simplemente un vuelo
Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas y Diseño, Havana, Cuba
December 17
Paintings by Tomás Sánchez
Quintero Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida USA
1986
Tomás Sánchez, Pinturas
Galería Quintero, Barranquilla, Colombia
October 25
1985
Óleos. Tomás Sánchez,
Galería Servando, Cabrera Moreno, Havana, Cuba
April 22
Tomás Sánchez
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba
January 23
1983
Dibujos de Tomás Sánchez
Galerie und Café, Vienna, Austria
April 19 – May 20
Dibujos de Tomás Sánchez – “Al Andar”
Hispanic-American Center of Athens, Athens, Greece
April 5 – April 13
Dibujos de Tomás Sánchez
Municipal Culture Gallery of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus
March 23 – March 30
Tomás Sánchez, Dibujos
Casa de la Cultura Cubana, Prague, Czechoslovakia
& Plastic Artists Union Art Gallery, Moscow, Soviet Union
1981
Tomás Sánchez Requeiro, Dibujos
XX Premi Internacional de Dibuix 1980,
Centre d’Estudis d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain
July 17 – September
1980
Paisajes y muñecos de Tomás Sánchez
Lenin Park, Havana, Cuba
October 9
1979
Tomás Sánchez
Galería de Arte, Galiano y Concordia, La Havana, Cuba
Tempera de Tomás Sánchez
Casa de la cultura, Havana, Cuba
October 10
1974
Litografías. Pinturas. Tomás Sánchez
Galería L, Havana, Cuba
August 23 – September
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2001
Arte de las Américas. Colocciones en Costa Rica
Museo de Arte Costarricense, San José, Costa Rica
2000
Grandi Artisti alla Fabbrica San Giorgio, Albisola 1958 – 2000
Spazio Espositivo del Comune di Badalucco, Imperia, Italy
April 15 – June.
1997
Botero, Lam, Matta y Sanchez
Jorge Sorí Fine Art, Coral Gables, Florida USA.
Breaking Barriers. Selections from the Museum of Art’s Permanent Contemporary Cuban Collection
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida USA
1996
Estampas cubanas de tres siglos
Museo Nacional de Colombia, Bogota
July – August
Salón Avianca, Barranquilla, Colombia
August – September
1995
El Tema Histórico en la Pintura Cubana
National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
May 23
Novecento Cubano. La naturaleza El hombre. Los dioses. Pintura Cubana del 900
Milan, Italy
1994
Cuban Artists of the Twentieth Century
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Nuevas Adquisiones
National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
October 24
1993
Exposición Arte Cubano. Pasado y Presente Obra Importante
Gary Nader Fine Art, Coral Gables, Florida, USA
November
Cuban Artists of the Twentieth Century
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
October 22 1993 – January 2, 1994
1992
Color de Cuba
Pabellón de las Artes, Exposición Universal Sevilla 92, Sevilla, Spain
1991
Los cubanos llegaron ya
Ninart Centro de Cultura, Mexico DF, Mexico
September 18
18 Peintres de Cuba á Paris
Festival de L’Humanité, Paris, France
September 13
1990
Latinamerican Masters
Gallery Bernheim, Panama City, Panama
1989
La Habana en Madrid
Centro Cultural de la Villa, Madrid City Council, Madrid, Spain
1988
Pintura Contemporánea Cubana
Gallery Tretyakov, Moscow, Soviet Union
October
Plástica Cubana 1980. Dieciséis artistas jóvenes
Gallery L, Havana, Cuba
September 16
Pintura Cubana Actual
Capilla del Antiguo Hospital de Santa Cruz, Barcelona, Spain
April 15 – April 30
Festival de Primavera ARTEXPO
Budapest, Hungary
1987
I Bienal Internacional de Pintura
Municipal Museum of Modern Art, Cuenca, Ecuador
April 24 – July 24
Feria Internacional de Arte ARCO ‘87
Palacio de Cristal, Madrid, Spain
1986
Sixth Triennale – India 1968
Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, India
February 22 – March 21
Feria Internacional de Arte ARCO ‘86
Madrid, Spain
L’Arte con il Sorriso. Trenta artisti cubani di oggi
Venice / Reggio Emilia / Milan / Turin / Genoa / Rome, Italy
V Bienal Americana de Artes Gráficas
Museum of Modern Art La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS : CONTINUED
1985
Signos de La Bienal,
Argelia, Syria – December / Centro de Arte Vivo, Tunisia – July 1986
18a. Bienal de Sāo Paulo
Parque Ibiraquera, Sāo Paulo, Brazil
October 4 – December 15
1984
Dibujos cubanos
National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
October 18
René Portocarrero. Viente pintores cubanos contemporáneos
Galerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Federal Republic
July – August
XVI Festival International de la Peinture
Château-Musée, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
June 29 – September 30
René Portacarrero. Veinte pintores cubanos contemporáneos
Galerie de L’Esplanade de la Defense, Paris, France
May 29 – June 30
Cuba: Pintura Joven/Young Painting
Musée des Sept-Iles, Quebec, Canada
February – March 25
1983
XXII Premi Internacional de Dibuix Joan Miró
Fundació Joan Miro, Centre d’Estudis d’Art Contemporani, Parc de Montjuic, Barcelona
July 21 – September 18
Plástica cubana contemporánea
Museo Nacional de Bogotá, Colombia
May
7 Artistas Cubanos Contemporáneos
Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid, Spain / House of Cuban Culture, Prague, Czechoslovakia
March 14 – April
1982
Salón Paisaje ’82 (Panorama del paisaje en Cuba)
National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
September 17
Arte Cubano. Los novísimos cubanos
Museum of Modern Art, Sala Artconsult, Panama City, Panama
July 31
XXI Premi Internacional de Dibuix Joan Miró
Fundació Joan Miró, Centre d’Estudis d’Art Contemporani, Parc de Montjuic, Barcelona
July 21 – September 12
III Bienal Iberoamericana de Arte Domecq “El paisaje en la pintura contemporánea”
Museo Alvar y Carmen Carrillo Gil, Mexico DF, Mexico
July 28 – August 27
Pintura Joven Cubana. Grupo Volumen Uno
Gallery Rafaela Padilla de Zaraoza, Sala Erasto Cortés, Puebla, Mexico
May 22 – June 13
Arte Cubano. Los novísimos cubanos
The Signs Gallery, New York, NY, USA
March – May
1981
First Look: 10 Young Artists from Today’s Cuba
Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY, USA
November 3 – November 22
Esta Habana nuestra. Grupo Versiones del Paisaje
Amelia Peláez Gallery, Parque Lenin, Havana, Cuba
April-May
Volumen Uno
Centro de Arte Internacional, Havana, Cuba
January 13
1980
Paisaje cubano
Rotonda Saliu mici a Palatului
Bucarest, Romania
December 23 – January 1981
I Concurso Nacioinal de Paisaje “Leopoldo Romañach”
Biblioteca de Guantánamo, Guantánamo, Cuba
September 26
XIX Premi Internacional de Dibuix Joan Miró
Sala de Cultura de la Caja de Ahorros de Burlada, Burlada, Navarra, Spain
XIX Premi Internacional de Dibuix Joan Miró
Fundació Joan Miró, Centre d’Estudis d’Art Contemporani, Parc de Montjuic, Barcelona, Spain
July 22 – September 14
1976
Exposición de la Plástica Cubana Actual
Museum of Modern Art La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia
November 5
Salón Permanente de Jóvenes. Pintura y Grabado
National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
February 28
Viva Cuba Libre
Stand Cubano dans la Foire de la revue, Paris, France
June
1975
Panorama del arte Cubano de la colonia a nuestros días
Museum of Modern Art, Bosque de Chapultepec, Mexico DF, Mexico
April 16 – May
9th International Print Biennial
Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Japan
Third Triennale India 1975
Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, India
1973
InterGrafik 73
Berlin, German Democratic Republic
International Triennial of Engraving
Stockholm, Sweden.