Glenda León
Glenda León is a Cuban-Spanish artist born in Havana in 1976. Her work has received awards such as The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award and residencies such as the Couvent des Recollets, Paris and the Fonderie Darling, Montréal. Her work also forms part of important public collections such as those of Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Perez Art Museum Miami; Musée des Beaux Arts du Montréal; Art Gallery of Ontario-AGO, Toronto; Hammer Museum, Los Ángeles; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana.
She began her studies of Fine Art at the age of 12 and began to exhibit professionally in 1999. Before that, she studied Classical Ballet and Philology at the University of Havana, finally graduating in Art History. In 2007, she completed the Masters in New Media Art at the New Media Academy in Cologne.
She was part of the Cuban Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale with her work Music of the Spheres (2013). She has also been invited to the Havana Biennial, the SITE Santa Fe Biennial, the II Jafre Biennial, the Dakar DAK’ART 2018 Biennial, the Off Biennale Cairo: Something Else II and Juntos Aparte 2018 -BienalSur, Cúcuta.
Other group exhibitions she has taken part in took place in spaces such as the Museum of Modern Art - MoMA and the Brooklyn Museum, New York; CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco; Bronx Museum; Centre d’Art Contemporain Villa du Parc, Annemasse; Badischen Kunstverein, Karlsruhe; City Art Museum Ljubljana; The Mattress Factory, Pittsburg; Rhode Island School of Design - RISD Museum, Rhode Island; Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada; MART Museum, Rovereto, Italy; CIFO, Miami; Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia, Gdansk; Musée des Beaux - Arts de Montréal; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; and De Appel, Amsterdam.
She has presented her work individually at the Visual Arts Development Center-CDAV, Havana; Le Plateau Espace Expérimental, Paris; Château des Adhémar, Montélimar; Matadero Madrid; Atlantic Center of Modern Art - CAAM, Gran Canaria; and the Metropolitan Museum Manila, among other spaces.
Her work has been published in various magazines, catalogues and newspapers, such as Bomb Magazine, Art Nexus, Artforum, Flash Art and Artecubano.
