MARCO

Wilfredo Prieto was born in Sancti-Spiritus, Cuba, in 1978. He lives and works in Havana, Cuba and Barcelona, Spain. He was graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), Havana, Cuba. He was part of group Galería DUPP (Desde una Pragmática Pedagógica [From Pedagogic Pragmatics]), awarded the UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts during the 8th Havana Bienninal. He was artist in residence with Kadist Art Foundation in Paris and John Simon Guggenheim in Nueva York, among others, and in 2008 He was awarded with Premio F Buenos Aires and The Cartier Foundation Award in London. He is now preparing a large exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and he has recently opened the exhibitions Amarrado a la pata de la mesa at CA2M de Móstoles, Madrid, and Praxis, at ARTIUM, Vitoria. 

Wilfredo Prieto has been present in the last edtions of the Havana Biennial, and in international events like the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007, or São Paulo Biennale in 2010. Somo of his solo shows include Negro, Mate, Seco, NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona, Spain (2010); Mountain, SMAK, Belgium (2008); Dead angle (Lost Bills), Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France (2006); Mute, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Canada (2006); Mucho ruido y pocas nueces II, MUSAC, León, Spain (2005). His work was featured in several group shows, namely Lisson presents 4, Lisson Gallery, London, UK (2009); Stowaways, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA (2009); That was then... this is now, PS1 MoMA, New York, USA (2008); Environment: Perils, Promises and Perplexities, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy (2008). Prieto also participated in Thesaloniki Biennial, Singapore Biennnial and, Biennale Cuvée, Linz (2009).

Wilfredo Prieto

Education

2003 Proffessor at Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana
        Postgraduate in Performance, Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana, Cuba

1998-2002 Galería DUPP (Desde Una Pragmática Pedagógica, artist' collectives), Instituto Superior                        de Arte, Havana, Cuba. Directed by Rene Francisco Rodríguez

1992-1996 Escuela Profesional de Artes Plásticas, Trinidad, Cuba

Solo Exhibitions

2012 MOCAD, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, EEUU (coming soon)

2011 Wilfredro Prieto. Esquerda / Dereita (Entrar na obra, 2), MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de             Vigo
        Wilfredo Prieto, Praxis, ARTIUM, Vitoria
        Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon
        Atado a la pata de la mesa, Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo (CA2M), Móstoles, Madrid

2010 Negro, mate, seco, NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona

2009 I am making Art, Wilfredo Prieto & Ignacio Uriarte, Taka Ishii Gallery, Kioto & Tokyo

2008 Mountain, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium
        Desnudo, Galerie Martin Van Zomeren, Amsterdam

2007 S/t (Alfombra roja), NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona
        Sacando al perro y comiendo mierda, Parque Lennon, Havana, Cuba
        A minute of silence, Artists’ Web Projects, Dia Art Foundation, New York

2006 S/t (Grúa), Madrid Abierto, Madrid
        Grasa, jabón y plátano, Convento de Santa Clara, Havana
        Mute, MacMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Canada
        Ángulo muerto, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris

2005 Mucho ruido y pocas nueces II, MUSAC, León

2004 S/t (Biblioteca blanca), NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona
        Speech, Galerie Martin Van Zomeren, Amsterdam

2003 Mucho ruido y pocas nueces, Galería Habana, A Habana

2002 Wilfredo Prieto en el Wifredo Lam, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana

2001 Matrioska, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana

2000 Matrioska, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana

2000 Pie de obra, (con James Bonachea), Centro Cultural ICAIC; Fundación Ludwig de Cuba, Havana

1999 Conceptualismo Aditivo, (con James Bonachea), Galería Oscar F. M. Sancti-Spiritus, Cuba

Group exhibitions (selection)

2010 29th São Paulo Biennial
        Beyond Entropy, 12ª Venice Biennial of Architecture
        Panamericana, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City
        Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev, Ukraine
        I'm Not Here. An Exhibition Without Francis Alÿs, De Appel Boys’ School, Amsterdam
        Antes de todo, CA2M, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Móstoles, Madrid
        Cosas que sólo un artista puede hacer, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo

2009 Stowaways, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
        Lisson presents 4, Lisson Gallery, London
        10th Havana Biennial

2008 Objects of Value, Miami Art Museum, Miami
        Fuck You Human, Maribel López, Berlin
        That was Then… This is Now, PS1 MoMA, New York
        The Disobedients, Annet Gelink, Amsterdam
        Greenwashing environment: peril, promise and perpexlity, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo,               Torino

2007 Territorios, 52ª Venice Biennial. Italian-Lationamerican Pavilion
        Extraordinary Rendition. Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona
        Errore di sistema-System error, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena

2006 Singapore Biennial

2005 The Hours. Visual Arts from Contemporary Latin America, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublín

2004 Cordially invited, (episode 3, Who if not we should at least try to imagine the future of all this?) 7           episodes on (ex)changing Europe, BAK, Utrecht

2003 8th Havana Biennial, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wilfredo Lam

2002 Collateral exhibition to the 25th São Paulo Biennial, Memorial de América Latina, São Paulo, Brazil

2000 7th Havana Biennial, DUPP

1999 El Tiempo como Espacio, Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana

1998 I Festival de Performance Ana Mendieta, Unión Nacional de escritores y Artistas de Cuba, DUPP,         Havana

1997 En busca de una huella (encuentro con la obra de Ana Mendieta), Cuevas de Jaruco, DUPP,        Havana

Collections

Collection Peter Norton Family, California
Daros Collection of Latinamerican Art, Zurich
FRAC Corse, France
Verbund Collection, Wien
Colecction Museum of Old and New, Tasmania