Eduardo Abela Torrás

Education and Professional Experience

San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts

Member of the Association of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC).
Member of the Experimental Graphics Workshop.

Personal Exhibitions

Naturalezas vivas y ventanas (Live Nature and Windows), “La Rama Dorada” Gallery, Panama City, Panama.
2003 September. Carta Menú (Menu) Hotel Inglaterra, Havana, Cuba.
2004 11000 Vírgenes (Eleven Thousand Virging), CNAP, Havana, Cuba.
2005 October. “Ay Dios mío” (Oh, My God!), Palacio de Lombillo Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
2006 June. Pa’tras, pa’ coger impulse (Backwards, to Get Impulse), Colón Gallery, traveling show, province of Matanzas, Cuba.
July. Visión (Vision), Encuentros Gallery, Panama City, Panama.
2007 www.cubainsula.co. Palacio de Lombillo Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
2009 Dicember Mecánica Popular (Popular Mechanics), Villa Manuela Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
2010 Remake, Servando Cabrera Museum, collateral to the 33rd International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema, Havana, Cuba.
201 March, Tierra a la vista (Land in Sight), Mérida Olimpo Cultural Center, Yucatán, Mexico.
March, Cuba on my mind, The Naples Art Association at The von Liebig, U.S.A.
July, Review, Orígenes Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
50 en los 50 (50 in the 50’s), 50th Anniversary of  UNEAC, Acacia Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
Traveling show throughout Cuba: De la punta al cabo y la Isla también, x toda Cuba (From One End to the Other, and the Island Too).
Del plato a la boca, el arte se evoca (From the Plate to the Mouth, Art is Recalled), Nahualli Gallery, Mérida, Mexico.

Collective Exhibitions and Events

2000 Dos de la Habana (Two from Havana), Tamara Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
November. Catorce pintores cubanos (Fourteen Cuban Artists), FP Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal.
2003 June. Pintura cubana de hoy (Cuban Painting Today), Chapel of Humankind, Guayasamín Foundation, Quito, Ecuador.
November. “Maneras de Inventarse una Sonrisa” (Ways of Inventing a Smile). Development Center for the Visual Arts, 8th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba.
December. “31 artistas cubanos contemporáneos en Chile” (Thirty-one Contemporary Cuban Artists in Chile), Borde Río Gallery, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
2004 April. Cuban Passion. Wisma Kebudayaan SGM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
October. Art Toronto 2004, International Fair, Toronto, Canada.
2005 April. Contemporary Cuban Art, Ateneo de Cáceres, Spain.
2006 February. Martí de todos (Martí of All), Museum of the Americas, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
April. Manual de instrucciones (Instruction Manual), CENCREM, collateral to the Ninth Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba.
November. Feria de Arte Lisboa (Lisbon Art Fair), 23 and 12 Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal.
December. Cinco palmas (Five Palm Trees). Group of five sculptures at the entrance of the Universal Art Building of the National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba.
2007 February. Manual de instrucciones (Instructions Manual), Casa América,  Madrid, Spain.
July. Monstruos devoradores de energía (Energy Devouring Monsters), at the Grand Palais, Paris, France. Nostalgia Fair, Miami, U.S.A.
October. Cultural Days, Chelsea Arts Club, London, England.
October. Luz insular (Insular Light), Panama City, Panama.
December. Arte y moda (Art and Fashion), Hotel Nacional, Havana, Cuba.
2008 March. La Historia en la memoria (History in the Memory), 170th anniversary of Gran Teatro de La Habana, Orígenes Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
April. Showcase VII Congreso (Seventh Congress). 47 artistas pintan para el Congreso (47 Artists Paint for the Congress). Villa Manuela Gallery, Cuba.
May. Estampa de Fe, Spanish-American Cultural Center, Havana, Cuba.
June. El rapto en la pupila, Spanish-American Cultural Center, Havana, Cuba.
August. En fin, el mar (In Brief… the Sea). Lloyd´s Register, Havana, Cuba.
September. Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai, China.
2009 February. Trazos hacia el Desarrollo (Strokes toward Development), Havana, Cuba.
Launching of the book Alquimia Insular (Insular Alchemy), Eduardo Abela, La Casona Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
Mañana será demasiado tarde (Tomorrow Will Be Too Late), collateral to the Tenth Havana Biennial, International Press Center, Havana, Cuba.
Martorell Workshop, showcase of the Experimental Graphics Workshop, collateral to the Tenth Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba.
Retrátese con Arte (Have Your Picture Made with Art), collateral to the Tenth Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba.
Los Abstractos (The Abstracts), collateral to the Tenth Havana Biennial. Expocuba fairground, Havana, Cuba.
October. ARTBO, Fifth International Art Fair, Bogotá, Colombia.
December. Entre islas (Between Islands), 80th Anniversary of Cuba-Japan Diplomatic Relations, Los Oficios Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
2010 Nuevas adquisiciones (New Acquisitions), collection of the National Council for Plastic Arts (CNAP), Covarrubias Hall, National Theater, Havana, Cuba.
El Tiempo (Time), Soho Gallery, Mérida, Mexico.
Air France, Miramar Trade Center, Havana, Cuba.
San Fermines, El Templete, Havana, Cuba.
Aires de Gracia (Graceful Airs), exhibition of contemporary fans, Palacio de Lombillo, Havana, Cuba.
September, Memorias (Memories), Leal´s Gallery, Miami, U.S.A.
August. Nuevas adquisiciones (New Acquisitions), CNAP Collection. Development Center for the Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba.
October, Profecía (Prophecy), 12 and 23 Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
November, Retratos Cubanos (Cuban Portraits). Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Havana, Cuba.
December, Rostros de Mella (Faces of Mella), House of the Film Festival, Havana, Cuba.
December, Remake, Bonachea, Rancaño and Abela, 32nd  International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema, Servando Cabrera Moreno Museum, Havana, Cuba.
2011 January, El Arsenal (The Arsenal), exhibition hall of the Madrid City Hall, Madrid, Spain.
February, Un minuto de silencio (One Minute of Silence), Guayasamín House, Havana, Cuba.
March, Tierra a la vista (Land in Sight), Mérida Olimpo Cultural Center, Yucatán, Mexico.
March, Cuba on My Mind, The Naples Art Association at The von Liebig, U.S.A.
June, Arte Cubano (Cuban Art), ART Harteveld Gallery, Switzerland.
July, Reflejos (Reflexes), Embassy of Sri Lanka, Havana, Cuba.
July, Review, Orígenes Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
2012  AB and C, Taganana Hall, Hotel Nacional, Eleventh Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba.
Profundamente superficiales (Profoundly Superficial), Eleventh Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba.
June 2012-March 2013, Bola viva (Live Ball), Pintura cubana de hoy (Cuban Painting of Today), Barranquilla, Cartagena, Santa Marta, Montería, Bogotá.
Group Exhibition, 6th anniversary of the magazine Cubaplus, Hotel Nacional, Havana, Cuba.
September. Sucedáneos de Fé (Substitutes of Faith), Convent of St. Francis of Assisi, Havana, Cuba.
October. Reencuentro (Meeting). ICAIC, Cuba.
Elogios al sacrificio (Praise of Sacrifice), Expo of the Crosses, church of San Antonio María Claret, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
Crear dos, tres, muchos Che… (To Create Two, Three, Many Che’s), Casa del Alba Cultural, Havana, Cuba.
El Arte en la Memoria (Art in the Memory), José Martí National Library, Havana, Cuba.
November. Arte y Moda (Art and Fashion). Expo TrajeXtremos. Cuban Art Building, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba.
Ciudad Saudade (City of Longing). Rubén Martínez Villena Public Library, Havana, Cuba.