José Bedia Valdés

José Braulio Bedia Valdés (born January 13, 1959 in Havana, Cuba)[1][2] is a Cuban painter currently residing in Florida.[3]

José Braulio Bedia Valdés
Born (1959-01-13) January 13, 1959
Havana, Cuba
Señor de la Noche, acrylic on canvas by José Bedia Valdés, 1992, Honolulu Museum of Art

Bedia studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro" and then finished his art studies at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana. He escaped Cuba in 1990, settling initially in Mexico and subsequently, in 1993, in the United States.[4]

Selected individual exhibitions
  • 1989 – Final del Centauro – Castillo de la Real Fuerza, Havana, Cuba
  • 1992 – "Jose Bedia: De Donde Vengo (Where I Come From)" – Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA[4]
  • 1994 – José Bedia: De Donde Vengo – Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania
  • 2004 – Estremecimientos – Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain
  • September 18, 2011 – January 8, 2012 – Transcultural Pilgrim: Three Decades of Work by José Bedia – Fowler Museum, UCLA[5]

Collective exhibitions

In 1978 he began participating with other artists in several collective exhibitions. In 1980 he conformed the exhibition XIX Premi Internacional de Dibuix Joan Miró. Fundació Joan Miró, Centre d’Estudis d’Art Contemporani, Parc de Montjuic, Barcelona, Spain; Los novísimos cubanos. Grupo Volumen I was a significant exhibitionn that took place at The Signs Gallery, New York. He was selected to participate in the Cubans exhibition in the 1st and 2nd Havana Biennial Bienal de La Habana, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. In 1990 he was in the XLIV Exposizione Internazionale d’Arte, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy. In 1994, his work was exhibited at "InSite94: A Binational Exhibition of Installation and Site Specific Art" San Diego Train Station, San Diego, California. In 2001 his work was part of Inside and Out, Contemporary Sculpture, Video and Installations, Bass Museum of Art, IV Bienal del Caribe y Centroamérica, Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. In 2013 Bedia participated in the collective exhibit Drapetomania: Exposicion Homenaje a Grupo Antillano in Santiago de Cuba.

Awards

He has obtained several awards for his artistic work:

Collections

His pieces can be found in the permanent collections of:

Bibliography
  • Jose Bedia Works 19778-2006, Turner, 2007
  • Jose Bedia: Transcultural Pilgrim, Bettelheim and Berlo, 2012
  • José Bedia: Estremecimientos, Omar-Pascual Castillo, 2004
  • Jose Viegas; Memoria: Artes Visuales Cubanas Del Siglo Xx; (California International Arts 2004); ISBN 978-0-917571-12-1

References
  1. "Jose Bedia". Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
  2. "José Bedia | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
  3. "About José Bedia". The Farber Collection. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
  4. "An Anthropological Artist : Having left the charged politics of his native Cuba behind, Jose Bedia is finding spirit, myth and universality. In Miami". Los Angeles Times. 1995-03-05. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
  5. "Transcultural Pilgrim: Three Decades of Work by José Bedia". Fowler Museum | Free Admission. Easy Parking. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
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