Alexandre Arrechea Biography

Awards and Residencies

2005
  • Braziers International. Oxfordshire, England.
2002
  • Artist in residence, The Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, New Castle, England
2000
  • Prize. Fomento de las Artes, UNESCO, 7ma Bienal de la Habana, Havana, Cuba
1997
  • First Prize, Contemporary Art-People’s Award, El Mundo Magazine, Argentaria Foundation. ARCO Fair
1995-6
  • Endowment. Departamento de Exposiciones y Colecciones, Ministerio de Cultura Español, Madrid, Spain

Collections

Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, New York, USA Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA, USA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA, USA The Martin Margulies Collection, Miami, FL, USA Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany Arizona State University, ASU Art Museum, Arizona, USA Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo A.C., Mexico City, Mexico Daros Collection, Zurich, Switzerland Fundación ARCO, Museo Galego de Arte Contemporáneo, Spain Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain San Diego Art Museum, San Diego, CA, USA Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation, Vienna, Austria Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University, Kansas, USA University of California at Santa Barbara Museum, CA, USA Fredrick Weissman Foundation Beverly Hills, CA, USA Cincinnati Museum of Contemporary Art Cincinnati, OH, USA MAM.Museo de Arte de Miami, Florida. USA Museo del Barrio New York. NY. USA Museum Würth, La Rioja, Spain Ellipse Foundation, Portugal Museo de Bellas Artes, Murcia, Spain

Education

  • 1994 Graduated from the « Instituto Superior de Arte »
  • 1991 — 2003 : was a member of the art collective Los Carpinteros

Alexandre Arrechea

Contemporary

Architecture, drawing, installation, sculpture, video

Cuban artist born in 1970 in Trinidad, Cuba.