Carlos Alfonzo

As a prodigious talent formalizing his practice in Cuba under Castro’s Communist Regime, Carlos Alfonzo attended the Academia de Bellas Artes, San Alejandro earning a degree in Painting, Sculpture, and Printmaking in 1973. He continued his studies at the university of Havana, Cuba earning a degree in Art History a year later, in 1974. Only one month after the tragic passing of Carlos Alfonzo in in 1991 his paintings were exhibited in the Whitney Biennial of Contemporary American Art. Posthumous solo exhibitions, such as “Carlos Alfonzo: Late Paintings,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (2022), and “Carlos Alfonzo: Witnessing Perpetuity,” LnS Gallery, Miami, FL (2020) honor the legacy of the artist through a chronology of works that spanned from 1976 to 1990. Today, his work forms part of the permanent collections of world-renowned institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, The John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, and the PAMM.