Juan Roberto Diago Durruthy: Painter, sculptor, installation artist. Graduated from the "San Alejandro" Academy of Fine Arts in 1990. His solo exhibitions include: Diago: The Past of this Afro-Cuban Present, AMA Museum, Washington DC, 2024; Juan Roberto Diago: Foraged Materials Assembled Histories, Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri, 2024; La Oscuridad fue el Principio, Casa de América, Madrid, 2023; Diago: An Art for All Times, Martinique, 2023; Testigo del Tiempo, Artizar Gallery, Tenerife, 2022; Homenaje, Villa Manuela Gallery, Havana, 2020; Diago: The Past of this Afro-Cuban Present, Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, Harvard University, Boston, 2017.
He has participated in national and international group exhibitions, including: NDAFFA. 14th Dakar Biennale, Senegal; The Infinite Possibility. Thinking the Nation, Nothing Personal Exhibition, XIII Havana Biennial, National Museum of Fine Arts, 2019; Artes de Cuba, From the Island to the World, The John F. Kennedy Center, Washington, 2018; Inaugural Exhibition, Museum of Black Civilizations, Dakar, 2018; Time of Intuition. Viva Arte Viva, Venice Biennale, 2017; Modern Times, UNESCO, Paris, 2015.
Collections: National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana; Cernuda Arte, USA; DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Greece; The von Christierson’s Collection; CIFO Collection, USA; Pizzuti Collection, USA; HGN/HGN Collection, Germany; Zabludowicz Collection, England; Boston Fine Arts Museum, USA; Jorge M. Pérez Collection, USA; Museum of Black Civilizations, Dakar; Fondation Clément; María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation.
