The Artist
Photo: Candice Lee Olin www.pandamedia.com
Biograpy
Ariel Diaz Garcia was born in Habana, Cuba in 1963. He attended studies at San Alejandro Art Academy 1995-1999, with focus on painting and mural. The following years was spent developing and attending a number of art-projects in Havana, including the local project "Ismaeilillo" which focused on teaching art to the children of Havana.
Ariels most recognized mural is a 160-feet wall at Museo de la Revolucion in Habana.
Photos: Hilary Duffy, http://www.hilaryduffy.com/
The work, and Ariel's ways of painting his city, is shown in the documentary "Pintando Habana", produced by Austrian filmmaker and architect Rupert Schwarz. See website: http://www.pintandohabana.com
During many years Ariel Diaz Garcias have used a highly estetical, but for some peovocating way of showing his art in the streets of Habana. Body painting in public.
Photo and painting: Ariel Diaz Garcia Habana 2004
Ariel Diaz Garcia was given The Great Art Award in Havana, in 1999.
He has held several personal exhibitions along with many collective exhibitions, a lot of them outside Cuba.
His work is represented with collectors in Japan, Canada, France, USA, Holland, Germany, Austia, Spain and Sweden where he is now situated.
Check the "Exhibitions" button to the left for further information about exhibitions, art history, what's going on right now and what's coming up.
