Rafael Triana is a multidisciplinary artist. His work combines performance, video art, installation and digital illustration. He was born in 1988 in the province Ciego de Avila, Cuba. After his graduate studies at the School of Fine Arts in Havana (ISA) where he obtained the Gold diploma in Scenographic Design, he settled in Paris in 2015.
EXHIBITIONS
2021-2022
PARALLEL Publicación Revista Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art, Barcelona. España.
PARALLEL Publicación Revista Digital Chroma Agency. Allemagne.
PARALLEL (7,8) Collective exhibition The New Artist. Boomer Gallery. London
PARALLEL (3,4,5,6). CLASH. THE HOLY ART Gallery. London
PARALLEL (2). Collective show. La Salita, Barcelona
LIFEGUARD. 9th FIVA International Video Art . Camaguey, Cuba
LIFEGUARD. Bogota Film Festival. Colombia
LIFEGUARD. Black Gold Film Festival. Mexico
LIFEGUARD. FINCALI Festival. Colombia
THE BLIND PHOTOGRAPHER. Ajayu International Animation Festival, Peru
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018-19
¿La Verdad? Todo es mentira. Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo EAC. Uruguay (upcoming)
2018
Control Z. Stripart Gallery Center Cívic Guinardó. Barcelona, Spain
2015
CUBALAND. Gallery THE VOLTA. Girona, Spain
2014
Help !!! Zalle Zero Gallery, French Alliance. Havana, Cuba
2013
El cuarto mono sabio, Romerias Gallery, Holgin, Cuba
COLLECTIONS
Video Art Collection, City Hall of Astillero-El Amacén de las Artes, Spain. OVERLOAD
Bòlit Museum of Contemporary Art, Girona Spain. COLLECTIVE MEMORY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
ELECTROSHOCK 31th Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Marseille. France. OVERLOAD
Festival Madrid Grafica. Spain. CIUDAD PERSONA
Festival S-CooMix 2018. Italy. DRAFT
Festival Kontemporanea. País Vasco. España. EL INSOMNIO DEL ARTISTA
Publicación Revista Novena Edición de La Astilla en el Ojo- Surreal. Colombia. OVERLOAD
Festival OTROS PAISAJES. La Tostadora. Colombia. SANDBANK
VEA 3a Bienal Internacional de Videoarte y Animación. Puebla, Mexico. EVOLUTION
Finalista PREMIO COMBAT PRIZE. Livorno, Italia. OVERLOAD
Ciclo Cine de Artistas. Museo MACBA. Buenos Aires, Argentina. OVERLOAD
Festival Faenza. Madrid, España. SANDBANK
Bienal NUNCA FUIMOS NADA. México. WORD WORLD
International Annecy Festival. France. EVOLUTION
Proceso de Error Festival. Valparaíso, Chile. SANDBANK
International Biennial PerFoArtNet. Bogotá, Colombia. SISYPHUS
VI Edición Nemo Art Festival (Tatami). Priego de Córdoba, España. ATLAS
Oftálmica Festival. México. OVERLOAD “
PICTOPÍA2018” La Vid de Gordón. Leon, España. UNIVERSAL CONTROL
Embracing Our Differences. Sarasota. Florida. USA. MIGRATION
60Seconds Festival & One-Off Moving Image Festival. Copenhagen, Denmark. HOME
2017
Espace 33 exhibition. Paris. France Ideaborn exhibition. Spain. MIGRATION
Cold bench. London. England. SANDBANK
MADATAC Festival. España. OVERLOAD
VIDEO BABEL Festival. Peru. EVOLUTION
INTERMEDIACIONES Festival. Bogota. Colombia. PERMUTA
WOTISART Magazine. London. CARD GAME
CARTON Festival. Buenos Aires, Argentina. OVERLOAD
3th Biennial CMUCH. Mexico. OVERLOAD
URBAN Gallery. Barcelona, Spain. SISYPHUS
Stripart Festival. Barcelona, Spain. SISYPHUS
Festival Internacional por los Derechos Humanos. Bogota, Colombia, TEA TIME
Festival Pirineos Sur. Spain. SISYPHUS
2016
Video Babel Festival. Cusco, Peru. DICTADURA POSTIZA
CUVO Festival. Madrid, Spain. IDEOLOGICAL CONSTRUCTION
SUR-KO Festival. Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil. CLASE MEDIA
Video Bardo Festival. Buenos Aires, Argentina. DUELO DE AVIONES
Cartón Festival. Buenos Aires, Argentina. DICTADURA POSTIZA
International Video Mapping Festival. Girona, Spain. COLLECTIVE MEMORY
International Classical Theater Festival ALMAGRO, Madrid, Spain. LUNAR LANDSCAPE
International Video Art Festival BANG. Barcelona, Spain. PROPAGATION
International Festival IMAGINA San Javier, Spain. VIRUS
Without cardinal points, Art Space Fidencia, Mexico. RAGE Today is any day, in the middle of 2030, Círculo de Bellas Artes. Madrid, Spain. RECHARGEABLE
International Biennial SIART. La Paz, Bolivia. BIP and 20 Escupidas de lama
Stripart Gallery Center Cívic Guinardó. Barcelona, Spain. IDEOLOGICAL CONSTRUCTION and PERFORATION
BANG H2O Gallery, Contrast Gallery, Barcelona, Spain. PROPAGATION
International Biennial BACOS, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain. THE CHARGE OF JEFF KOONS (Collective ATEO)
2015
The International Festival FIVA. Buenos Aires, Argentina. HORIZONTES AZULES
International Festival of Ophthalmic Video Art Xalapa, Mexico. CENTAURO
6th International Video Art Festival. Camagüey, Cuba. HORIZONTES AZULES
5th Festival International d’Art Vidéo, Camagüey, Cuba. GTM ZONA HORARIA
International Festival of Theater of Havana, Cuba. ¿TE ACUERDAS DÓNDE PUSE MI CABEZA? 12th Biennial of Havana, Cuba. INTRO
Young Art Gallery. Ciego de Ávila, Cuba. FABULAS Gallery Factoría, Havana, Cuba. FARO
AWARDS
2018
Mención Honorifica Tercera Edición de la Bienal Internacional de Videoarte y Animación Puebla. México. EVOLUTION
2017
OVERLOAD (FIRST PRIZE) Prize of Videoarte City Hall of Astillero-El Almacén de las Artes, Spain
OVERLOAD (First Mention) FIVAC Festival. Camagüey, Cuba
OVERLOAD (Special Mention) Five Continents International Film Festival, Caracas, Venezuela
2014
LLAMADA PERDIDA (First Mention – Prize Revolution and Culture) 14th Art Fair, Cuba LLAMADA PERDIDA (First Prize) Design Center of Plastic Arts, Luz y Oficio Gallery, Havana, Cuba CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO (First Prize) Imago Festival, Havana, Cuba
RESIDENCE AND PROJECT
2018
Audiovisual residence MADATAC, Casa Velázquez. Madrid Spain. Creation : LA MUERTE DEL ARTISTA
2015
Residence, Bòlit Center d’Art Contemporani. FIMG International Video Mapping Festival, Girona Spain. Creation : No SETUP, PERO YO
2014
Worshop with Marina Abramović. 10th Biennial, Havana. Cuba