Tomas Esson
Diaspora Cubana
Wet Painting #53
Bandera
Eres una fiera por la noche
Biography
Juan Tomas Essom Reid
Havana, Cuba, February 8, 1963
EDUCATION
1977-1978 Escuela Elemental de Artes Plasticas "20 de Octubre", Havana, CUBA.
1978-1982 Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas "San Alejandro", Havana, CUBA.
1982-1987 Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), Havana, CUBA.
SOLO SHOWS
2006
"The Empire States Building vs. The Water Tank." Alonso Art, Miami, Florida, USA.
2000
"Mondongo Gordo" Drawings. Denise Andrews Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA.
1999
www.tomasesson.com Live Time personal exhibition.
1997
"Wet Paintings for the White House." Brewster Arts LTD, New York, USA.
1995
Wet Drawings [July]. Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida, U.S.A. Agua. Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
1994
Tomas Esson [November]. Porter Randal Gallery, La Jolla, California, U.S.A.
1993
Tomas Esson. A tarro partido III [October 1 31]. Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida, U.S.A.
Cha Cha Cha. Art Cologne Internationale Kunstmarkt .Cologne, GERMANY
represented by Galeria Ramis Barquet, Monterrey).
1992
Absolut Freedom [Arturo Cuenca, Tomas Esson, Florencio Gelabert] [July 9 ?]. Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida, U.S.A*
Luis Cruz Azaceta, Juan Abreu Felippe, Tomas Esson Reid: Drawings. Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida, U.S.A
1991
Que calor! Paintings, Drawings, Installation Inspired in: Havana, Miami, Hamburg [December 6 28]. Opus Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida, U.S.A.*
1989
Patria o muerte! [Glexis Novoa, Carlos Rodriguez Cardenas, Tomas Esson] Proyecto Castillo de la Fuerza [March April]. Castillo de la Real Fuerza, Havana, CUBA.*
1988
A tarro partido II [January]. Centro de Arte 23 y 12, Havana, CUBA.
(Exhibition censured on the opening day)
ESSONSISEHACE [April]. Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), Havana, CUBA.
1987
A tarro partido. Pinturas y dibujos [February 24 March]. Museo Provincial de Historia, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, CUBA.*
Tesis de grado. Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), Havana, CUBA.
1985
Marisbel Trutie Barrero/Tomas Esson Reid. Pinturas y dibujos. Centro Provincial de Artes Plasticas y Diseno, Havana, CUBA.
GROUP SHOWS
2006
"The Unconventional Drawing." Alonso Art, Miami, Florida, USA.
2001
"New Art OFF Cuba. Jose Alonso Fine Arts, Miami, Florida, USA.
2000
"Palmas Reales y Vitrales." Jose Alonso Fine Arts, Miami, Florida, USA.
"Paper / Papel." Jose Alonso Fine Arts, Miami, Florida, USA.
1999
"Size Matters." GAle GAtes et al. Brooklyn, New York.
1998
"Loin de Cuba." Musée des Tapisseries, Aix-en-Provence, France. (Catalogue).
1997
Breaking Barriers. Selections from the Museum of Art's Permanent Contemporary Cuban Collection. Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.A.*
1996
Cuba Siglo XX. Modernidad y sincretismo [April 16 June 9]. Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria [July 2 September 1]. Fundacio La Caixa, Palma de Mayorca [October 8 November 17]. Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona, SPAIN.*
1995
Group Exhibition. Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Point/Counterpoint. Part I. Arte y politica: A Latin American Fusion. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, U.S.A.
Face to Face: Artists on Artists. Gallery Swan, New York, U.S.A.
1995 1997
Caribbean Visions: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture [February 21-March 21, 1995]. Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal [April 8-June 11, 1995]. Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta/[July 1-August 27, 1995]. Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, CANADA [September 8 November 5, 1995]. Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida [January March/1996]. New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana [July September, 1996]. Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York [1997]. Wadsworth Atheneum, Wadsworth, U.S.A.
1995
Exposicion Premio MARCO 94 [January June]. Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, MEXICO.*
Cuba: la isla posible [April 18 May]. Centro de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona, Barcelona, SPAIN.*
1994
The Sheldon Lurie Art Against AIDS Auction IV [April 10 ?]. Biltmore Hotel, Coral Gables, Florida, U.S.A.*
Cuban Art. The Last Sixty Years [October 15 December 31]. Panamerican Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.
1993
4 Cubans Today [February 3 March 13]. Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.*
Inside Out: An Exhibition of Cuban Exiles [Spring Summer]. Snitzer Arregui Fine Art, New York, U.S.A.
Muro roto/Broken Wall [May 7 31]. Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida, U.S.A.
Latin American Artists. LA's Summer Fest [July 7 ?]. Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Prospecta 93. Eine Internationale Ausstellung Actueller Kunst. Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, GERMANY.
Bad Aim. Porter Randall Gallery, La Jolla, California, U.S.A.
Cuban Artists of the Twentieth Century [October 22, 1993 January 2, 1994]. Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.A.*
1992
Von Dort aus: Kuba [March 12 May 31]. Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen, GERMANY.*
Aqui! Arte Hispano en Orlando [September]. Orlando City Hall, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
Drawing Show. Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida, U.S.A.
Four Who Have Left [Juan Abreu Felippe, Julio Antonio, Tomas Esson, Juan Gonzalez Lopez (Juan Si)]. Osuna Gallery, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
1991
Los hijos de Guillermo Tell [February 3 March 3]. Museo de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero, Caracas, VENEZUELA* [April 4 May 17]. Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango. Banco de la Republica, Bogota, COLOMBIA.*
Nuevas adquisiciones contemporaneas: muestras de arte cubano [March]. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, CUBA.
Mito y magia en America: los ochenta [June September]. Museo de Arte Contemporaneo (MARCO), Monterrey, NL., MEXICO.*
Los cubanos llegaron ya [September 18 ?]. Ninart, Centro de Cultura, Mexico City, MEXICO.*
Olor a tinta [October 24 ?]. Galeria Habana, Havana, CUBA.*
Ostkunst Westkunst. Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen, GERMANY.
Senki Sem Sziget. Fiatal Kubai Kepzomuneszek Kiallitasa. Ernest Museum, Budapest, HUNGARY.*
De Cubanaase Renaissance. Maatschappij Arti et Amicitiae. Amsterdam, HOLLAND.
1990
Aktuelle Kunst aus Kuba. Institute fur Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart, F.R.G.*
1990-1991
No Man Is an Island [April, 1990]. Poritaidemuseo, Pori, FINLAND.* [1990]. Palffy Palace, Vienna, AUSTRIA* [1991]. Mucsarnok, Budapest, HUNGARY.*
The Nearest Edge of the World: Art and Cuba Now [November 7, 1990 ?]. Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts* [1991]. The Bronx Museum of Art, New York, U.S.A.*
1989
Tributo (parallel to la Tercera Bienal de La Habana) [November]. Centro de Arte de Alamar, Habana del Este, Havana, CUBA.*
Tercera Bienal de La Habana [November December]. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, CUBA.*
Arte Sexo? Lo erotico en el arte (parallel to la Tercera Bienal de La Habana) [November December]. Facultad de Artes y Letras, Universidad de La Habana, Havana, CUBA.*
II Bienal Internacional de Pintura de Cuenca. Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno, Cuenca, ECUADOR.*
Jovenes artistas de la R.D.A. y Cuba/Junge Kanstler der DDR und Kubas. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, CUBA./Neue Berliner Galerie im Alten Museum, Berlin, G.D.R.*
1989-1990
Contemporary Art from Havana [October 18 November 26, 1989]. Riverside Studios, London [April-May, 1990] Aberystwyth Art Centre, Dyfed, Wales, U.K. [June July, 1990]. Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, SPAIN.*
1988-1989
Raices en accion. Nuevos artistas cubanos [October November, 1988]. Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City* [January March, 1989]. Museo Biblioteca Pape, Monclova, MEXICO.
Made in Havana [October 7 November 13, 1988]. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sidney/[January 15 February 26, 1989]. Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane [March 24 May 7, 1989]. Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA.*
1988
II Encuentro de Jovenes Artistas Plasticos. II Salon de la Plastica Joven de Cuba [December]. Museo Provincial de Villa Clara, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, CUBA.*
1988
No es solo lo que ves (Grupo: Provisional) [March 1 ?]. Facultad de Filologia, Universidad de La Habana, Havana, CUBA.
Pintura cubana actual [April 15 30]. Capilla del Antiguo Hospital de Santa Cruz, Barcelona, SPAIN.*
(Contemporary Cuban Painting) [October]. (Tetriakov Gallery), Moscow, USSR.*
1987
Estrictamente personal [one-man show by e Torres Llorca] [May 10 ?]. Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, CUBA* (guest artist).
I Bienal de Pintura Jaume Guasch [October 9 ?]. Fundacio Jaume Guasch, Barcelona, SPAIN.
1er Encuentro de Jovenes Artistas Plasticos. 1er. Salon de la Plastica Joven [October 11, 12 y 13]. Museo Provincial de Villa Clara, Villa Clara, CUBA.
Salon Playa'87 [December 25 ?]. Galeria de Arte Servando Cabrera Moreno, Havana, CUBA.*
I Festival de la Creacion y la Investigacion Artistica. Galeria "El Pasillo", Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), Havana, CUBA.
1986
Concurso "13 de Marzo". Galeria L, La Habana [May]. Galeria de Matanzas, CUBA.*
Presencia del Concurso "13 de Marzo" en la II Bienal de Havana [November]. GalerÃia L, Havana, CUBA.*
Relevo ISA (parallel to la Segunda Bienal de La Habana) [November 15 December 31]. Galeria El Pasillo, Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), Havana, CUBA.
XXV Premi Internacional de Dibuix Joan Miro. Fundacio Joan Miro, Centre d'Estudis d'Art Contemporani, Parc de Montjuic, Barcelona, SPAIN.
1985
Pinturas y esculturas. Centro Provincial de Artes Plasticas y Diseno, Havana, CUBA.
1984
El ISA Saluda la Bienal. 1ra. Bienal de La Habana [May]. Galeria L, Havana, CUBA.
1981
Salon Nacional de Artes Plasticas. Escuelas de Nivel Medio. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, CUBA.*