1971
Born Holguin, Cuba
Currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California
EDUCATION
1990
Escuela Profesional de Artes Plasticas, Camaguey, Cuba
1986
Escuela Profesional de Artes Plasticas, Holguin, Cuba
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007
Specimens, Couturier Galleries, Los Angeles, California
2005
Birth, Phyllis Kina Gallery, New York, New York
2004
Ni el principio ni el fin existen, Espacio 304 Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Elsa Mora, Havana Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Tijeras, Chelsea Gallery, Miami, Florida
2003
Diary, Ruben Martinez Villena Gallery, Havana, Cuba
2002
Proceso de Adaptación, Bourbon & Rally Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2001
Vulnerable, Phyllis Kina Gallery, New York, New York
2000
Ejercicios del silencio, Carmen Montilla Gallery, Havana, Cuba
Impermanente, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Elsa Mora, Museo de las Ameritas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1999
RE-ENCUENTROS, Elsa Mora and Anamaria McCarthy, Center of Contemporary Art Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba
RE-MAKE Espiritu del cuero, Nacional Center of Conservation, Restauration and Museum Sciences (CENCREM), Havana, Cuba
1998
The Ego’s other dimension, Phyllis Kina Gallery, New York, New York
Lies on a small scale, Phyllis Kina Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Cuban Women Artist Dreamers: Sandra Ramos and Elsa Mora, Galley Space 21, Tokyo, Japan
1997
The second skin, La Acacia Gallery, Havana, Cuba
Mortal Women, Collateral exhibition VI Havana Bienal, Havana, Cuba
1996
Elsa Mora, Phyllis Kina Gallery, Chicago
The Petal Girl, Espacio Gallery, Havana, Cuba
1995
Portrait of butterfly, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba
Beings without ladscape, Sala Conciore, Palazzo Comunde, Cele Ligure, Italy
1994
Bipersonal, gallery at the Salon Covarrubias of the National Theater of Cuba, Havana, Cuba
1993
Self-control and torture, Gallery of the Cuban Fund of Cultural Asset, Camaguey, Cuba
1991
Santa Natura, Gallery of the House-Museum Ignacio Agramonte, Camaguey, Cuba
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006
Do otro lado do Atlantico, Sete Artistas Cubanos na Universidade de Aveiro, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2005
The Dictionary Project, Brickbotton Gallery, Somerville, Massachussets
2004
Sleight of Hand, McDonough Museum, Youngstown, Ohio
Three Cuban Photographers, Fraser Gallery, Washington DC
ARCO, Madrid, Spain
2003
Utopia/Post-Utopia, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York
Inside/Outside: contemporary Cuban art, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
2000
Cuban Art, Gallery of the Art Institute, Boston
1999
Cuban Art beyond paper, Box of Madrid Foundation, Madrid, Spain
Fotocopiaste, Salon of Photography of Havana, Center of Art Development
Women, Havana Galerie, Zurich
ARTE BA ’99, 8th International Art Fair, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Latin-American Art, Paula Lama Gallery, Dominican Republic
Young Cuban Art, Galeria Escritorio de Arte, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Prix Amedee Maratier 1999, Galerie Etats d’Art, Paris, France
Cuban Art Exhibition, Cultural Fundation Abu Dhabi
Cuba-Galicia: a cultural patrimony of references and forks, Palacio Fonseca, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
1998
Seductions, Center Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba
6th Biennial of Painting, Cuenca, Ecuador
Cuban Art at the end of the Century, Valuarte de la Candelaria, Cadiz, Spain
Second Salon of Cuban Contemporary Art, Havana, Cuba
Women Beyond Borders, Itinerant Exhibition
Seven Looks, Suyu Gallery, Havana, Cuba
Group Show of Cuban Artists, Arts Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
ARCO, Madrid, Spain
1997
Pervasive Referents, Phyllis Kina Gallery, New York, New York
Silence, Latinamerican galley, Casa de las Americas, Havana, Cuba
50 Anniversary of the Independent artists, Metropolitan Museum of Tokio, Japan
1996
First Iberoamerican Biennial of watercolor, Sala Viña del Mar, Viña del Mar, Chile
Sculpting time, Stradone San’t Agostino, Genova, Italy
Zirama, Teatro Della Societa di Mutuo Socorros, Borgomanero, Italy
Palabras en el Tropico, Fundacion Nicolas Guillen, Camaguey, Cuba.
1995
I Salon of Contemporary Cuban Art , Castillo de la Real Fuerza, Havana, Cuba
1994
Una brecha entre el Cielo y la Tierra, V Havana Bienal, Havana, Cuba
I Salon Provincial de Premiados, Museo Provincial, Camaguey, Cuba
1993
XI Cleveland Internacional Bienal of Drawing, Cleveland, England
Arte da Cuba, Centro d’Arte IL Brandale, Savona, Italy
El llanero solitario, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba
1992
V Salon de Premiados, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba
SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS
2005
Honorable Mention, 11th Annual Creating Contest Miniatures.com
Visiting artist, San Francisco State University, California
2000
UNESCO-ACHBERG Grant, Paris, France
1994
Prize, 10th Salon Fidelio Ponce de Leon, Camaguey, Cuba
1993
Grand Prize Second National Biennial of Drawing, Art Center, Camaguey, Cuba
1992
Grand Prize, First National Biennial of Drawing, Art Center, Camaguey, Cuba
