Frank Leon

phone: 954-361-4221
Email: fleon2000@hotmail.com
web site: https://frankleonartist.jimdo.com/

Education

1987 - 1991    -Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana, Cuba

1974 - 1979    -Information and Library Science, University of Havana, Cuba

Teaching Experience

2017   -Creativity Workshop at Florida International University, School of Journalism and Mass      
           Communication, Master class of Professor Mercedes Vigon, PhD. November 2017.

1999    -Instructor, Florida International University, Elder Hostal Institute, “How to understand the
                          Contemporary visual arts.”                      

1982    -UNESCO, Regional Commission, experimental art program for disadvantaged people.

Solo Shows

2005                 -Pembroke Pines Library Gallery, Florida. "Date Due" a Retrospective exhibition (1985-2005).

2004                 -Art @ Work Gallery, Miami, Florida. Exhibition "Irrational Exuberance "

2002-03            -Art Space Virginia Miller Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida. Exhibition: Gyotakus of Hari Trips (the hermeneutic triangle).   

1993    -Virginia Miller Gallery, Coral Gables Florida. Exhibition and performance:  Thinking is Thought.

1990    -Gallery of the State of Anzoategui, Barcelona, Venezuela.  Necesidades comunes, diferencias particulares.

1989    -Museo de la Ciudad, Mexico D.F., Mexico. Exhibition based upon the work of Erich Fromm, Separatidad.

1987    -Ex-Convento del Carmen, Department of Fine Arts, Government of Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico. Codigos Pictograficos.

1985    -The Moraine Valley Community College and tour to nine cultural centers and universities in Chicago, Illinois.
           
                        -Galería de la Casa, Estudiantil Universitaria, University of Havana, Cuba. Encuentro entre dos mundos.

1983               -Galería de la Casa de la Cultura Plaza, Habana, Cuba. Arte y Poesia.







Selected Group Exhibitions

2017-               -Artistas pro Derechos Humanos. Cuban Art Club Gallery . Miami, Florida.
2016                -Art @ Work Gallery, Part II - -Miami based Artists: Better Alive than Dead.
2014                -Coral Gables Art Museum. I will walk for you. Fund raising for childs    
                         with Duchenne muscular distrophy.                          
2010                -Freedom Tower Miami, Florida. Ways of Worldmaking. Dr Arturo and Liza                                               
                       Mosquera Collection Exibition.
2007                -Arizona State University, Interdisciplinary Arts And Perfomance Gallery. Cafè VII:                                                       

                         The Journeys of Cuban Artists. 

2000                -Art Space, Virginia Miller Gallery.Director's Summer Choice.

1998                -Art Space, Virginia Miller Gallery, Director's Choice.

1993               -Galería Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica. Fuera del  

                       Juego.

                -Design Center of the Americas, Dania, Florida.  Son 14.

1992    -Cuban Museum of Art and Culture, Miami, Florida. Performance and exhibition:  ACUPUNCTURE.

1991                -International Biennial, Chamaliers, France. Exhibition of small prints.   

1990    -Museo de Cultura “Braulio Salazar,” Valencia, Venezuela. Encuentro Nacional de Artistas Plasticos

1988    -Las Cabaňas Cultural Institute, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.  Cuban engraving in Guadalajara.       

                -International Biennial, Chamaliers, France. Exhibition of small prints.

1986    -In conjunction with the second Havana Bienal. Necesidades y Creación. Domingo Ravenet Gallery.

1980    -Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba.Salon Nacional Juvenil de Artes Plasticas.


Lectures

1993     -Cuban Museum of Art and Culture, Miami Florida. Panelist, Art as a Bridge

1992    -Moraine Valley Community College, Chicago, Illinois. Encuentro entre dos Mundos.

1990     -Valencia, Venezuela.Creatividad 90,  UNESCOsponsored lecture on Cuban Contemporary art.
           
            -National Museum of Fine Arts, Caracas, Venezuela. Lecture,  "New Visual Arts in Cuba."

    -Mérida University, Mérida, Venezuela.  Arte cubano de los 80.


Other Activities and Publications

2017    -Intervention of the Headboard "Diario Las Americas" printed Edition. during Art Basel    
             2017.
            -Grethel Delgado article and video in "Diario Las Americas" December 6 2017.
          
2004     -Carlos M. Luis, Artes y Letras, El Nuevo Herald, Septiembre 26 2004, "Frank Leon:                     Transitando caminos limitrofes"

2002     -Armando Alvarez Bravo, Artes y Letras, El Nuevo Herald, January 13 2002, "Frank Leon: La Navegacion Interminable".

2001     -Ana Veciana Suarez, Living and Arts,The Miami Herald, May 1rst, 2001, Tackling Art.

2000    -El Nuevo Herald, March 5, 2000, “Artista cubano-americano Gana Dotacíón de la Fundación Pollock-Krasner.” Armando Alvarez Bravo.

1994    -Giulio V. Blanc, Art Nexus, no. 57, January - March, “Frank Leon at Virginia Miller Gallery.”

1993    -Cuban Museum of Art and Culture, Miami Florida. Panelist,  Art as a Bridge.

            -Alberto Meza, Art Papers, No. 38, Atlanta, Georgia, “Frank Leon, Virginia Miller Gallery.”

1992     -Helen Cohen, The Miami Herald, July, 1992, “Acupuncture of pain.”

1989     - Publishing of the book "Fuse" with Leon's art works by the Chicago poet Phyllis Janik.

Awards

2011     -The Artists' Fellowship Inc. Grant . New York, N.Y.
2000    -The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, New York


Collections

Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida.
Florida International University Art Museum, Miami
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
Museo Jaliscience de Arte e Historia, Guadalajara, Mexico
Mr. Arturo and Liza Mosquera, Miami Florida.
Mrs. Dolores Smithies, Key Biscayne, Florida
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce R. Orosz and Kathrynn Orosz, Key Biscayne, Florida
Mr. Mario Bello, Miami, Florida
Ms. Susanne Ronai, Miami Beach, Florida
Mr. Manolo Rivero, Merida, Mexico
Ms. Cecilia Montante, Mexico, D.F., Mexico
Ms. Joan R. Vega, Hallandale Beach, Florida.