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Leandro Soto Ortiz (born March 13, 1956) is a multidisciplinary visual/installation and performance artist. He is also a set and costume designer for theater and film. Soto studied at Escuela Nacional de Arte National_Art_Schools_(Cuba) and Instituto Superior de Arte, University of Havana. As an educator he has taught and lectured at various Higher Education institutions in the U.S. and abroad. Soto also founded a creative workshop, El Tesoro de Tamulte, in Tabasco, Mexico, from which professional artists emerged).

Biography

Soto was one of the leading figures of the influential “Volumen Uno”, an artistic movement that changed the course of Cuban Art in the decade of the 1980’s, in which he was the first artist in his generation to work with the Afro-Cuban heritage. He is also credited for being the first performance and installation artist in the island.

In his performances and the visual/installation art which emerge from his performances, Soto responds to the postmodern coordinates of implosion and satire, often subverting the inceptions of culturally accepted notions of high/kitsch, traditional/pop, global/local, and profane/sacred art forms. Throughout his artistic career, he has demonstrated an interest in religion, ritual, and the mythology of indigenous people.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2018 Crónicas visuales. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Havana, Cuba.
• 2003 Retrospective of a Contemporary Cuban Artist. Paulina Miller Art Gallery. Phoenix, Arizona.
• 1997 A Glance over the Garden. Big Orbit Gallery. Buffalo, New York.
• 1992 Resonancias de la selva. Galería Nina Menocal, México D.F.
• 1984 Retablo familiar. Casa de la Cultura. Plaza Gallery and Art Center. Havana, Cuba.

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2017 Adiós Utopía: Art in Cuba Since 1950. The Museum of Fine Arts. Houston, Texas.
• 2008 Cuba! Art and History from 1868 through Today. Musee des Beaux Arts de Montreal, Quebec.
• 1997 Breaking Barriers. Museum of Fine Arts of Ft. Lauderdale. Ft Lauderdale, Fla
• 1989 Kitsch. Third Havana Biennial. Galiano-Concordia Art Center. Havana, Cuba.
• 1981 Volumen Uno. International Art Center. Havana, Cuba

Selected Awards

• 1997 Stage Design Award. Seventh Annual Artie Awards. Buffalo, New York.
• 1993 Award. Instituto Nacional Indigenista. State of Tabasco, Mexico.
• 1987 Design Award. Prague Quadrennial of Stage Design. Prague, Czech Republic
• 1983 Drawing Award. National Biennial of Artwork on Paper. Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Selected Permanent Collections

• MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami. Florida
• Central Bank Art Collection, Barbados, West Indies.
• Museo de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba.
• Fondo de Bienes Culturales, Havana, Cuba.
• Cienfuegos Art Museum, Cienfuegos, Cuba.
• Global Art Village, New Delhi, India.
• Museum of Finest Cuban Art, Vienna, Austria.
• Art Museum of Ft. Lauderdale, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
• Lowe Museum of Art, University of Miami, Florida
• Nina Menocal Art Gallery, Mexico D. F., Mexico.
• Ángel Romero Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
• Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba.
• Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts
• Wheaton College Art Collection, Norton, Massachusetts
• Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theater Research Institute at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
• The Phillip and Patricia Frost Art Museum at Florida International University Art Museum, Miami, Florida

Selected Pubications

• El tesoro de Tamulté : arte desde el trópico. Phoenix. Ariz.: Editorial Orbis Press. 2003. OCLC 58678600.
• Fusco, Coco, ed. (1999). "Performance in Cuba in the 1980s". Corpus delecti : performance art of the Americas (1. ed. ed.). New York: Routledge. p. 266. ISBN 9780415194549. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); |edition= has extra text (help)
• O'Reilly-Herrera, Andrea, ed. (2001). "Testimony of an Artist". ReMembering Cuba : legacy of a diaspora (1st ed. ed.). Austin: University of Texas Press. p. 245. ISBN 0292731477. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help); |first1= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Soto, Leandro (April 11, 2018). "Leandro Soto on World Cultures, Cubanidad, and His Show in Havana". Cuban Art News.

Notes and References

1. ^ Finding aid author: Ximena Valdivia (2008). "Guide to the Leandro Soto papers". Prepared for the University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, FL. Retrieved March 31, 2014. This article incorporates text from this source, which has been released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 and GNU Free Documentation license.
2. https://www.worldcat.org/title/tesoro-de-tamulte-arte-desde-el-tropico/oclc/58678600
3. Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas
4. Blanc, Giulio, "Review on Leandro Soto", Miami: Art Nexus, October 1994, pp 108-9

Further reading

• Valencia, Marelys (21 August 2016). "Performatividad y plástica: El cruzamiento artístico en la obra de Leandro Soto durante la década "contaminada" de los 80s en Cuba". Latin American Theatre Review. 49 (2): 69–89. doi:10.1353/ltr.2016.0014. ISSN 2161-0576.

• Gago, Beatriz (March 1, 2016). "Mapping Leandro Soto". Art on Cuba.

• Fuentes, Rubén, (2015). INFLUENCIAS ZEN DE LAS PINTURAS MONOCROMAS ORIENTALES EN OBRAS DE LOS ARTISTAS CUBANOS TOMÁS SÁNCHEZ, LEANDRO SOTO, Y RUBÉN FUENTES. Spain: Universitat Politécnica de Valencia. Ph.D. Dissertation{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

• Tibol, Raquel (15 February 1992). "VORAGINE Y VORACIDAD EN LEANDRO SOTO - Proceso". Proceso (in Mexican Spanish).

• Sharma, Amitabh (2015). "Leandro Soto - Where spirituality meets art". jamaica-gleaner.com.

• Silva, Ana, ed. (2017). : Art in Cuba Since 1950. Miami, Madrid: Cisneros Fontanals Foundation. ISBN 9780692820735.

• Veigas, José ... ; et al. (2003). Memoria : artes visuales cubanas del siglo XX. Los Angeles, CA, USA: California/International Arts Foundation. ISBN 9780917571121. {{cite book}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |first1= (help)

External links

• Online books
• Resources in your library
• Resources in other libraries

• Online books
• Resources in your library
• Resources in other libraries

• The Leandro Soto papers are available at the Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries. The Leandro Soto papers consist primarily of original drawings of set and costume designs, audiovisual materials, posters, and photographs of productions and exhibitions documenting the work of visual and performance artist Leandro Soto. While the collection also includes correspondence, clippings, press releases, manuscripts, and theater and exhibitions programs, the bulk of materials relate to Soto’s artistic production in the United States since 1992.
• A selection of images, primarily costume design and set design drawings from the Leandro Soto papers are available through the University of Miami Libraries Digital Collections portal.
• Creator page for Leandro Soto Ortiz in the Cuban Theater Digital Archive.
• Artist File : Miscellaneous Uncataloged Material
• leandrosoto.com

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