SANTIAGO RODRIGUEZ OLAZABAL

(b. 1955) studied at the Academia

de Artes Plásticas “San Alejandro” in Havana in the 1970s, but did not graduate. Olazábal has devoted his art to celebrate Afro-Cuban religiosity, in particular the Reglad de Ocha or Santería. An artist of the iconoclastic generation of the 1980s, he has participated in solo and collective exhibits in Cuba, Mexico, the United States, Italy, Germany, France, Netherlands, Spain, Haiti,

Brazil, and Canada. In 2005 his solo exhibit, Onile, El espítitu sagrado de la tierra, was hosted by the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana. Recent exhibits include Infinite island, Contemporary Caribbean Art, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn (2008) and

National Black Fine Art Show, The PuckBuilding, SoHo, New York (2007-09).

web design: Los Fieras

proyecto y curaduría:/project concept and curator: Alejandro de la Fuente

Agradecemos a la Fundación Ford por su apoyo para este proyecto /

/ Thanks to Ford Foundation for their support for this project"