Liudmila Lopez Dominguez

STATEMENT

Shoes reflect my interest in continuing my discourse about gender, which involves what I can symbolically depict. This allows me to make connections between my own personal history and the collective one that are related to glamour, classes, comfort, and even states of mind. My work is also self-referential because my mom and I are fanatics to shoes. I summarized the female body and adapted it to shoes, everyday objects that can tell you about your life, your path, your dreams, desires and sorrows, the stories of an era, a person’s life.

CURRICULUM VITAE

Graduated from José Joaquin Tejada School of Fine Arts in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba. Lopez devoted the initial years of her career to painting, and especially to engraving. She believes that as one of the most complete techniques, engraving gave her a strong background. She gets into sculpture in 2006 using materials such as glass, ceramic, aluminum, papier-mâché, was, marble, resin, feathers, cardboard, leather, bronze, and acrylic. Lopez develops a body of work in Photography, Painting, Etching and Ceramic. She lives in Havana, Cuba and works at her studio-gallery Babalu-Aye.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015- Parto a la Libertad. Art Installation during Havana Biennial
2008- Mi mundo eres tu ( You are my world). Pierre A. Renoir Gallery. Alliance Française Havana. Cuba
2007- Huellas Célebres (Celebrated Footprints). National Hotel Hall of Fame. Havana. Cuba
2007- Eva’s. Siranga Contemporania Gallery. Valencia. Spain
2007- Desobediencia (Disobedience). Siranga Contemporania Gallery. Valencia. Spain
2007- Desobediencia II. (Disobedience II). Cubaneando Gallery. Madrid. Spain
2007- Eva’s. Rubén Martínez Villena Gallery. Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad de La Habana. Havana. Cuba
2006- Óyeme, Cachita! (Listen to me Cachita!). SGAE. Lonja del Comercio. Havana. Cuba
2005- Grabados de Santiago. (Etching from Santiago). Granell Foundation. Santiago de Compostela. Spain
2005- Por fortuna algo siempre me asombra (Fortunately Something always amazes me). De los Oficios Gallery. Havana. Cuba
2005- Cimarrones.com with Alberto Lescay. Caribbean House. Santiago de Cuba (collateral show to the 25th Caribbean Festival)
2004- H Cuba. Cuban Culture Week. Clisemo Gallery. Athens. Greece
2001- Las Palabras son Isla. Dibujos. (Words are Island. Drawings). Fuentebaja Bookstore. Madrid. Spain
1997- Vivencias (Experiences). Frida Kahlo Gallery. Havana. Cuba

SOME GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007- 280 Anniversary of Havana University. Humboldt Pavilion. Havana. Cuba
2006- Reencuentro (Reencounter). XX Anniversary of Fototeca de Cuba. Convento y Basílica Menor San Francisco de Asís. Havana. Cuba
2006- Memoria de un viaje (Memory of a Trip). Siranga Contemporania Gallery. Valencia. Spain
2006- Navegaciones y Destinos (Sailings and Destinations). Ambos Mundos Hotel. Havana.
2005- De Santiago a Santo Domingo (From Santiago to Santo Domingo). Santo Domingo. The Dominican Republic
2002- Brandy Wine Workshop. Lehigh University Art Galleries. Bethlehem. U.S.
2001- Brandy Wine Workshop. Printed Image Gallery. Philadelphia. U.S.
2000- De todo un poco (A little of Everything). Horizontal Project. Museum of Revolution. Havana. Cuba

PERFORMANCES
2009- Lo que llevo en mi cabeza es un zapato (What’s in my head is a shoe) Performance. FIART´09. PABEXPO. Havana. Cuba
2009- Performance Camino a Casa (Way Home Performance). 50 Anniversary Casa de las Americas. Che Guevara Exhibition Hall. Casa de las Americas. Havana. Cuba
2000- Para el Príncipe Enano (For the Dwarf Prince) Performance. Romerías de Mayo Performance. La Estampa Gallery. Holguín. Cuba
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AWARDS
2012- The Los Oficios Prize of the 60th Anniversary of the Moncada Salon. Arte Soy Gallery. Santiago de Cuba
2012- Grand Prize 7th Women’s Salon. Prat Puig Cultural Centre. Santiago de Cuba
2008- Grand Prize 5th Salon of Women’s Visual Arts in Santiago de Cuba (Women Sing to Life). Santiago de Cuba
2005- Prize. Hermanos Saíz Association Award (AHS), 30th Salon of the City. Santiago de Cuba
2004- First Prize. Hermanos Saíz Association. XXVI Salon of the City. Santiago de Cuba
2003- Mention. XXV Salon of the City. Santiago de Cuba
2003- Prize for Monumental and Applied Arts. Caguayo Foundation. XXV Salon of the City. Santiago de Cuba