- Lesbia Vent Dumois
Infobox Person
name=Lesbia Vent Dumois
caption=Lesbia Vent Dumois about 1960
birth_date=Birth date and age|1932|11|6|mf=y
birth_place= Cruces, Las Villas, Cuba
death_date=
death_place=Lesbia Claudina Vent Dumois (born
November 6 ,1932 inCruces ,Las Villas ,Cuba ) is a contemporaryCuba nvisual artist , whose works includeillustration ,painting , andengraving .Vent Dumois studied at the "Escuela de Artes Plásticas" in
Santa Clara ,Cuba underLeopoldo Romañach . In 1961 she obtained aUNESCO fellowship to study lithography inPrague . In 1968 she was a member of the Taller Experimental de Gráfica (TEG), inHavana .From 1980 to 1993 she was Director of Fine Arts at the
Casa de las Américas in Havana, and since 1993 is Vice President of the Casa de las Américas.Individual Exhibitions
* 1954 "Grabados", in the Galería Habana, Arte y Cinema La Rampa,
Havana ,Cuba .
* 1961 "Engravings", in the Union of Fine Artists,Prague .Collective Exhibitions
* 1952 "Exposición de la Estampa Cubana", in the Museo de Bellas Artes de Toluca, Mexico City,
Mexico .
* 1959 "16th National Exhibition of Prints",Washington , D.C.,U.S.A .
* 1977 "Cuba Peintres d'Aujourd'hui", in the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris,Paris ,France .
* 1984 First Bienal de La Habana. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes,Havana ,Cuba .
* 1995 1er Salón de Arte Cubano Contemporáneo. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes,Havana ,Cuba .Awards
* 1960, the Prize at the Primer Certamen Latinoamericano de Xilografía,
Argentina .
* 1972, Prize in the International Print Biennial Cracow'1972, Krakow,Poland .
* 1996 Alejo Carpentier Medal, Council of State, Republic of Cuba.Collections
* Casa de las Américas
* Collection of Engravings, inBerlin ,Germany .References
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