- Elsa Mora
Elsa Mora (born in
Holguin ,Cuba onMay 9 ,1971 ) is an artist working in all media includingpainting ,photograph y, ceramics,porcelain ,collage ,bronze andmixed media .Mora attended the Vocational School of the Arts in Holguin. She left home when she was fifteen, and she moved to Camagüey, where she graduated from the Professional School of Visual Arts in 1990 and in that same year she won the prestigious
Amelia Peláez Art Prize . In 1992 Mora won the Grand Prize in the First Biennial of Cuban Drawing. A year later, Mora first exhibited in an international venue at the IX International Drawing Biennial inEngland . By 1996 Mora was exhibiting regularly inItaly , and represented Cuba at the First Iberian-American Watercolor Biennial in Chile.She was a visiting artist at the
Art Institute of Chicago in 1996 and at theArt Institute of Boston in 2000 . She had her first exhibition (The Ego's Other Dimension) in theUnited States in 1998 at thePhyllis Kind Gallery inNew York . In 1999 she collaborated with Peruvian-based artistAnamaria McCarthy on their show RE-ENCUENTROS at the Center of Contemporary Art Wifredo Lam,Havana City , Cuba. 2005. Other important exhibits include Ejercicios de Silencio at theCarmen Montilla Gallery in Havana in 2000, Vulnerable at Phyllis Kind Gallery in New York in 2001, Proceso de Adaptacion at the Bourbon & Lally Gallery in Montreal in 2002, Elsa Mora at the Havana Galerie in Zurich, Switzerland and Ni el Principio ni el Fin Existen Espacio at 304 Gallery in San Juan Puerto Rico in 2004 and BIRTH at thePhyllis Kind Gallery in 2005.She currently resides in
Los Angeles ,California .External links
* [http://www.phylliskindgallery.com/artists/em/index.html Phyllis Kind Gallery]
* [http://www.thefrasergallery.com/artwork/Cuban-Show/Elsa_Mora-bio.html The Fraser Gallery]
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