ROGELIO LOPEZ MARIN (GORY) 1953 Born Havana, Cuba Currently lives and works in Miami, Florida EDUCATION 1978 University of Havana, Havana, Cuba, MA in art history. 1976 Photographic and Graphic Design course under the tutorial of the Cuban artist Raul Martínez. 1973 National School of Art, Havana, Cuba, BA in Fine Arts SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2009 Diptychs: one lens, two visions, Pan American Art Projects, Miami, Florida 2007 Because of the city, Pan American Art Projects, Miami, Florida Innerland, Online exhibition, www.cubaartny.org New York Innerland, Chelsea Galleria, Miami, Florida 2004 A Small Retrospective, Chelsea Galleria, Miami, Florida The City, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, California 2002 Photographs and Memories, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland Beyond Cuba- Mirages of Absence, Beadleston Gallery, New York, 2000 Gory, Recents Works, Tamara Gallery, San Juán, Puerto Rico 1996 Gory, Recents Works, Elite Fine Art Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida 1995 Sharing Roots, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Gory: Photoworks A Midcareer Retrospective, Fondo del Sol, Washington DC 1993 Photographs of Gory, Lehigh University, Dubois Gallery, Bethlehem, Pensylvania Foto-Fest 92, Institute of Hispanic Culture, Houston, Texas
1991 Retrospective, Fourth Havana Biennial, The Three Kings of the Morro Gallery, Havana, Cuba Ausencias, Kahlo Coronel Gallery, Mexico, DF. Ausencias, Manolo Rivero Gallery, Mérida, Yucatán, México An American Dream, Khalo Coronel Gallery, Mexico, DF. An American Dream, Cienfuego s Art Gallery, Cuba An American Dream, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba 1988 Its Only Water in a Strangers Tear, Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario, Canada Its Only Water in a Strangers Tear, Gallery 76, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Its Only Water in a Strangers Tear, García Monge Gallery, National Theatre, San José, Costa Rica 1987 Its Only Water in a Strangers Tear, Kahlo Coronel Gallery, Mexico, DF. 1986 Un Paseo por la Tierra de los Anamitas, Mexican Council of Photography, Mexico, DF. Un Paseo por la Tierra de los Anamitas, Costarrican Museum of Art, San José, Costa Rica 1982 Sólo Entrada, Cultural House of Plaza, Havana, Cuba SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2014 Made in Miami. Pan American Art Projects, Miami, Florida 2011 Urbanitas. Pan American Art Projects, Miami, Florida 2007 A Través del Espejo, Arte Cubano Hoy, Allegro Galería, Panamá Cuba! Art and History from 1868 to today, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada Latin American Photography 2, Selections from the Lehigh University Art Gallery Collection, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 2005 Icons, Memories & Reminders, Naomi Silva Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia Alter Realities, Art Center/South Florida, Miami Beach. Florida 2004 Tres, GDS Gallery, San Jose, Costa Rica Through the lens: Eigh Photographers, C Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore Visual Poetics: Art and the Word, Miami Art Museum, Florida 2002 Shifting Tides-Cuban Photography after Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago Shifting Tides-Cuban Photography after Revolution, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), California
Latin American Artist-Photographers From the Lehigh University Art Galleries Collection, DuBois Gallery, Maginnes Hall, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania El Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico, El Museo del Barrio, New York 1999 Fin de Mundo, Fine Arts Museum Fundation, Caracas, Venezuela 1998 Developing Illusion, 1873-1998: Photographs from the Corcoran Collection, Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC Breaking Barriers, from the collection of the Museum of Art of Fort Lauderdale, Dali Museum, Tampa, Florida 1997 Breaking Barriers, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Florida American Voices, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 1996 Cuba Siglo XX, Modernidad y Sincretismo, Atlantic Center of Modern Art, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; La Caixa Fundation, Palma, Balears Isles; Centre d Art Santa Mónica Cataluña, Spain Discoveries of the Meeting Place, Old Cotton Exchange Building, Houston, Texas 1995 Reverberations: Diptychs & Triptychs from the Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida American Voices, George Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas Cambio de Foco (Ante América), Banco de la República, Luis Angel Arango Library, Santa Fé de Bogotá, Colombia 1986 Second Havana Biennial, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba 1984 First Havana Biennial, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba Hecho en Latinoamérica II, Fine Arts Palace, Mexico, DF Sano y Sabroso, 12 y 23 Gallery, Havana, Cuba Volumen I, International Art Center, Havana, Cuba 1979 Pintura Fresca, Art Gallery of Cienfuegos, Cuba 1978 Hecho en Latinoamérica I, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico, DF AWARDS Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant in the field of the Visual Arts, New York Photography Prize, National Salon of the Cuban Union of writers and Artists, Havana, Cuba
1984 Photography Prize Tina Modotti at the First Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba 1982 Prize at the National Landscape Salon, Havana, Cuba Latinoamerican and Caribean Photography Prize of Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba COLLECTIONS Metropolitan Museum of Art, 20th Century Art Permanent Collection, New York(Painting). LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) permanent collection (photography), California The Corcoran Gallery of Art (Corcoran s Permanent Collection of Photographs), Washington DC, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas (Photography) Museum of Art of Fort Lauderdale, Florida (Painting and Photography). Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pensylvania (Photography). MAM (Miami Art Museum), Miami, Florida Museum of Pori, Finland. (Photography). Centro Wifredo Lam, La Habana, Cuba, (photography). Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba. (Painting and Photography). Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba. (Photography) SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2008 Leyva-Perez, Irina. Walking the City. Rogelio Lopez Marin (Gory) at Pan American Art Projects. In: Wynwood. The Art Magazine, April 2008 Latin American Photography 2, Exhibition catalogue, Selections from the Lehigh University Art Gallery Collection, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 2005 Treasure from the Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, engagement calendar of LACMA 2005 (July), Los Angeles, California Atlantica Revista de Arte y Pensamiento No 36, Otoño de, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Nueva Luz, photographic journal Volume 8 No.3 En Foco Inc. New York Latin American Artist-Photographers From The Lehigh University Art Galleries Collection, Exhibition catalogue, Bethehem, Pennsylvania Shifting Tides-Cuban Photography after Revolution, Exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba, Colección de Arte Cubano, pag. 230-231, La Habana, Cuba Ollman, Leah, From Revolution to Reverie, Art in America, October New York Holland Cotter, Stylists of the Epic and the Surreal The New York Times Weekend, Friday September 7,, New York 1997 Breaking Barriers, Museum of Art of Fort Lauderdale, Florida
1996 Cuba Siglo XX, Modernidad y Sincretismo, Atlantic Center of Modern Art, Las palmas de Gran Canarias, Spain Luis Camnitzer.New Art of Cuba, University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas 1993 Gutierrez, Natalia, Cambio de Foco, Art Nexus #55, June-August 93 Cambio de Foco (Ante América), Exhibition catalogue, Banco de la República, Luis Angel Arango Library, Santa Fé de Bogotá, Colombia No Man is an Island, Cuban Young Art, Exhibition catalogue, Museum of Pori, Finland 1987 Esquire & Derby, Lo Especchio nello Especchio di Gory, Italian edition, Milan, Italy Hecho en Latinoamerica II, Exhibition catalogue, Mexican Council of Photography, Mexico, DF