Carlos Martínez Barreiro

CARLOS MARTÍNEZ BARREIRO (Havana, Cuba, 1967).
"El Capitolio", Havana, 2008.
Black and white photography.
Signed and dated on the passe-partout, lower right.
Measurements: 19 x 24 cm.

Carlos Martínez Barreiro is Founder of Havana Gallery in Chicago. He worked as Art Dealer at Space 12, Boston Gallery. He founded and was director of the private gallery Espacio 52 in Obispo Street, Havana, Cuba. In 2001 he began his career as a painter and in 2006 as a photographer. Self-taught, he has personally participated in exhibitions in the cities of Lisbon, Madrid, Paris, Brussels, New York, Boston, New Jersey, Miami, Panama and Havana. His work is present in the collections of Villem Van Gogh, director of the Vincent Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, in the collection of Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida and Italian architect Giorgio Bonini, Alain Delon, Andrea Bocelli and Mirna Lissi family. Works in Mexico in the collection of Gina Diez Barroso, Lomelin family and collector Alvaro Laviada. In Cuba, the collections of Miguel Barnet, Alicia Alonso and former gallery owner Tony Piñera stand out. The Gallery in its functions of cultural project, sponsored a school called Julio Pino, for children with learning disabilities. Carlos Barreiro has made 8 personal exhibitions and participated in 18 collective exhibitions (Project Cuba I - II - III. 12 Space Gallery, Boston; Gallery 52, organized a commemorative exhibition of Agustin Bejarano, personal exhibitions of Regina Fernandez, Carlos Joao, Perfecto Romero, Alejandro Lazo, Pango, Rigoberto Mena). Collective exhibition with the plastic artists of the gallery. His works are present in private collections in more than 30 countries of all continents. He also makes performances and video art.