Chuli Herrera

Born in Camagüey in 1987. Trained as an art instructor at the “Nicolas Guillen Batista” Faculty of Arts in Camagüey, from which he graduated in 2006, Chuli Herrera continued his training at the “José Marti” Pedagogical University of Camagüey (2011). From 2007, he was the date of his first personal exhibition "Mémoire d'une polyvalence Contemporaine", at the gallery of the faculty of Camagüey, spotted in the Cuban visual arts community as an artist with effective and innovative works.

Through painting, digital photography and interactive installations, Chuli Herrera focuses on social relationships and the benefits offered by new technologies in the age of social media. Also in 2013, he won the prize of the 18th Fidelio Ponce de Camagüey visual arts fair. In 2014, Chuli produced the Be One exhibition at the Latin American and Caribbean Center in Beijing, featuring women, men, the elderly and commoners from the eastern part of the country, motivated by architecture. , gastronomy and the friendship between Cuba and China. In 2015, with the Cielo project presented at the 12th Havana Biennale, Chuli Herrera definitely carved out a place for himself in the vast panorama of Cuban visual arts. Via social media, he asks people around the world to send him a photo of their sky.

He then collects images and, after reworking the snapshots, he transforms them into paintings. Will the audience see a part of the sky in several countries or the large representation of a single sky? Limits are created by man. Thus through this project Chuli Herrera questions the urgency of questioning the reality and the plurality of impressions, but also recalls the need to raise public awareness to the fact that we are part of a whole, the world, that we must protect against to ecological disasters. In recent years, his work has been marked by the constant relationship of subordinate images to the emotions and internal and external situations that human beings constantly experience.

Chuli Herrera has already exhibited in several South American countries, China, the Netherlands and Italy. He has received numerous awards in Cuba and is a member of UNEAC (the Association of Cuban Artists and Writers) and AHS (the Association of Young Cuban Artists).