Alexis Leyva Machado (Kcho)
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Alexis Leyva Machado (Kcho)

Cuba • 1970

Biography

Kcho (born Alexis Leiva Machado on the Isla de Pinos in 1970) is a contemporary Cuban artist. Kcho has had art showings around the world. He first attracted international attention by winning the grand prize at South Korea's Kwangju Biennial in 1995. In 2010 the artist received an invitation to participate with the piece's history as a carousel that appears from the darkness at the Biennale Cuvée, OK Center, Linz, Austria, and in various collective exhibitions organised annually by the Marlborough Gallery in headquarters and at international art fairs. Celebrating its 40 years, making the second edition of Live and Let Live in Central Park Line and L, in Havana, Cuba, again, with a massive public participation. In early 2011, he moved to Europe to participate in two solo exhibitions he organised with headquarters in Marlborough, called Recent Works (Oeuvres recentes) in Monaco and Barcelona Night View.

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