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Joel Besmar Curriculum Vitae
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
Joel R. Besmar Nieves was born on January 5, 1968 in Camagüey, Cuba. He studied at the Vocational School of Arts in his hometown and later at the National School of Arts in Havana. From 1986 to 2001 he shared his professional activities as a visual artist with academicians, imparting theoretical subjects such as art history and teaching workshops in painting, history of visual techniques, design, and illustration at the Vocational School of Arts and the Professional School of Visual Arts and Ballet in Camagüey, Cuba. Aside from his professional activities as a visual artist, he has conducted design projects for theatre groups and has illustrated poetry books and conferences. He has also been sought as an essayist and lecturer regarding subjects in the arts and his own work. The artist currently resides in Camagüey, Cuba.
EDUCATION
1994-1999 Mijail Lomonosov School of Languages, Camagüey, Cuba
• Languages: English, French
1988-1990 Superior Art Institute, Havana, Cuba
• Specialty: Painting
1982-1986 National School of Arts, Havana, Cuba
• Specialty: Painting and Drawing
1979-1982 Vocational School of Arts, Camagüey, Cuba
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Dibujo de Libro. Libro de Dibujo, Galería Amalia, Fondo Cubano de Bienes Culturales, Camagüey, Cuba.
2002 Ascensus-Tree Spirit, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH, U.S.A.
2000 Ascensiones, Center for the Development of the Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba.
1999 Ubique Pictura, Artist's workshop, Camagüey, Cuba.
1997 La Piedra Despertada (The Awakened Rock), VI Biennial of Havana, Fayad
Jamis Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
1996-
1997 La Mirada Vertical I y II (The Vertical Gaze I & II), La Oveja Negra Gallery,
Camagüey, Cuba.
1996 La Montaña Negra-La Montaña Sagrada: Retrospective Solo Exhibition 1987-1996, Provincial Center for the Fine Arts Gallery, Camagüey, Cuba.
1986 Halley, Nacional School of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
INTERNATIONAL ART FAIRS AND/OR GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Art Wynwood, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
2012 Dallas Fine Art Fair, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
2012 Miami International Art Fair, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
2011 Arteaméricas, Miami Beach, FL, U.S.A.
2011 Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
2011 Art Hamptons, Bridgehampton, NY, U.S.A.
2011 Miami International Art Fair, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
2011 Art Houston, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
2011 Art Miami, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
2011 Art Naples, Naples, FL, U.S.A.
2010 Miami International Art Fair, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
2010 Arteaméricas, Miami Beach, FL, U.S.A.
2010 Art Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
2010 American International Fine Art Fair, West Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
2010 Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
2009 Art Miami, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
2009 Arteaméricas, Miami Beach, FL, U.S.A.
2009 PalmBeach3, West Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
2009 Art20 & Modernism, New York, NY, U.S.A.
2008 Art Hamptons, Bridgehampton, NY, U.S.A.
2008 Art Miami, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
2008 International Caribbean Art Fair, New York, NY, U.S.A.
2008 PalmBeach3, West Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
2008 Arteaméricas 2007, Miami Beach, FL, U.S.A.
2007 ArtDC 2007, District of Columbia, U.S.A.
2007 CIRCA 2007, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2007 Arteaméricas 2007, Miami Beach, FL, U.S.A.
2007 PalmBeach3 2007, West Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
2007 Art Miami 2007, Miami Beach, FL, U.S.A.
2007 Important Cuban Artworks, Volume V, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL, U.S.A.
2005 Fidelio Ponce de León Salon (XXI, XVI, XI, X, VI, V, IV, II, I),
1985 Alejo Carpentier Gallery, Camagüey, Cuba.
2004 Out of Cuba, The Island Without Borders, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, U.S.A.
1999 Artistas del Caribe Hispano (Artists from the Hispanic Caribbean), Inner Tropical Center for the Arts, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
1998 Huellas de la Pintura Cubana de Hoy (Imprints of Today's Cuban Painting), Fausto Art Gallery, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
1998 Expo of Artists from Camagüey, Gallery of the Provincial Center for Visual Arts, Holguín, Cuba.
1996 La Oveja Negra, La Oveja Negra Gallery, Camaguey, Cuba.
1995-2005 Salón Fidelio Ponce de León, Alejo Carpentier Gallery, Camaguey, Cuba.
1995 Mírame despacio que tengo prisa (Look at Me Slowly Because I'm in a Hurry) (Itinerant exhibition shown at different Cuban galleries)
1993 El llanero Solitario (The Solitary Plainsman), Havana Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
1991-1999 I,II Salón de la Ciudad (1st & 2nd Salon of the City), Universal Art Gallery, Camagüey, Cuba
1989 Camagüey Hoy (Camagüey Today), Havana Gallery, Havana, Cuba
1989 II Salón Nacional de Pequeño Formato (2nd Nacional Salon of the Small Format), Universal Art Gallery, Camagüey, Cuba.
1985 Expo of painting and etching, Gallery of the National School of Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba.
1985 Showing for Design Contest, Gallery of the National School of Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba.
AWARDS AND HONORS
2005
Award, Fidelio Ponce de León Salon, Camagüey, Cuba.
Award, Alliance of Cuban Writers and Artists, Cuba.
Award, Ignacio Agramonte Museum, Camagüey, Cuba
Award, Cuban Foundation of Cultural Resources, Camagüey, Cuba.
2000
Award, Office of the Historian of the City of Camaguey at XVI Fidelio Ponce de León Salon, Camagüey, Cuba.
1995
Special Award, Centennial of the Cuban painter Fidelio Ponce de León, Camagüey, Cuba.
Principe Award, Camagüey Television Network, Camagüey, Cuba
Award, Ignacio Agramonte Drawing Salon, Camagüey, Cuba.
1991
Award, Fidelio Ponce de León Salon, Camagüey, Cuba.
Award, Alliance of Cuban Writers and Artists, Cuba.
Award, Camagüey Provincial Museum at First Salon of the City, Camagüey, Cuba.
1990
Award, Fidelio Ponce de León Salon, Camagüey, Cuba.
Award, Alliance of Cuban Writers and Artists, Cuba.
Award, Cuban Cultural Resources Foundation, Camagüey, Cuba.
Award, Santiago de Cuba Arts Center
1986
Thesis Award, National School of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba.
1985
Student Design Award, National School of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
LECTURES AND WRITINGS
Ascensus: Tree Spirit (lecture to accompany exhibit)
April 24, 2002, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH, U.S.A.
La piedra despertada (The Awakened Stone) (text for homonymous personal expo)
May 1997, Fayad Jamis Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
Techniques of Antique Painting and Current Art (conference)
April 18, 1997, Professional School of Fine Arts, Camaguey, Cuba.
La Mirada Vertical (The Vertical Gaze) (essay)
October 7, 1996, Provincial Center for the Fine Arts, Camagüey, Cuba.
The Black Mountain-The Sacred Mountain (text for personal expo of the same name)
February 1996, Provincial Center for the Fine Arts, Camagüey, Cuba.
La Mirada en el Espejo (The Glance in the Mirror) (unpublished essay)
September 1996
History of Pictorial Technique in the West, Origins of a Tradition (conference)
September 23, 1994, Professional School of Fine Arts, Camagüey, Cuba.
BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS
Front cover and illustrations for Palabras en la Noche by Carlos Sotuyo (poet and essayist) Miami, FL: Editorial Homagno, 2005.
Front cover for Los Hechos del Apóstol by Rafael Almanza (poet, essayist, and art critic) Pinar del Río, Cuba: Ediciones Vitral, 2005.
Front cover and illustrations for Eliseo Diego: El Juego de Diez (book that received the Alejo Carpentier National Award in 2000) by Rafael Almanza (poet, essayist, and art critic).
Front cover for Espejo de Vehemencia: Un Viaje al Camaguey Poético by Ivana del Pozo, PhD. Camaguey City: Acana Publishing, 2002.
STAGE DESIGN
1998 Stage, lights, and costume design for the play Electra Circular (Circular Electra) for the theatre group Conjunto Dramático de Camagüey. General Director: Amado Jova
1988-1998
Stage, lights and costume design for the plays Espacio Interior (Interior Space), Escena para Actores (Scene for Actors), Circus, Rebis and La Ciudad de las Cuatro Esquinas (The City of the Four Corners) by the experimental theatre group Teatro del Espacio Interior. General Director: Mario Raúl Junquera.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Albert, Eduardo (2001) Joel Besmar: El pensamiento en la pintura. Antenas, (Nos. 3-4), Centro Provincial del Libro y la Literatura de Camagüey, Camagüey, Cuba.
Almanza, Rafael (1999) Ubique Pictura. In cat. for homonymous exhibit, Artist's Workshop, Camaguey, Cuba.
Almanza, Rafael (1999) La pintura como antropofania: Joel Besmar
Almanza, Rafael (2000) Besmar: Hierofanias. In cat for personal expo Ascensiones, Center for the Development of the Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba.
Almanza, Rafael (2002) El arte como estudio del hombre. In cat. for personal expo Ascensus- Tree Spirit, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH, U.S.A.
González, Onieda (1997) El hombre frente a los elementos. In cat. for La Mirada Vertical II, La Oveja Negra Gallery, Camagüey, Cuba.
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