Manuel Mendive Hoyo, Havana, December 15th 1944
Studies
1963 Graduated from San Alejandro School, in Painting and Sculpturing
Personal Exhibitions
2005 Exhibition: “Feeding the Spirit, the Light, the Ancestros, Olodumare, the most beautiful thing”, Gary Nader Gallery, Coral Gables , USA , (March 5 th )
“Mother Africa” Series, Week of the African Culture, Gallery: “House of Culture of Angola ”, Havana , Cuba .
2004 Exhibition of Modern Cuban Art, Athens, Greece.
2003 Los Ancestros, orisha, la naturaleza y el pensamiento (The ancestros, orisha, nature and thought) , Museum of the Americas, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Social, intelectual y chic (Social, intellectual and chic) , Biarritz, France.
2002 Las Aguas, lo cotidiano y el pensamiento ( Waters, Daily Life and Thought) , Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
Shangó y la Vida (Shango and Life) , La Recova Exhibition Hall, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
2001 Shangó y la Vida, Sa Nostra Cultural Center , Palma de Mallorca; Capitol Cultural Center, Cáceres, Spain.
Santa Bárbara-Shangó en nuestras Vidas (Santa Barbara, Shango in our Lives) , Gallery for Universal Art in Guines, Havana, Cuba.
2000 Las Aves y los Peces (Birds and Fishes) , Latin American Gallery, Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba.
Exhibition of Sculptures, Museum of Rhum, Havana, Cuba.
1999 Gary Nader Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida, United Status of América.
1998 Ville de Chanteclerç, Fort-de-France, Martinica.
Andy Jllich Gallery, Switzerland.
1997 Joan Guaita Art Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
The World of Art Gallery, Paris France.
Museum of Colonial Art, Havana, Cuba.
Museum of Modern Art in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.
1996 Nacional Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica.
Present Art Gallery, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
La Acacia Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
1995 Fernando Quintana Gallery, Bogotá Colombia.
1994 The World of Art Gallery, Paris, France.
1993 Expositum Gallery, México City, D.F.
1992 The World of Art Gallery, Paris, France.
1991 XXI Internacional Biennial in São Paulo, Brasil.
1990 Civic Gallery, Cavour Plaza, Padua, Italy.
1989 Nesle Gallery, Paris, France.
SEIBU Group, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.
1988 The October Gallery, London , Great Britain .
Ethnographic Museum of Budapest, Hungary.
XLIII Biennial de Venice, Italy.
1987 Para el Ojo que Mira ( For the Eye which glances) , Nacional Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Panama City, Panama.
1986 Conversando con los Peces (Taliking to Fishes), Latin American Cultural Space Gallery, Paris, France.
1984 Plaza Vieja Gallery, Fondo Cubano de Bienes Culturales (Cuban Funds of Cultural Heritage) , Havana, Cuba.
1982 ORTH Gallery, Nuremberg, RFA.
Iwalewa House, University de Bayreuth, Germany.
Mpapa Gallery, Lusaka, Zambia.
Travelling show through Zambia, Nigeria, Angola and Mozambique.
1981 Art Gallery, Moscow, USSR.
1980 Mendive: Un pintor de lo Real Maravilloso ( A painter of the Marvelous Reality), L Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
1975 Nacional Museum of Tanzania, Tanzania.
1964 Art Center, Catedral Square, Havana, Cuba.