Manuel Mendive

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.