Nelson Jalil - Zapata Gallery

Nelson Jalil, Camagüey, Cuba, 1984, is a multidisciplinary artist who has developed his work mainly in painting, and also exploring other media sush as installation and video. He graduated from University of the Arts of Havana in 2009, and the Fine Arts Academy of Camagüey in 2003. Jalil’s work has been shown internationally at The DOM Museum of Vienna, Austria; the Kunsthalle of Vienna, Austria; the Espace Témoin Art Center, Geneva, Switzerland; the Reinbeckhallen Art Center, Berlín, Germany; the Tianqiao Art & Cultural Centre, Beijing, China; the Experiments in Cinéma Film Festival, New Mexico, EEUU; the Art of the World Gallery, Houston, Texas; and the Center for the Development of Visual Arts in Havana, Cuba. Jalil’s work has been also shown at the Fototeca of Cuba, the Ludwig Foundation of Havana, as well as in galleries, Art Fairs and alternative art spaces at United States, Italy, France, Austria, Mexico and Cuba. His work has been included in the Cuban Art Anthology CUBA TOTALITARIA, published by Editorial Hypermedia, 2022 and the Cuban art compilation Cutting the Edge in Havana, 100 Cuban artists, published by ARTempoCuba, 2019. Jalil´s work is part of the collection of the Dom Museum, Wien, Austria, the collection of Espacio 23, Miami, EU, as well as several private collections around the world.

Source: Official website of the artist: https://nelsonjalilportfolio.wixsite.com/gallery/espa-ol-xqdub

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Lianet Martínez Pino is a visual artist born in Cienfuegos, Cuba. She graduated in 2012 with a specialization in Painting from the National Academy of Fine Arts “San Alejandro” in Havana. In 2019, she completed her studies at the Higher Institute of Art (ISA), where she received the distinction of Most Creative Graduate. Since 2011, she has taken part in numerous exhibitions both in Cuba and abroad. Shortly after graduating, she was invited by Nuno Sacramento Contemporary Art Gallery to the artist residency “Mi casa es tu casa,” which concluded with the two-person exhibition “Alquimia” in Aveiro, Portugal. In 2012, 2015, 2019, and 2022 she was selected to participate in the Havana Biennial, where she presented large-scale public works. Her work is part of important collections in the United States, Puerto Rico, Portugal, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and Cuba.In 2024, her work was selected within the curatorial section “Ejes,” together with Galería Servando, for the ZONAMACO International Art Fair at the Citibanamex Center in Mexico. That same year, she was chosen to represent Cuba at the Artomatic art event in Washington, D.C., USA. In 2025, two of her works were selected to participate in the ZONAMACO International Art Fair as part of the Galería Habana booth. She was invited to take part in the two-person exhibition “Alquimia de una Isla” held at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA) in the United States. In March of the same year, she represented Cuba at the Osaka International Art Fair in Japan. In August, she was selected for the Unlimited Art Residency in New York, supported by the Cuban Artists Fund and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, which culminated in the “Blossom” Open Studio. On October 11, she presented her solo exhibition “Espacio Liminal” at Zapata Gallery in Miami, United States. At the end of October, she was invited by the Metropolitan Academy of Art of Chile to give a lecture on her work titled The Body as Shield: Matter, Identity, and Memory. One of her works (Encuentro) is currently on view at FotoFac Gallery as part of the group exhibition “Puertas al Ingenio” at Fábrica de Arte. Also at the end of October, she will be participating with one of her works in the exhibition “Paisaje bajo Sospecha” at Picci Fine Arts Gallery in Mexico City, Mexico.She is currently represented by Génesis Galerías de Arte, working within this group with Galería Habana in Havana, Cuba, and by Zapata Gallery in Miami, United States.

Lianet’s work is characterized by the use of multiple media, scales, and techniques. It includes paintings, drawings, photographs, collages, and sculptural or installation structures whose processes of reference and meaning transcend the two-dimensional plane. It is through this methodology that she channels her ideas. These stem from personal experiences—her own or others’—in dialogue with everyday contexts and broader experiences that inform and shape her working process.