Orestes Hernández - Zapata Gallery

Orestes Hernández, originario de Holguín, Cuba, en 1981, se destaca como un creador cuya obra se caracteriza por una continua exploración de la disrupción y la fragmentación. A través de sus creaciones, Orestes desentraña la realidad artística en busca de nuevas sendas para la expresión. En el ámbito de la pintura, un terreno que se entrelaza con su trabajo en video, Orestes exhibe una estética marcada por la yuxtaposición y la sobrecarga visual propias de la era contemporánea. Más allá de su rol como artista, Orestes se erige como un observador agudo de las dinámicas culturales de su tiempo. Tras completar sus estudios en el Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) en 2006, Orestes ha participado en una diversidad de proyectos tanto individuales como colectivos. Entre sus destacadas exhibiciones se encuentran "Feliz, Feroz y Amén" en LKB/G, Hamburgo, Alemania; "La primera aventura" en la Galería knoerle & baettig, Suiza; "Llegó el malhechor" en la Galería Servando, Cuba; "Alta fidelidad" en la Galería Cristo Salvador, Cuba; así como muestras colectivas como "ABUC, Eleven Cuban Artists" en la galería suiza Mai 36; "Illness Has a Colour", evento colateral a la XIII Bienal de La Habana; "Art x Cuba. Contemporary Perspectives since 1989" en Aachen, Alemania; "Overseas" en Halle 14, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Leipzig, Alemania; "Para quebrar los muros" en el Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana y "A la vuelta de la esquina" en el Centro Cultural La Casa Encendida, España. Su trabajo también ha sido parte de relevantes eventos artísticos como la Bienal de La Habana y el Contemporary Visual Art and New Film Festival de Berlín.

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.