BIOGRAPHY

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Omar Corrales (b.1952)

Havana, Cuba

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Omar Corrales graduated in 1979 from "Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro" is the oldest and most prestigious fine arts school in Cuba, located in Marianao, a suburb of Havana, it was founded in 1818 at the Convent of San Alejandro by the French painter Jean Baptista Vermay, who was its first director. It is located today in a monumental building built in the early 1940s. Corrales was also an art teacher at the "Instituto Superior de Arte" (I.S.A.) and worked with renowned Cuban Master artist’s Armando Suarez de Villar. 

 

 

​SOLO & GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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2023 La Galeria Fine Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

2020 La Galeria Fine Art, Miami, Florida

2020 Futurama, Miami, Florida

2020 Milander Arts Center, Hialeah, Florida

2019 Milander Arts Center, Hialeah, Florida

2018 Milander Arts Center, Hialeah, Florida

2018 Galeria Turquesa, Mexico City, Mexico

2018 301 Art Center, Hialeah, Florida

2017 Milander Arts Center, Hialeah, Florida

2016 Milander Arts Center, Hialeah, Florida

2015 Futurama, Miami, Florida

2014 Cuba Ocho, Miami, Florida

2013 Museo de Matanza, Matanza, Cuba

2012 Teatro Nacional de Cuba, Havana, Cuba

2011 San Juan de Letran, Havana, Cuba

2010 San Juan de Letran, Havana, Cuba

2009 Galeria la Acasia, Havana, Cuba

2008 Galeria Carmen Montilla, Havana, Cuba

2007 Galeria Bosa, San Jose, Costa Rica

2006 Galeria los Oficios, Havana, Cuba

2005 Casa Carmen Montilla, Havana, Cuba

2004 Factoria Habana, Havana, Cuba

2003 Hotel Nacional, Havana, Cuba

2002 Malecon 661, Havana, Cuba 

2001 Galeria de Panama, Panama City, Panama

2000 Galeria Luis Rico, Antioquia, Colombia

1999 Universidad Veritas, San Jose, Costa Rica

1998 Galeria Ponciano, Caracas, Venezuela

1997 Museo de Cracovia, Krakon, Poland

1995 Galeria Praga, Czechoslovakia

1994 Museo de Bella Artes, Havana, Cuba

1992 Museo de Camaguey, Camaguey, Cuba

1991 Museo de Holguin, Holguin, Cuba

1990 Museo de Villa Clara, Las Villas, Cuba

1989 Hotel Habana Libre, Havana, Cuba

1988 Casa de las Americas, Havana, Cuba

1987 Galeria Parque Lenin, Havana, Cuba

1986 Galeria Acacia, Havana, Cuba

1985 Galeria Acacia, Havana, Cuba

1984 Museo de Bella Artes, Havana, Cuba

1983 Museo de Regla, Havana, Cuba

1982 Galeria Habana, Havana, Cuba

1981 Hotel Habana Libre, Havana, Cuba

1980 Museo de Bella Artes, Havana, Cuba

1979 Casa de las Americas, Havana, Cuba

1978 Galeria Galiano, Havana, Cuba

1977 Galeria Habana, Havana, Cuba

1976 Galeria Galiano, Havana, Cuba

1975 Hotel Habana Libre, Havana, Cuba

1974 Museo de Bella Artes, Havana, Cuba

1973 Museo de Bella Artes, Havana, Cuba

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MURALS

 

2016 Tanques Colectores, Miami, Florida

2018 Flamingo Statue, Hialeah, Florida

2019 Casa de las Guayaberas, Miami, Florida

2018 Little Stars Dentistry, Miami, Florida

2017 Pre School Bambini, Miami, Florida

2016 John F Kennedy Library, Hialeah, Florida

2014 Cuba Ocho, Miami, Florida

2010 Iglesia San Juan de Letran, Havana, Cuba

2009 La Costa, Havana, Cuba

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AWARDS

 

2018 Cuba Nostalgia (1st Place) Miami, Florida

1980 Salon de Grabado (2nd Place) Havana, Cuba

1976 Salon Pequeño Formato (1st Place) Havana, Cuba

1975 Salon de la Ciudad (2nd Place) Havana, Cuba

1973 Salon Juvenil (1st Place) Havana, Cuba