L A G A L E R I A F I N E A R T
ARTIST
ORLANDO NARANJO
Born in Las Villas, Cuba 1937
BIOGRAPHY
Artist Orlando Naranjo is a self-taught painter born in Calabazal de Sagua, Las Villas, Cuba. The artist is inspired by colorful palette's full of energy and giddy transparency of the Cuban geography, using reds, yellows, browns, and blues, dazzling in his paintings, to remind the world of the splendors which we live in and the vibrant substance that we are. The artist also uses, flowers, fruits, forests, animals, rivers and women, all inspired by poetry with a spell of the pristine, from an unpolluted environment , all expressed on his paintings with a sense of security, enjoyment and attractive reality, with in the perfection of his work.
Naranjo won his first drawing contest in 1952 with a scholarship in Washington DC, USA. At a young age he moved to Havana where he participated in his first collective exhibition in 1967 and later his first solo exhibition in 1970, he also participated in numerous collective and solo exhibitions through out Cuba and the United States. Naranjo's works can be found in various galleries throughout the United States. Naranjo's paintings are currently held in private collections in Spain, Poland, Cuba, Venezuela, former Soviet Union and the United States. In the fall of 2012 he was one of the painters chosen to participate in Fans Forever at the Miami Dade College Museum of Art, a unique exhibition featuring artist-designed fans by prominent artist of Cuban descent. Through out his career, his work has been exhibited beside renowned Master painters such as: Wilfredo Lam, Amelia Peláz, Rener Portocarrero, Mario Carreño, Gina Pillón, Mariano Rodriguez, Cundo Bermudez and Servando Cabrera Moreno.
Renowned Cuban poet, novelist and playwright, Reinaldo Arenas wrote a pictorial on Naranjo saying: "Un cuadro de Naranjo es una invitacion que incita" (A painting by Naranjo is an invitation that provokes).
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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2009 La Bodeguita Miami, Miami, Florida
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2003 Eliassons Art Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida
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1979 Liceo Habana Centro Gallego, Havana, Cuba
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1979 Dept de Arte Seccional de Cultura, Havana, Cuba
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1978 Galeria de Arte de Ministerio de Educacion, Havana Cuba
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1971 Galeria de Arte del Ministerio de Salud Publica, Havana, Cuba
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2019 La Galeria Fine Art, Miami, Florida
2018 Miami Lakes Town Hall, Miami Lakes, Florida
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2018 La Galeria Fine Art, Miami, Florida
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2018 Frame on Wheels, Miami, Florida
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2018 Santa Fe Colonial Gallery, Miami, Florida
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2017 La Galeria Fine Art, Miami, Florida
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2017 Cuban Nostalgia, Plaza de los Artistas, Miami, Florida
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2016 Santa Fe Colonial Gallery, Miami, Florida
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2009 Artbox Auction “Union Bank”, Coconut Grove, Florida
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2008 Bodeguita Miami, Miami, Florida
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2007 GDS Fine Art, Coral Gables, Florida
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2006 Artbox Auction “Bank of America”, Coral Gables, Florida
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2003 Eliassons Art, Coral Gables, Florida
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2003 Fraga Gallery, Miami, Florida
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2002 Latin Brush Strokes Gallery, Naples, Florida
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2001 Latin American art Museum, Miami, Florida
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1999 GDS Fine Art, Coral Gables, Florida
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1999 Nova Art Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida
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1999 Sea Coast Towers, Miami, Florida
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1998 The Wirtz Gallery, Miami, Florida
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1998 I've Been Framed Gallery, Miami, Florida
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1997 Galeria Amalia Mahoney, Chicago, Illinois
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1996 InterArte of America, Miami, Florida
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1991 Artist Pro Genesis II, Miami, Florida
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1989 ACCA 89, Miami, Florida
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1984 ACCA 84, Miami, Florida
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1980 Salon Nacional de Dibujo, Havana, Cuba
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1976 Salon Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado, Matanzas, Cuba
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1973 Salon Nacional de Dibujo, Havana, Cuba
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1970 Galeria Foxa Vedado, Havana, Cuba
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1969 Galeria INIT 2 y 19, Havana, Cuba
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1968 Galeria INIT 2 y 19, Havana, Cuba