Painter, Sculptor
· Born in 1959
- Cuba
José Bedia
José Bedia
Cuba
Credentials
- Major permanent collection
- Established Artist
- International Exposure
- Works on commission
« I consider myself privileged to work in what I like, and although people claim art can "change" the world, for me it is enough to make it just a bit better. »
Spanning more than thirty years, José Bedia’s career and work have had an international outreach. Bedia’s works are held in many important private collections, as well as the public collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the MoMA, the Whitney, The Guggenheim, and Tate Modern in London. His work merges his tribal and ethnographic interests, using a field work approach and adding layered social and historical elements of many world traditions.
- Nationality
- Cuba
- Born
- 1959
- Mediums
- Painter, Sculptor
Beijing Biennal - First Prize- Beijing, China
Cintas Foundation - Visual Arts Fellowship- Miami, United States
Canada Council of Art- Grant Recipient- Banff, Canada
Guggenheim Fellowship- Fellowship- New York, United States
Second Biennal of Havana- First Prize- Havana, Cuba
Ford Foundation - Grant Recipient- New York City, United States
Salon de Paisaje- First Prize- Havana, Cuba
Trazos de Una Cancion / Galeria Artizar - Tenerife, Spain
Jose Bedia: Mujer Natura / Art Palm Beach - West Palm Beach, FL, United States
A CONTRACORRIENTE / Collection Suites - Miami, FL, United States
Visual Miami: Jose Bedia Watering Past Ground / Adrienne Arsht Center - Miami, FL, United States
Jose Bedia: Memoria y Creencias Culturale / Second Street Gallery - Charlottesville, VA, United States
Jose Bedia Fieldwork: Selections from the De La Cruz Collection and the Artist / NSU Ft. Lauderdale Musuem, Ft. - Lauderdale, FL, United States
Isla, Monte, Animal, Gente / Galeria Antizar - Tenerife, Spain
Parabola del Jaguar / Colegio Civil Centro Cultural Universitario - Monterrey, Mexico
Tribal Affinities / Tambaran Gallery - New York, NY, United States
Jose Bedia / Frederic Boloix Fine Arts Gallery - Ketchum, ID, United States
On the Frontier: The Art of Jose Bedia / El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe - Santa Fe, NM, United States
Somalian Prey / Museo San Telmo - San Sebastian, Spain
José Bedia, Solitary Sailor / Fred Snitzer Gallery - Miami, Florida, United States
José Bedia/ Katja Loher: Interplanetary Kisses / Lyle O. Reitzel - Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Syncretism and Spirituality: The Art of Jose Bedia / Kimora Gallery - Anchorage, Alaska, United States
Oscuras Aventuras Gráficas / Lyle O. Reitzel - Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Nfumbi Mizidi / Museo de Caguas - Caguas, Puerto Rico
Jose Bedia: Recurrencia del animal solitario / Fundación Iturria - Montevideo, Uruguay
JOSÉ BEDIA: Nomadismos (instalaciones). Curators: Orlando Hernández / Omar-Pascual Castillo / The Het Domein Museum - Sittar, Netherlands
José Bedia: Entre dos mundos. Curator: Isabel Durán / Casa de América - Madrid, Spain
Historias de un país gentil / Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery - Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
José Bedia, UNE SAISON EN ENFER / Fred Snitzer Gallery - Miami, Florida, United States
Transcultural Pilgrim / Miami Art Museum - Miami, FL, United States
Paintings by Jose Bedia / Heriard-Cimino Gallery - New Orleans, LA, United States
JOSÉ BEDIA: Nomadismos (instalaciones). Curators: Orlando Hernández / Omar-Pascual Castillo / CAAM Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Las Palmas, Spain
Transcultural Pilgrim. Curators: Judith Bettelheim & Janet Catherine Berlo / Fowler Museum at UCLA - Pasadena, CA, United States
José Bedia: 15 años / MIA (Miami Internacional Art), tand Lyle O.Reitzel Gallery, Miami Convention Center, Fl. - Miami, FL, United States
José Bedia: Fragment of Journeys / Heriard-Cimino Gallery - New Orleáns, United States
José Bedia: Fragment of Journeys / New Orleáns Museum of Art - New Orleáns, United States
José Bedia: ¿Cómo empezó todo? Curator: Juan Carlos López / Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico - San Juan, Puerto Rico
José Bedia: Faces In The Landscape / Latin American Masters - Los Ángeles, California, United States
José Bedia: Entre dos mundos. Curator: Isabel Durán / IVAM - Valencia, Spain
José Bedia: Paintings & Drawings (1992-2006) / George Adams Gallery - New York, United States
José Bedia, FIRST HAND / Fred Snitzer Gallery - Miami, FL, United States
El Jaguar y la Anaconda / Fred Snitzer Gallery - Miami, FL, United States
José Bedia: Estremecimientos / DA2 (Domus Artium 2002) - Salamanca, Spain
Nsila - El Camino / Cantor Arts Center - San Francisco, United States
Blanco Espiritual / Museo de Bellas Artes de Granada Palacio Carlos V - Granada, Spain
Elson Artist-in-Resident Project: José Bedia. / Addison Art Gallery - Andover, United States
Jose Bedia / Annina Noise Gallery - New York, United States
Jose Bedia / Galerie Nathalie Obadia - Paris, France
Crónicas Americanas: Obras de José Bedia / Museo Rufino Tamayo - Mexico City, Mexico
The Island, the Hunter and the Prey / Site Santa Fe - Santa Fe, United States
Crónicas Americanas: Obras de José Bedia / MARCO (Museo de Arte Contemporaneo) - Monterrey, Mexico
Mi Esencialismo / My Essentialism / Douglas Hyde Gallery - Dublin, Ireland
De Donde Vengo / ICA The Institute of Contemporary Art - Pennsylvania, United States
La Isla En Peso / Galeria Nina Menocal - Mexico City, Mexico
Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias / Museo Carrillo Gil - Mexico City, Mexico
Final del Centauro / Castillo de la Real Fuerza - Havana, Cuba
Crónicas Americanas I / Casa de la Cultura, Plaza - Havana, Cuba
Adios Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art since 1950 / The Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Houston, United States
IX Biennale of Beijing / Beijing Biennale - Beijing, China
NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith / The Menil Collection - Houston, United States
AT THIS TIME: 10 Miami Artists / Rubell Family Collection - Miami, FL, United States
La condición humana / Museo de Historia de la Ciudad - Barcelona, Spain
Then Floridians/ Diez Floridianos / MAC - Museum of Art Contemporary - Miami, FL, United States
Latinamerican Artists of the 20th Century / MoMA - New York, United States
América: Novia del Sol / Royal Museum - Antwerp, Belgium
Mito y Magia en América: Los Ochenta / Museo MARCO - Monterrey, Mexico
XLIV Biennale de Venezia / Venice Biennale - Venice, Italy
Magiciens de la Terre / Centre Georges Pompidou - La Villette - Paris, France
Sao Paulo Biennial / Museu de Arte Moderna - Sao Paulo, Brazil
II Bienal de La Habana / Museo de Bellas Artes - Havana, Cuba
Volumen I / Galeria de Arte Internacional - Havana, Cuba
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY , United States
Walter Phillips Gallery, Bath, Canada
Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Spencer Museum, Lawrence, KS, United States
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, United States
Pori Taidemuseum, Pori, Finland
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL, United States
Phoenix Art Museum, AZ, United States
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, United States
Perseus Collection, Honolulu, HI, United States
PAMM, Miami, FL , United States
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, United States
Neuberger & Berman, New York, NY, United States
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, United States
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA., United States
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL, United States
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, United States
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, United States
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
MARCO (Museo de Arte Contemporaneo), Monterrey, Mexico
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, United States
McCormick Place Art Collection, Chicago, IL, United States
Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, United States
Liceo Minvielle, Lagos, Mexico City, Mexico
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C, United States
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, United States
Goldman Sachs, New York, NY, United States
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
Extremadura and Ibero-American Museum of Contemporary Art of Badajoz, Badajoz, Spain
Contemporary Art Museum, San Diego, CA, United States
Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Birmingham Museum of Art, AL, United Kingdom
Bacardi Art Foundation, Miami, FL , United States
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK, United States
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