Alejandro Piñeiro Bello

Biography

Alejandro Piñeiro Bello (Havana, 1990) is a Cuban visual artist who delves in the fields of painting, sculpture, installation, photography, video art and virtual reality. He graduated with honors at the National Academy of Fine Arts “San Alejandro” in Havana (2006-2010), where he was later appointed Creative painting professor (2010 to 2011). He founded and was for seven years a member of the Havana based collective STAINLESS (2010-2017). He authored major public art projects for the XI, XII and XIII Havana Biennials (2012, 2015 and 2019). Both The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, New York, and The Rockefeller Brothers Fund in collaboration with Pioneer Works, New York (in 2014 and 2017 respectively) bestowed him scholarships. Since 2017, Piñeiro leads a solo career and lives and works between Havana and Los Angeles and Miami. His work is part of private collections around the world and in public ones such as The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation Collection New York (NY), The Gilbert Brownstone Foundation Collection, Paris (France), The MOLAA Collection, Los Angeles (California), The Chrysler Museum Collection, Norfolk (Virginia) and The Virginia Museum Collection, Norfolk (Virginia).

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