ABOUT THE ARTISTS

larry (Los Palos, Cuba, 1976) is an artist and poet. His visual practice is deeply rooted in drawing, while expanding freely into painting, object-making, installation, video, and performance. Trained in Art History in Havana (2002), his vision draws from Cuban avant-garde illustrators of the 1920s, as well as the rebellious energy of artists from the 1960s such as Chago Armada and Umberto Peña.

His work is marked by a deliberate use of fragmentation, collage, and the layering of visual and textual materials. Each piece becomes a polyphonic structure, inviting multiple interpretations. larry weaves together seemingly disparate cultural references, generating a continuous dialogue between the sacred and the profane, the media-saturated and the intimate.

With a poetics of the absurd—somewhere between nihilism and tenderness—his work delivers a lucid, disenchanted critique of the present, guided by humor: “the only individual revolt is to survive.” His work is part of prestigious collections such as the Pérez Art Museum Miami and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, and he has participated in exhibitions across the United States, Europe, and Latin America.