Ezequiel Suárez
(b. 1967, Matanzas, Cuba)
Ezequiel Suárez is co-founder, with Sandra Ceballos, of the most genuine alternative artistic project of the 1990s in Cuba: Espacio Aglutinador. Suárez is a 1985 graduate of the San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts. His pictorial, objectual, and performative works begin from an eminently rebellious position prone to short-circuiting, hence the expectation that his work generates among critics and the general public. This provocative and playful way of sustaining the artistic gesture has enabled him to develop exhibition projects of tremendous depth and discursive lucidity. Among the most interesting are Un día feliz dos, held at the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales in Havana, Cuba; Ser antojadizo es malo,at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Pinar del Río (MAPRI); and Vamos fazer barulho agora, porra! in Galería Habana with artist Carlos Garaicoa. He has also participated in major artistic events inside and outside of Cuba, including the Salón de Arte Contemporáneo Cubano, the Gothenburg International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Sweden, and the Medellin City Biennial in Colombia.
His work is housed in important public collections, including the Reina Sofía Museum, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana, Cuba; The Patchett Collection in Los Angeles, USA, and the Limac Collection at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Lima, Peru.