Ernesto Oroza
Ernesto Oroza (1968, Cuba) is a Cuban visual artist and designer based in South Florida. Oroza's work discusses media and technology within contemporary culture.
Ernesto Oroza
- Name
- Ernesto Oroza
- Born
- 1968
- Birthplace
- Cuba
- Training
- Instituto Superior de Deseño, Havana, Cuba
- Awards
- Cintas Fellowship
- Occupation
- designer · artist · painter · photographer · art historian
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Languages
- English
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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Ernesto Oroza • Born — 1968 • Birthplace — Cuba • Training — Instituto Superior de Deseño, Havana, Cuba • Works — "Technological Disobedience in Cuba" • Awards — Cintas Fellowship
Documentary record
Ernesto Oroza appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a designer and art historian (born 1968). The birth of Ernesto Oroza is recorded in 1968.
Education and Academic Career
Education and Academic Career
Ernesto Oroza earned a degree at the Havana Superior Institute of Design. He was visiting professor in Les Ateliers, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Creation Industrielle (ENSCI) in Paris (1998), and professor of the Polytechnic Institute of Design of Havana from 1995 to 2000.
Work
Work
Oroza's work investigates concepts on radical architecture and design principles related to Cuban economy, manufacturing, and material culture. Oroza was co-founder (1999) of Laboratory Maldeojo (with Fabian Martinez and Nelson Rossell), member until 2004 (Havana, Cuba) and co-founder (1995) of Ordo Amoris Cabinet (with Diango Hernandez, Juan Bernal, Francis Acea), member until 1996 (Havana, Cuba). In 2019, he was an Artist-in-Residency at Oolites Arts, Miami. In 2016, Oroza was awarded the Pernod Ricard Fellow 2016 and was a resident at the Villa Vassilieff, Paris, to develop his project ParaISO (Factogram).
Exhibitions (selection)
Exhibitions (selection)
His work has been exhibited in museums, galleries and cultural spaces such as Haute Definition Gallery, in Paris (France), The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada, The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, in New York (USA), LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, in Spain and the Groninger Museum, The Netherlands.
Identity
Identity
Ernesto Oroza is recorded with the occupation visual artist. Recorded as designer, artist, painter, photographer and art historian.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
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1968
Ernesto Oroza was born on 1 January 1968.
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Miami
Residences
Cuba.
Birth place
Books by Ernesto Oroza
- "Notes sur la maison moirée. Ou un urbanisme pour des villes qui se vident". Published by Cité du design et École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Saint-Étienne, 2013. -Editing Havana- Stories of Popular Housing Maja Asaa, Mira Kongstein and Ernesto Oroza with photographs by Frederikke Friderichsen, 2011.. Published by Aristo Bogforlag. -"RIKIMBILI. Une étude sur la désobéissance technologique et quelques formes de réinvention." Ernesto Oroza, 2009. Préfacier: Marie-Haude Caraës Traducteur: Nicole Marchand-Zanartu.. Publications de l’Université de Saint-Étienne, 2009. Cité du design. -Statement of Necessity. Ernesto Oroza. 2008. Alonso Art, US. -Pentagram Paper no. 32 “NO WASTE.” Ernesto Oroza and Laboratory Maldeojo, 2003. With an introduction by Alex Marashian and design by Fernando Gutierrez. London, Pentagram Design. -Objets Réinventé. La création populaire a Cuba. Ernesto Oroza and Penélope de Bozzi, 2002. Paris: Ëditions Alternatives.
Collections (selection)
Collections (selection)
His work is included in the collections of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida.
Documents and archives
Primary material
Documents and archives
reference work
- “Ernesto Oroza”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Awards and recognition
- South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists, Florida. 2012 - Artist in residence, Karl Hofer Gessellschaft, Universitat der Kunst, Berlin. 2011. - Harpo Foundation Grant, Los Angeles. 2010. - Here and There, Berlin Residency, Bass Museum. 2010. - Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, FL. 2010. - Cintas Foundation Fellowship, 2008, NY. - Guggenheim Fellowship, 2007 NY. - Artist in Residence, Christoph Merian Stiftung, Basel, 2006. - Danish Center for Cultural Development. (with Maja Aasa, Greta Garcia and Mira Kongstein, 2005. - Ludwig Foundation Fellowship, Cuba, 2001–2004. - Direction aux Arts Plastiques (DAP) Fonds d'incitation à la création (FIACRE) (with Penelope de Bozzi). France, 1999–2000.
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- 1.Ernesto Oroza. Oolite Arts.
- 2.Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Architecture, Design, and the. Voices: Ernesto Oroza – University of Illinois at Chicago College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts. cada.uic.edu. 2021-01-06.
- 3.Ernesto Oroza: Technological Disobedience. Walker Art Center.
- 4.TECHNOLOGICAL DISOBEDIENCE -ERNESTO OROZA. Jeu de Paume.
- 5.Staff, VICE. The Technological Disobedience of Ernesto Oroza. Vice. 2010-09-10.
- 6.Ernesto Oroza. Villa Vassilieff.
- 7.Feo, Roberto. Nowhere, now, here: explorando nuevas líneas de investigación en el diseño contemporáneo. LABoral, Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial. 2008. 978-84-612-6674-6.
- 8.Cintas Foundation Presents Finalists' Exhibition for 2008 Emilio Sánchez Visual Arts Award.
- 9.Cintas Foundation Award goes to Ernesto Oroza Artinfo.
- 10.Sullivan, Edward J. The Language of Objects in the Art of the Americas. Yale University Press. 2007. 978-0-300-11106-4.
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