Lesbia Claudina Vent Dumois
She does not specialize in any themes but is "interested in the everyday and historical references." Lesbia Claudina Vent Dumois was born on November 6, 1932, in Cruces, Las Villas, Cuba. Vent Dumois studied at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas in Santa Clara, Cuba under Leopoldo Romañach. In 1961 she obtained a UNESCO fellowship to study lithography in Prague.
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Lesbia Claudina Vent Dumois
- Name
- Lesbia Vent Dumois
- Birth Name
- Lesbia Claudina Vent–Dumois
- Born
- 6 November 1932
- Birthplace
- Cruces, Las Villas, Cuba
- Nationality
- Cuba
- Occupation
- painter · artist · illustrator
- Languages
- Spanish
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She does not specialize in any themes but is "interested in the everyday and historical references." Lesbia Claudina Vent Dumois was born on November 6, 1932, in Cruces, Las Villas, Cuba. Vent Dumois studied at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas in Santa Clara, Cuba under Leopoldo Romañach. In 1961 she obtained a UNESCO fellowship to study lithography in Prague.
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Lesbia Claudina Vent Dumois (born 1932) is a Cuban artist, illustrator and painter. The artist was born in Cruces. Lesbia Claudina Vent Dumois worked for Casa de las Américas and is a member of National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba. Languages used include Spanish.
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In 1968 she was a member of the Taller Experimental de Gráfica (TEG), in Havana. From 1980 to 1993, she was Director of Fine Arts at the Casa de las Américas in Havana, and since 1993 is Vice President of the Casa de las Américas.
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Key facts
• Name — Lesbia Vent Dumois • Birth Name — Lesbia Claudina Vent–Dumois • Born — 6 November 1932 • Birthplace — Cruces, Las Villas, Cuba
Solo exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
• 1954 Grabados, in the Galería Habana, Arte y Cinema La Rampa, Havana, Cuba. • 1961 Engravings, in the Union of Fine Artists, Prague.
Group exhibitions
Group exhibitions
• 1952, Exposición de la Estampa Cubana, in the Museo de Bellas Artes de Toluca, Mexico City, Mexico. • 1959, 16th National Exhibition of Prints, Washington, D.C., U.S. • 1977, Cuba Peintres d'Aujourd'hui, in the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France. • 1984, I Bienal de La Habana. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba. • 1995, 1er Salón de Arte Cubano Contemporáneo. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba.
Collections
• Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba • Collection of Engravings, in Berlin, Germany. • Museo de la Solidaridad, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Awards and honors
• 1960, the Prize at the Primer Certamen Latinoamericano de Xilografía, Argentina. • 1972, Prize in the International Print Biennial Cracow'1972, Kraków, Poland. • 1996, Alejo Carpentier Medal, Council of State, Republic of Cuba.
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- 1.Rodríguez, Emilio Jorge RodríguezEmilio Jorge. Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro–Latin American Biography. Oxford University Press. 2016. 978-0-19-993579-6.
- 2.Ministry of Culture, Cuba; Jose Marti National Library. Bibliografia Cubana. 1983.
- 3.Presente Cubanart. LesbiaVentDumois. 2016-09-27.
- 4.Juan, Adelaida de. Encuentro Chile Cuba. Editorial Jurídica de Chile. 33. 1973.
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