Miguel Angel Botalin Pampin Biography
Born in Santiago de Cuba. Graduated in Painting and Sculpture from the School of Art "José Joaquín Tejada" Santiago de Cuba and Bachelor of Law from the University of Havana. Founding member of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba. His art has been exhibited in Cuba, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe and USA. His works are in various collections of Cuba, United States, Britain, France, Japan, Germany, Canada, Mexico, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Argentina, Venezuela, Uruguay, Italy, Switzerland, Chile, Australia and Spain, among others. One of his works was auctioned by the U.S. Carter Center.
MAJOR PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
• Collective Exp Permanent Gallery'' Santiago'' the Cuban Fund of Cultural Property. Santiago de Cuba. • Collective Exp Permanent Gallery'' The'' confronts the UNEAC. Santiago de Cuba. • Personal Exp House of Traditions. Caribbean Festival. June-July 1996.Santiago Cuba. • Personal Exp Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples. June-July 1996.Santiago Cuba. • Exp Permanent Staff from the opening of the Workshop Gallery'' 19'' José Antonio Portuondo October 1996.Santiago Cuba. • Collective Exp. International Festival of Martinique. Cuban Fund of Cultural Property. February / March 1997. Martinique. • Itinerant Collective Exp. Invited by the Casa del Caribe galleries of various cities in Spain and Portugal. June-July 1997.España and Portugal. • Collective Exp'' I will go to Santiago.'' Gallery'''' Teodoro Ramos. Hill. 1997.Ciudad Havana from August to September. • Collective Expo'''' I'll go to Santiago. Hall BOHEMIA Art Magazine. 1997.Ciudad Havana from August to September. • Personal Exp. ICAP. August 1997.Santiago Cuba. • Personal Exp. Casa del Caribe. October-November 1997.Santiago Cuba. • Collective Exp. Invited by the Casa del Caribe. Festival del Caribe in Cancun. November 1997. Mexico • Personal Exp'' Daughter of the Sea or Mountain.'' Friendship House. 1998.Ciudad Havana from December to January. • Cultural Information Bureau Staff Exp. January to June 19/98.Santiago Cuba. • Collective Exp Hall'''' Emilio Bacardi 1998.Santiago of Cuba in February. • Collective Exp Caguayo Foundation. Hotel Casa Granda. June to December 1998.Santiago Cuba. • Collective Exp Taste of the Tropics'' 20'' Cuban Painters. Gallery Oscar Fernandez. June-July 1998. Sancti Spiritus • Collective Exp Cuba'' Cuba'' Gallery July-December 1998. Florida. USA. • Collective Exp'' Taste of the Tropics.'' Development Center of Visual Arts. 1998.Ciudad Havana from August to September. • Collective Exp "Hall November 30'''' Universal Art Gallery. November-Diciembre.1998.Santiago of Cuba. • Personal Exp. Overcoming Cultural Center. December 1998.Santiago Cuba. • Collective Exp. International Art Fair in Seville. Represented by the Gallery of Madrid'' Strokes'' .. Enero.1999. Spain • Personal Exp. Marlin Marina. Abril.1999.Santiago of Cuba. • Personal Exp. Invited by the Foundation Caguayo. Havana Cultural Center. 1999.Ciudad Havana from May to July. • Personal Exp. City of Campillo. Alicante. May 1999.España. • Collective Exp'' End of the Century Hall.'' Emilio Bacardi Museum. December to March, 2000. Santiago de Cuba. • Personal Gallery Altea Exp. January 10 to 30 of 2000.Madrid. Spain • Collective Exp. '''' Elvira Cape Library Sponsored by the Office of the Historian of the City. May 2000.Santiago Cuba. • Personal Exp. Box Gallery South of Cordoba. May 15 to 31 of 2000.España. • Collective Exp City Hall'''''' East Gallery 485 Anniversary of the Founding of Santiago de Cuba. June 9 to June 30, 2000. • Collective Exp. '' Santiago: a theme for three'' Horruitinier, Miguel Ferrer Cabello and Botalín. House of UPEC. 2000.Santiago July-August of Cuba. • Personal Exp. '' Hotel'' Fassan. August 4 to 13 of 2000.Lucerna. Switzerland. • Personal Exp. Galerie Twerenbold. August 4 to 13 of 2000.Lucerna.Suiza • Collective Exp. Gallery "Christian Zeller Fine Arts." September 7-30 2000.Berna. Switzerland. • Collective Exp. '' Profesores.65 Anniversary Hall of the Academy. '' Jose Joaquin Tejada.'' East Gallery. September 2000. • Collective Exp. Municipal Gallery of Nimes. August-September of 2000.Nimes, France. • Collective Expo. Hotel Imperator. 2000.Nimes September. France. • Personal Exp. Gallery Space for Art'''' Alcala de Henares. October 20 November 4, 2000.Caja Madrid. Spain. • Collective Exp. '' Brushstrokes'' History House Museum José María Heredia. October November 2000.Santiago Cuba. • Collective Exp. Surgical Hospital. Standing from November 2000.Auspiciada by UNEAC Santiago de Cuba. • Exp Oletemas'''' Collective Gallery. 2000.Madrid December. Spain. • Personal Exp. Prite Pointe Cultural Center. 2000.Guadalupe November. • Collective Exp. '' XII Provincial Fine Arts Exhibition November 30.'' Universal Art Gallery. December 2000-January 2001.Santiago Cuba. • Collective Exp. '' Today'' Cuba Festival Mairie de Castanet. January 6 to 28 of 2001.Toulouse. France. • Collective Exp. Salsa Cubana'' Gallery'' 13 February 2000-November 2001. Toulouse. France. • Collective Exp. Galerie Gulliver. March 16 to April 30 of 2001.Fribourg. Switzerland. • Personal Exp. Aquabike World Championship. Marlin Marina. March 20 April 2001. Santiago de Cuba. • Collective Exp. Seventeenth anniversary of the Cuban Fund of Cultural Property. Gallery Santiago. April 20-May 2001.Santiago Cuba. • Collective Exp. International Tourism Convention. Morro Cabaña Fortress. May 7 to 11 of 2001.Ciudad of Havana. • Collective Exp. Hotel Bayamo. Project UNEAC. Standing from June 13, 2001 to March 2002.Santiago Cuba. • Collective Exp. '' For the Arts, for life.'' Museum of Fine Arts. June 2001.Santiago Chile. Chile. • Personal Exp "In the quiet of the'' memory'' Carlos Enriquez Gallery June 13 to 28 of 2001.Manzanillo. Granma. • Collective Exp. City Hall. Gallery East. June 14-July 2001.Santiago Cuba. • Collective Exp. '' Everyone is everyone. "Light and Crafts Gallery.'' June 28 - July 2001.Ciudad Havana. • Personal Exp. Caribbean Festival XXI. Gallery A.Portuondo'' Joseph.'' July 3 to 9 of 2001.Santiago of Cuba. • Personal Exp. "Botalín: Plastic live in a city transcendent" Memorial for the 486 Anniversary of the Founding of Santiago de Cuba. Library "Elvira Cape". July 20-August 2001.Santiago Cuba. • Collective Exp. '' XL Anniversary of the Founding of the UNEAC.'' Gallery'' The'' confronts. August 24 to September 20 of 2001.Santiago of Cuba. • Collective Exp. "Feast of the Cuban. ''. October 20 to November 10, 2001. Bayamo. Granma. • Collective Exp. XIII Provincial Fine Arts Exhibition November 30. Universal Art Gallery. November 28-January 2002.Santiago of Cuba. • Personal Exp. Tenth Anniversary of the French Alliance "Images of Tivolí.'' Library "Elvira Cape.'' 21 January to 6 February 2002. Santiago de Cuba. • Personal Exp. '' Sound'' of white fire. Tribute for 70 birthday of the artist. Gallery East. April 17 to May 23, 2002. Santiago de Cuba. • Personal Exp. '' Sound'' of white fire. Tribute for 70 birthday of the artist. Gallery "The Gauntlet". May 24 to June 13 of 2002.Guantánamo. • Collective Exp. '' City Hall''. Gallery East. June-July of 2002.Santiago of Cuba. • Collective Exp. "Three landscapes, a city". Antonio Ferrer Cabello, J. Aguilera Vicente and Miguel A. Botalín P. Universal Art Gallery. October 11-November 2002. Santiago de Cuba. • Collective Exp. XXV Anniversary of CIMEX. Gallery Hotel Santiago. October 2002.Santiago Cuba. • Personal Exp. '' For'' Botalín Santiago. Gallery of Alliance Francaise. 8 November to 15 December 2002. • Collective Exp. Gallery East. Standing from November 2002. Santiago de Cuba. • Collective Exp. '' The Art of Eastern Cuba.'' Oakland Art Gallery. November 12, 2002 - January 5, 2003. • Collective Exp. '' The Art of Eastern Cuba.'' Oakland Museum of California. December 4, 2002 - January 5, 2003. • Personal Exp. '' I will go to Santiago.'' Tribute to the 150 Anniversary of the Birth of Jose Marti. Gallery Hotel Meliá Santiago. 28 January-April 2003. • Personal Exp. '' Trails and roofs.'''' Elvira Cape Library.'' March 1 to March 31, 2003. • Collective Exp. Gallery 50th Anniversary'' James.'' Gallery'' The Quitrín.'' March 27-April 2003. • Collective Exp. (Permanent) Gallery Hotel Meliá Santiago''''. From April 4, 2003. • Collective Exp. '' Growing up with art.'' Sponsored by the Office of the Curator of the City. Casa Museo José María Heredia. April 10 - May 2003.santiago Cuba. • Collective Exp. Workshop Meeting. Intervention'' Natural Sound'' Landscape.'' Elvira Cape Library.'' June 2 to 17 of 2003.Santiago of Cuba. • Collective Exp'' 90 years'' Ferrer Cabello. Tropos of visuality. June 2003.Santiago Cuba. • Collective Exp. '' 90 years'' Ferrer Cabello. Cultural Workshop. June 3-July 2003.Santiago Cuba. • Collective Exp. Gallery of Hotel Liberty. Sponsored by the Foundation Caguayo. Standing from June 2003.Santiago Cuba. • Personal Exp. Caribbean Festival XXIII. House of Traditions. June 3 to July 25 of 2003.Santiago of Cuba. • Collective Expo. '' I am art among the arts.'' Event:'' Martí and balance of the world,'' International Conference Center. January 2003. • Collective Exp. '' I am art among the arts.'' National Library. José Martí. Gallery'' The kingdom of this world.'' Havana. • Collective Exp. '' I am art among the arts.'''' Cultural Center Gallery Francisco Prat.'' August 1, 2003. • Collective Exp. '' Both Worlds'' Gallery September 2003. Bayonne. France. • Personal Exp. '' Touching the doors of the houses.'' First Colloquium José Soler Puig.'' Memory and Word. Books Amado Ramon Sanchez. November 6 to December 6, 2003. • Collective Exp. '' Six visions of a landscape.'' Ceramics Workshop Jacas. October 16 of 20003.Santiago of Cuba. • Collective Exp. '' How many, who and what we do.'' Visual Arts Center. October 17 of 2003.Las Tunas • Personal Exp. '''' Light signals. '' Elvira Cape Library.'' October 18, 2003. Santiago de Cuba. • Collective Exp. Inauguration of James'' Building''. Monte Barreto, Miramar Trade Center. October 16 of 2003.Ciudad Havana. • Collective Exp. "Masters of Cuban painting." Gallery "Ambos Mundos" Permanent from September 2003, Bayonne, France. • Personal Exp "Touching the doors of the houses ..." First Colloquium José Soler Puig. Gallery "Amado Ramon". November 6 to 15 December, 2003. Santiago de Cuba. • Collective Exp "Cuba Oriente: Contemporary Painting from Eastern Cuba." Meridian International Center Museum. October 15. 2003 - 18 January 2004. Washington, DC. United States. • Collective Exp: "The Art of Eastern Cuba: Contemporary Collection." Lighthouse Center for the Arts. Gallery Square North. November 13, 2003 - January 11, 2004 Tequesta. Florida. USA. • Collective Exp: Bicentenary of the Birth of José María Heredia. Cultural Association Gallery'''' Antonio Bravo Correoso. December-January 25.2003 2004.Santiago of Cuba. • Collective Exp:'' 90th Anniversary of the Hotel Casa Granda. '' Hotel Gallery. From January 20, 2004.Santiago of Cuba. • Collective Exp:'' Exhibition of artists from Santiago. '' East Gallery. February-March, 2004.Santiago of Cuba. • Collective Exp.'' Landscape'' Provincial Hall.'' Elvira Cape Library February 24-March'', 2004.Santiago of Cuba. • Collective Exp:'' Cuba Oriente: Contemporary Paintings from Eastern Cuba. Las Olas Art Gallery Center.Arte of Cuba. May 9-June, 2004. Fort Lauderdale, Florida. United States. • Collective Exp:'' 51'' Anniversary Reunion Gallery of Art.'' Cultural Association'''' Antonio Bravo Correoso. May 10-June 2004.Santiago Cuba. • Collective Exp:'''' Heredia Marti Birthplace Jose Maria Heredia. May 19-June 2004.Santiago Cuba. • Personal Exp:'' suggested'' Soledad. Hotel Bayamo. June 17-September, 2004. Santiago de Cuba. • Collective Exp:'' Oriental'' UNEAC South Hall. Emilio Bacardi Museum. June 22-July, 2004. Santiago de Cuba. • Collective Exp: Caribbean Jewels'''''' Titón Gallery. UNEAC. Julio15-August, 2004. Santiago de Cuba. • Collective Exp:'' Cuba Oriente: Contemporary Paintings from Eastern Cuba. Community Council for the Arts. July 9 to September 7, North 2004.Carolina. USA. • Collective Exp:'' Cuba Oriente: Contemporary Paintings from Eastern Cuba. Ohio Arts Council's Riffe Gallery. Vern Riffe Center for Government and the Arts.Colombus.Septiembre 15 November 12, 2004. Ohio.Estados States. • Collective Exp:'' As part of the plastic.'' Elvira Cape Library'''' 3-16 September, 2004.Santiago of Cuba. • Collective Exp:'''' Talents de notre Temps de peinture Exposition and sculpture. November 23 to 26, 2004.Biriatou. France • Collective Exp: Hall Nov. 30. Universal Art Gallery. Guest artist. November 26 December, 2004.Santiago of Cuba. • Collective Exp:'' Cuba Oriente: Contemporary Paintings from Eastern Cuba.Courthouse Cultural Center Galleries. Fl USA. • Collective Exp:'' Cuba Oriente: Contemporary Paintings from Eastern Tennessee Regional Art Center Cuba.West, November 26, 2004 - April 8, 2005.TN. USA. • Collective Exp: Hotel Bayamo. Standing from November 2004.Santiago Cuba. • Personal Exp: Gallery Morro San Pedro de la Roca Marzo2 December 6.2004, 2005.Santiago of Cuba. • Collective Exp:'' Living Landscape. Gallery East. 2005.Santiago of Cuba in February. • Personal Exp:'' Faces of waiting areas.'''' Luis Díaz Cultural Workshop'' Oduardo. March 15-April 2005.Santiago Cuba. • Collective Exp:'' Cuba Oriente: Contemporary Paintings from Eastern Cuba. April 25 to June 17, 2005 Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA. U.S. • Collective Exp: Mirrors of Santiago. May Pilgrimages. May 2005.Holguín. • Collective Exp. '' Cuba Oriente: Contemporary Paintings from Eastern Cuba. July 1 - August 26, 2005 Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas. U.S. • Collective Exp:'' From my Santiago Santiago to your Cultural Center'''''' Francisco Prat Puig. July 5.2005. Santiago de Cuba. • Exp.Colectiva:'''' City Hall Cultural Center Francisco Prat Puig. July, 2005 Santiago de Cuba. • Exp.Colectiva:'' Santiago'' exhibition of artists Gallery East. September 2005.Santiago Cuba. • Exp.Colectiva. "20 years CODEMA Foundation Gallery'''''' The Confront September 2005.Santiago Cuba. • Collective Exp. '' Cuba Oriente: Contemporary Paintings from Eastern Cuba. September 12 to November 4, 2005 El Museo Latino, Omaha, NE. U.S. • Collective Exp.'' Gallery'' UNEAC Caracol Award Titon. October 2005.Santiago of Cuba. • Collective Exp UNEAC Gallery. November, January, 2006.Cienfuegos. • Collective Exp. '' Cuba Oriente: Contemporary Paintings from Eastern Cuba. November 22, 2005 - January 30, 2006 Gallery at City Hall, Providence, RI. U.S. • Collective Exp:'' 25th Anniversary of the Casa del Caribe'' Ruben Martinez Villena Hall. November, January, 2005.Ciudad of Havana. • Personal Exp:'''' I'll go to Santiago Castillo del Morro. January 4, March 31.2006. Santiago de Cuba. • Collective Exp. '' Cuba Oriente: Contemporary Paintings from Eastern Cuba. January 30 to March 24, 2006 Queens Library Gallery, Jamaica, NY. USA. • Collective Exp. '' Cuba Oriente: Contemporary Paintings from Eastern Cuba. April 10 to May 26, 2006 Smith-Pendergraft.College.Center.University of Arkansas, Fort Smith, AR. USA. • Collective Exp. '' Cuba Oriente: Contemporary Paintings from Eastern Cuba. June 10 to August 11, 2006 Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, CO. USA. • Collective Exp:'' Sixth International Symposium on Design.'' UNEAC headquarters. July 19, August, 2006. Santiago de Cuba. • Collective Exp. '' Cuba Oriente: Contemporary Paintings from Eastern Cuba. August 28 - October 20, 2006 Art Department Gallery, College of the Canyons Santa Clarita, California.CA. USA. • Personal Exp:'' City alone.'' Elvira Cape Library November 1 - December 7.2006. Santiago de Cuba. • Collective Exp. '' Cuba Oriente: Contemporary Paintings from Eastern Cuba. November 6 to December 29, 2006 Sand Springs Cultural & Historical Museum Sand Springs, OK. USA. • Collective Exp:'' Tribute'' Justo Orozco Luvin Heredia House. December 7, 2006 Santiago de Cuba. • Exp.Colectiva:'' Homage to Luis Diaz Oduardo. "Cultural Workshop. December-January 8.2006 2007.Santiago of Cuba. • Exp.Colectiva:'' November 30'' Hall Artist Invitado.Galería Universal Art. November, 2006. Santiago de Cuba. • Exp.Colectiva:'' V'' Landscape Hall of Sancti Spiritus. Gallery UNEAC Provincial Committee. March 14, 2007.Santiago of Cuba. • Collective Exp. '' Cuba Oriente: Contemporary Paintings from Eastern Cuba. March 26 to June 8, 2007. Mulvane Art Museum Washburn University. Topeka, Kansas.KS. USA.
Exp.Colectiva:'
' X Anniversary of the Founding of the Office of the Curator of the City.'' Sala Francisco Prat Puig. April-May, 2007.Santiago of Cuba. • Collective Exp: seventh edition of the Ibero-American Crafts Fair. October 22 to October 28 of 2007.Holguín. • Collective Exp: FIART 2008.Diciembre 8-16, 2007, City of Havana. • Collective Exp:'' Positions "February 29 to April 18, 2008.Preuben NRW Museum, Wesel, Germany. • Collective Exp:'' Positions''. March 14 - April 27.2008. Bleckkirche Gelsenkirchen, Germany. • Collective Exp: VII Congress of the UNEAC. April 1 to 4 of 2008.Palacio Conventions. Havana. • Collective Exp:'' Cuba Oriente: Contemporary Paintings from Eastern. Cuba. The Goddard Center, July 10 - Sept. 15, Ardmore Oklahoma. USA. • Collective Exp: 2008 East Hall Visual Arts. Emilio Bacardi Museum, July 18 - September. Santiago de Cuba. • Collective Exp:'' Without Limits'' Collage Gallery Havana, July 18 - September 2008.Ciudad Havana. • Personal Exp:'''' Botalín XXI Century Art Gallery. 9 October - November. Valladolid, Spain. • Collective Exp: For the week of Cuban Culture. '' Birthplace'' Jose Maria Heredia. October 20.2008. Santiago de Cuba. • Collective Exp: For the week of Cuban Culture. Center Project. October 20.2008. Santiago de Cuba. • Permanent Collective Exp: XXI Century Art Gallery. Since November 2008.Valladolid, Spain. • Collective Exp:'' Reunion.'' East Gallery. December 2, 2008 - January, 2009.Santiago of Cuba. • Collective Exp:'' Teachers Hall of 2008. '' Sala Francisco Prat Puig. December 19.2008. Santiago de Cuba. • Personal Exp:'' The indefatigable James.'' Casa del Caribe. January 10 - February 10.2009. Santiago de Cuba. • Personal Exp "Botalín, plastic transcendent live in a city.'' Vilma Espin Memorial (II). April 7.2010. Santiago de CubaUndo.
Some of his work is featured in the Flores Carbonell Collection.
