José Miguel Pérez Hernández Biography

Personal data Name: José Miguel Pérez Hernández Address: Street 23 No. 670 corner of D, apartament 72, Vedado. Havana. Cuba Date of birth: 23/10/1950 Telephone (537)-8322017 E-mail: JoseMiguel75@live.com, josemp@cubarte.cult.cu Website: http://www.fineartamerica.com/profiles/jose-miguel-perez-hernandez.html

Academic Formation 1987: He graduates in the specialty of Painting in the Superior Institute of Art
1972: He graduates in the specialty of Painting in the National School of Art.
1976: He graduates of French language in the language school Miguel de Cervantes in his hometown Santa Clara. 1966: He graduates in the specialty of painting in the Provincial School of Art of Santa Clara Leopoldo Romañach.

Honors and Awards 2011: The honorable town concil of Calakmul. Department of Education, Culture and Sport of Calakmul, gives him an recognition for his outstanding participation as artist and teacher in the plastic arts workshops. 2010: In the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Campechano Institute awarded him the medal for the 150th anniversary by the obtained achievements in the four generations of graduates in arts. 2008: The Pan-American Health Organization and the World Health Organization gives recognition for having participated in the fine-arts contest on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the World Health Organization and have received the third prize. The honorable town concil of Calakmul. Department of Education, Culture and Sport of Calakmul, gives him the mask of Calakmul by educational achievements 2006: The Provincial Direction of Culture of City of the Havana grants him the recognition "Gitana Tropical", maximum distinction given to the most outstanding artists. 1997: The Ministry of Culture grants him the recognition "Pedagogic merit", maximum teaching categorization by the obtained achievements in the artistic education in Cuba.

Personal exhibitions
2013: Working intensively on your pictorial production that was exposed in the ephemeral art festival, organized by the elementary school of Plastic Arts José Antonio Diaz Pelaez, in the week of the Culture of the city Plaza. Havana. 2010: Traveling to Mexico to teach the third and fourth generation of Master of Arts in methodology for the teaching of the Visual Arts. The Secretariat of Culture of the government of the state of Campeche and the Campechano Institute sponsored his personal exhibition "Paint forever II". Campeche. Mexico. According to the artist has been one of their most successful exhibitions. 2008: Traveling to Mexico to impart the second generation of the Master of Arts in Methodology for the teaching of the Plastic Arts, offered by the Campechano Institute. 2006: He travels to Guatemala where it presents a Personal Exhibition of painting in the Metropolitan Arts Center. In the same place He imparts a master conference about Contribute of the Academy San Alejandro to the Plastic National Cuban. 2005: His work is promoted in textile confections of ARTEX working specifically for textile infantile. 2004: His work Guitar, taken to Mosaic, is placed in a central street of the city as part of the Architectural Project "The Ramp"
2003: His work Guitar is selected in the Competition of Architecture Project "The Ramp" He receives the Medal 310 Anniversary of the founding of the city of Santa Clara. Personal exhibition "Looks" in Santa Clara's city, in homage to his father's memory Miguel Pérez. According to the artist it has been one of the most memorable night in his life. The artist writes in the catalog: The process of creation is a magic moment of secret, encounter, enjoyment, he accompanies me. 2002: He exposes in the hotel England, the personal sample dedicated José Martí, with
this exhibition the artist celebrates the 185 anniversary of the foundation of the Academy San Alejandro 2001: He travels to Mexico to impart the master "Methodology for the teaching of the arts", where he presents his exhibition personal "Song to the Life". 1999: His work is promoted by "Decoro" and he paints in the hotel "White Arenas" of Varadero the Restaurant Buffet, considered by him, one of the most beautiful works in his artistic trajectory. 1997: Personal exhibition SOSZOO, in the gallery The Acacia, where the artist celebrates his 25 years in the artistic teaching. 1995: His work is promoted by the Center of ambient Design, painting for request for important tourist centers. 1994: He is invited by the Center of Fine arts of Maracaibo, Venezuela, to present the personal exhibition "Noble and Loyal", in homage to the 465 anniversary of the Foundation of Maracaibo. 1993: He travels to Venezuela invited by the Festival of the Arts, the group of theater "Tablón", and the school "Inés Laredo", where he presents a personal exhibition in Homage to Angela Hill, the woman that makes dolls in Cabimas. 1992: He travels to Venezuela invited by the IV Festival of the Arts and he exposes a personal sample in the Municipal Museum of Graphic Arts Balmiro León Fernández 1989: He paints in the Institute of Oncology, children's Room, the mural "They deserve everything". According to the artist, it has been one of the most beautiful and human responsibilities that has carried out. 1988: He participates in the VI Biennial Ibero-American "The children in today's" Ibero-American Painting, Mexico City, with the work "The world of the children" 1987: Exhibition personal "Dream and Reality" He travels to Poland, where he presents a personal exhibition in the "BIURO WYSTAW ARTYSTYCZNYCH W SOPOCIE".
1986: Personal exhibition "to Paint Forever", in the Gallery Havana.

Collective exhibitions 2006: Cuban painting in Valencia, Spain. Exhibition of Cuban contemporary artists' paintings, favored by the Sociocultural Center of l Eliana,Valencia 2005: He participates in the collective exhibition of drawing that will move for different Mexican states, beginning the journey in Mexico City. 1999: He travels to Belgium invited by the museum Lanchelevinci presenting the exhibition collective "Flags and colors"." 1998: Collective exhibition of painting in Portugal organized by the National Union of Writers and Artists from Cuba.
Exhibition collective "Plaza for the Cuban art" in the Hotel Plaza organized by the National Union of Writers and Artists from Cuba. 1997: Collective exhibition of Cuban painting organized by the gallery "The Acacia" of Cuba that was presented in the gallery "Golden Branch" of Panama. 1989: Exhibition collective Cuban Painting in Bulgaria, organized by the National Union of Writers and Artists from Cuba. 1988: Exhibition collective Cuban Painting in Warsaw, Poland. 1985: Exhibition collective itinerant Youths of Today carried out in the Japanese cultural centers. AT Central Museum Tokyo (January) y AT Prefatural Museum of Miyagi (February).

Artist's Statement

The plastic world of Jose Miguel Perez Hernandez catches the unmistakable rhythm and the high color of Cuba. We are before a work that overflows solidarity, love, fraternal blinks, warmth of living to plenitude, eroticism, chromatic exuberance that appropriates without compromising avarices of the codes and of the plastic language of his time.