Cienfuegos, Cuba, 1993

Lianet Martínez Pino is a visual artist born in Cienfuegos, Cuba. She graduated in 2012 in the Specialty of Painting at the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts in Havana. Having graduated in 2019 from the Superior Institute of Art (Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA)), she was distinguished with the award for the most creative graduate. Since 2011, her participation in exhibitions both in Cuba and abroad has been countless.

In 2012she presented her works Prótesis (Prothesis)in the 11th Havana Biennial and in 2015 the Walter Otero Contemporary Art Gallery invited her to the Trienal Poligráfica in San Juan, Puerto Rico. That same year she created the piece La despedida (Farewell) for the Cambridge Art Fair in London and placed the installation Al filo de…. (At the edge of…) for the 12th Havana Biennial on the premises of the Superior Art Institute of Havana. Between 2016 and 2017, she participated with works in various exhibitions including “Lamernos los unos a los otros”(Licking each other) at the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales and “Clase Abierta” (Open class) at Galería-Taller Gorría.

Noteworthy was her participation in 2018, in the group exhibition “Sinestesia” (Synesthesia) at the Boom Chicago Theater in Amsterdam, Holland, while in 2019, she created the public installation Alud (Landslide) within the Official Project Detrás del Muro III (Behind the wall III) for the 13th Havana Biennial. Her work La Madame (The Madam) was selected to be part of the exhibition “Visiones de Cuba” (Visions of Cuba) in Key West, United States. That same year, she participated in the two collateral exhibitions of Cuban Art at the 58th Venice Biennial in Italy: “Cuba: Horizons of Utopia” and “Cuba: Identity and Difference”. During this same period, her work was included in the group show “Presagios” at the Diocesan Museum of Terni, Italy and she was invited by the Nuno Sacramento Contemporary Art Gallery to the Artistic Residence “My house is your house”, ending in the bi-personal exhibition “Alchemy” in Ílhavo, Portugal.

In the period 2020-2021, her work was shown in several international virtual exhibitions, including “V.I.D.A” ÌTACAARTE, Spain; “I’m not suspicious” at Nuno Sacramento Contemporary Art, Portugal and “A drop of sweat for every sigh” at Art Code Space Gallery, United States. During this period she held her personal exhibition “Yo camino Soñando” (I dream in my walk) at La Nave Gallery, in Havana, Cuba.

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