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2008 El Museo Nacional de La Habana incluye su obra en la muestra antológica Cuba: Arte e Historia, que se presenta en el Museo de Bellas Artes de Montreal, Canadá. El Instituto Cervantes de Vienna presenta una muestra de su obra que incluyó pinturas y esculturas de vidrio y bronce . Participa en el Homenaje a Alicia Alonso que realiza el Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes en el 60 aniversario de la fundación del Ballet Nacional de Cuba.

2007 Integra el grupo de artistas que expone en la muestra Confluencias de Arte Cubano Contemporáneo itinerante por la República de México. La Galería Galeano de La Habana presenta su obra escultórica en la Feria ART Madrid´07. Exposición de Artistas Cubanos en la Galería Vernissage, Barcelona.

2006 La Galería Cernuda Art de Miami presenta su obra en las ferias Art Miami y Arte Américas. Participa en la Novena Bienal de La Habana con una exposición colateral en la Galería La Acacia, La Habana. Con la Galería Galiano expone en la segunda edición de la feria Art Madrid. Exposición colectiva 13 Pintores cubanos en Tarragona, España. Personajes, exposición personal de Pintura y Escultura en la Galería Atelier, Barcelona, España. Diseño del telón de boca del ballet Cuadros en una exposición con coreografía de Alicia Alonso para el Ballet Nacional de Cuba.

2005 Exposición personal en el Gulf Coast Museum, Tampa, Florida. Pinturas recientes, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana.

2004 An exposition of drawings-collages is held in Galería La Acacia, in Havana, Cuba. Some of his paintings and sculptures are shown in Foundation Gate One, Treviso, in Italy, .

2003 As a preamble to the Miami Art and Arte Américas fairs, The Cernuda Arts Gallery (which includes him in its favourite group of selected artists) organizes the exhibition Important Cuban Artworks where his work is shown. H e has a one-person exhibition of paintings and engravings in the Castel Dell'ovo, Naples, in Italy. A n exhibition of his works presented in Puerto Rico by the Gómez Fine Art Gallery in association with Cernuda Art Gallery from Miami.His work The old shark, an 1976 oil on canvas, was included in the Havana Second Auction.

2002 The Cernuda Arts Gallery, Coral Gables, in Florida, presents his works in the Miami Art Fair, preliminary to his one-person exhibition: And Life is a play… that marks his introduction to the North American people. Lettered Fish, ceramic tile mural, is part of the project that a group of prominent Cuban plastic artists donate to the primary school Cesario Fernández of Havana. He is invited by the London Cervantes Institute to present his work in the United Kingdom, where he shows several oils of his most contemporary production along with two new sculptures in Murano glass: The Forest and The Park. Enhancing his broad and expressive language, he incorporates a new technique, molding at the Fonderia Bonvicini of Verona five sculptures to be cast in bronze. Attese Onlus, organizer of the Albissola Mare Contemporary Ceramics Biennial in Savona, invites him to participate in this event with his work in progress at the San Georgio da Poggi laboratory, where Wifredo Lam did most of his ceramics.His oil and collage on canvas painting 1976, Florero fetiche, is included in the Havana First Auction.

2001 An exposition of his graphics is organized by The Orvieto Commune, in the Common Palace of this historic city, in Italy

He is invited by Gonzalo Diaz, director of the Conca Salon, Laguna, Tenerife, one of the oldest in Spain, to show some of his paintings and engravings.

A Spanish enterprise operating with multiple originals, orders two of his designs to print in silk screen on cloth for the Fuera de Serie workshop, to be shown at the Print Fair in Madrid and included in the rich collection of this institution. He paints a ceramic panel as part of the Omaggi a Pierluca project, in the Pierluca de Albissola Mare workshop in Savona, on this particular occasion, he celebreates his bithrday with some other distinguished international artists. He installs the mural Carnaval de la Habana made of ceramic tiles with a dimension of 10m2 for the Residencial América Real Estate.

2000 He receives an honorary doctorate from El Instituto Superior de Arte de La Habana.

He makes the designs for another series of glass sculptures to be produced in Ars Murano, in Venice. He works on large format paintings for a one-person exhibition to be held at La Acacia Gallery, in Havana, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday.

1999 A great anthological exhibition is organized by the National Council of Plastic Arts in the Wifredo Lam Center of Contemporary Art, honoring him as recipient of the National Plastic Arts Prize.

A monograph Sosabravo, Original and Diverse, with an introductory essay by Alejandro G. Alonso, is published by Editorial Letras Cubanas, in Havana.

The Second series of three glass sculptures produced in Ars Murano is exhibited at La Acacia Gallery stand at the International Fair of Contemporary Art (FIAC), in Paris.

1998 He creates a mural of ceramic tiles and assembled pieces for El Pedregal Restaurant in Havana. He begins his collaboration with the Ars Murano Workshop in Venice. He finishes the first series of three designs based on images taken from his own paintings , which are interpreted by maestri vetrai Roberto Chammozzo and Elio Raffaeli and by maestro molatore Renzo Vianello. The first pieces, considered an innovation in the artistic tradition of Murano, are first exhibited in the Palazzo San Giorgio of Genova. He has some one-person exhibitions in Italy: paintings, engravings, drawings, ceramics and glass sculptures in the Palazzo San Giorgio of Genova; engravings, drawings, ceramics and glass sculpture in the Palazzo Balbi of Campomorone. He has a solo show of graphics, painting and ceramics in the Pati Llimona Civic Center, in Barcelona.

The Giraldilla, a symbol of Havana, is granted to the artist by the mayor of the city. He takes part in the masters’ exposition of the Second Salon of Contemporary Art, in Havana.

1997 He has a personal exhibition of paintings, drawings and engravings in the Gallery of Art of the City Council, Pireo, in Greece.

He exhibits a solo show of paintings in the El Guardián de lo Pequeño Gallery, in Madrid.

He is granted National Prize of Plastic Arts 1997, awarded by the National Council of Plastic Arts of the Ministry of Culture.The official awards ceremony is held in January 1998 before the mural ‘Chariot of the Revolution’ in the Havana Libre Hotel.

He creates a commemorative column of assembled ceramics in the garden of Princess Diana de Gales, in Old Havana.

Machinery, mural of assembled ceramic pieces, is mounted on the facade of the Market on Carlos III Avenue, in Havana.

1996 He has a one person exhibition in Galería Menno Meijer, Gouda, and in Kunstsalon de Princehof, Leiden, in Holland.

He has a personal exhibit in the Menno Meijer Gallery, Gouda, and in the Kunstsalon of Princehof, Leiden, in the Netherlands.

He participates in the stand of Havana’s La Acacia Gallery at ARCO ’96, in Madrid.

He receives a replica of the machete of the Cuban heroe of the Cuban War of Independence General Máximo Gómez.

1995 Some graphic works by the artist are exhibited in the Carmen Montilla de Tinoco Gallery of Havana; colographs in La Recova Workshop of Tenerife, lithographs in the Kyron Workshop of Mexico, D.F., and silk screens in the René Portocarrero Workshop of Havana.

Sponsored by the National Museum of Fine Arts a permanent exhibit for his work on the historical panorama of Cuban artistic ceramics is opened in the Real Fuerza Castle. His canvas Maria dos Prazeres is included in Twelve Pilgrim Tales. (Twelve Cuban Painters, the itinerant exhibition presented in Havana at Casa de las Américas and in Cartagena de Indias at the School of Fine Arts. A project inspired by the work of Gabriel García Maquez)

The Cuban ‘novecento’, Nature, Man and the Gods ,exposition of contemporary Cuban painting organized by the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana is shown in the Royal Palace of Milan.

1994 He has a retrospective of lithographs (1965–1991) in the National Museum of Prints, in Mexico, D.F.

Invited by the Lyons Club of Savona, he produces in the Mazzoti Workshop of Albissola Mare a collection of over a hundred original ceramic plates —Il piatto dell’Estate 1994—then exhibited in the Villa Faraggiana of that city.

He is granted the Félix Varela Order of the First Grade, awarded by the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba.

1993 He has a one-person exhibition of drawings (1989–1993) at La Acacia Gallery, Havana.He is invited by the Vice Rector of University Extension to lecture on ceramic murals at the College of Fine Arts of the University of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. He has his first solo exposition in Spain at La Ermita Gallery, La Laguna, Tenerife, in the Canary Islands.

He paints War and Peace, an acrylic mural, for the primary school of Marzabotto, Italy, working with young artists from Switzerland, Marroco, Sweden, France, the United States, Spain and Italy, mobilized by the International Civil Service.

He paints the mural Liberation on the Outside of a House in Norbello, Cerdeña, Italy, with a group of students from several countries.

He creates a series of ceramics at the Mazotti Workshop (Fabrica Casa Museo Giuseppe Mazotti 1903) in Albissola Mare (where Wilfredo Lam also worked) and exhibits them in the Gallery del Priamar, Savona, in Italy.

He participates in the First International Graphics Biennial of Maastricht, in the Netherlands.

1992 He participates in the commemorative exposition for the thirtieth anniversary of the Experimental Graphics Workshop of Havana held in the National Museum of Fine Arts.

He participates in Clay of America, First Biennial at the Sofia Imber Museum of Contemporary Art, in Caracas.

He finishes America, a mural of ceramic tiles in high relief to be installed in the Gallery of Carmen Montilla de Tinoco, in Old Havana.

He resumes painting with the canvas Carnival of Animals, in which he uses a collage of cloth from some of his first works. From this same year are Let’s Save the Green, Sweet Bird of Youth, ‘Suddenly in Summer, and Mended Heads. Though he remains loyal to his aesthetics he introduces some drastic changes in his work.

1991 He creates a ceramic mural for the hotel of Havana’s Villa Panamericana.

He has a solo show of drawings and sculptures in the René Portocarrero Gallery, Cobarrubias Hall,at the National Theater ,in Havana.

He makes an enameled ceramic mural for the Santiago Hotel, in Santiago de Cuba. He participates in the exhibition of contemporary Cuban engraving in the Fourth Biennal of Havana, at the Colonial Art museum, in Havana.

1990 Seven of his works are part of the permanent collection of Cuban artistic ceramics inaugurated by the National Museum in the Real Fuerza Castle in Havana. Sosabravo is invited by Terracota 4 Group of Nueva Gerona, in the Isle of Youth, where he creates works in the Japanese technique of raku.

Nature, Man, the Machine is the title of his one-person exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts, celebrating his sixtieth birthday. The exposition includes over 300 works —paintings, drawings, engravings and ceramics— displaying their complexity and abundance , the relationships and exchanges among the different disciplines practiced by the artist, as well as the conceptual coherence of a career that spans over 30 years.

1989 He takes part in a great exposition to pay homage to the Association of Engravers of Cuba, organized by the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana.

He exhibits a group of pieces as a special guest at the First Amelia Peláez Small Format Ceramics Biennial held in the Museum of Decorative Arts of Havana.

Marina, a mural of ceramic tiles, is mounted in the Yacht Club of the Hemingway Marina,in Havana.

Sculptured Column, made of assembled ceramics, is installed at the Center of Development of Visual Arts in Havana. He creates a textile design for the sixth edition of Telarte, as part of the exhibition held in the Center for the Development of Visual Arts in Havana.

1988 He is granted the Alejo Carpentier Medal awarded by the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba

Anatomicum (ceramics), first personal exposition of the artist abroad, is presented by the National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana at the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City.

Grove, a mural of assembled ceramic pieces, is mounted in the Topes de Collantes Hotel in the Sierra del Escambray Mountains of Sancti Spiritus, in Cuba.

He finishes and mounts Evolution, a mural of tiles in six sections, in the Pavilion of the Ministry of Light Industry at EXPOCUBA, in Havana.

The ceramic mural Ship is mounted in the Granma Naval Academy, in Baracoa, in Havana.

1987 Tree of Toys, a large ceramic mural made with enameled tiles and three dimensional pieces assembled, is installed in the Ernesto Che Guevara Central Pioneer Palace, Lenin Park,in Havana.

1986 He has a one-person exhibition at the Museum of Decorative Arts, in Havana, presenting a small panorama of 55 ceramics produced between 1965 and 1986. He was granted a Diploma of Honor for the ceramic sculpture Prolific Apparatus in the Fourth Quadrennial of Applied Arts of the Socialist Countries, Erfurt, in German Democratic Republic.

He participates in the itinerant exposition Meeting of Contemporary Latin-American Ceramists, which initiates its 1986–1989 continental journey at the Palace Museum of Art, in Puerto Rico.

He takes part in the Second Biennial of Havana with Apparatus of the Future, a sculpture acquired by the National Museum of Fine Arts for its permanent collection of Cuban art.

He begins developing successive works with the concept of large–scale ceramic installations for outdoor spaces (columns, murals, and structures) in collaboration with the sculptor René Martínez Palenzuela. Interaction of the Contrary, consisting of three ceramic structures, is placed in the main lobby of the National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in Havana.

He participates in the Tenth International Biennial of Art of Vallauris.

1985 He collaborates with the Ministry of Culture in the program The Useful and The Beautiful to promote Cuban artists’ designs for textiles (printed by Light Industry), and industrial ceramics on the Isle of Youth. Sosabravo creates a textile design and a prototype for ceramic tableware.

Twenty anatomicums are shown in a one-person exhibition of ceramics at the Cuban Fund of Cultural Heritage in the Old Square in Havana.

He is awarded Mention in ceramic in UNEAC’s Hall of Plastic Arts at the National Fine Arts Museum of Havana.

He participates in the Forty-third International Exhibit of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Faenza, in Italy.

1984 He is invited to participate in the First Biennial of Havana, held in the National Museum of Fine Arts. He exhibits collages from the series This Threatened World. He also participates in the Ninth International Biennial of Ceramic Art of Vallauris. He exhibits Apparatuses and Other Themes in a one-person exhibition of ceramics, from three great series: Apparatuses, Zoological, and Anatomicum at the Provincial Center of Plastics Arts and Design, in Havana. He leaves the Cubanacan Workshop to become a full–time independent artist.

1983 He exhibits three lithographs from his Black Series in the Engraving Exhibit’83 held in the Tespis Room of the Habana Libre Hotel. He is granted a prize in ceramics in the City ’83 Hall organized by the Havana Province Popular Power Office of Culture.

1982 He has an exhibition of a group of ceramics at the Fortieth Biennial of Venice. He participates in the commemorative expositions for the twentieth anniversary of the Experimental Graphics Workshop in Havana. He is awarded the First prize in sculpture at the Landscape ’82 Hall organized by the Plastic Arts and Design Section of the Ministry of Culture.

1981 He receives the Distinction for National Culture awarded by the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba. He is also granted the UNEAC prize and Jury Mention in the First Small Format Salon, Habana Libre Hotel, in Havana.

1980 He participates in the Inter–Symposium of Bechyne, Czechoslovakia. He wins a prize in ceramics at the UNEAC’s Plastic Arts Salon, International Art Center in Havana. Autopsy of the Robot, a sculpture in ceramics, anticipates his work in the traditional motif of the sculptured torso, which will lead to the important series ‘Anatomicum’.

1979 He is awarded a Prize in lithography for Calcined Landscape, from the Black Series, in the First Victor Manuel Engraving Triennial, Havana Gallery. He has a one-person exhibition of lithograph posters in the Small Salon of the National Museum of Fine Arts, in Havana.

1978 Small Fauna, a series of drawings and ceramics are displayed in the Small Salon at the National Museum of Fine Arts (12 drawings and 24 ceramics). He has an important one-person exhibition of ceramics, drawings, engravings and collages at the Havana Gallery. The political theme —Chile, Hiroshima, Auschwitz— expressed in an unusual way, caught the public´s attention during the exhibition. Critics consider the exhibit as evidence of Sosabravo’s absolute maturity, synthesizing in a coherent style such contradictory elements as expressionism, pop art, and the new figuration. It has been also pointed out the way he approaches the most terrible events of contemporary history with irony and humor, in a highly imaginative language with great technical and formal freedom. At the opening of the exposition, architect Fernando Salina takes note of the potentiality of Sosabravo’s work, which expands from the individual to the social, from the artisan to the industrial, from a limited space to an urban scale. Cuban painting and graphics are exhibited at the Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid, and at the Joan Miró Foundation of Barcelona. He is given a Diploma of Honor at the Second Quadrennial of Applied Arts of the Socialist Countries, Erfurt, in German Democratic Republic, for Apparatus No. 13

1977 An award-winning work is selected in Faenza, Italy, for the International Ceramics Art Show of Nagoya, in Japan.

He finishes an assembled work from the series Aparatos, for the Cuban embassy in Mexico.

1976 He receives an honorary degree at the Fifth Internacional Biennial of Ceramic Art of Vallauris, for Apparatus No 3 and Gold medal at the Twenty–fourth International Contest of Contemporary Ceramic Art of Faenza, for Apparatus No 5.

1975 Sosabravo has one-person exhibition of lithographs at the UNEAC Gallery in Havana. It includes works from the series Homage to Popular Art and The Big Zoo. He is awarded First mention in lithography at the National Engraving Salon, Amelia Peláez Gallery, Lenin Park in Havana.

He exhibits engravings included in the exposition entitled Panorama of Cuban Art from the Colony to Our Days, at the Museum of Modern Art. Some of his works are shown in Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, an exhibition on Cuban Graphics, at the San Carlos National Museum, in Mexico, D.F. He begins the series of Apparatuses in ceramics with the work Unknown Landscape.

1973 His ceramic mural Chariot of the Revolution, composed of over 500 individual pieces made by the artist since the end of 1971, is assembled on the mezzanine of the Habana Libre Hotel. This major sculpture is the forerunner of a series of ceramic works conceived on a large scale, to which Sosabravo devotes much of his time since the eighties.

1970 Sosabravo shows his lithographs along with Umberto Peña at the Zentrifuge Gallery of Berlin, in Federal Republic of Germany, and at the Pryszmasz Gallery of Kraków, in Poland. He participates in Salon 70, at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana. For the first time he engages in two important ceramics exhibitions abroad: the Second Biennial of Ceramics of Vallauris,in France; and the Twenty–eighth International Competition of Contemporary Ceramics in Faenza,in Italy.

1969 He is awarded the first prize in lithography at the National Salon of Graphics and Drawings of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) for the work Portrait of a Young Snob.

1968 Sosabravo participates in the Second International Engraving Biennial of Kraków, Poland. He is awarded a mention by jury for four color lithographs in the Exposition of Havana ’68, Casa de las Américas.

1967 Sosabravo participates in several engraving exhibitions in Cuba and abroad, including Exposition of Havana ’67; at Intergrafik’67, in Berlin; the First Graphics Biennial of Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. He is awarded the prize Internazionale Biella per l’incizione, in Italy. Havana Gallery mounts one-person exhibition of his works in oils and ceramics. Critics point out the originality of his works that deals with the drama of the present world, notice the novelty of his ceramics that stand apart from the traditional decorative function to evolve into an expressive sculptural concept.

On the basis of this exhibit, Alejandro G.Alonso publishes in Havana’s daily journal Juventud Rebelde the first important analysis of the work of Sosabravo, later reproduced

under the title Toward Optimism on the Way of the Monstrous: Alfredo Sosabravo in the University of Havana Magazine,April-June 1968.

1966 He receives a Mention in lithography at the 1966 Havana Exposition held in the Latin– American Gallery of Casa de las Américas in Havana. He has his first one-person exhibition of lithographs at Galiano Art Gallery in Havana. He participates in the Fifth International Engraving Biennial, Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, in Japan, with large–scale lithographs from the series The Bomb.

1965 He creates his first lithographs in the Experimental Graphics Workshop of Havana’s Cathedral Square. He takes his first steps in ceramics techniques at Cubanacán’s Cubartesanía Workshop and makes his first pieces. From this moment on Lithography and ceramics begin to flood his woks — two disciplines demanding a high level of handicraft that have always interested the artist— temporarily drawing him away from painting. Sosabravo accomplishes some of his classic images in these two art forms and introduces subtle nuances in contemporary Cuban art.

He is awarded the Prize of Acquisition at the National Drawing Salon held at José Martí national Library in Havana, for a watercolor from the series Uprooted Figure.

1964 Metamorphosis, a one-person exhibition at Havana Gallery, includes characteristic themes: butterflies and fish, flowers and figures. This exhibit is then displayed in the main Cuban galleries until 1965.

1963 He displays an important exhibit of drawings —another of his recurrent techniques over the years—in the Art Center of Havana. His drawings win critical praise and, along with his xylographs, win several prizes during the early sixties.

He starts working as a drawing and engraving professor at the National Art Instructors School (ENIA), where he gives two courses.

1962 He receives an award for the xylography Florero (Flower vase, 1962) in the National Salon.

1961 He participates in an exhibition of painting, engraving and ceramics organized by the First National Congress of Cuban Writers and Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Havana.

He is invited by Tomás Marais, with whom he develops xylography in color. Then he starts working at Cubartesanía. Along with other outstanding members of the Cuban Engravers’ Association, he participates in an exhibition of xylography on the Declaration of Havana, held at the Museum of Fine Arts, in Havana.

1960 He has a one-person exhibition at the Havana Journalists’ Association, in which he presents 15 oils, some combined with plaque, lacquer and cement.

Sosabravo learns the technique of xylography from Acosta León (whom he consideres his first and most consistent critic) and creates a significant cycle of his work up to 1965,. Painting and wood engraving become his chief artistic interests. He receives his first award for the xylography Burial of the Monopoly at the Graduates National Salon, where he delevops the theme of the Cuban Revolution. He takes part with paintings in his first international exhibition, the Second Inter-American Biennial of Painting and Sculpture, in Mexico D.F.

1959 He exhibits with Acosta León at La Rampa Art and Cinema Gallery of Havana. His works are included in the Annual Salon, Museum of Fine Arts in Havana.

1958 Sosabravo holds his first one-person exhibition of oils and drawings at Sala Atelier de La Habana.

1957 He becomes acquainted with Angel Acosta León who guides him in taking his first steps in painting.

1955-57 He works as a cleaner at the Telégrafo Hotel in the morning and studies in the evening at the Elementary School of Applied Plastic Arts, a branch of San Alejandro Academy. These two courses are his only academic training.

1950 An exhibition of Wilfredo Lam´s work held in Havana´s Central Park gets him in touch with modern art and —as he has often recalled on several occasions — introduces him to an unknown language of infinite possibilities. Sosabravo begins drawing and painting on his own.

1941 Sosabravo settles in Havana with his father, whom he helps at work. He does not attend school on a regular basis and ends up dropping out. As a teenager, he works as almost anything: pharmacy assistant, florist, errand boy, cleaner, messenger, bill collector and apprentice varnisher.

1930 Alfredo Sosabravo is born on October 25th, in Sagua La Grande, Villa Clara province, in Cuba.