Ernesto Gutiérrez Moya grew up, studied art, and later taught painting in Havana, Cuba. His work reflects a more traditional painting education, noticeable in his fluency in paint handling, color, composition and style, all of which refer to Western art before the 20th century. When he moved to the United States, he continued painting spaces shaped by architectural elements, as he had in Cuba, but, about five years ago, he began exploring his new landscape, especially lush gardens and ornate fountains. Focusing on these spaces and meditative objects were ways for him to make a place for himself, whether in one new home or many.
Baroque stylistic details place Moya’s paintings in the company of dramatic and ornate colonial architecture. One can see a great deal of this in Habana Vieja, where there are centuries on view in a single plaza. His paintings collect vestiges of many eras and all picture ways humans mediate nature. Curator Emerson-Dorsch wrote: “Moya’s spaces – around the fountains, in gardens – can be dynamic, arrested in time, or literally on fire–pero, no hay nadie. There’s no one there.”
His most recent series of paintings play an important role in The thing which is not: two artists, two poems, on view at Emerson Dorsch through March 23, 2024.
Ernesto Gutiérrez Moya (Born 1995, Havana, Cuba. Lives Miami, FL.) graduated from the San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts in Havana and later taught at the school for two years. His work has been exhibited in group shows in New York, Miami, and Havana and he has had solo shows in Miami and Havana. In the past year, he received a Miami-Dade Individual Artists (MIA) Grant, attended the Vermont Studio Center Residency, and attended the Whale & Star Summer Workshop with Enrique Martinez Celaya. Emerson Dorsch presented his paintings at NADA House in Governor’s Island and Untitled Art Fair in 2021, and at SWAB Barcelona in 2022. Publications include CdeCuba Art Magazine, DESTIG Magazine, and The Saatchi Gallery Magazine. Moya is represented by Emerson Dorsch.
Born 1995, Havana, Cuba
Lives and works in Miami, Florida
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 The Enigma of an Evening in Autumn, Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL
2017 Endless Space, Vargas University, Miami, FL
2016 Incognito Spaces, Carmelo González Gallery, Havana, Cuba
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS
2023 Lo Bello Está Hecho de un Elemento Eterno, ArtSpace 305 & Mahara+Co.
2022 SWAB Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2021 UNTITLED Art Fair 2021, Miami Beach, FL
I Found the Island, NADA HOUSE NY, Governors Island, NY
2019 Gallery104, New York, NY
2018 Spectrum Miami, Miami, FL
Art Context Miami Basel Season, Curators Voice Art Project, Miami, FL
Wynwood Juried Show, Curators Voice Art Project, Miami, FL
2015 Zip, 12 Biennial of Havana, Cuba
Zip, Galería Artis 718, Havana, Cuba
Zip, Ludwig Foundation, Havana, Cuba
2014 Jirones de Danza, for the 24th International Ballate Festival in Havana, Cuba
Interlude, Fresa y Chocolate Gallery, Havana, Cuba
2012 Backed in Hope, Cuban Art Factory (F.A.C.) Havana, Cuba
Marti and the San Alejandro Academy, Fordes Gallery, Havana, Cuba
2008 Grupo somos lo que hay, 50th Anniversary of the Hotel Habana Libre, Havana, Cuba
GRANTS, AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, & HONORS
Miami-Dade Individual Artists (MIA) Grant Program, 2023
Vermont Studio Center Residency, 2023
Whale & Star Summer Workshop with Enrique Martinez Celaya, 2022
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Alex Fluker & Frank Destra
Vera Kaminester
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (PRINT AND ELECTRONIC)
CdeCuba Art Magazine No.23, No.24, No.26, No.28 cover
“Ernesto Gutiérrez Moya Interview.” DESTIG, Destig , 13 Sept. 2019, https://www.destig.com/ernesto-gutieacuterrez-moya-interview.html.
Magazine, Saatchi Gallery. “Love Art Final 50.” Saatchi Gallery Magazine, 27 Apr. 2018, http://artmag.saatchigallery.com/14445-2/
Stories, Local. “Meet Ernesto Gutierrez Moya.” Voyage MIA Magazine | Miami City Guide,
Voyage MIA Magazine, 28 Feb. 2019, http://voyagemia.com/interview/meet-ernesto-gutierrez-moya/.
EDUCATION
2014 Graduate from the specialty of painting, San Alejandro Academy of Art, Havana, Cuba
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