“Concrete music (guitar)”

Cuban artist Glenda León works with drawing, installation, sculpture and video to research the intersection between the visible and the invisible, silence and sound, the transient and the eternal.

Her first training was in classical ballet in Cuba, and later in art history. The artist combines contemporary art with her passion for music to create beautiful visual poetry. In 2012, she had her first solo exhibition in the United States, at the MagnanMetz Gallery. The exhibition, Listening to Silence, featured sculptures made from LPs, which were combined with photographs of objects such as leaves, dewdrops and flowers.

He has held solo exhibitions at several international institutions such as Metropolitan Museum Manila, Philippines (2018); Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain (2016); Château des Adhemar, Montéllimar, France (2013); Gallery MagnanMetz Projects, New York, United States (2012); Pierre François-Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada (2010); Galerie m:a contemporary, Berlin, Germany (2005 ) .

His works are present in the collections of important institutions such as Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France), Pérez Art Museum (Miami, United States), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Canada), The Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, United States), Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal (Canada), Musée des Beaux Arts de Montréal (Montreal, Canada), Tampa Museum of Art (Florida, United States), Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, The Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, United States), Rhode Island School of Design Museum (Providence, United States), Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College (Denver, United States), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (La Habana, Cuba/) and Walter Philips Gallery (Banff, Alberta, Canada).

In 2017-2018 he received the 2017 LARA Prize (Asiati Trust Foundation, Panama / Manila, Philippines), in 2001 the Premio Nacional de Curaduría (next to Galería DUPP - Consejo Nacional de las Artes Plásticas, La Habana, Cuba) and in 2000, the Premio UNESCO para las Artes (next to Galería DUPP - VII Bienal de La Habana, Cuba Premio Pinos Nuevos, Essay and artistic-literary critique, Instituto Cubano del Libro, La Habana, Cuba).