ELIZABET CERVIÑO

In her work, Elizabeth Cerviño connects our social and human behaviour to that which surrounds us. Her work draws a direct line from the body to nature by contemplating the impact of mining, the culture of industrialisation, and society. Cerviño’s painting’s often include materials like virgin linens or copper plates on which she applies a natural oxidation process through which landscapes because visible. In her performances, she is methodic in her presentation and makes a clear connection between her physical self and the nature she manipulates. Not just is her material important but the context in which these occur as well as that which she can and cannot control.

“I am interested in using organic, changing materials, apparently unstable on many occasions, conforming to the idea from which they take shape. I believe that thinking is also unstable, that it resembles the fleeting form of water, rain, and fog. Furthermore, I do not exalt the process of painting itself, but the way in which that gesture is dissipated, first in my life, and then in the incessant genealogy of the world.” – Elizabet Cerviño

Elizabeth Cerviño (b. 1986 in Manzanillo, CU) graduated from the Higher Institute of Art of Havana, CU; and received recognitions by The Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Cuban Arts Fundation. Cerviño had solo exhibitions at Bode, Berlin, DE; Chasquidos, Pabellón Cuba, Havana, CU; Mónadas, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, IT; Pausa, La Columnata, Callao, PE; among others. Her work has been part of collective exhibitions at the National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana, CU; Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL, US; Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, DE; Cranbrook Museum, Bloomfiel Hills, Detroit, MI, US; Galleria Continua (Les Moulins, Boissy-le-Châtel, FR; Burj Al Arab Jumeirah, Dubai, AE; Paris, FR); EL Espacio 23, Miami, FL, US; Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, CU; Centro Hispanoamericano de Cultura, Havana, CU; Norwegian Embassy in Cuba; Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, New York, NY, US; Green Gallery, Dubai, AE; Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, ZA; Goodman Gallery, London, UK; Bienal del Bioceno, Cuenca, EC; among others. Cerviño participated at art residencies at Real Academia Española, Rome, IT, and at Henry Moore Foundation, Glasgow, UK. She was finalist of the International Cuban Art Award, Young Artist of the Year Category, Farber Foundation and was nominated for the 2nd Edition of the Maretti Award. The artist has developed scenography for the show Cuban Eclectico by the Cuban dance company Acosta Danza, which will be shown at Bergen International Festival 2024. Elizabet Cerviño lives and works between Havana, CU and Tampa, FL, US.