Gladys Triana (b. Cuba, 1934/37) is a New York based multi-disciplinary artist whose work rebels against authoritarian rule and the oppression of hegemonies. Her art expresses, with inexhaustible enthusiasm, her wonder at the form and mystery of small things, and has given her the courage to face the paradoxes of human existence and the darker side of history. In her case, the condition of her exile from her homeland of Cuba was more than merely losing the island of her origin forever. It was an actual expulsion from a promised utopia and a fall, experienced by the body confined in a space of hegemonic and dystopian power - inner exile. After leaving Cuba, Triana sought a language to reconstruct her home in its absence: an art created from a conjunction between inner strength and resistance to any power that forces one to bite one鈥檚 tongue. The early paintings in the exhibition reflect this struggle and artistic victory.
From 1984 to 1989, Triana created a powerful series based on the visceral gesture of destroying her own drawings and assembling them as collages in new mixed media works. This radical aesthetic turn mirrors a trajectory marked by ruptures and the start of a nomadic practice between different mediums, including installation, sculpture, photography, and video. In the 1990s, she composed her paintings with segments of abstract forms that are fragments of herself, and of all those who, in any place on earth other than their own, seek to 鈥渋nsert鈥 themselves and find a new home for themselves, split between cultures, bifurcated, and dispersed. For her, there was no other way to return to the island of her birth, but through her lifelong artistic journey.
After 1995, her work began including the silhouette of the island of Cuba in a variety of media, many of which are included in this exhibition. But by the end of the millennium, detaching herself from any allusion to Cuba or to the ontology of women, the artist had found an inner space to see and represent, in peace, the conjunction of intimate and collective time. Gladys Triana would not only stand beyond the Cuban seashore, but beyond that window of every woman鈥檚 own room that she had long sought to represent.
More recently, over the last fifteen years Triana has used her camera in video and still photography, to devise, in the microcosm of her own home, a visual poetic saga with an aesthetic - as powerful as subtle - to enunciate inner freedom and to construct a vision of the ongoing evolution of our species. These more recent videos and photographs reveal Triana鈥檚 discovery, developed over the course of her extraordinarily rich career, of an abstract language for transcendence.
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Gladys Triana was born in Camag眉ey, Cuba in 1937, and has lived in New York City since 1975. Triana completed her B.A. at Mercy College in 1976, and M.A. at Long Island University in 1977. She also studied printmaking at San Fernando University
in Madrid, Spain from 1970-1972. In 1957, Triana鈥檚 paintings caught the eye of artist Mario Carre帽o, Director of the Museo de Bellas Artes in Havana, Cuba. Carre帽o included her work in a group exhibition at the museum, marking the beginning of
a long career for Triana, who has since been described as one of the most authentic and versatile Cuban artists of her generation.
Triana is the recipient of two Cintas Fellowships in Art, two Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants in 2015-16 and 2018-19, the Joan Mitchell Foundation鈥檚 CALL Program grant, and was the 2016 recipient of the Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York鈥檚 Amelia Pel谩ez Award. Triana鈥檚 work has been presented in numerous solo exhibitions and group shows around the U.S. and abroad, including at the Bronx Museum of the Arts; El Museo del Barrio; El Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo; El Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile; El Museo de la Ciudad, Mexico; Housatonic Museum of Art; NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale; Frost Art Museum, Miami, and ASU Art Museum, Arizona. More information and work can be found at .
Curated by Aluna Curatorial Collective (Adriana Herrera and Willy Castellanos)
Translations by Adriana Herrera, PhD
Faculty liaison: Silvia Marsans-Sakly, PhD
Image: Gladys Triana, Nothing is Sacred, 1995, mixed media on canvas. Courtesy of the artist. 漏 Gladys Triana
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Virtual Tour
Events listed below with a location are live, in-person programs. When possible, those events will also be streamed on and the recordings posted to our .
Opening Lecture: Gladys Triana: A Path to Enlightenment/Beyond Exile
Saturday, September 24, 5 p.m.
Adriana Herrera, PhD, curator of the exhibition
Dolan Event Space and streaming on
Part of the Edwin L. Weisl, Jr. Lectureships in Art History, funded by the Robert
Lehman Foundation
Opening Reception: Gladys Triana: A Path to Enlightenment/Beyond Exile
Saturday, September 24, 6-8 p.m.
Quick Center Lobby and Walsh Gallery
Poetry Reading: Maya Islas
Monday, October 3, 5 p.m.
Dolan Event Space
Lecture: Conceived in Revolution: Cuba's Long Freedom Struggle
Tuesday, November 1, 5 p.m.
Silvia Marsans Sakly, PhD, Associate Professor of the Practice, Islamic World
Dolan Event Space and streaming on
Family Day: Cuban Art
Saturday, November 12
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