Orlando Boffill Hernandez was born in Havana, Cuba on October 16, 1964. In 1980, he enrolled in painting and drawing classes at the Taller de Artes Plasticas under the direction of the painter and sculptor Orestes Vergel and located in the municipality of San Miguel del Padron. At the time, the Taller de Artes Plasticas was located in the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum. From this experience, the artists’ group called Vigia emerged and Boffill participated with this group in various collective exhibitions.
In 1985, he began his university career working towards a Master’s degree in Art History at the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the University of Havana. After his graduation, he started to work in 1991 as a Specialist in Plastic Arts at the Galleria de Arte located in Havana’s municipality 10 de Octubre. During his employment at the gallery, he accomplished important work as curator and cultural promoter. In 1996, he began to work as an independent artist.
His work has been included in more than 60 collective exhibitions and he has done 13 solo exhibits outside and within Cuba. In 2010 he worked as scenographic painter on French film filmed in Cuba. On December 2011, he traveled to Mexico where he did three solo exhibits. On January 2013, he traveled to New York City invited by Coohaus Gallery to participate in the Fountain Art Fair.
His work can be found in private collections in various countries, including Cuba, United States, Korea, Mexico, Colombia, Spain, Portugal, Germany, France, Switzerland and Australia.
Currently, the artist lives and works in the United States.
Exhibitions
- 1984 - “The Vigia in our time” | 10 Octubre Gallery | Havana, Cuba
- 1986 - “Competition March 13” | Gallery L | Havana, Cuba
- 1988 - “IV exhibition of small format” | Gallery L | Havana, Cuba
- 1988 - “Party” | Museum Ernest Hemingway | Havana, Cuba
- 1989 - “Salon of youth” | House of the young Creador | Havana, Cuba
- 1991 - “Nine artists young people” | Studio-Gallery Blanco horse | Havana, Cuba
- 1991 - “Art young” (IV Bienal De La Habana) | Gallery Sunday Ravenet | Havana, Cuba
- 1993 - “S point T” | Art gallery of San Miguel the Padron | Havana, Cuba
- 1993 - “Once again” | Art Gallery Jaruco | Mayabeque, Cuba
- 1993 - “Competition March 13” | Gallery L | Havana, Cuba
- 1994 - “The dark side” | Art Gallery of Galiano | Havana, Cuba
- 1995 - “Art in the Cuba of the 90s” | University of Oviedo | Spain
- 1995 - “Contemporary art” | 10 Octubre Gallery | Havana, Cuba
- 1996 - “VIII Salon of fine arts Aristides Fernandez” | Gallery Arte Universal Guines | Mayabeque, Cuba
- 1996 - “Zeitkritische Kunst Aus Kuba” | Gallery Rita | Schweizer, Germany
- 1996 - “Reunion” | 10 Octubre Gallery | Havana, Cuba
- 1997 - “Not are all those who are” (VI Bienal De La Habana) | Sunday Gallery Ravenet | Havana, Cuba
- 1997 - “Cuba 97” | Gallery Isarte | Colombia
- 1998 - “Horizonta project 98” | Gallery Imago | Havana, Cuba
- 1998 - “Horizontal project in Portugal” | Portugal
- 1998 - “Faith Horizontal” | Convento San Francisco of Asis | Havana, Cuba
- 1998 - “Myth, hope eclectic of light” | Gallery Association brothers Saiz | Havana, Cuba
- 1999 - “Once again” | Art Gallery Jaruco| Mayabeque, Cuba
- 1999 - “End-of-century Cuban painting” | Gallery Aceas | Barcelona, Spain
- 1999 - “Made in Cuba” | Gallery Prestige | Barcelona, Spain
- 2001 - “Merry Christmas” | 10 Octubre Gallery | Havana, Cuba
- 2002 - “Beyond the walls” | Gallery of art of San Miguel of the Padron | Havana, Cuba
- 2002 - “Word to the stain” | Gallery of art of San Miguel of the Padron | Havana, Cuba
- 2003 - “Voices from the South” | Centro Provincial De Artes Plasticas Y Diseno | Havana, Cuba
- 2003 - “Between Angeles and goblins” | Gallery Origenes | Havana, Cuba
- 2004 - “Visions and reflections” | Gallery Origenes | Havana, Cuba
- 2004 - “CITA Con Angeles” | Gallery Origenes | Havana, Cuba.
- 2004 - “Landscape its edges” | Gallery Origenes | Havana, Cuba
- 2004 - “Virgin action” | Gallery San Miguel the Padron | Havana, Cuba
- 2005 - “3D images” | Gallery Concha Ferrant | Havana, Cuba
- 2005 - “From origins to Gubbio” | Gubbio, Italy
- 2005 - “Faces” | Gallery Origenes | Cuba
- 2005 - “Living In Harmony” | Texas Center For Documentary Of Photography | Austin, TX USA
- 2005 - “Between Amigos” | Galeria De art Fernandez Boada | Havana, Cuba
- 2006 - “Sinastria” | Galeria of Art San Miguel of the Padron | Havana, Cuba
- 2007 - “Meeting dos” | Galeria Fernandez Boada | Havana, Cuba
- 2007 - “More than coincidence” | Gallery of Art San Miguel of the Padron | Havana, Cuba
- 2008 - “The magic of combining Texturas” | Galeria Origenes| Havana, Cuba
- 2009 - “Seguir Huella” | Galeria San Miguel del Padron | Havana, Cuba
- 2009 - “Angeles and demons” (Homenaje A Antonia Eiriz) | Gallery San Miguel of the Padron | Havana, Cuba
- 2009 - “Primer Salon art Vida” | Galeria San Miguel the Padron | Havana, Cuba
- 2010-2011 - Exclusive artist for art dealer of Barcelona, Spain, Jesus Mira Romero
- 2012 - “Exposicion Colectiva” | Mnache Gallery | Monterrey, Mexico
- 2013 - “Fountain Art Fair” | New York City, NYC
Personal Exhibitions
- 1991 - “Tropicollage” | Gallery Domingo Ravenet | Havana, Cuba
- 1992 - “I see clearly” | Gallery Hercar | Havana, Cuba
- 1993 - “Sometimes in the Viper” | 10 Octubre Gallery | Havana, Cuba
- 1996 - “Mental games” | 10 Octure Gallery | Havana, Cuba
- 2005 - “Faces for painters” | Gallery of San Miguel of the Padron | Havana, Cuba
- 2005 - “Author Obra” | Gallery Fernandez Boada | Havana, Cuba
- 2007 - “Summary of Noticias” | Galeria of San Miguel the Padron | Havana,Cuba
- 2012 - Fact in San Miguel” | Galleria the Conexion | San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
- 2012 - “Homenajes” | Biblioteca publishes | San Miguel De Allende, Mexico
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