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Miami-based contemporary visual artist Leticia Sánchez Toledo was born in 1985 and is of Cuban and Spanish descent. She is well-known for her personal depictions of women and scenes of them that are influenced by her passion in movies, where color and light play key roles in evoking a painting’s aura or atmosphere.

She spent her childhood learning about the world through the big screen at the nearby movie theater where she lived in a little town. Today Leticia offers a personal view of her wishes and concerns while also examining social, cultural, and ethnic issues that are present in the lives of women today. She does this as a mental challenge and by using frames to communicate her own point of view in the social space.
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She comes from a family of artists, where she had the opportunity to grow up in an environment conducive to delving into her preferred medium: painting.

Leticia Sánchez Toledo (1985, Cabaiguán, Cuba) is a young Cuban artist who currently lives and works in the city of Miami. She graduated in 2013 from the Higher Institute of Design (ISDI) in Havana, Cuba. 

Leticia is best known for her personal representations of women, who tell her stories through somewhat melancholic atmospheres influenced by her love of cinema. Her childhood was spent exploring the world through the big screen of the cinema in her town. For her, the relationship between color and light plays a fundamental role in her works when it comes to evoking the unique aura of each painting.

The artist brings her personal vision of her desires and concerns while examining social, cultural, and ethnic issues that shape the lives of contemporary women. 

 

EDUCATION

Higher Institute of Design (Instituto Superior de Diseño, ISDI), Havana, Cuba, 2013. 

 

SOLO EXHIBITION

2023 "Pausas Íntimas". Pan American Projects, Miami, Florida, USA. 

2023 "Miami", (Two Person Show). Annex Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. 

2019 "Punctum", Centro de Arte Tomás y Valiente (CEART), Fuenlabrada, Madrid, Spain. 

2016 "Certeza Errónea", XII Havana Biennial. La Rampa Movie Theater, Havana, Cuba. 

2013 "Puzzle Fiction", Galería Luz y Oficios, Old Havana, Cuba. 

2012 "2Miradas", El Templete, Havana, Cuba. 

2011 "Esplendor Caribe", Mesa Fine Art Gallery, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. 

 

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION

2023 "A mí me manda Carmen". Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MOCCA), Miami, Florida, USA. 

2022 "CUBA: Island in the Cold”. Island Space Caribbean Museum, Plantation, Florida, USA. 

2022 "ABCDEFG". Pan American Art Project, Miami, Florida, USA. 

2019 "Un viaje de ida y vuelta" (Luciano Méndez Private Collection), DA2 1 DOMUS ARTIUM, Salamanca, Spain. 

2015 "18 Artistas Cubanos de Hoy", José Martí Memorial. Havana, Cuba. 

2014 "Cuba Adentro, Artistas contemporáneos de Cuba". Casa dei Carraresi, Treviso Italia. (Luciano Benetton Collection). 

2014 "SENSELAB 6", Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Plásticas. Havana, Cuba. 

2014 "Exposición de obras de la Colección Luciano Méndez", Embassy of Spain, Havana, Cuba. 

2013 "20 artistas cubanos de hoy", Memorial José Martí, Havana, Cuba.

2013 "Martí ese misterio que nos acompaña". Casa Oswaldo Guayasamín (Art Center), Havana, Cuba.

2012 "Exposición de Arte Contemporáneo RGB (rojo, verde y azul)". The Browse Gallery, Germany.

2012 "La Marchanta", Museum of Fine Arts, Santo Domingo. 

2000 "Salon Oscar Fernández Moreira", Sancti-Spíritus, Cuba.

 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

2008 Prize in the Visual Artists event at the Higher Institute of Design (ISDI). 

2007 Photography Award from the Higher Institute of Design.

2006 Prize in the event of Visual Artists of the Institute of Design.

2000 Mention in the Salón Oscar Fernández Moreira. Sancti-Spíritus, Cuba.

 

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Jorge Pérez

Luciano Méndez

Luciano Benneton

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de las Américas (MOCCA)

Moda Arte "Manu Fernández"

 
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