1978 Born in Sancti-Spíritus, Cuba
Lives in Barcelona


Education

1999/2002 Galeria DUPP (Desde Una Pragmática Pedagógica, artists´ group), Higher Institute of Fine Arts, Havana

1998-2002 Higher Institute of Fine Arts, Havana

1992-1996 Professional School of Fine Arts, Trinidad, Cuba


Solo exhibitions

2011 The Emperor's New Clothes, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam

Spirito Due, Complesso Monumentalle Santo Spirito in Sassia, Roma, curated by Valentina Ciarallo

Wilfredo Prieto, Praxis, ARTIUM, Vitoria. (Curated by Blanca de la Torre)

Amarrado a la pata de la mesa, Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo (CA2M), Móstoles, Madrid (cat.)

Left/Right, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo, (Marco), Vigo

Landscape with the fall of Icarus, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisboa

2010 Negro, mate, seco, NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona

2009 I am making Art, Wilfredo Prieto & Ignacio Uriarte, Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto & Toky. (Curated by Elisa Uematsu)

2008 Mountain, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium
Nude, Galerie Martin Van Zomeren, Amsterdam

2007 Untitled (Red Carpet), NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona
A moment of silence. Artists’ Web Projects, Dia Art Foundation, New York
Walking the dog and eating shit, Lennon Park, Havana

2006 S/t (grúa), Madrid Abierto, Madrid
Grease, Soap and Banana, Convento de Santa Clara, Havana
Mute, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, CDN
Ángulo muerto, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris

2005 Mucho ruido y pocas nueces II, MUSAC, León

2004 Untitled (White Library), NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona
Speech, Galerie Martin Van Zomeren, Amsterdam

2003 Mucho ruido y pocas nueces, Galería Habana, La Habana

2002 Wilfredo Prieto en el Wifredo Lam, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, La Habana

2001 Matrioska, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, La Habana

2000 Pie de obra, (con James Bonachea), Centro Cultural ICAIC; Fundación Ludwig de Cuba, La Habana

1999 Conceptualismo Aditivo, (with James Bonachea), Galería Oscar F. M. Sancti-Spíritus, Cuba

Group exhibitions

2012 Copa América: Videoarte latino-americana contemporanea (curated by Patrick Hamilton), Paço das Artes, Sao Paulo

2011 Cities and Things That Matter, Lombard Fried Projects, NY

Bananas is my Business: The South American Way, Carmen Miranda Museum, Río de Janeiro, Brasil. (Curated by Julieta González and Pablo León de la Barra)

Commercial Break, Garage Projects, 54th Venice Biennale, venice. (Curated by Neville Wakefield)

Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial), 12th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey. (Curated by Adriano Pedrosa and Jens Hoffman)

Future Generation- Art Prize@ Venice, Palazzo Papadopoli, Venice

Terrible Beauty: Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance, Dublin Contemporary
A Museum That is Not, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China. (Curated by Nikita, Yingqian Cai)
Coup d'éclat, Focus of Résonance-Lyon Biennial, Fort du Bruissin, Centre of Contemporary Art Francheville (Grand Lyon). (Comisariada por Francesca Agnesod, Guillaume Hervier, Andrea Rodríguez Novoa)
barely there, Museum of Contemporary Art Detrot (MOCAD), Detroit, USA. (Curated by Luis Croquer)
Our Magic Hour, Yokohama Triennale 2011, Japan. (Artistic Director: Akiko Miki)
Crisisss. América Latina, arte y confrontación 1919 -2010. Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes/Ex Teresa arte actual, Méjico. (Curated by Gerardo Mosquera)

2010 Law of the Jungle, Lehmann Maupin, Nueva York (Curated by Tiago Carneiro)

During Office Hours, VGF, Berlin (Curated by Aaron Moulton)

Nuit Blanche, Place du Trocadéro, Paris (Curated by Martin Béthenod)

De frente al sol, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna (Curated by Patrick Charpenel)

Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev, Ukraine

29th Sao Paulo Biennale (Curated by Moacir dos Anjos and Agnaldo Farias)
Beyond Entropy, 12th Venice Architecture Biennale (Curated by Stefano Rabolli)
Panamericana, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City (Curated by Jens Hoffmann)

En Privado 2. La opció desamable, EsBaluard Museo d'Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, Palma de Mallorca. (Curated by Carlos Jover)

I'm Not Here. An Exhibition Without Francis Alÿs, De Appel Boys' School, Amsterdam

Antes de todo, CA2M, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Móstoles, Madrid. (Curated by Aimar Arriola and Manuela Moscoso)
Exhibition, Exhibition, Castello di Rivoli, Torino (Curated by Adam Carr)    
Electrified 02, Hacking Public Space, S.M.A.K., Ghent (Curated by Thibaud Verhoeven)
Cosas que sólo un artista puede hacer, MARCO, Vigo, Spain. (Curated by David Arlandis and Javier Marroquí)
Pra Começo de Século, O Museu de Arte Contemporânea (MAC) do Centro Dragão do Mar de Arte e Cultura, Fortaleza, Brasil
GALLERY, GALERIE, GALLERIA, Norma Mangione Gallery, Torino. (Curated by Adam Carr)

2009 Los Impolíticos, Palazzo delle Arti, Naples. (Curated by Laura Bardier)
Ordinary Revolutions, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany (Curated by Stefanie Kreuzer)
Jafre Biennial, Girona, Spain. (Curated by Carolina Grau)
Thessaloniki Biennial, Greece
Stowaways, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA (Curated by Jens Hoffmann)
Directions, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy
Lisson presents 4, Lisson Gallery, London. (Curated by Elena Grippa)
Hypocrisy: The Sitespecificity of Morality, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
II Biennale Cuvée, Linz, Austria
Broken thorn, sweet blackberry, Sikkema Jenkins & CO, New York
X Habana Biennial, La Habana, Cuba

2008 Objects of Value, Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA. (Curated by René Morales)
Fuck You Human, Maribel López Gallery, Berlin
Arte, Prezzo e Valore. Arte contemporanea e mercato, La Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
Die Bibliothek, Galerie für Zeitgenössiche Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
Sin remedio, Galería Alcuadrado, Bogotá, Colombia
That’s Not How I Remember It, Anna Helwing, Los Angeles
Mondo e Terra, La collezione del FRAC Corsica, MAN, Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Italy
That Was Then…This is Now, PS1 MoMA, New York. (Curated by Neville Wakefield)
The Disobedients, Annet Gelink, Amsterdam. (Curated by Jimena Blazquez)
States of Exchange: Artists from Cuba, Iniva, London. (Curated by Gerardo Mosquera and Cylena Simonds)
Greenwashing environment: peril, promise and perpexlity, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin. (Curated by Latitudes and Ilaria Bonacossa)

2007 Time after time, Galica Gallery, Milano. (Curated by Giovanni Lovane)
Territorios, 52 Bienale di Venezia, IT. Pabellón Italo-Latinoamericano. (Curated by Irma Arestizábal)
Arts al Palau, Palau Ducal de Gandía, Gandía, Alicante, Spain
Cintas Foundation Award Finalists, Frost Art Museum, Miami, USA
Extraordinary Rendition. Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona. (Curated by Latitudes)
Errore di sistema-System error, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
Artist Books: Transgressions/Excess…, Space Other Gallery, Boston, USA
Cero, San Francisco de Asís convent, Havana

2006 Cluster, Participant inc., Nueva York; El particular Mexico D.F.; Art2102, Los Angeles; Four, Dublin. (Curated by Katie Holten)
Singapore Biennial. (Curated by Fumio Nanjo)

2005 The Hours. Visual Arts from Contemporary Latin America, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. (Curated by Sebastian Lopez)

2004 Cordially invited, (episode 3, Who if not we should at least try to imagine the future of all this?) 7 episodes on (ex)changing Europe,( curated by Maria Hlavajova y Gerardo Mosquera), BAK, Utrecht
Island Nations: New Art From Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and the Diaspora, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island. Curated by René Morales
Just on Time, Galeria Habana, La Habana. (Curated by René Morales)
Arco 04, Madrid

2003 VIII Bienal de la Habana Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wilfredo Lam, La Habana
Stretch, The Power Plant, Toronto. (Curated by Eugenio Valdés Figueroa and Keith Wallace)
Doble seducción, INJUVE, Madrid.
Sentido común, Galería Habana, La Habana

2002 Identidad, Convento de Santa Clara; Fundación Nicolás Guillén, La Habana
VIII Salón de Premiados, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, La Habana
III Bienal Internacional de Estandarte, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana
Exposición colateral a la XXV Bienal de São Paulo, Memorial de América Latina, São Paulo

2001 III Salón Nacional de Arte Cubano Contemporáneo, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, La Habana
Salón Provincial Oscar F. M, Galería Oscar F. M, Sancti-Spíritus
Burgi 23 y G, (Intervención), La Habana
Museu de Arte Contemporánea de Goiás, DUPP, Brasil
Contemporary Cuban Art, The Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science, DUPP, Florida
Feria ElbArt NN, Hamburgo

2000 VII Bienal de la Habana, DUPP, La Habana
Watamula, International Artists Workshop, Curaçao
Con un pensar abstraído, Galería Habana, DUPP, La Habana

1999 II Festival de Performance Ana Mendieta, Pabellón Cuba, DUPP, La Habana
El Tiempo como Espacio, Instituto Superior de Arte, La Habana
Con un pensar abstraído, (intervención),Calle la Rampa, DUPP, La Habana
La Época, (intervención), Centro Comercial La Época, DUPP, La Habana

1998 I Festival de Performance Ana Mendieta, Unión Nacional de escritores y Artistas de Cuba, DUPP, La Habana

1997 En busca de una huella (encuentro con la obra de Ana Mendieta), Cuevas de Jaruco, DUPP, La Habana

Awards and Grants

2011 Shortlisted for International Art Prize Diputació de Castelló, Spain

2010 Shortlisted for Future Generation Art Prize 2010, Kiev, Ukraine

2008     The Cartier Foundation Award, with residency in Gasworks, London
Premio F Award, Buenos Aires
Beca de Creación Norte 08 Award, Zaragoza, Spain

2007     Le Grand Café Residency Programme, St Nazaire, France

2006    John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, New York

2005    Kadist Art Foundation Residency, Paris

2000    The 2000 UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts, VII Havana Biennial, DUPP
Curatorial Prize 2000, Galería Habana, DUPP, Havana

Articles and Reviews (selection)

Hernández, Erena. Ser y nada, Atlántica Magazine of Art and Thought, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, #48/49, pp. 228-235

Dalila López Arbolay, Parachute 125: La Havana, Les intuitions illogiques de Wilfredo Prieto, enero-marzo 2007
Anaïd Demir, Jardin des Tuileries, Journal des Arts, October 28, 2006
Barriendos, Joaquín, La ciudad latinoamericana como reflexión estética, Lars, Nº5, 2006
Barriendos, Joaquín, The IX Biennial of Havana, FlashArt, Nº248, May-June 2006
Castillo, Hector Antón, Wilfredo Prieto, ArtNexus, Nº58 Vol.4, p.130, 2005
Oliver, Conxita, El qüestionament de la cultura, AVUI, Nº9837, 10 de febrero, 2005
Peran, Marti, Wilfredo Prieto, Exit Express, Nº9, febrero, 2005
Porcel, Violant, Los libros deshabitados, LaVanguardia, Culturas, 26 de enero, 2005
Molina, Ángela, Biblioteques i camins que es bifurquen, El Pais, 20 de enero, 2005
Sueza, Paula, Curator, enero/marzo, 2005
D.Abreu, Andrés, Mucha abstracción, Diario Gramma, Año 8/Nº158, 6 de junio, 2004
Rattemayer, Christian, 8 Bienal de Habana, Artforum, vol.XLII, n°6, febrero 2004
Salgado, Gabriela, 8th Havana Biennial : The Bittersweet Taste of Utopia, FlashArt, Enero-Febrero, 2004, p.47
Papararo, Jenifer y Demkiw, Jains, Two perspectives on two collaborations, C Magazine, Winter, 2004
Rodríguez Enríquez, Hilda Maria, Palo porque boga y palo porque no boga. Giros en la octava bienal, Artecubano, Dossier p.16, Nº1, 2004
Herzberg,Julia, ArtNexus, Nº52, 2004, p.86
Benítez Dueñas, Issa, extracto de ARCO 2004, ArtNexus,Nº53, p.98
Marx, Gary, Havana, Chicago Tribune, 20 de noviembre, 2003
Gopnik, Blake, In Havana, an Air of Possibility, The Washington Post, 16 noviembre 2003
D.Abreu, Andrés, Tras lo fiel a su mensaje, Diario Gramma, Año 7/Nº307, 3 de noviembre, 2003
León Arévalo, Glenda, Intervenciones y performáticas epocales y abstraidas, Artecubano, Dossier p.8, Nº2/3, 2003
Mosquera, Gerardo, Del arte latinoamericano al arte desde América Latina, Art Nexus Nº48, abril, 2003, p.70
Antón Castillo, Héctor, El sediento sueña que bebe, La Jiribilla, abril,2003
Noceda, José Manuel, Un texto infinito, AtlAntica, Nº37, p.10

Bibliography

Before Everything, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Comunidad de Madrid, Móstoles, Madrid (2010)

Los Impolíticos, PANI Palazzo delle Arti Napoli Mondadori Electa, Naples, 2010

Marroquí, Javier. y Arlandis, David, Cosas que solo un artista puede hacer, MARCO (Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo) y MEIAC (Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo), 2010

Gabriele Schor (ed.), Held Toguether with water- Kunst aus der Sammlung Verbund- Vienna, 2007

Medina, Cuauhtemoc, Mute, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Canada, 2006

Olivares, Rosa (ed.), 100 Artistas Latinoamericanos, Exit Publicaciones, Madrid, 2007

Juncosa, Enrique, López, Sebastián and Valdés Figueroa, Eugenio, The Hours, Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America, Irish Museum of Art, Daros-Latinamerica, Zürich, 2005 Tannenbaum, Judith y Morales, René, Island Nations: New Art From Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and the Diaspora, Rhode Island College of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, 2004

Hlavajova, Maria y Mosquera, Gerardo, Cordially Invited, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, 2004

Who if not we should at least try to imagine the future of all this?, Thinking Forward, Amsterdam, 2004

Pera, Rosa, Doble seducción, INJUVE, Madrid, 2003

Mosquera, Gerardo y Francisco, Rene, Wilfredo Prieto, Centro Cultural Español, La Habana, 2002

Collections

CIFO, Miami
Colección Cisneros, New York
Col·lecció Cal Cego, Barcelona
Collection Museum of Old and New, Tasmania
CA2M ,Comunidad de Madrid
Daros Collection of Latinamerican Art, Zurich
FRAC Corse, France
Peter Norton Family Collection, California
S.M.A.K., Ghent
Verbund Collection, Vienna