Rabindranat Díaz-Cardona
"René" (2006)
"René" (2006)
Painter and creator of installations. In 1996 he obtained a Bachelor's degree with a concentration in painting from the School of Plastic Arts and Design of Puerto Rico and in 2002 he completed a Master's Degree in Painting from Hunter College of the City University of New York. Between 1994 and 1996 he began to exhibit his work with the group of artists Grupo X, directed by the painter Domingo García; he is recognized as one of the most original young painters; his first solo exhibition (1996) was awarded by the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), Chapter of Puerto Rico, as the best first exhibition of an artist in Puerto Rico. In 2014, under the direction and curatorship of Abdiel Segarra, he exhibited Imagine r survivor at the Museum of the Old Arsenal of the Spanish Navy of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture in San Juan, where he managed to gather a good part of his work from his 20 years artistic career. A large part of his work belongs today to private and institutional collections, and has been exhibited in galleries, museums and alternative spaces in countries such as Puerto Rico, Cuba, Spain, Argentina, Germany, Switzerland, and the United States. In his work the narrative is a substantial element.