Artist Statement

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YOANNY ALDAYA (HAVANA, CUBA, 1984) Visual Artist

Work with photography, video and performance dealing with topics about the plasticity of the individual identity and the effects of the social and political environment on the individual.

Materializing and embodying psychological states, Aldaya cuts, hides or disables the figures and forms, linking materiality and texture in a constant manipulation and transformation of that which portrays. His work uses references from religious iconography where we find rituals, sacred objects and representation of deities that are presented formally or metaphorical. The theatricality and the capacity for the hybridization of the self also play a role very important in his work where matter and the body become battlefields in the creation of individual, social, political and cultural identity.

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Studies Received

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2014
Postgraduate in Photography and Audiovisual at the FANCA Film School

2013
Seminar: A look from the aesthetics of the reception of diffuse margins of the post- Modern
Taught by the art critic and professor of the Faculty of Arts and Letters Hamlet Fernández Díaz

2011
UNEAC Photography Course

2003
Photography workshop at the Teatro América
Affiliations Member of the Association "Saiz Brothers" and Associated with the Visual Authors Agency "ADAVIS"

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Recognitions

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2010
First prize in the Color section of the Room, Art Independent Festival II, Edizione Rome, Italy

2006
Access of the XVI City Hall Edition, Cuba

2006
Collateral Award of the Photo Library of Cuba, In the XVI Edition of the City Hall

2005
Grand Prize for Photography of the magazine Palabra Nueva, Archbishopric of Havana, Cuba

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Publications

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2023-Neighborhood Journalism, Photographic series, Desamparados

2022- Poli Art, NO. XXXV Art magazine, Spain

2021- El Esternudo, independent media, Silenced series

2021- El Esternudo, independent media, Photographic series, Los olvidados

2021- El Esternudo, independent medium, Photographic series, Touching Background

2020- Cubanet, independent media, photographic series, We are Yuma

2018- Cd Cuba, NO.25 2018. Cuban Art Magazine in Miami

2018- El Esternudo, independent media, Don't see it, my flag is that one, Photographic series, Reference points

2016- Cubanet, independent media, The perpetual performance of Yoanny Aldaya

2016 - Art in Cuba, happy together, about Cuban Art groups, by Maeva Peraza, Cuba

2016 - Digital portal From north to south, by Májela Garcés, on Puente Sur (festival of Performance), Cuba

2016 - Site www Habana Time, by Yanelis Núñez Leiva, about the work The past is the future In the performance event "Puente Sur" Cuba

2015 - Revolution and culture magazine 2/2015, 8 Hosts for a relentless dinner, by Májela Garces, Cuba

2014 - Revista de Arte Cubano 3/2014, past and present of Cuban photography in the text By Alain Cabrera, Cuba

2014 - Cuban Art Tabloid, October. Eight hosts for a relentless dinner for Majela Garcés, Cuba

2014 - Life Art. Six Jeunes Artistes de la Havane, Une Avant-garde Cubaine in 2014 by André Seleanu Canada

2014 - Digital magazine, Viviart, Cuba

2013 - Tabloid of Cuban Art, December, And again the photography... by Alain Cabrera, Cuba

2012 - Art in Conflict Magazine, Italy

2011 - Digital magazine, Havana Time, Cuba

2005 - Revista Palabra Nueva of the Archbishopric of Havana, Cuba

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Personal Exhibitions

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2019
On the Other Side of the Wall, Visual Arts Gallery, Holguín, Cuba
Pilgrimages of May

2018
10 years of Light to Your Own Chemistry, Cuban Art Factory, Havana, Cuba

2017
On this Side of the Wall, Gallery house 8, Havana, Cuba

2014
Compulsion, Photo Library of Cuba, Havana, Cuba

2012
De Sierto Habanero, Cinema Riviera, Project 23 ICAIC, Havana, Cuba

2011
Body Concepts, Provincial Center of Plastic Arts and Design, Havana, Cuba

2008
Reference Points, Madriguera, headquarters of the AHS, Havana, Cuba

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Collective Exhibitions

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2024
Of Flesh and Blood, 35 Meadow Street Brooklyn, NY

2023
Under the Same Sky, Cuban Art Factory Cultural Center, Havana, Cuba
Still Life

2022
Naked, In photographic November, on the black wall of the Cuban Art Factory, Havana, Cuba

2021
Masks, Raúl Corrales Gallery, Havana, Cuba

2017
WHAT BALL? A L' ESPACE SOIETE RICARD, Paris, France
Nothing Personal, I was born Study
Curated by José Ernesto Alonso

2016
Selfie, San Alejandro School, Havana, Cuba

Light to Your Own Chemistry, Ludwig de Cuba Foundation, Havana, Cuba
Curators, Ossain Ray, Alfredo Sarabia, Reynaldo Echemendía

Landing, Nazco Studio, Havana, Cuba
Curators Rene Peña and Yuri Oregón Batard

Mine, Yours, Ours, 21 Art Space, Havana, Cuba
Curator Yenny Hernández Valdes

Export Import, Gallery of Light and Crafts, Havana, Cuba
Curator, Onelys Benitez Bergues

Act of Faith, Gallery House 8, Havana, Cuba
Curators Lázaro Navarrete Arlene Ladoga and Johanna Luque

Export- Import, Atelierhaus Lachauer Strasse, Munich, Germany

Puente Sur, Performance event
Curated by Yonlai Cabrera

The Darkest White, Gallery House 8, Havana, CubaCurators Arlene la Daga and Hanle Fernández

2015
Nota al Pie, in the Espacio Abierto gallery, headquarters of the magazine
Curated by Carlos Gámez

Revolution and Culture
Theoretical Event of the Ciclope Laboratory, Villena Library
Collateral to the 12th Biennial of Havana, at the Higher Institute of Cuban Art, Cuba
Collateral to the 12th Biennial of Havana, Cuba

Light to Your Own Chemistry, official exhibition at the 12th Havana Biennial, (ISA), Havana, Cuba

Compulsive Canine and Molar, Cuban Art Factory, Havana, Cuba

2014
The Death of the Last Wolf in the City Hall, Provincial Center of Plastic Arts and Design, Havana, Cuba

Be Here Now, Photographic November, Open Space Gallery, Headquarters of Revolution and Culture, Identity, Cuban Art Factory, Havana, Cuba

2012
Hidden Identities, Apparent Subjectivities, Collateral to the Havana Biennial, Morro Cabaña, Scope 21, woman, subject object, Casa Guayasamín, Havana, Cuba

2011
Light your Own Chemistry, Servando Cabrera Gallery, Havana, Cuba

Alfredo Sarabia Photography Biennial, Pinar del Rio, Cuba

Catalejo, Project 23 and 12, Havana II Latin American Photographic Day, Simón Bolívar House Museum of Havana, Cuba
The photographic image as heritage of our peoples

2010
Rom´ Art Independent Festival II Edition. Rome, Italy
Chalidoscope Project, in its 7th Edition in several countries and universities in Latin America

XVI Erotic Art Salon, Falla Jamin Gallery, Havana II Edition Contest Santiago Álvarez in Memorian, Santiago de Cuba

Remember Me, Photo exhibition in tribute to the 135th anniversary of the Hotel Inglaterra, Havana, Cuba

I Latin American Photographic Day, Simón Bolívar House, Havana, Cuba

2009
Biennial of Photography Alfredo Sarabia, Pinar del Rio, Havana, CubaI Santiago Photography Contest Álvarez in Memorian

2008
Photographic Exhibition, Galiano Gallery, Havana Open Eyes

Wingspread Gallery, NEH, Maine, USA

2007
II Eco Art Salon, Wilfredo Lam Gallery, Havana, Cuba

Biennial of Arts and Mental Health, Simón Bolívar House, Havana, Cuba

2006
XVI City Hall, Provincial Center of Plastic Arts and Design, Havana, Cuba

VI Biennial of Photography, Eduardo Abela Gallery, San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba

2005
II Panorama Hall 42, Wilfredo Lam Gallery, Havana, Cuba