Artist
Julio Emilio Neira Milian
Cuban, based in Havana, b. 1969
Julio Emilio Neira Milian was born in 1969 in Sancti Spíritus, Cuba, and lives and works as a visual artist in Havana.
Biography
Julio Emilio Neira Milian
Julio Emilio Neira Milian was born in 1969 in Sancti Spíritus, Cuba, and lives and works as a visual artist in Havana. He trained at the Escuela Vocacional de Arte Olga Alonso in Santa Clara and graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Arte in Havana in 1989.
A member of UNEAC, the Cuban national union of writers and artists, and of the Consejo Nacional de las Artes Plásticas (CNAP), he works as a freelance artist in Havana and as a guest lecturer at art schools and cultural institutes across Cuba. His practice spans painting, graphics, sculpture, installation, performance and murals, with large-format works installed in the public spaces of his hometown.
His work has been exhibited in Cuba, Mexico, Germany, Italy, Spain and Argentina, and is held in the Colección del CNAP as well as in private collections in the United States, Mexico, Germany, Martinique, Spain, Italy and Argentina.
In the artist’s words
Statement
My work draws on the layered histories, mythologies, and lived realities of Cuba, the island's landscape, its rituals, its contradictions. Through painting, sculpture, and installation I explore memory, identity, and the persistence of the sacred within the everyday. Each work is an attempt to give form to what cannot easily be said.
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Works by Julio Emilio Neira Milian
1 work
For The Record
Curriculum vitae
Education
2
- 1989Graduate, Escuela Nacional de Arte, Havana, Cuba
- Escuela Vocacional de Arte Olga Alonso, Santa Clara, Cuba
Public Collections
1
- Colección del Consejo Nacional de las Artes Plásticas (CNAP), Cuba
Commissions and Public Art
1
- Large-format works installed in the public spaces of Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
Further Notes
3
- Member of UNEAC (Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba) and of the Consejo Nacional de las Artes Plásticas (CNAP)Guest lecturer at art schools and cultural institutes across CubaWork exhibited in Cuba, Mexico, Germany, Italy, Spain and Argentina, and held in private collections in the United States, Mexico, Germany, Martinique, Spain, Italy and Argentina