Carlos Garaicoa Garaicoa

Place: Havana

Born: 1967

Biography:

Carlos Garaicoa is a Cuban contemporary artist, specializing in photography and installations. He was born in Havana, Cuba in 1967. Garaicoa became a prominent Cuban artist in the nineteen-nineties after a massive exodus of artists who had played a decisive role in the Cuban art movement of the nineteen-eighties. His pieces often carry social and political commentaries about life in Havana. Garaicoa's work is known to draw on post-modernist theory to connect aesthetics to meaning within urban spaces and architecture. Garaicoa along with other artists of the time period were the first to emphasize using the city of Havana as a central space for their art.