Omar Estrada
Birthdate: N/A
Birthplace: Cuba
Based location: Cuba and Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Biography
Omar Estrada (Cuba)
Omar Estrada is a Cuban curator, educator, and interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto. Omar holds a bachelor of arts with a major in painting and drawing education from the National School of Art in Havana (1983), a bachelor of fine arts in printmaking from the University of Arts in Havana (1995), and a master of fine arts from the University of Arts in Havana (2002). Omar is the co-founder of Unpack Studio, a Toronto-based independent platform for artist research and residency collaboration in Cuba. Omar has been on the Board of members of the Latin American Canadian Art Projects in Toronto for over ten years.
Omar Estrada’s studio work is an interdisciplinary practice through installation, sound, video, interactivity, and narrative text to explore the tensions between art and science in the context of questioning social structures and knowledge. His work has been showcased in the solo exhibition Consensus Data Breakthrough (2018) at the Clayton Staples Gallery, McKnight Art Center in Wichita, Kansas, and included in the collective exhibitions From the Heroic to the Absurd (2016), curated by Tamara Toledo, Sur Gallery, Toronto, and the 2015 Havana Biennial in Cuba.
TPox
2014
Sound and performance installation
Image from the artist website project Paternity + Paternity: Cultural representation of data
Solo exhibitions
Omar Estrada statement solo exhibition Consensus Data Breakthrough, Clayton Staples Gallery, McKnight Art Center, Wichita, Kansas, 2018
Omar Estrada lecture transcription Consensus Data Breakthrough, McKnight Art Center, Wichita, Kansas, 2018
Collective exhibitions
Omar Estrada collective exhibition Declassified History: Archiving Latin America, curated by Tamara Toledo, 2019
Omar Estrada collective exhibitions From the Heroic to the Absurd, curated by Tamara Toledo, Sur Gallery, Toronto, 2016
Omar Estrada review by Sophie Poppe Richter, collective exhibition From the Heroic to the Absrud, curated by Tamara Toledo, Sur Gallery, 2016 (Spanish)
Omar Estrada collective exhibition Entre, Dentro, Fuera/Between, Inside, Outside, curated by Dannys Montes and Royce Smith,12th Havana Biennial, Cuba, 2015
Omar Estrada collective exhibition review by Hannah Conry, collective exhibition Entre, Dentro, Fuera/Between, Inside, Outside, curated by Dannys Montes and Royce Smith,12th Havana Biennial, Cuba, 2015
Omar Estrada collective exhibition review by Paloma Checa, collective exhibition Entre, Dentro, Fuera/Between, Inside, Outside, curated by Dannys Montes and Royce Smith,12th Havana Biennial, Cuba, 2015
Omar Estrada collective exhibition review Susan Delson, collective exhibition Entre, Dentro, Fuera/Between, Inside, Outside, curated by Dannys Montes and Royce Smith,12th Havana Biennial, Cuba, 2015
Interviews
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Presentations
Omar Estrada artist talk with Ed Pien, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2022
Omar Estrada video online Studio Critique, Sur Gallery, Toronto, 2021
Omar Estrada video online Studio Critique, Sur Gallery, Toronto, 2021
Omar Estrada press release online Studio Critique, Sur Gallery, Toronto, 2021
Omar Estrada press release artist talk University of Windsor, 2018
Omar Estrada moderator Latin American Speaker Series, 2016
Published work by Omar Estrada
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Published work about Omar Estrada
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Press release
Omar Estrada press release ArtSciSalon, Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Science, Toronto, 2014
Omar Estrada schedule ArtSciSalon, Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Science, Toronto, 2014
List of Grants, Awards and Projects
Omar Estrada sound editor and advisor for project Present, Past, Future, by Ed Pien, ongoing since 2014