Esterio Segura Mora is a graduate of the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana and represented Cuba in the Fifth Havana Bienal in 1994. Segura Mora is known for incorporating poetic and humorous elements into his paintings, sculptures, and installations. The Cuban artist draws inspiration from mythology, religious folk art, and Spanish Baroque.
Esterio Segura Mora, born in 1970 in Santiago de Cuba, studied at the School of Plastic Arts in Camagüey (1982-1985) and at the Provincial School of Plastic Arts and Ballet. Since 1997, he has exhibited at international art fairs such as ARCO-Chicago, ARTEMIS BA in Buenos Aires, Art Paris, Art Basel Miami, Pulse, and Arte America, to name a few.
His works are housed in collections of renowned museums such as the National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana, the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York, the Bronx Museum in New York, the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, California, USA, the Museum of Latin American Art at the University of Essex, England, and others.
Education
1994 Graduate of the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), Havana.
1989 Graduate of the Escuela Profesional de Arte, Camagüey, Cuba.
1985 Completion of studies at the Escuela Elemental de Arte, Camagüey, Cuba.
2019
Gallery Havana and Dakar Biennale
2017
Permanent installation “Goodbye My Love Seven Days a week” at Tampa International Airport
2016
53 m³ of Art. Romerías de Mayo. Provincial Gallery of Holguín.
32 m³ of Art. Caribbean Festival. René Valdés Gallery. Caguayo Foundation. Santiago de Cuba
2015
Open Studio. 12th Havana Biennial. Cerro, Havana.
Tropical West. Factoría Habana Gallery. Office of the Historian, Havana, Cuba.
Leo Brouwer Music Festival, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana.
2014
Exhibition at Troika, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Exhibition at Salt Fine Art Gallery, Long Beach, California, USA.
Exhibition at the Museum of Latin American Art, California, USA.
Exhibition at the Rubin Foundation, New York, USA.
2013
Solo exhibition for the V Festival de Música de Cámara Leo Brouwer, Meliá Cohíba Hotel, Cuba.
Set design for “Goodbye my Love” for the V Festival de Música de Cámara Leo Brouwer. National Theater of Cuba.
Public presentation of “Goodbye my Love” at Greenwich Art Counsel, USA.
“Goodbye my Love” at Anita’s Way, 4 Times Square, New York, USA.
“How to be a Whale and Love a Cat” at Salt Fine Art Gallery, California, USA.
2012
“Goodbye my Love” at José Martí International Airport, XI Havana Biennial, Havana.
“Home-Made Submarine” at Villa Manuela, XI Havana Biennial 2012.
2011
“The End is Never on the Horizon” at Servando Cabrera Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
“De tal palo tal astilla” (Two-person exhibition with Aisar Jalil) at Centro de Desarrollo de Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba.
2019
2017
Flughafen
2016
Santiago de Cuba
2015
Kuba.
2014
2013
Meliá Cohíba, Kuba.
Bühnenbild. Nationaltheater Kuba.
2012
Havanna-Biennale
2011
In 1988, he received the prize from the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC). From 1995 to 1996, he was an Artist in Residence at the Gaswork Studio in London. In 1997, he was an Artist in Residence at the Ludwig Forum for International Art in Aachen, Germany.