Roger Aguilar Labrada

Roger Sebastián Aguilar Labrada (born 1947 in Pilón, Granma, Cuba) is a Cuban artist specializing in graphic design, painting, drawing and engraving.

Aguilar studied in 1965 at the Escuela Nacional para Instructores de Artes Plásticas in Havana and the following year he became part of the seminary the Taller Experimental de Gráfica (TEG) in Havana, Cuba. Between 1977- 1981, Aguilar was director of this institution and the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC).

Individual Exhibitions
Aguilar's personal exhibitions included these:
 1980 - Calcografías de Roger Aguilar at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana;
 1989 - El Paraíso Perdido (The Lost Paradise) at the Museo de Arte Colonial in Old Havana;
 1994 - Pinturas de Roger Aguilar Labrada at the Galería La Acacia in Havana, Cuba.

Collective Exhibitions
He also formed part of many collective exhibitions:
 1968 - "Exposición de La Havana’68" at the Galería Latinoamericana in the Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba;
 1970 -  "IX Premi Internacional Dibuix Joan Miró", Collegi d’Arquitectes (College of Architects), Barcelona, Spain
 1971 - "Cubaanse Affiches" at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
 1984 - "1a. Bienal de La Habana", Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana
 1997 at "Encuentro de Grabado’97", at the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales(CDAV), Havana, Cuba.

Awards
Aguilar has received many awards and recognitions:
 1975 - Prize in Lithography in Salón Nacional de Grabados, Galería Amelia Peláez, Havana.
 1984 - Honorable Mention, Salón de Artes Plásticas UNEAC, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana.
 1985 - Honorable Mention, Salón de Artes Plásticas UNEAC, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana.

Collections
His works can be found in the permanent collections of:
 Wolfang Schneider Contemporary Graphic Collection, in Germany;
 Collection of Engravings, at the Gallery of New Masters, in Dresden, Germany;
 Museo Matta in Milan, Italy;
 Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana
 Taller Experimental de Gráfica (TEG) in Havana, Cuba.

References
  Jose Veigas-Zamora, Cristina Vives Gutierrez, Adolfo V. Nodal, Valia Garzon, Dannys Montes de Oca; Memoria: Cuban Art of the 20th Century; (California/International Arts Foundation 2001); 
 Jose Viegas; Memoria: Artes Visuales Cubanas Del Siglo Xx; (California International Arts 2004);

External links
 Casa Distalia webpage on the artist 
 Le Petit Bulletin Lyon website news release (French)
 PortaLatino webpage on the artist

Category:1947 births
Category:Cuban contemporary artists
Category:Cuban painters
Category:Modern painters
Category:Living people