Kcho Alexis Leyva
Kcho Alexis Leyva
Kcho Alexis Leyva Biography
KCHO
Alexis Leiva Machado was born in Isla de la Juventud, Cuba on February, 12. 1970
Lives and work in Havana, Cuba
Studies
1983-86 Elementary Art School of Nueva Gerona, Isla de la Juventud?1986-90 National Art School, Havana
Solo Shows
2014
Strange Day at the beach. Centro de las Artes de San Agustín. Oaxaca. Mexico
Via Crucis. Chancellery Palace of the Vatican. Holy See. Rome. Italy
The Thinker. Contemporary Art Space "The Ship". Kcho Studio Romerillo Laboratory for Art. Havana. Cuba??
2013
Final Monument. Tega Gallery, Milan. Italy
2012
Cuba, Mucho Gusto. National Museum of Brazil. Brasilia, Brazil
Between Melancholy and the construction of the new man. 11 Biennial of Havana, Fortaleza San Carlos de La Cabaña, Havana, Cuba?Sacrifice at the Crossroads. Great Theater of Havana, Havana, Cuba
2011
Lives and allows live. Martha Machado Gallery. Isla de la Juventud. Cuba. Anchored by a dream. Museum 26-7. Santiago de Cuba. Cuba. Monumento Final. Palacio Grimani. 54 Venice Biennial, Italy. Entre la Piedra, el Metal y la Madera. La Jiribilla, Havana, Cuba. Obras Recientes (Oeuvres récentes). Marlborough Gallery, Monaco.Visión Nocturna. Marlborough Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
2010
Vive y deja vivir. Parque Línea y L, La Habana, Cuba. Performed the project for his personal exhibition The dangers of forgetting – even unprecedented– during the Martha Machado Brigade's work in Haiti (March 6 - April 12)
2009 -2008
He made an important series of drawings: Project for his personal exhibition With feet in earth (- still unpublished - charcoal on paper) During the Martha Machado Brigade´s work at the coal community of Soplillar, Ciénaga de Zapata , Matanzas , Cuba
2008
Cadena de Reunificación Familiar. Marlborough Gallery, Chelsea, Nueva York, USA
2007
The notebook of the man with the feet of mud. Juan Ruiz Gallery, Maracaibo, Venezuela. Retarding the Unavoidable Thing. Marlborough Gallery, Madrid, Spain. The Trip. Contemporary Art of Panamá Museum, Panamá City.
2006
Step of the Winds. Joan Prats Gallery, Barcelona, Spain. Lives and allows to live. Ninth Havana Biennal, Plaza Vieja (Old Square) and La Casona Gallery, Havana, Cuba. Kcho’s ship. Saint Barbara Castle, Municipal Patronage of Alicante, Spain. The Cuban Arrives. Alonso Garces Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia.
2005
Self Portrait. ARCO 2005, Madrid, Spain. Other Words. Art and Nature Foundation, Madrid, Spain. Kcho–House number 5–The infinite beaches. Kunsthalle Attersee, Salzburgo, Austria. Nine Cuban Contemporary Painters. Exhibitions Hall “Muelle Antonio I”, Principado de Mónaco. Kcho Immovable Traveller. Louis Carré et. Cie., Paris, France. Kcho, a man of the Island. New World Museum, Houston, Texas, USA. The Animals. Havana Gallery, Havana, Cuba
2004
Art Chicago, United States. Few Words. Contemporary Art Museum of Zulia (Maczul), Maracaibo, Venezuela. Open Studio. Juan Ruiz Gallery, Maracaibo, Venezuela. Astonishment capacity. Fine Arts Museum, Caracas, Venezuela. Red Ideas, Black Ideas. Spativm Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela. Cores of Time. Villa Manuela Gallery, UNEAC (Union of Cuban Writers and Artists), Havana, Cuba
2003
To Forget, scenography for Santiago Feliú's concert). National Theatre, Havana, Cuba. A few meter from the sea. Club Amigo Hotel, Varadero, Matanzas, Cuba. Archipiélago. Casa 5, Havana, Cuba. Archipiélago. Juan Ruiz Gallery, Maracaibo, Venezuela. Drawings. Ambos Mundos Hotel Gallery, Havana, Cuba. Archipiélago. Eighth Havana Biennial, Cuba. Performance Few words. Eighth Havana Biennial, Cuba.
2002
The Jungle. Modern and Contemporary Civic Gallery of Art, Torino, Italy. The Hurricane. Sculpture Museum, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Kcho, Martha’s son. Jose Marti Memorial, Havana, Cuba. A stone in my way. National Museum of the Stamp, Mexico City. The dangers of oblivion. Gabriela Mistral Gallery, Santiago de Chile. Art Cologne 2002. Germany, Joan Guaita Art Gallery. Artíssima 2002. Italy, Joan Guaita Art Gallery.
2001
To Forget. Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. Kcho. Drawings. 106 Gallery, Austin, Texas, United States. There’s nothing written in the sea. Havana Club Foundation Gallery, Havana, Cuba. 25 Stones. Exhibition of lithographs, Print Meeting, 2001, Experimental Studio of Print, Havana, Cuba. Drawing is the support of the idea. Pequeño Espacio Gallery, National Council of the Plastic Arts, Havana, Cuba. Kcho. Joan Guaita Art Gallery, Palm of Majorca, Spain. There’s nothing written in the sea. Drawings and lithographs. Martha Machado Gallery, Nueva Gerona, Isla de la Juventud, Cuba. The Jungle. National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba.