DATA OF INTEREST
GUEST:
SAMUEL RIERA
HOST:
TANIA BRUGUERA
Synopsis:
The work of Riera Studios in the development of so-called “peripheral” or outsider art and the promotion of Art Brut on the island are the topics explored in this conversation between Samuel Riera and Tania Bruguera.
Bio:
He studied at the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro, specializing in Engraving. In 1998 he opted for studies at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), specializing in Graphic Arts, until 2001. He then worked as a professor of engraving at the San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts until March 2016. He is a founding member of the Postal Gallery project (2003). He has been awarded the Tamarind Institute Fellowship, among others. In 2005 he was awarded the Grand Prize for Graphics sponsored by the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and the Embassy of Spain in Cuba. In 2019 she integrated the international project Picturing Climate: Participatory Photography and Narrative Storytelling for Climate Change Education, supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, United Kingdom (AHRC). He has participated in more than 100 group exhibitions in Cuba and abroad. Today he exhibits works in the permanent collection of the First Museum of Cuban Art in Vienna, Austria, and private collections in Spain, Denmark, United States, Vienna, Japan, Venezuela and Cuba. In 2012 he opened his studio Riera Studio. A year later he created the Art Brut Project Cuba, which he directs until today.
