Humberto Calzada
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Humberto Calzada
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Humberto Calzada 25 May 1944 Havana, Cuba |
| Nationality | Cuban-American |
| Education | University of Miami |
| Known for | painting |
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in museums:
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| Movement | Contemporary |
| Awards | Cintas Foundation Fellowship 1979, 1981. Painting Fellowship Division of Cultural Affairs, State of Florida |
in museums:
Humberto Calzada (born May 25, 1944 in Havana) is a Cuban-American artist living in Miami, Florida since 1960.
Calzada's family left Cuba shortly after the communist takeover of Fidel Castro, on October 11, 1960. He attended and graduated from Coral Gables High School. He would later attend the University of Miami where he graduated as an Industrial Engineering in 1966, and the University of Miami where he also earned an MBA in Finance in 1968.
In 1976, Calzada decided to pursue painting as a full-time career. The subject of most of his art is the architecture of Cuba particularly Havana's colonial and neo-classical architecture.
Calzada's work is in numerous museums as well as in private, corporate, and public collections. In 2006, the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami presented a thirty-year Retrospective of his work titled "Humberto Calzada: In Dreams Awake." Calzada resides in Miami.
Humberto Calzada's art can, generally, be divided into phases or categories, but not into periods. They are phases in the sense that, during a specific time he painted primarily that category of painting, though not to the exclusion of all else. But they are "categories" in the sense that, throughout his career, he has produced works that have characteristics of any of the different classifications or will revisit any past phase. The general major classifications are:
Solo exhibits of Calzada's artwork between 1975 and 2006.
Shared exhibits of Calzada's artwork between 1978 and 2010.
Eduardo Montes-Bradley (Director) (January 2010). Calzada (TV Movie / DVD). USA: Heritage Film Project.
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