Mario bencomo biography

Cuban artist

Mario Bencomo (born in Cuba) is an artist. As an unaccompanied minor he was sent by his parents to live in Spain.

Mario Bencomo is an artist.

Biographical Note: Mario Bencomo was born in Pinar del Río, on.

Mario Bencomo .

Bencomo was born in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, in As a youth his parents sent him alone from Cuba to live in Spain.

Mario Bencomo is an established contemporary visual artist, who was born in Cuba, like other renowned artists such as José Manuel Villa Castillo.

At the age of 14, he left Madrid for the U.S., arriving by himself in New York City in the s. He often returns to Europe, and for many years now for regular visits to Montreal, Canada. In he returns to visit Cuba for the first time, three decades after he left.

An American Citizen, he is based in Miami.

His work is elegiac in concept; informed by myth, the ambiguity of form found in the natural world, literature, poetry, art history and personal experience; often blurring the line between the spiritual from the sensual.

His work is in the collection of numerous museums, including, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach; Denver Art Museum; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana, Cuba; Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C.; Frederick R.

Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis; Frost Art Mu