Eddy Ochoa
Guzmán - Biography
(Guantánamo, Cuba – 1952)
Self-taught in old painting, drawing and watercolors,
composer of children’s music
STUDIES
- Graduated from Pinar del Río Provincial
Arts School
- Two years of study at the José Joaquín
Tejada Provincial Arts School, Santiago de Cuba
- Member of the Union of Writers and Artists of
Cuba (UNEAC)
- Member of the Ecoart-Ecología y Arte Project
of Santiago de Cuba
COLLECTIVE SHOWS
- 1975: Young Artists Provincial Show, Santiago
de Cuba
- 1976: 1st New Landscape Show, Santiago de Cuba
- 1977: 2nd New Landscape Show, Santiago de Cuba
- 1978: 3rd New Landscape Show, Santiago de Cuba
- 1979: 1st City Show, Oriente Gallery, Santiago
de Cuba
- 1980: 2nd City Show, Oriente Gallery, Santiago
de Cuba
- 1983: Caribbean Roots Festival, Santiago de Cuba;
5th City Show, Oriente Gallery, Santiago de Cuba
- 1985: Caribbean Culture Festival, Santiago de
Cuba
- 1987: November 30th competition, Universal Art
Gallery, Santiago de Cuba
- 1988: November 30th competition, Universal Art
Gallery, Santiago de Cuba
- 1989: November 30th competition, Universal Art
Gallery, Santiago de Cuba; Cuban Artists in Grenada
- 1997: Spring Festival, Bordeaux, France
- 1998: Cultural Workshop Artists, Madrid, Spain
- 1999: Cuban Artists, Pollyanna Restaurant, Jamaica
- 2000: “Fin del Siglo” (End of the
Century), Emilio Bacardí Museum, Santiago
de Cuba
- 2001: “Presencia Infinita” (Infinite
Presence), De Bodden Buen Arte, Santo Domingo, Dominican
Republic
- 2002: “Grandes Maestros en Pequeños
Formatos” (Great Masters of the Small Format),
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; City Show, Oriente
Gallery, Santiago de Cuba; Santiago Artists, Oriente
Gallery, Santiago de Cuba
- 2003-2004 Meridian International Center, Washington,
D.C.
- 2003-2004 Lighthouse Center for the Arts, Tequesta,
Florida
ONE-MAN SHOWS
- 1989: “Dos Facetas del Paisaje” (Two
Facets of Landscapes), Elvira Cape Library, Santiago
de Cuba
- 1990: “Dos Paisajes” (Two Landscapes),
Elvira Cape Library, Santiago de Cuba
- 1998: “Arte y Ecología” (Art
and Ecology), Tomás Rumay Museum, Santiago
de Cuba
- 2001: “Sueños de Medianoche”
(Midnight Dreams), Casas Reales Museum, Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic
- 2002: “Sueños de Medianoche II”
(Midnight Dreams II), De Bodden Buen Arte, Santo
Domingo, Dominican Republic
PRIZES
- 1980: National Art and Literature Encounter, Matanzas,
Cuba; honorable mention, 6th of June Contest, Havana,
Cuba
- 1981: 6th of June Contest, Havana, Cuba; National
Art and Literature Prize, Bayamo, Cuba
- 1982: 6th of June Contest, Havana, Cuba
- 1983: 6th of June Contest, Havana, Cuba
- 1991: Honorable mention, Emilia Bacardí
National Landscape Painting Show, Oriente Gallery,
Santiago de Cuba
- 1996: Honorable mention, Singing to the Sun Provincial
Festival, Santiago de Cuba
- 1999: Singing to the Sun Provincial Festival,
Santiago de Cuba; Honorable mention, Singing to
the Sun National Festival, Havana, Cuba
- 2000: Best Composition for Children, Singing to
the Sun National Festival, Havana, Cuba; Popularity
Prize in Composition for Children, Singing to the
Sun National Festival, Havana, Cuba
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