Osmeivy Ortega Pacheco

Osmeivy Ortega Pacheco (born 1980) is a Cuban visual artist based in Havana, Cuba. He works primarily in large-scale, monochromatic lithographs featuring the human body and animals.

Biography Pacheco was born in 1980 in Havana. He originally spent four years studying to become a lawyer, but changed his focus to art. He apprenticed at the Manero Workshop in Cuba. He learned about lithography at the Instituto Superior de Arte, also known as the University of Arts. He spent his time at the university working on ways to advance the development of Cuba's culture. Because paper can be a difficult material to acquire in Cuba, In 2017, Pacheco was at Otahuhu College in New Zealand during a five-week artist-in-residence fellowship where he taught woodcarving to Maori students. Throughout this time, he was visited by the art department of King's College and worked alongside teachers and students.

Education

Osmeivy Ortega Pacheco first studied at the Manero Workshop. Later on he graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro" in Havana in 2003.

Artworks His art works are mainly large-scale pieces, and can reach eight feet tall in height. The titles he selects are personal, and reference a special part of his life. La Libertad se Defiende y se Muere por Ella, 2015, Three-color lithograph, Paper Type: Soft white Somerset satin, 18 x24 , Collaborating Printer: Bill Lagattuta, Edition of 15 Sin Titulo (Untitled), 2016 Mural for Auckland Airport, Otahuhu College Art Students and Osmeivy Ortega Pacheco created the mural for the international airport of Auckland, 2017-2018 Untitled, 2012, Woodcut print on archival paper, 39

Exhibitions He has exhibited throughout Cuba, including at the Havana Biennial. Ortega completed a residency at the Tamarind Institute in 2015 and held an exhibition. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Art Museum of the Americas, New Mexico's Tamarind Institute, +Solo ShowsExhibitionOrganizationLocationDatePortfolio series: Osmeivy OrtegaMuseum of Latin American Art - MOLAALong Beach, California, USAMay 11, 2019 - October 13, 201982°W / Six Degrees of Separation: Pop-Up Exhibit – Woodcuts by Osmeivy OrtegaGainesville's Gallery ProtocolGainesville, FloridaJanuary 14, 15, 16 (no year)

+Group ShowsExhibitionOrganizationLocationDateCuban Printmakers: Osmeivy Ortega Pacheco and Sandra RamosChilds GalleryBoston, Massachusetts, USAJuly 9, 2013 - August 21, 2013Childs Gallery at IFPDA Print FairChilds GalleryBoston, Massachusetts, USANovember 6, 2013 - November 9, 201320/20: Contemporary Cuban PrintmakingHighpoint Center for PrintmakingMinneapolis, Minnesota, USAFebruary 28, 2020 - April 11, 2020

Honors and awards Osmeivy Ortega Pacheco received both the Honorable Mention award from the Tamarind Institute of the University of New México in 2004, and the Special Mention award from the 10th La Joven Estampa Prize in 2009.