Lesbia Vent Dumois

Lesbia Claudina Vent Dumois (born November 6, 1932 in Cruces, Las Villas, Cuba) is a contemporary Cuban visual artist, whose works include illustration, painting, and engraving.

Vent Dumois studied at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas in Santa Clara, Cuba under Leopoldo Romañach. In 1961 she obtained a UNESCO fellowship to study lithography in Prague. In 1968 she was a member of the Taller Experimental de Gráfica (TEG), in Havana.

From 1980 to 1993 she was Director of Fine Arts at the Casa de las Américas in Havana, and since 1993 is Vice President of the Casa de las Américas.

Individual exhibitions

• 1954 Grabados, in the Galería Habana, Arte y Cinema La Rampa, Havana, Cuba.
• 1961 Engravings, in the Union of Fine Artists, Prague.

Collective exhibitions

• 1952 Exposición de la Estampa Cubana, in the Museo de Bellas Artes de Toluca, Mexico City, Mexico.
• 1959 16th National Exhibition of Prints, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
• 1977 Cuba Peintres d'Aujourd'hui, in the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France.
• 1984 I Bienal de La Habana. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba.
• 1995 1er Salón de Arte Cubano Contemporáneo. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba.

Awards

• 1960, the Prize at the Primer Certamen Latinoamericano de Xilografía, Argentina.
• 1972, Prize in the International Print Biennial Cracow'1972, Kraków, Poland.
• 1996 Alejo Carpentier Medal, Council of State, Republic of Cuba.

Collections

• Casa de las Américas
• Collection of Engravings, in Berlin, Germany.

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