Mirta Cerra

Mirta Cerra was born in Bejucal, Cuba on April 23, 1904. Cerra was a Cuban painter. She studied from 1928 until 1934 at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro, Havana, and at the Art Students League, New York, between 1935-1936.

She had a solo exhibition in 1943 titled Exposición de Pintura Mirta Cerra at the Lyceum in Havana Cuba. In 1950 she showed her works at the Club de las Naciones Unidas, Washington, D.C. In 1955 she had a show in New York titled Mirta Cerra, at the Galería Sudamericana. Later in 1983 some of hers works were exhibited as Vida Plena. Pinturas y Dibujos de Mirta Cerra at Galería L in Havana. Mirta Cerra died September 26, 1986 in Havana, Cuba)Ulises Bretaña (born in Pinar del Río, Cuba in 1957) is a self-educated artist, who has been described as “a mixture of will-power and pure talent, natural, with no academic molds.” In Mario Vizcaíno’s words, “This artist is moved by several subjects: from environment conservation to the recreation of universal symbols, such as El Quixote, including evidences of the absurd, grief, sadness, or happiness. More than the divine, the humane is what moves Bretaña.” Bretaña has participated in solo and group exhibitions in the Dominican Republic, Italy, Jamaica, Panama, Paris, Puerto Rico, Spain, and the United States. The majority of his works are in private collections around the world.