Yanet Martínez Molina
The artist is a visual creator born in 1983 in Villa Clara, Cuba. She began her formal art education at the Oscar Fernández Morera Academy of Fine Arts in Trinidad, Cuba, where she studied from 1998 to 2002 with a specialization in Painting. She later pursued Scenic Design from 2003 to 2008 at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana. Continuing her academic development, she completed a Master’s Degree in Art Studies from 2018 to 2020 at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.
Throughout her artistic career, she has held four solo exhibitions and participated in more than forty group shows, both in Cuba and internationally. Among her notable exhibitions are A Drop of Poison in Sydney and at the Berne Davis Art Center in Fort Myers (2025), Climbing While Pretending to Reach the Stars at Galería Nina Menocal in Mexico City (2024), Carmen Sends Me at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MOCA) in Miami (2023), Continuous Stops in Mérida, Mexico (2022), and Mujeres in da House at Casa del Tiempo in Mexico City (2022). She also participated in Docum3nta M, El Charco y la Curva, and Sonnet of Fidelity, all held in Mexico City between 2021 and 2022. Her earlier exhibitions include Imán IV (2019), during the National Abstract Art Encounter at Collage Habana Gallery, and Gestural Suggestions (2018) in Santiago de Cuba.
In 2017, she presented the two-person show Simbiosis in Barranquilla, Colombia, as well as Intervened Cartographies (Mexico–Cuba) at the Provincial Gallery of Cienfuegos. That same year, she participated in the National Abstract Art Encounter at the René Portocarrero Gallery of the Cuban National Theater and in the Cruzada de Mayo Abstracto in Las Tunas. In 2015, she exhibited at the VISUARTE Salon in Cienfuegos and in La Palabra Ajena, a collateral show of the 12th Havana Biennial. Earlier in 2009, she was part of the ReMix (Cuba–Canada) project, presented both as a collateral event of the 10th Havana Biennial and in Canada. In 2013, her work was featured in the Cuban Painters exhibition at Galérie Au fil de l’art in Quimper, France. Her earliest exhibitions include Own Sound 2 (2003) at “Proyecto Circo,” a collateral event of the 8th Havana Biennial, and participation in the First Biennial of Trinidad, Cuba.
Beyond her studio practice, she has worked as a designer for film, theater, and television. She received awards at the September 5th Salon of the Cienfuegos Art Center in 2002, 2003, and 2004; earned an honorable mention at the Elsinor Festival in 2005 at the Faculty of Performing Arts, ISA, Havana; and received additional recognition at the VISUARTE Salon in Cienfuegos. In 2018, she was awarded for her participation in the abstract painting project La Cruzada in Las Tunas, Cuba. Her work has been featured in publications such as Abstraction in Cuban Painting (2016) by Luis García Peraza and is part of the collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MOCA) in Miami, Florida.
