Cuban-born Afro-Caribbean artist examining cultural memory through painting.
Luis restoy. Cuba,1988.
Cuban visual artist based in New York. His work has been developed in supports from painting, drawing, to tattoo. It explores, with great poetic content, the sensory links between the elements of nature and our collective memory. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions and is part of private collections in the United States, Italy, Spain, Germany, and Brazil. He has studied at the Higher Institute of Art in Havana, Cuba. Founder of MalaForma Studio in Brooklyn NY.
Luis Restoy
917 797 9500
jluizo88art@gmail.com
612 Ocean Ave. 11226
Brooklyn. NYC
@luis_restoy
@luizo_tattoo
Professional summary
Visual artist based in New York. . Artist resident and chief curator MalaForma studio & residency in Brooklyn NY. His work has developed in media from painting, drawing, installation to body art. His work investigates the effects of totalitarianism in the African Caribbean. With great poetic and personal content, it explores the sensory links between the elements of nature, power relations and our collective memory.
Graduated from (ISA) Higher Institute of Art in Cuba in 2014. He has participated in various exhibition projects, collective and individual, together with emerging curators on the Cuban scene starting in 2015. Founder of O208 Studio, Havana, Cuba (2014) and MalaForma Studio, NewYork, USA (2019) His work was exhibited at the Museum of Colonial Art in Havana and has been shown in numerous exhibitions.
Education
2017- Facultad de Artes Visuales. University of Art ( ISA) Havana, Cuba.
2008- Escuela de instructores de Arte. Especialidad Artes Visuales. Cuba
Solo exhibitions (SELECTIONS)
2022- A poem on the skin. Open studio, Sunset Park Wide Open. Brooklyn NY.
2021- The last summer. MalaForma studio. Brooklyn NY.
2018- Al otro lado del Límite. Art Colonial Museum. La Habana, Cuba.
Collective exhibitions (SELECTIÓNS)
2024- Future is now experience. Collective Art exhibition. Soho, New York.
2023- 10 x 10 =100 Art show and sale to benefit CAST ( Center for advocacy, support & transformation) Southold NY.
2022- Comisión Depuradora Rap sounds with MTK. Documenta Fifteen. Kassel, Germany
2020- The Future in Now experience. Brooklyn NYC
2019- Latitud. Exchange Arts experience. XIII Havana Bienal. Studio O'reilly 208. Havana Cuba
2019- Pots IT. Galeano Gallery. Havana, Cuba.
2018- Incubation .Frechard Gallery. Pittsburgh. PA. EUA.
2018- Phipps conservatory. Pittsburgh. PA. EUA.
2017-Intromisión. Centro de Desarrollo de Artes Visuales. Havana, Cuba.
2016-El Reverso del rostro. Riviera Hotel. La Habana. Cuba
2015- Juntos pero no revueltos. Salón Provincial de Artes Plásticas y Diseño. Santa Clara.
Experience
2022- Tattoo artist resident in MalaForma Studio
2021- Tattoo artist resident in Baneul Tattoo. NY
2020- Tattoo artist resident. Anarchy16 Tattoo. NJ
2020- Co-founder. MalaForma Studio. Brooklyn NY
2016- Co-founder. Art Gallery Studio O208. Havana Cuba.
Languages
English- spanish