José Yaque; Image from El Espacio 23
BODE is pleased to share that José Yaque is a current resident at El Espacio 23 in Miami, Florida. El Espacio 23 is a contemporary art space founded by collector and philanthropist Jorge M. Pérez. Located within a repurposed 28,000 square foot warehouse in Miami’s Allapattah neighborhood, El Espacio 23 serves artists, curators and the general public with regular exhibitions, residencies and a variety of special projects drawn from the Pérez Collection.
El Espacio 23 houses three apartments and a shared work space reserved for residency programs. The residency includes living space, shared studio space, and a production budget for artists and curators across various stages in their career, with a diverse range of disciplines and ethnic backgrounds. Programming is year-round and the length of the stay depends on the interest of the curator or the complexity of the artists’ projects. Residents are selected by El Espacio 23’s curatorial team within the context of the space’s exhibition program, the city of Miami and the Jorge M. Pérez Collection.
José Yaque was born in Manzanillo, Cuba, in 1985 and graduated in Fine Arts at the Higher Institute of Art in Havana in 2011. In 2015 was invited to the 12th Bienal of Havana and the same year started to work with GalleriaContinua, wich represent him internationaly. He has participated in many group and solo exhibitions and Art events such as the Bienale of Venice 2017, and Art Unlimited 2018, Basel. He contrubuted with the scenery of the Opera Moses in Egypt, at Giuseppe Verdi Theater, Pizza. Both his paintings and instalations are part of interesting collections like Voorlinder Museum and National Museum of Fine Arts, Cuba, among others. At present he lives and works between Havana and Madrid.
