Juan Boza - installations
- Artist/Author/Producer: Juan Boza
- Confronting Bodies: Cuban government under Fidel Castro
- Dates of action: 1960+
- Location: Cuba
- Description of the Art Work
- His paintings and multi-media installations deal with Afro-Cuban imagery.
- Description of incident
- In 1960 he was expelled from San Alejandro Academy of Art and the
National Art School in Cubanacan, for political reasons. He got a job as
a lithographer where he worked until 1971, when the Congress of Education
and Culture led to official exclusion and censorship of many artists. He
was fired as a result.
- Results of incident
- After contemplating suicide, he left Cuba in 1980, via Mariel to Key
West, Florida. Today he resides in New York City.
Source: "Outside Cuba", ed. Ileana Fuentes-Perez, Graciella Cruz-Taura, Ricardo
Pau-Llosa