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Antonia Eiriz
Havana, Cuba 1929 ; d Miami, Florida 1995
Period: Modern
 Antonia Eiriz was born in Havana, on April 1st, 1929 and died in Miami, United States on 1995. In 1957, she graduated from San Alejandro Fine Arts Academy as professor of Painting and Drawing. She started group exhibitions in 1951, highlighting Mexico, New York, Sao Paulo and Caracas. In 1959, received the Prize granted in Cuba by the French Alliance. In 1961, obtained an Honour Mention at the Vl Bienal of Sao Paulo, Brazil. In 1963, she received the Fisrt Prize in Xilography in the International Contest of Engrave, sponsored by Casas de las Américas. In 1964, exhibited Paintings and Assemblages at Lago de Mexico Gallery. Her pictorial work is qualified by experts as very singular, creative with a great expressive strength in its expresionist content, some perceive in her artworks a goyesque influence and a strong atmosphere of sorrows, pains and apprehensions. Her themes attack mediocrity, dogmas, lucrative topics. She painted murals for commercial centers and national enterprises; designing in adittion clothing for theater representations, she also made the cover of different national publications. In the 70s, she started and developed an artisan movement about paper maché which was spread out all over the island joining children and adults. Among her exhibitions we can find: Drawings on ink in Latin American Cultural Space (Paris Francia 1985); Painting, Municipal Museum of Guanabacoa (La Habana, Cuba, 1987); Reencounters, Havana Gallery ( Havana, Cuba, 1991); Expositions of drawings on ink, Duches country Art Association Barret House Gallery (Nueva York, USA, 1993); Weiss/Sori Fine Art Coral Gables (Florida, USA, 1993); Antonia Eiriz, First Posthumous Homage, La Acacia Gallery (Havana, Cuba 1995). She participated in multiple collective expositions in Brazil, Chile, Italy, Spain and Cuba. Many of her works are on view at National Fine Arts Museum, in Havana.
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