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Antonio Eligio (Tonel), Tuesday September 4th at 9:00PM
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Visual Artist, Art Critic, Curator. Born in Havana,
Cuba, 1958. Graduated with a degree in art history from The
University of Havana, Cuba, 1982. His work has been exhibited
extensively in Cuba, Latin America, Europe and North America. He
is represented in several collections, such as National Museum of
Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba; Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali,
Colombia; Ludwig Forum , Aachen, Germany; Arizona State University
Museum, Tampe, Arizona, USA; Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art,
Florida, USA; Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania, USA; Van Reekum Museum, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands.
His most recent one-person exhibition was "Lessons of Solitude",
at Art in General, New York, Jan.-Feb. 2001.
As a writer and curator he has worked extensively in Cuba, Latin America, Europe,
and the United States, with institutions such as the Centro
Wifredo Lam, Havana; Bienal de Sa› Paulo's Special Events, Brazil;
Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany; Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany;
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, U.K.; Arizona State University
Museum; and the Kunsthalle Wien, Austria. He has been a tutor at
the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, from 1987 to 1997; at
the Facultad de Artes y Letras, Universidad de La Habana (1989,
2000) and at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, U.K.
(1999). 
His articles and essays on Cuban contemporary art have
been published regularly in catalogues, magazines, and newspapers
in Cuba and abroad, and translated into English, German, Dutch and
Portuguese. Tonel was awarded the prize for art criticism by the
Cuban Section of the International Art Critics Association (AICA)
in 1988. He is the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation
Fellowship in the Humanities (1997-98) and a John S. Guggenheim
Foundation Fellowship for painting and installation art (1995).