Osvaldo Yero

Osvaldo Yero immigrated to Canada in 1997 and currently lives in Toronto, where he works in sculpture and installation. Yero’s artistic practice is concerned with his experience as part of the growing diaspora of Cuba. Politically and socially charged, his work contends with issues of national identity and plays with the boundaries of kitsch and high art. His solo exhibitions include Passage at Access Gallery, Vancouver in 2010; Loop at galeria 23 y 12, Havana, Cuba in 2008; and Landmark at the Belkin Satellite, Vancouver in 2002. Yero has been included in international group exhibitions, including Nuit Blanche in Toronto in 2006 and Contemporary Art From Cuba: Irony and Survival on the Utopian Island at Arizona State University in 2001. His work is in the permanent collections of Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba; Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff; and Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany.

University of Toronto, 2019