IVONNE FERRER
“Who in the World am I?” cried Alice.
Lewis Carroll. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Bio
Ivonne Ferrer, born in Cuba in 1968, graduated from the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts and the René Portocarrero National Silk-Screen Printing Workshop located in Havana, Cuba. Her first individual exhibition in her home country was held at the Fidelio Ponce Gallery in 1990. In 1990, she left the Cuban art scene to reside in Spain, where she became part of the Spanish artistic circuit at the Universal Expo Seville 92, Arts Pavilion. In 1994, she exhibited in Copenhagen alongside two masters of visual arts, Fernado Somoza and Julio Girona.
She emigrated to the United States in 1995 and featured in the documentary “Marked by Paradise” by Mari Rodríguez Ichaso in 1997. In 1997, she produced “Cuban Trinomial” at the Botello Gallery, Puerto Rico, and in 2001, launched “www.ivonne.com” at the Durban Segnini Gallery in Miami. She has received prestigious art residencies such as the Pepe Herrera Graphic Workshop in Madrid, the Fuera de Serie Graphic Workshop in Madrid, and The Cuban Art Alliance in Sarasota. In 2003, she was a special guest at the ARCALE Art Fair at the Palace of Congresses and Exhibitions of Castile and León, Salamanca, and the Municipality of Salamanca, Spain. In 2004, commissioned by Arte y Naturaleza, Madrid, she created an artist’s book titled “Cine Ivonne.” She participated in the “Soupe d’escargot” exhibition at the French Alliance in Miami. “(R) Evolution Comics” was another of her solo exhibitions in 2012 at the Aluna Art Foundation, Miami. In 2014, she conducted workshops for art teachers from Miami Public Schools at the Pérez Art Museum (PAMM) and in 2018 at the Kendall Art Center.
She has also curated significant exhibitions, such as Agave y Caña at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Miami in 2015. She was selected for the public art project, Xico in Miami, at Museum Park, Downtown, Miami, in 2017. She served as Coordinator for the book “Artists in Purgatory: Cuban Artists in the Reynardus Collection of the Cuban Art Alliance” in 2017. In 2022, she participated in the Miami Fiber Biennial, “Threading the City: Subverting Materials: Textile and Fiber Art by Women Artists,” at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas.
She represented the Fine Art Ceramic Center at the annual NCECA 23 Conference in Cincinnati, OH. Since 2020, she has been the director of the Fine Art Ceramic Center at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas.
Public Collections
El Fondo del Fondo, Collection of the FCBC, Havana, Cuba. Rene Portocarrero National Silk Screen Print Shop Collection, Havana, Cuba. Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), California, USA. María Zambrano Collection, Málaga, Spain. Cristóbal Gabarron Fundation, Valladolid, Spain. Casa de Galicia de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. Cape Canaveral Library, Florida, USA. Sicilia Serón Resort, Jaraba de Aragón, Spain. Arte y Naturaleza Collection, Madrid, Spain. Pepe Herrera Print Shop, Madrid, Spain. Diputación de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Spain. Cuban Master Collection (CMC), Miami, USA. The Rodríguez Collection. Miami. USA. Boti Llanes Collection, Havana, Cuba. Jorge Reynardus Collection, Sarasota, USA. Enlace-Arte Contemporáneo, Lima, Perú.
Curriculum
Selected Solo Exhibitions 2024 -Domina. SB Architects. Coral Gables. FL. USA 2023 -Compendium. Marco Island Center for the Art. Marco Island, FL. USA. 2019 - Sex, Design and Mertonymy/Art Attack. Kendall Art Center. Miami. USA. 2012 (R) Evolution Comics, Aluna Art Foundation. Miami, USA. 2000 - WWW. IVONNE. COM, Durban Segnini Gallery, Miami, USA. 1996 - Trinomio Cubano, Botello Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico 1994 - Fisiología Decorativa, Taller 4, Granada, Spain. 1993 - La Temperatura de Dios, Lux Gallery, Barcelona, Spain. 1990 - Atribuciones, Fidelio Ponce de León Gallery, FCBC, Havana, Cuba. Group Exhibitions. 2024 -Feria de Arte Venezia 24. Scuola Grande San Teodoro. Venecia. -Candle Lights. Artefactus Gallery. Miami 2023 -Cabaiguan Habana Madrid Río Bravo. Miami. FL. -Art Haven Project. Visit to artists' studios. Miami. FL. -Art in motion. Guest artist. Fashion with artists' designs. Public Library N Miami Beach. Miami. FL -Paisajes Líricos. Galería ACA, Santander. Spain. -The American Denim. MIFA Gallery, in collaboration with FAMA. Miami. FL -Artistic License III. Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas. Miami. FL. -Color Culture: Our History and Heritage Through Fiber. The Thousand Island Art Center, in collaboration with FAMA. Clayton. NY -Unlikely Assemblages, as part of NCECA. The Annex Gallery. Cincinnati. OH. -Halando parejo. Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas. Miami. FL. -Women of Vision. Doral Contemporary Art Museum. Ninoska Huerta Project. Doral. FL. -Artists set the table. Cypress Gallery. Hartvest Project at Pinecrest Gardens. Miami. FL. -The world is a Handkerchief. Coral Gables Museum. FL. -Cut, Tear, Rupture and Overlay. Edge Zones Art Center. Miami. FL. -Blue Chips, at Club Gallery in Citadel. Miami. FL. -Komuna Inspiro. 7 Plus One Art Project. Rev. Jorge A. Sardiñas Gallery. ST. Thomas University. Miami Gardens. FL. -The Feminine Creation. UVA Gallery. Coral Gables. FL. -A mí me manda Carmen. Museum of Contemporary Art of the America (MocaAmerica). Miami. FL. 2022 -The Blu Prnt. Bridge Red Studios. North Miami. FL. -Subverting Materials: Textile and Fiber Art by Women Artists. Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas. As part of Threading the City. Organized by FAMA. Miami. FL. -Beyond the plate. Contemporary ceramics The Museum of Arts & Sciences (MOAS). Daytona. Edward E and Jane B Ford Gallery. - The Woman’s Soul. Ninoska Huerta Gallery. Miami. FL. - Contemporary Caribbean. DCS Contemporary Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany. - Crossing Borders. Artists from the Middle East & the Americas. Miami Dade College Museum of Art and Design. - Crossing Borders. Nova Southeastern University, NSU. Cotilla Gallery: Artists from the Middle East & the Americas” - Crossing Borders. Artists from the Middle East & the Americas. Arts Warehouse. Delray Beach. FL. - Women Artists in the Rodriguez Collection. MOCAA. Miami. FL 2021 - Family Ties. Kendall Art Center. Miami. FL - Fine Art on the plate. Sidney and Berne Davis Art Center. Fort Mayer. FL. - Timelines in Cuban Art. Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center. Miami, FL. - CROSSING BORDERS: Artists From The Middle East & Latin America”. Kendall Art Center in collaboration with Khawam Gallery -Cuban Tres. The Annex Gallery. Cincinnati. Ohio. -Women Artists in the Rodriguez Collection. Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona. FL, with the publication of the book Women Artists in the Rodriguez Collection. Edited by the Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona. FL. 2020 -Eje Textil. Museo del reciclaje. Puerto Rico. -Crosscurrents: Contemporary Selections from the Rodriguez Collection. Foosaner Art Museum. Melbourne. Florida -Fine Arts on the Plate. Miami Art Week. Kendall Art Center. Miami, FL. -Art Looking North. Cuban Art in the Rodriguez Collection. Sidney and Berne Davis Art Center. Fort Mayer. FL. -Women Artists in the Rodriguez Collection. Kendall Art Center. Miami. USA. 2019 -Hilo. Textil en el Arte Contemporáneo. Galería de arte UPR. Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez. Puerto Rico. -The Repeating Island. Contemporary Art of the Caribbean. Cuba/Puerto Rico/República Dominicana. Kendall Art Center. Miami. 2018 -Against Gravity. Doral Contemporary Art Museum (DORCAM). Doral, USA. -Reference Cited. Florida International University’s Steven and Dorothea Green Library. Miami. USA. -Brinquedos para Ícaro. Quinta de Santiago Museum. Portugal. -Experiencia del coleccionismo familiar. La Modernidad en el Sur. Casa América, Madrid, Spain. 2017 - Xico in Miami. Latin American Artists. Arte Público. Museum Park. Miami. USA. - ABOUT SERIGRAFÍA ARTISTICA CUBANA all you need to know about the Cuban Serigraphy... Kendall Art Center. Miami. USA - ACROSS TIME. Cuban Artists from vanguardist to contemporaries. Kendall Art Center. Miami. USA. - Poems. 9 Visual Artists Exhibition. Kendall Art Center, Miami. USA. - Auction Miami Seventh Annual Friends of Caritas Cubana. Miami. USA. - Artists in Purgatory an exhibition of Jorge Reynardus Collection. Kendall Art Center. Miami. USA. 2016 - Cuban Art from the Jorge Reynardus Collection. Selvy Gallery, The Ringling College Campus. Sarasota. USA. - Closeup. Eight Contemporary Cuban Artists. Webber Gallery. At College of Central Florida, Ocala. USA. 2015 - Plástica Cubana Generación 80’s. Museo de Linares, A.C. México. - Agave y Caña. Instituto Cultural de México, Miami. USA. -Artistic License, Gallery 91, Wynwood, Miami. USA 2014 - Women at the edge of an island. Museum of de Cuban Art, Miami/Aluna Foundation Gallery. Miami. USA. 2013 - Fragments Ivonne Ferrer and Aldo Menéndez, Marcano/Maldonado Gallery, Miami, USA 2012 - Cortadito, Cafe Collection, Cremata Gallery, Miami, USA. 2011 - An International Celebration of Martin Luther King’s. “TINC UN SOMNI”. Expositions Hall of the Government of Andorra La Vella, Spain. 2010 - Soupe d’ Escargot, Carre Rouge Gallery, Alliance Francaise, Miami. USA. 2009 - Arteamericas, The Latin American Art Fair 2009, Cremata Gallery, Miami Beach Convention Center, USA. - La Isla expandida, Huelva Museum, Huelva, Spain. - Tres cubanos entre Rías, Casa de Galicia en Madrid, Madrid, Spain. 2008 - El Doncel. Itinerant exposition, County of Cuenca, Spain. 2007 - Pick off Basel, Great Works in petite format, Obini Gallery, Miami, USA. 2006 - Art Fair Miami Zones 2006, Design District, Miami, USA. 2005 -Permanent Collection. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Vélez-Málaga, Spain. -Tribute to María Zambrano, Museo de las Américas, Madrid, Spain. - 12/12 Miami printmakers and overview, Lurie Galleries, Miami, USA. - Masters Mystery Art Show, Ritz Carlton, South Beach, USA. 2004 -Cinema Ivonne. Exhibition and Book Edited. Five serigraphs of the artist dedicated to the 7th Art. Arte y Naturaleza Gallery, Madrid, Spain. 2003 - Feria de Arte ARCALE. Special guest in the Palacio de los Congresos y Exposiciones de Castilla y León, Salamanca, and Ayuntamiento de Salamanca, Spain 2002 - Molaa´s Treasures, Permanent Collection of the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), California. USA. 200l - Group Exhibition, Durban Segnini Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela. - The Conecction, Sonos Gallery, New York. USA. 2000 - Contemporary Art, painting, sculpture and Works on paper, Durban Segnini Gallery, Miami, USA. 1999 - Future visions, Alfredo Martínez Gallery, Miami, USA. 1998. - Hispanic Artists Fight A.I.D.S. Englewood, New York. USA. -Cubanos en Cape Canaveral. Cape Canaveral Public Library. Florida 1997 - Crossing Borders, Contemporary Art by Latin American Women, The Castle Gallery, New York. USA - Estampa Cubana Internacional/Estampa 97. International Fair of engravings. Madrid, Spain. 1996 - Trinomio Cubano, Ivonne Ferrer, Aldo Menéndez and Aldo Damián. Botello Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico. 1995 - Silence and Light, La Boheme Gallery, Miami, USA. 1994 - Colectiva de Verano, Xeito Gallery, Madrid, Spain. - Fresca y Bajita de Sal, Two Cuban artists: Ivonne Ferrer and Aldo Menéndez, Salone Prensenza, Genova, Italy. 1993 - Poliscopio Cubano, Heller Gallery, Madrid, Spain. 1992 - Color De Cuba I. Expo Universal Sevilla, Pavilion of the Arts, Sevilla, Spain. - Color De Cuba II. Yolanda Ríos Gallery, Sitges, Spain. - Color De Cuba III. Castell de Peralada, Girona, Spain. 1991 - La Isla Mágica, Two Cuban artists and a Spanish artist. Julio Girona, F. Somoza and Ivonne Ferrer, Fiornia Gallery, Copenhague, Dinamarca. -Made en Cuba. Tate-Tate Galería. Madrid, España 1990 - Encuentro Atlántico, Castillo de la Ferrería, Asturias, Spain. 1989 - Con Seda y Tensión, Gallery of the Rene Portocarrero National Silk Screen Print Shop, Havana, Cuba.
Restorer
Since her early beginnings in Cuba, Ivonne has combined her work as an artist with her talent for restoration. She studies art conservation in her native country and soon after joins the group in charge of this endeavor at the Museum of the City of Havana, where she works for several years. Subsequently, in Spain, she signs a contract with the prestigious firm Oppenheim, a company devoted to restoration and mural painting, an opportunity which also allows her to continue working in the field of restoration. She then completes her training in this discipline, following a course of studies that broadens her knowledge and acquaints her with the most innovative techniques. It is at this time that she approaches the works of the great masters and of classical European and Latin American painters, an experience that enables her to transcend Cuban and Spanish art.
Ivonne is perhaps among the few restorers whose meticulous work has been covered by the press, as was the case when El Nuevo Herald published an extensive article by Ivonne Gomez that appeared on the front page of Galería’s Diseño y Novedades section, entitled Ivonne Ferrer, el arte de la restauración [Ivonne Ferrer, The Art of Restoration], wherein the author states that “…[she] succeeds in giving new life to works that were on the verge of destruction (…) Works are brought to her from abroad as well. Through her efforts, a primitive Dutch painting was restored (…) ‘The Cisneros family decorator brought us the painting, which had been torn in four places by a lamp that had fallen on it,’ says César Oñate, owner of Oñate Framing Gallery. ‘Ivonne relined the canvas and restored it in such a way that the damage was no longer visible. But most importantly, the work did not lose its original essence,’ Oñate continued to explain.”
Accreditations
Museums, galleries, institutions and collectors speak of Ivonne's ability: Sotheby's Art Auction, PAMM (Perez Art Museum Miami), CIFO (Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation), KAC (Kendall Art Center), Oñate Gallery, Virginia Miller Gallery, Durban Segnini Gallery, La Boheme Gallery, Weiss Sori Gallery, Liceo Cubano de Tampa, El Arte SA, Cuban Master Collection, Frame on Wheels, Heller Gallery, Visiona Antique Shop, Blue Door Fine Arts, Maxoly Gallery, Ascaso Art Gallery, Hilda Pérez Fine Art, Hortensia Marco Inc, Art Actually, Amaryllis Feria Fine Arts LLC, Galería Acquavella, El Espacio 23, among others.