About me

Marlon Portales is a Cuban artist born in 1991, currently residing in Miami. He graduated from the Academia Profesional de Artes Visuales Tiburcio Lorenzo in Pinar del Río, Cuba, earning his Degree in Visual Arts from 2006 to 2010. Subsequently, he pursued a BFA in Visual Arts at ISA (Instituto Superior de Arte) from 2013 to 2018.

While Portales engages with various media, including installation, video art, photography, performance, and digital art, his primary focus remains on painting. He has held several solo exhibitions in the United States and Cuba. In 2023, Portales presented "Poems of Nature" at Pan American Art Projects, in Miami; "The Voyeur" was exhibited at 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, in New York, USA, in 2019; and in 2018, he showcased "Museum" at the Galería Orígenes, in Havana, Cuba.

Portales has been featured in numerous group exhibitions across various countries, including the United States, Spain, Germany, Italy, and his homeland, Cuba. Moreover, he has been privileged to participate in several prestigious artist residencies and art fairs. These include Art OMI at OMI International Art Center in New York in 2015, Illy & UNIDEE at Citta del Arte - Fundazione Pistoletto in Biella, Italy, in 2016, and Fountainhead Residency in Miami, Florida, in 2018.