Baruj Salinas

"To me, painting is not work. It is something that transcends labor. I love to be in my studio painting because I forget about everything else. I’m so concentrated on it that it is like a meditation. I concentrate on what I’m doing and I enjoy it while I’m doing it. I enjoy seeing a wide space being developed into something that has life. It’s always been the most important thing in my life. And architecture was never so.” 

Baruj Salinas is one of the most significant, and well established contemporary artists this gallery represents. He has work in the permanent collections of over 35 museums, and has had 150 solo shows worldwide, and a significant number of museum shows. 

The Cuban Master is now in his 80's. Salina's paintings can be seen in important collections all over the world such as the Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona; the National Museum of Catalonia, Barcelona; the National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico D.F; The Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, the Beit Uri Museum, Israel; the Fine Arts Museum, Budapest; the Fort Lauderdale Museum of the Arts, Florida; the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; the San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas; and the Phoenix Museum of Art, Arizona, as well as dozens of others. Baruj Salinas is a Cuban Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1935. His work was featured in exhibitions at the Coral Gables Museum and The Americas Collection. He studied at Kent State University in Ohio – Salinas found early success as a painter and engraver. He is also an educator, having taught for many years at Miami Dade College. Salinas is regularly featured in solo shows in galleries in Europe and the United States. His participation in group exhibitions includes Recent Developments in Latin American Drawing at The Art Institute of Chicago, Outside Cuba , and Breaking Barriers: Selections from the Museum of Art’s Permanent Contemporary Cuban Collection at the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale. He is the winner of numerous awards, including the Prize to Excellency at the VII Grand Prix International de Peinture in Cannes, France; a first prize at the IV Pan American Exhibition in Miami, and a first prize at the Sexta Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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