Eladio González, Cuba

Eladio González was born in Itabo, Matanzas, Cuba in 1939. He studied at the Matanzas Fine Art School and at Havana’s School of Design. He graduated from San Alejandro School of Fine Art, as a Professor of Drawing and Sculpture. He moved to Chicago in 1968 and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and was awarded the Cintas Fellowship to travel and study in Madrid, Spain, and Paris, France. González refers to himself as Cuban-Afro-Chinese, much like Wifredo Lam, who influenced González’s technique considerably. This cultural mixture is evident in the vitality of his works, which reflect the sensuality and anguish of cultural conflict. His work is in collections around the world, including the United States, South America, Spain and Germany