Born in 1970 in Trinidad, Cuba

Living and working in Madrid

• Urban Poet, Percent for Art Program Commission in New York City.

• Landscape and Hierarchies, ArtYard Museum, Frenchtown, New Jersey
• Orange Functional, Art Omi Architectural and Sculpture Park in New York

• Monumental, Galería Casado Santapau , Madrid.

• Dreaming with lions, Faena Art, Miami.

• Superficies em conflicto, Galeria Nara Roesler, Rio de janeiro.
  Corners, Nara Roesler Gallery, New York.
• Obsesiones y acumulaciones: el gabinete del artista, Estudio Figueroa-Vives and the Norwegian Embassy in Cuba, Havana, Cuba.

• Higienopolis, Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid.
• Uninhabited Order, Fredric Snitzer, Miami.

• La Mar de Músicas, Palacio Molina, Cartagena, Murcia.
• Refazer , Roesler Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

• Tied Stone, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami
• “Jerarquias Negadas” Galería Habana, La Habana, Cuba
• “O Objeto Vital” > [Los Carpinteros > Arrechea/Castillo/Rodriguez], Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil.

• Fragment Seduction, Galeria Casado Santapau , Madrid. Spain
• Mapa del Silencio, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana,Cuba.

• Magnan Metz Gallery , N.Y.

• Park Avenue Mall Project, New York, NY.
• DOS Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid. Spain.
• No limits , Phillips, New York.

• Building Bacardi: Architecture, Art and Identity, Coral Gables Museum, Miami, FL
• Skyline Adrift: Cuban Art and Architecture, Architecture OMI, Ghent, NY
• Twisted Horizon, Magnan Metz Gallery, New York, NY

• The Sacrificed Object, Casado Santapau Gallery, Madrid Spain

• Global Africa Project, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
• Orange Tree, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
• Evasive, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France
• Elasticity, Magnan Metz Gallery, New York, NY
• The Rules Of Play, Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah and Atlanta, GA
• Ideational Architecture, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, CA
• Alexandre Arrechea @ Ice Box Project Space in conjunction with Philagrafika2010, Philadelphia, PA
• La ciudad que dejó de bailar, Casado Santapau Gallery, Madrid, Spain
• Black Sun, NASDAQBillboard, Times Square Arts, Time Square, NY

• Everything, Something, Nothing, CABde Burgos, Burgos, Spain
• A Day After The Future, Galeria Villa Manuela, Havana, Cuba

• Suicide landscape, [May 13] Casado-Santapau Gallery, Madrid
• American University Museum at the Katzen, Washington, DC

• What Could Happen If I Lie? Magnan Projects, New York, NY
• Scalpel and Cotton, Contemporary Links 5, San Diego Museum of
  Art, San Diego, CA
• Defeated Space, Casado Santapau Gallery, Madrid, Spain

• Perpetual Free Entrance, Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain
• The Limit, Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Alarma, Special Project Booth, ART212 (shown by Magnan Projects),
  New York, NY

• DUST, Magnan Projects, New York, NY
• POLVO, Miramar Trade Center, Havana, Cuba
• Three New Spaces, PULSEArt Fair (shown by Magnan Projects), Miami, FL
• Raúl Cordero, Felipe Dulzaides, Alexandre Arrechea en la Casa de las Américas,
  Casa de las Americas, Havana, Cuba

• Dos Nuevos Espacios, Espacio Aglutinador, Havana, Cuba
• Arte Público, Mark Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
• Sudor, Proyecto de arte público, Havana, Cuba

• I AM: NEWAFRO-LATINX NARRATIVES, MOLAA . Los Angeles.

• Here We Meet, (co-produced with Kadist art Fondation) Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art (Chongqing, China).
• Gwangju Biennale, Korea
• Construções sensíveis – A experiência geométrica latino-americana na coleção Ella Fontanals-Cisneros. Itinerant exhibition: Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil – Belo Horizonte (CCBB-BH), Belo Horizonte/MG, Brazil; Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil – Rio de Janeiro (CCBB-RJ), Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brazil.
• The World’s Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art,PAMM

• On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, PAMM, Miami.
• Adiós Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950, Houston Museum Fine Arts.

• Q & A Nine Cuban Artists, Miami Dade College / Museum of Art + Design, Miami
• Katrina Chairs (art project), Coachella valley Music & Art festival, California.
• La Madre de Todas las Artes, Centro Wifredo lam, La Habana , Cuba.

• Q&A, Contemporary Cuban Artist, IDBCultural Center , Washington.
• Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami.
• Boghossian Foundation – Villa Empain . Brussels

• Somos, sois, eres, soy: 4 lecturas de lo humano en la Colección Museo Würth, La Rioja.

• Against The Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft & Design,
  Museum of Arts and Design, NY.
• ¡Oye, Mira! Reflective Approaches in Contemporary Latin American Video Art,
  San Francisco Art Institute , San Francisco, CAL.

• Against The Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft & Design,
  MINTMuseum, NY
• Message from La Habana: Seven Contemporary Cuban Artists,
  Zane Bennett Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
• 11th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
• Who More Sci-Fi Than Us?, Kunsthal KAdE, The Netherlands

• 54 Biennial de Venezia, Venice, Italy
• Hola Havana, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
• Cuba Now, 21c Museum, Louisville, KY
• The Draughtsman’s Contract Curator Carlos Garaicoa’s Studio. Madrid, Spain
• Fear, Salon de Vortex, Ithakis 24, Kipseli, Athens, Greece

• Global Africa Project, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
• No Longer Empty, Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY
• PortugalArte 10, Lisbon, Portugal
• Announcing Magnan Metz, Magnan Metz Gallery, New York, NY
• EN OTRADIMENSIóN, Galeria Habana, Havana, Cuba
• Does The Angle Between Two Walls Have A Happy Ending?,
  Galeria Federica Schiavo, Rome
• XXXIBiennial de Pontevedra UTROPICOS, Centro America y
  Caribe, Sexto Edifico Museo de Pontevedra, Pontevedra, Spain

• Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art, Russia
• Thessaloniki Biennial of Contemporary Art, Greece
• 10th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba

• 1 New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
• MACO23-27/ 04/ 2008 México International Art Fair, Centro Banamex,
  México D.F.
• Informed by Function, Lehman College Art Gallery Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx, N.Y. USA, ARCO, 2008
• “Cuba: Artists Experience Their Country,” Hunterdon Museum, NJ Elefante Negro, Museo Diego Rivera, Anahuacalli, [January 26] Mexico D.F.

• MOMAY. New Perspectives in Latin American Art Tomorrow, Artsonje Center and Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
• Caribbean Encounters, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
• Killing Time, An exhibition of Cuban Artists from the 1980’s to the Present,
  Exit Art, New York, NY
• Cintas Fellowship Finalist Exhibition, The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL
• We Are Your Future, Special Project at the 2nd Moscow Biennial of the Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia

• IMPAKTFESTIVAL, Central Museum, Louis Hartlooper Complex, Utrecht, Holland
• Taipei Biennial, Taipei, China
• FATAMORGANA, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
• ULTRA BRAG, 2nd Volta Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland

• 51 Biennial de Venecia, Venice, Italy*
• Out of Place-Works on Paper, Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Scope: Contemporary Cuban Video/Film, co–presented by Emmedia
• Gallery and May Works Festival, Calgary, Canada
• Inaugural Exhibition, Magnan Projects, New York, NY
• Salon de arte contemporaneo, Centro de desarrollo de las artes visuales,
  La Habana, Cuba

• Video Rampage: Resurrected!, video in Vancouver, Canada Video In
  Studios/Satellite, Video Exchange Society, Vancouver, Canada
• Ay, Mami! Programe of Cuban video, Liverpool Biennal, UK
• Festival of Independent Film & Video, Toronto, Canada

• MoMA, Museum of Modern Art,New York, NY
• MOCA,Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
• LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
• Fidelity Art Collection, London, England
• Artist Pension Trust, New York, NY
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
• Arizona State University, ASU, Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
• Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
• Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo A.C., Mexico City, Mexico
• Cincinnati Museum of Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, OH
• CIFO, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, FL.
• Daros Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
• Ellipse Foundation, Portugal, Spain
• Fredrick Weissman Foundation, Beverly Hills, CA
• Fundación ARCO, Madrid, Spain
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA, CA
• Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
• The Margulies Collection, Miami, FL
• Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain
• Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba
• The Richard B. Sachs Collection, New York, NY
• San Diego Art Museum, CA
• Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation, Vienna, Austria
• Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University, KS
• University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, CA
• MUDAMLuxembourg, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg.
• MAM. Museo de Arte de Miami, Florida.USA
• Artnow International, San Francisco, CA
• CAB(Cento de Arte Burgos) Burgos, Spain
• Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, USA
• The Farber Collection, USA
• Museo del Barrio. New York. NY. USA
• Fort Lauderdale Museum, Miami, USA
• Arizona State University, ASUArt Museum, Arizona, USA
• Würth Museum, La Rioja, España.
• Pizzuti Collection, Ohio. USA
• Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami.USA
• The Bronx Museum of Arts . New York. USA

• 2016 Space defeated, Alexandre Arrechea, artist, in conversation with Michelle Bird, curatorial assistant, department of French paintings, national Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA
• 2015 Cuban artist of the year, Farber Foundation, Havana, Cuba
• 2013 NOLIMITS– Park Avenue Mall, New York, USA
• 2011 Defeated Space, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA
• 2005 Braziers International. Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
• 2002 Artist in residence, The Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, New Castle, United Kingdom
• 2000 Fomento de las Artes, UNESCO, 7th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
• 1997 First Prize, Contemporary Art-People’s Award, El Mundo Magazine, Argentaria Foundation. ARCOFair, Madrid, Spain
• 1995-1996 Departamento de Exposiciones y Colecciones Ministerio de Cultura Español, Madrid, Spain.