Armando Mariño (1968) is a renowned painter, sculptor and installation artist, and one of the most popular Cuban contemporary artists. Born in Santiago de Cuba, living and working in the US, Mariño received his art education at the Pedagogical Institute of Arts from Havana, and the prestigious Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten from Amsterdam. He is widely praised for his mesmerizing works that offer unique and sarcastic approach to art as a space of power and exclusion, and reveals Mariño’s own take on the use of parody and pastiche in art. Known for tackling worrying issues of gender, race, sex, human trafficking and freedom, Mariño’s most recent work is focused on the representation and the visual consumption of violence and how it has been increasingly normalized in today’s world. Mariño has been exhibiting across the world since 1990, mostly in Europe, USA and his homeland, while his works are represented in major private and public collections as The Deutsche Bank Collection USA,The Coca Cola Foundation Spain,The 21C Museum Hotel Kentucky USA,The Shelley and Donald Rubin Private Collection among others