Alberto Lescay
(b. Santiago de Cuba, 1950)
Alberto Lescay graduated from the “José Joaquín Tejada” School of Visual Arts in Santiago de Cuba (1968); the National School of Art in Havana (1973); and the Repin Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia (1979). He is a member of the National Union of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC), and the UNESCO International Association of Art (IAA). Lescay is the president of The Caguayo Foundation for Monumental and Applied Arts, an organization he founded in 1995. He was an artist-in-residence of the Gallery 22 for Contemporary Art in Cabriéres-d’Avignon, France, in 2011. His works are part of relevant public and private collections, including the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana; the Bacardí Museum in Santiago de Cuba; and the Fine Arts Museum in Kiev, Ukraine.
