Artist

Country:  Canada - Cuba
City:  Toronto-Havana,
https://www.omarestrada.com

Omar Estrada is a Cuban visual artist who works with interdisciplinary installation, sound, video, interactivity and narrative text. His artwork explores the tensions between Art, Science & Technology in the context of social structures, questioning the validity of political, cultural and knowledge approaches as absolute perceptions.

Since 1983, Estrada has had solo shows in Cuba, the Caribbean, South America and North America and has participated in group exhibitions in Cuba, Paraguay, Brasil, Spain, France, Korea, Canada and the USA including the Havana Biennial, the Asunción Biennial in Paraguay, the Caribbean Biennial in Dominican Republic and the Curitiba Biennial in Brazil. Estrada received his Master of Fine Arts from the University of the Arts (ISA) in Havana, Cuba. He has taught Art at the bachelor and master degree level for more than 20 years.

Omar Estrada lives and works in Toronto, Canada, where he currently co-curates the international art residency program Unpack Studio Arts Projects / Residency.