H U G O M O R O

Art Center/South Florida, 810 Lincoln Road, Studio 109
Miami Beach, FL 33139 • 305 632 2425 • cmarts@bellsouth.net.

Hugo Moro was born in Havana, Cuba, he emigrated to the United States in 1966, and settled in New York City, there he attended The High School of Art and Design; Pratt Institute; The Fashion Institute of Technology; and The Art Students League. In New York he held various graphic design positions in advertising and publishing. He relocated to Miami Florida, in 1999, since then he has made several trips to Cuba with the help of Research Travel Grants from Florida International University’s Cuban Research Institute. In 2006 he participated in the IX Havana Biennial invited by the Biennial’s collateral exhibitions committee.

Artist Statement

I come from a family of homemakers, blacksmiths and carpenters. I see a work in my mind, think it through down to minute details in a most obsessive way, I repeatedly envision myself going through every step of construction, conceptual and formal problems are encountered and revised, only after I have imaged the finished piece in my head do I begin to make the construction. Ostensibly this method leaves no room for discovery or epiphanies. But just the opposite is true. As soon as the piece seems begins to take form, a new element, perhaps an accidental crack in a cast form, a random discovered fact during research, an ironic joke overheard, changes everything.