Analvis Somoza, Visual Artist
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I explore memory, identity, and time through painting.
Since 1991, the Dandy inhabits my work as a continuous search. In these 2026 pieces, he lives in Miami, in a more interior and spiritual space. He pauses, observes himself, and seeks human closeness. He searches for happiness. It is my own search painted.
"Navigating Voices"
Two presences dialogue beneath a boat that represents memory, journey, and resistance. A figure of urban identity expressed through an expressive and symbolic language.
"Red Silence"
Two faces share a fruit without breaking it. There is no opposition — only a territory where two presences touch, reflect, and contain one another.
"Root of voice"
Collective memory as a weave of faces and symbols. The central face embodies duality: what is lived and what is dreamed, what is visible and what is hidden.
"Submerged Duality"
I represent myself between surface and depth. The fish symbolize thoughts in motion. I am clarity and depth at once.
"Navigating Voices"
oil and canvas.
50x70in
"Red Silence",oil and canvas, 50x70 cms
"Root of Voces"
oil and canvas.
50x70cms
"Submerged Duality"
oil and canvas.
50x70cms
"Glances"
oil and canvas.
24 x 36 in
An exploration of rootedness, memory, and the transformation of the individual within new cultural contexts.
"The Caribbean Meninas (or with Butterflies)"
oil and canvas.
24 x 48 in
In this work, I reinterpret the figure of the Infanta from Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez through a Caribbean sensibility, integrating identity, youth, and transformation within a symbolic and dreamlike atmosphere.
"Perfect Font"
oil and canvas.
24 x 48 in
A contemplative scene where a maternal figure and water construct a space of luminous stillness.
"Gable roof"
oil and canvas.
24 x 48 in
The union of the two waters, where the river and the sea meet. There, the sensuality of the feminine divinity is born.
"Urban Gods"
oil and canvas.
24 x 36 in
The work explores the tension of the festive body within the urban space, where rhythm is translated into pictorial structure.
"The Twin Dandies"
oil and canvas.
25 x 20 in
The Dandy fragments into a dual figure that reflects identity, mask, and the construction of the self.
ARTIST BIO
ARTIST BIO
Analvis Somoza, born in Havana, Cuba, trained at the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts. Her work develops between figuration, expressionism, and Afro-Caribbean ritual influences, building a universe where the everyday becomes symbol.
Her pictorial language is based on the spontaneity of gesture, expressive distortion, and the intensity of color. Through her series Images of the Dandys, initiated in 1991, she develops a visual narrative in which the Dandy embodies cultural fusion and urban life as a symbolic stage.
Since 2017, she has been based in Florida, United States.
Art is a language of the spirit — a path of memory, presence, and transformation. As long as there is life, there is art.
"Emigrants in Miami"
oil and canvas
46 x 48 in
In my work, I reflect on identity and transculturation within the migratory context. The tension between rootedness and adaptation, and the need to preserve cultural roots in a new land.
“Wake up”
oil and canvas
25 x 12 in
I depict the sonorous dawn: the rooster’s crow awakening the day, the sun revealing the village, the laughter of its inhabitants. Life beginning anew.
"Light switch"
oil and canvas
24x36 in
The work evokes the philosophy of Ho’oponopono — a Hawaiian tradition oriented toward inner healing and the release of negative beliefs — translated into light and pictorial symbolism.
CV / ARTISTIC TRAJECTORY
CV / ARTISTIC TRAJECTORY
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
Academy of Fine Arts “San Alejandro”, Havana · 1994
Museum of the City of Havana — Professor and Painting Restorer · Pictorial Conservation
AWARDS
AWARDS
Certificate · Senate of the State of California · 2024
Open Atelier Award · “La Asamblea” · Palma de Mallorca · 2025
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Galería Juan Marinello, Cuba — “Travesía”
Galería Pierre A. Renoir, French Union, Cuba — “Señales en el camino”
Galería Salvador Allende, Havana — “Ocantom-Afrocaribeño” · 2000
INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
Casa del Arte, Santiago de Chile — YETI Project
RECENT EXHIBITIONS / FAIRS
RECENT EXHIBITIONS / FAIRS
Art Basel · Miami · 2022
Biennale Art Expo Venezia · Italy · 2022
MADS Art Gallery · Milan · 2023
Hub/Art Barcelona · 2024
Atelier Casa de Arte · Palma de Mallorca · 2025
San Francisco Art Fair · 2026
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Germany · Spain · Mexico · India · Cuba · United States
INSTITUTIONAL PARTICIPATION
INSTITUTIONAL PARTICIPATION
2026 — Museum of Northwest Art (MoNA), Washington, USA
Annual Art Auction – Selected Artist
“Raíz de Voces”, 2026 · Oil on canvas
Available for exhibitions, collections, and collaborations · Miami, FL
Disponible para exposiciones, colecciones y colaboraciones · Miami, FL
analica23@gmail.com · @arteanalvis · +1 786 301 3187
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