CV
EDUCATION
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, BFA
Excelsior College, Albany, NY, ASN
New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2026
Christian R. Duran: New Work, Pop-Up Exhibition, Ormond Memorial Art Museum & Gardens, FL
2025
Modern Ruins of the Unobserved Universe, Sta. Chiara D'Assisi Gallery at the Franciscan Center, Tampa, FL
2020
The Spaces in Between, Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL
2014
Lost in the Agar, Aimee Perez Art Space, Miami, FL
2009
You Take Me There, ART @ WORK, Miami, FL
Bringing Up the Dead, Art and Cultural Center of Hollywood, FL
2007
Path of Least Resistance, Ingalls and Associates, Miami, FL
2006
Views from Within: Two Miami Artists, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
2005
Apparitions, Ingalls and Associates, Miami, FL
2004
Nerve, Edge Zones, Miami, FL
2003
Equinox, Florida State Capitol Building, Cabinet Meeting Room, Tallahassee, FL
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
17th Annual National Juried Exhibition, GoggleWorks Center, Reading, PA
2024
37th September Competition, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA
38th Annual All Florida Exhibition, Alliance for the Arts, Fort Myers, FL
2023
The University of Southern Mississippi National Juried Exhibition, Hattiesburg, MS
2022
Concerning The Spiritual: Selections from the Mosquera Collection, Saladrigas Gallery, Miami, FL
2020
Jack Durrance Auditorium, County of Alachua, Gainesville, FL
2019
La Mano Hispana, Milander Center for Arts and Entertainment, Hialeah, FL
Artists Draw Their Studios, Art and Cultural Center of Hollywood, FL
Colectivo Periferia, Art District of La Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2018
Painting In The 21st Century, SITE: BROOKLYN, NY
31st September Competition, Alexandria Museum of Art, LA
MUTATIONS, Palm Beach State College, FL
2017
Contemporary Collage, Lincoln Center Art Gallery, CO
Smash and Grab, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
Hot House, Design Sublime, Miami, FL
2016
100+ Degrees in the Shade: A Survey of South Florida Art, Miami, FL
2015
Aesthetics &Values, Florida International University, Miami, FL
NARRATIVES, Palm Beach State College, FL
2013
Prizm Art Fair, Marquis Miami, FL
Too Much Is Not Enough, The Little Haiti Cultural Center, Miami, FL
2011
Permanent Collection Exhibition, Art@Work, Miami, FL
2010
Ways of Worldmaking, Freedom Tower, Miami, FL
2009
Beautiful Things: Works from the Permanent Collection, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
MIAMI The Edge of a Nation, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Springs, CA
25 Florida Fellowships, City of Orlando Gallery, FL
25 Florida Fellowships, University Galleries, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2008
25 Florida Fellowships, Okaloosa-Walton College Art Gallery, Niceville, FL
25 Florida Fellowships, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL
25 Florida Fellowships, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
2007
25 Florida Fellowships, Miami Dade College Gallery, FL
Artists of Cuban Ancestry from the Permanent Collection, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
25 Florida Fellowships, Lighthouse Center for the Arts, Tequesta, FL
2006
Pregon: Call and Response Series #1, Miami Dade County Public Library, FL
Aesthetics &Values, Florida International University, The Gallery at Green Library, Miami, FL
2005
Visages and Secrets, Laure de Mazieres, Design District, Miami, FL
NADA Art Fair, Ingalls & Associates, Miami, FL
Nova Young Art Fair, Byron C. Cohen Gallery of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Sensory World, Ambrosino Gallery, North Miami, FL
Collage Series, Art Vitam, Miami, FL
2004
FRISBEE Art Fair, The Cavilier Hotel, curated by Byron C. Cohen, Miami Beach, FL
Miami Now, Edge Zones, Miami, FL
With A Little Help From My Friends, ArtCenter/South Florida, Miami Beach, FL
Cha-Cha-Cha, curated by José-Carlos Díaz, The Collins Building, Miami, FL
The Last Show, The House, Miami, FL
2003
Free Spirits Lounge, concurrent with Art Basel Miami Beach Fair, Miami Beach, FL
Blue Balls, The MaX Gallery, Miami, FL
Made In Miami, The Fredrick Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
2002
The No Show, The Fredrick Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
Science Friction, The Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
2001
The House Presents: Eight Solo Shows, Miami, FL
New Works, The Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
PUBLICATIONS
2022
Concerning The Spiritual: Selections from the Mosquera Collection, Bellak Color Corporation.
2020
Brad Rogers, Getting 'Intimate with the Art, The Ocala Gazette.
2019
Vida Y Obra De Una Idea: Miami's Art@Work and Farside Gallery in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Figaro S.A. Chivilcoy (Bs. As.).
The Penultimate Peanut Magazine, Issue 8. www.penultimatepeanutmagazine.com.
2018
The Helix - Literature Art Magazine. www.helixmagazine.org.
Bluestem Magazine, www.bluestemmagazine.com.
2017
Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review, www.fredericksburgwriters.com.
Gulf Stream Lit Mag, South Florida's Literary Current, Online Issue # 17. www.gulfstreamlitmag.com.
2016
Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art, Spring Edition.
2015
Studio Visit Magazine, Open Studio Press.
2015
100+ Degrees in the Shade: A Survey of South Florida Art, [NAME] Pub.
Marlon Fick, The Nowhere Man, Illustrations, Jaded Ibis Press.
2012
100 Southern Artists, Schiffer Publishing.
2011
Puertas a la Imaginación, Nueva Literatura Cubana, Ediciones El Cambio.
2010
Faces: 100 Cuban Artists, by Photographer Carlos Manuel Cardenes.
2009
Erica K. Landau, Breaking With Boredom, The New Times Broward/ Palm Beach.
Emma Trelles, The Swirling Roots of an Artist/Medics Body of Work, The Miami Herald.
Emma Trelles, Devine Inspiration, The Sun Sentinel.
2008
Artist Showcase MAP Magazine, Fall Edition.
New American Paintings 76, The Open Studio Press.
2007
Paul Clemence and Julie Davidow, MIAMI Contemporary Artists, Schiffer Publishing Ltd.
2006
Visual Art Fellowship Exhibition, State of Florida Department of State. Exhibition catalog.
Luis Horacio Gómez, Polk Celebra el Mes se la Hispanidad, Vision Latina.
Obras de 15 Artistas Cubanos Convergen en Lakeland, Vision Latina.
Gary Schwan, Tax Dollars Spun Into Beautiful Artwork, The Palm Beach Post.
Aurora Rodríguez, Same Country, Different Views, The Ledger.
Artist Spotlight, www.miamiartzine.com.
2005
Carlos Suárez de Jesús, Visions and Apparitions: Smudging the Line Between Fantasy and Reality, The Miami New Times.
Kerry Lee Sohn, Gallery Peek, The Biscayne Boulevard Times.
Elisa Turner, Critic’s Pick, The Miami Herald.
Ambar Hernández, Thin & Crispy Thoughts, www.everybodyyouknow.com.
Carlos M. Luis, Collage Series: Una Muestra de Vitalidad en Art Vitam, El Nuevo Herald.
Franklin Einspruch, Collage Series, The Miami New Times.
2004
Miami Now, exhibition catalogue, World Arts Building, Miami, FL. Edge Zones Production.
José Antonio Evora, Index Miami: Entre Voces y Ecos, El Nuevo Herald.
Bob Weinberg, Hialeah’s Christian Duran Creates the Mother Nature of All Mixed-Media Art, City Link Magazine.
2003
Ambar Hernández, A Severe Case of the Blue Balls, The Miami Hurricane.
2002
Damarys Ocana, Junk Food For Thought, The Street Miami.
2002
Jessica Misener, Hallucinogenic Ogres and Anatomical Machinery Chafe Against Each Other in Science Friction, The Miami Hurricane.
Sara Stites, Science Friction, Miami Art Exchange.
COMMISSIONS
Jaded Ibis Productions.
Royal Caribbean International.
Lexus, A Division of Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
COLLECTIONS
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, IN
Royal Caribbean International
The Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
Lexus, A Division of Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
Arturo & Liza Mosquera
Jane Hart
Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Daniel Simmons Jr.
PROFESSIONAL ROLES
2025
Citizen at Large, Arts Council of Alachua County, FL
2018
Curator, Mutations, Palm Beach State College, FL
2016
Judge, Broward Art Guild, Youth Art Competition and Exhibit, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, BFA
Excelsior College, Albany, NY, ASN
New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2026
Christian R. Duran: New Work, Pop-Up Exhibition, Ormond Memorial Art Museum & Gardens, FL
2025
Modern Ruins of the Unobserved Universe, Sta. Chiara D'Assisi Gallery at the Franciscan Center, Tampa, FL
2020
The Spaces in Between, Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL
2014
Lost in the Agar, Aimee Perez Art Space, Miami, FL
2009
You Take Me There, ART @ WORK, Miami, FL
Bringing Up the Dead, Art and Cultural Center of Hollywood, FL
2007
Path of Least Resistance, Ingalls and Associates, Miami, FL
2006
Views from Within: Two Miami Artists, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
2005
Apparitions, Ingalls and Associates, Miami, FL
2004
Nerve, Edge Zones, Miami, FL
2003
Equinox, Florida State Capitol Building, Cabinet Meeting Room, Tallahassee, FL
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
17th Annual National Juried Exhibition, GoggleWorks Center, Reading, PA
2024
37th September Competition, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA
38th Annual All Florida Exhibition, Alliance for the Arts, Fort Myers, FL
2023
The University of Southern Mississippi National Juried Exhibition, Hattiesburg, MS
2022
Concerning The Spiritual: Selections from the Mosquera Collection, Saladrigas Gallery, Miami, FL
2020
Jack Durrance Auditorium, County of Alachua, Gainesville, FL
2019
La Mano Hispana, Milander Center for Arts and Entertainment, Hialeah, FL
Artists Draw Their Studios, Art and Cultural Center of Hollywood, FL
Colectivo Periferia, Art District of La Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2018
Painting In The 21st Century, SITE: BROOKLYN, NY
31st September Competition, Alexandria Museum of Art, LA
MUTATIONS, Palm Beach State College, FL
2017
Contemporary Collage, Lincoln Center Art Gallery, CO
Smash and Grab, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
Hot House, Design Sublime, Miami, FL
2016
100+ Degrees in the Shade: A Survey of South Florida Art, Miami, FL
2015
Aesthetics &Values, Florida International University, Miami, FL
NARRATIVES, Palm Beach State College, FL
2013
Prizm Art Fair, Marquis Miami, FL
Too Much Is Not Enough, The Little Haiti Cultural Center, Miami, FL
2011
Permanent Collection Exhibition, Art@Work, Miami, FL
2010
Ways of Worldmaking, Freedom Tower, Miami, FL
2009
Beautiful Things: Works from the Permanent Collection, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
MIAMI The Edge of a Nation, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Springs, CA
25 Florida Fellowships, City of Orlando Gallery, FL
25 Florida Fellowships, University Galleries, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2008
25 Florida Fellowships, Okaloosa-Walton College Art Gallery, Niceville, FL
25 Florida Fellowships, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL
25 Florida Fellowships, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
2007
25 Florida Fellowships, Miami Dade College Gallery, FL
Artists of Cuban Ancestry from the Permanent Collection, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
25 Florida Fellowships, Lighthouse Center for the Arts, Tequesta, FL
2006
Pregon: Call and Response Series #1, Miami Dade County Public Library, FL
Aesthetics &Values, Florida International University, The Gallery at Green Library, Miami, FL
2005
Visages and Secrets, Laure de Mazieres, Design District, Miami, FL
NADA Art Fair, Ingalls & Associates, Miami, FL
Nova Young Art Fair, Byron C. Cohen Gallery of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Sensory World, Ambrosino Gallery, North Miami, FL
Collage Series, Art Vitam, Miami, FL
2004
FRISBEE Art Fair, The Cavilier Hotel, curated by Byron C. Cohen, Miami Beach, FL
Miami Now, Edge Zones, Miami, FL
With A Little Help From My Friends, ArtCenter/South Florida, Miami Beach, FL
Cha-Cha-Cha, curated by José-Carlos Díaz, The Collins Building, Miami, FL
The Last Show, The House, Miami, FL
2003
Free Spirits Lounge, concurrent with Art Basel Miami Beach Fair, Miami Beach, FL
Blue Balls, The MaX Gallery, Miami, FL
Made In Miami, The Fredrick Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
2002
The No Show, The Fredrick Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
Science Friction, The Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
2001
The House Presents: Eight Solo Shows, Miami, FL
New Works, The Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
PUBLICATIONS
2022
Concerning The Spiritual: Selections from the Mosquera Collection, Bellak Color Corporation.
2020
Brad Rogers, Getting 'Intimate with the Art, The Ocala Gazette.
2019
Vida Y Obra De Una Idea: Miami's Art@Work and Farside Gallery in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Figaro S.A. Chivilcoy (Bs. As.).
The Penultimate Peanut Magazine, Issue 8. www.penultimatepeanutmagazine.com.
2018
The Helix - Literature Art Magazine. www.helixmagazine.org.
Bluestem Magazine, www.bluestemmagazine.com.
2017
Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review, www.fredericksburgwriters.com.
Gulf Stream Lit Mag, South Florida's Literary Current, Online Issue # 17. www.gulfstreamlitmag.com.
2016
Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art, Spring Edition.
2015
Studio Visit Magazine, Open Studio Press.
2015
100+ Degrees in the Shade: A Survey of South Florida Art, [NAME] Pub.
Marlon Fick, The Nowhere Man, Illustrations, Jaded Ibis Press.
2012
100 Southern Artists, Schiffer Publishing.
2011
Puertas a la Imaginación, Nueva Literatura Cubana, Ediciones El Cambio.
2010
Faces: 100 Cuban Artists, by Photographer Carlos Manuel Cardenes.
2009
Erica K. Landau, Breaking With Boredom, The New Times Broward/ Palm Beach.
Emma Trelles, The Swirling Roots of an Artist/Medics Body of Work, The Miami Herald.
Emma Trelles, Devine Inspiration, The Sun Sentinel.
2008
Artist Showcase MAP Magazine, Fall Edition.
New American Paintings 76, The Open Studio Press.
2007
Paul Clemence and Julie Davidow, MIAMI Contemporary Artists, Schiffer Publishing Ltd.
2006
Visual Art Fellowship Exhibition, State of Florida Department of State. Exhibition catalog.
Luis Horacio Gómez, Polk Celebra el Mes se la Hispanidad, Vision Latina.
Obras de 15 Artistas Cubanos Convergen en Lakeland, Vision Latina.
Gary Schwan, Tax Dollars Spun Into Beautiful Artwork, The Palm Beach Post.
Aurora Rodríguez, Same Country, Different Views, The Ledger.
Artist Spotlight, www.miamiartzine.com.
2005
Carlos Suárez de Jesús, Visions and Apparitions: Smudging the Line Between Fantasy and Reality, The Miami New Times.
Kerry Lee Sohn, Gallery Peek, The Biscayne Boulevard Times.
Elisa Turner, Critic’s Pick, The Miami Herald.
Ambar Hernández, Thin & Crispy Thoughts, www.everybodyyouknow.com.
Carlos M. Luis, Collage Series: Una Muestra de Vitalidad en Art Vitam, El Nuevo Herald.
Franklin Einspruch, Collage Series, The Miami New Times.
2004
Miami Now, exhibition catalogue, World Arts Building, Miami, FL. Edge Zones Production.
José Antonio Evora, Index Miami: Entre Voces y Ecos, El Nuevo Herald.
Bob Weinberg, Hialeah’s Christian Duran Creates the Mother Nature of All Mixed-Media Art, City Link Magazine.
2003
Ambar Hernández, A Severe Case of the Blue Balls, The Miami Hurricane.
2002
Damarys Ocana, Junk Food For Thought, The Street Miami.
2002
Jessica Misener, Hallucinogenic Ogres and Anatomical Machinery Chafe Against Each Other in Science Friction, The Miami Hurricane.
Sara Stites, Science Friction, Miami Art Exchange.
COMMISSIONS
Jaded Ibis Productions.
Royal Caribbean International.
Lexus, A Division of Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
COLLECTIONS
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, IN
Royal Caribbean International
The Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
Lexus, A Division of Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
Arturo & Liza Mosquera
Jane Hart
Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Daniel Simmons Jr.
PROFESSIONAL ROLES
2025
Citizen at Large, Arts Council of Alachua County, FL
2018
Curator, Mutations, Palm Beach State College, FL
2016
Judge, Broward Art Guild, Youth Art Competition and Exhibit, Fort Lauderdale, FL