Alain Pino Photography

Cuban, b. 1975

ALAIN PINO Havana and Miami-based artist Alain Pino was born in 1974 in Camagüey, Cuba. Pino is a multi-disciplinary conceptual artist who deftly crosses artistic borders - painter, draftsman, printmaker, photographer and sculptor. He is a graduate of the Instituto Superior de Arte. Pino is a co-founder, with Niels Moleiro and Mario Miguel González (Mayito), of the artist collective The Merger. He remained in the group for eight years, departing in 2017. During his time with The Merger, he was afforded the opportunity to further explore his varied disciplines while focusing on bridging conceptual and pop, without rejecting the academic. Prior to his work with The Merger, Pino enjoyed success as a solo artist, exhibiting throughout Cuba, the U.S., Canada, Europe and Latin America. STATEMENT My work is a reflection of social and political events that happen around me daily. I make use of the social and cultural patterns I am familiar with – I extract visuals from the news, the street, historic materials and other sources and mix them in search of the new meanings that come out of their interaction. Portraits are a big portion of my work. I realize them in photography, painting and installation. They are full of contradictions. I not only create androgynous characters, but place them in paradoxical situations that I create by having them dialogue with certain objects. Formally my pieces are hybrid. I take advantage of the formal resources that different materials and genre offer. Alain Pino offers a very fresh look of his reality –the Cuba of the end of the nineties and the beginnings of the new century. When other artists choose to narrate what is going on around them, Pine focuses on the individual. The characters of his photographs are shady, strange –often androgynous and in situations or poses that are undefined and mysterious, as species that went through a metamorphosis and have evolved in order to deal with their new environment. By focusing on people instead of events, he calls attention to the social change that is taking place in the island. (Yuneikys Villalonga, marzo del 2006).

Artist: Alain Pino

Alain PinoBlack and White Photography, Limited Edition Figurative Photograph, 2008

$3,000

Black and White Photography, Limited Edition Figurative Photograph

By Alain Pino

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Black and White Photography, Limited Edition Figurative Photograph Alain Pino’s new works continue his exploration on the intersection between identity and industrial design. In a h...

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Early 2000s Abstract Alain Pino Photography

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Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, Inkjet

Alain Pino'Time Goes By' - Original Photography by Alain Pino, 2008

$4,000

'Time Goes By' - Original Photography by Alain Pino

By Alain Pino

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Alain Pino’s new works continue his exploration on the intersection between identity and industrial design. In a hyper-capitalistic age, in which social media frenzy and the commodit...

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Early 2000s Alain Pino Photography

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Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, Inkjet

Carla Sutera SardoShining Shining, 2022

$900

H 39.5 in W 26.4 in

Shining Shining

By Carla Sutera Sardo

Located in New York, NY

ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento, Italy in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography,...

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2010s Alain Pino Photography

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Photographic Paper

Carla Sutera SardoHarmony

$900

H 26.3 in W 39.5 in

Harmony

By Carla Sutera Sardo

Located in New York, NY

ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...

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2010s Alain Pino Photography

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Photographic Paper

Carla Sutera SardoHarmony II

$900

H 26.3 in W 39.5 in

Harmony II

By Carla Sutera Sardo

Located in New York, NY

ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...

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2010s Alain Pino Photography

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Photographic Paper

Meschac GabaMeschac Gaba Inkjet Pigment Print Photograph African Conceptual Art Dollar Bill, 2004-2005

$3,000

H 19 in W 44 in

Meschac Gaba Inkjet Pigment Print Photograph African Conceptual Art Dollar Bill

Located in Surfside, FL

Meschac Gaba (Benin, 1961- ) Artist with American Inspiration: 4 World Financial Center, 2004, Meschac Gaba, pigmented inkjet print, Hand signed, dated and inscribed '15 des 30 Artiste d'inspiration Americaine' verso. Dimensions: approximately 17 1/2 x 42 1/2 in. (sheet), 19 x 44 in. (frame) Meshac Gaba employs an intervention on an American dollar bill in Artist with American Inspiration: 4 World Financial Center, swapping out our stately eagle for his smiling face portrait. One of Gaba’s sculptures appears on the left as well. Meschac Gaba (born 1961) is a Beninese conceptual artist based in Rotterdam and Cotonou. His installations of everyday objects whimsically juxtapose African and Western cultural identities and commerce. He is best known for The Museum of Contemporary African Art 1997–2002, an autobiographical 12-room installation acquired and displayed by the Tate Modern in 2013. He has also exhibited at the Studio Museum in Harlem and at the 2003 Venice Biennale. Meshac Gaba was born in Cotonou, Benin, in 1961. He had drifted from his training as a painter until a bag of decommissioned money cut into confetti led him to make paintings with the material. 1981-1985 He was a student at the artist studio of Zossou Gratien, Cotonou, Benin. Gaba became known for his installations of everyday objects that whimsically juxtapose African and Western cultural identities and commerce. He held a residency at the Amsterdam Rijksakademie in 1996 for two years. In the absence of opportunities to display his work in the city, he set out over the next five years to make his own museum. This piece became his seminal The Museum of Contemporary African Art 1997–2002, which consists of 12 rooms (some based on museum function and others personal) filled with objects made by Gaba. Throughout the exhibition ran a vein of confessional narrative about the artist's art travails between Africa and Europe The wedding room, which he made while in love, holds mementos as museum artifacts from Gaba's wedding to the Dutch curator Alexandra van Dongen in 2000 at the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum. The Library room holds art...

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Early 2000s Contemporary Alain Pino Photography

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Inkjet

Carla Sutera SardoSoeur III

$500

H 15.6 in W 23.5 in

Soeur III

By Carla Sutera Sardo

Located in New York, NY

ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...

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2010s Alain Pino Photography

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Photographic Paper

Carla Sutera SardoAqva Big Bubble

$900

H 39.5 in W 26.3 in

Aqva Big Bubble

By Carla Sutera Sardo

Located in New York, NY

ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...

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2010s Alain Pino Photography

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Photographic Paper

Carla Sutera SardoCircus

$900

H 26.3 in W 39.5 in

Circus

By Carla Sutera Sardo

Located in New York, NY

ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...

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2010s Alain Pino Photography

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Photographic Paper

Carla Sutera SardoColorful Bows

$900

H 39.5 in W 26.3 in

Colorful Bows

By Carla Sutera Sardo

Located in New York, NY

ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...

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2010s Alain Pino Photography

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Photographic Paper

Carla Sutera SardoAqva Pink Flower

$900

H 39.5 in W 26.3 in

Aqva Pink Flower

By Carla Sutera Sardo

Located in New York, NY

ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...

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2010s Alain Pino Photography

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Photographic Paper

Carla Sutera SardoLight Up Gold

$900

H 39.5 in W 26.3 in

Light Up Gold

By Carla Sutera Sardo

Located in New York, NY

ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...

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2010s Alain Pino Photography

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Photographic Paper

Carla Sutera SardoPoppy Field

$900

H 26.3 in W 39.5 in

Poppy Field

By Carla Sutera Sardo

Located in New York, NY

ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...

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2010s Alain Pino Photography

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Photographic Paper

Carla Sutera SardoColorful Disco Bows

$900

H 39.5 in W 26.3 in

Colorful Disco Bows

By Carla Sutera Sardo

Located in New York, NY

ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...

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2010s Alain Pino Photography

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Photographic Paper

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