YULIER RODRIGUEZ

Born in Florida, Camaguey, in 1989, he is a Cuban artist. He moved to Havana when he was young, where he studied fine arts on his own. Starting in 2014, he began the intervention of murals on the deteriorated walls of the Cuban capital with an expressionist pictorial language. His works reflect the interaction of the individual in Cuban society, representing emotions and moods of people. It seeks to give prominence to the social subject affected by the actions of the totalitarian regime, awakening citizen awareness. In 2017, he was arrested and threatened for expressing his freedom of expression, and was banned from painting in the streets. Despite the threat, he never deleted his works.

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Since 2018, he began the "Gifts" series, using physical waste as support for his interventions, with a more critical discourse against the Cuban communist dictatorship. Although his creative activity in public spaces is prohibited, his artistic resistance continues. Living under censorship and surveillance, Yulier works in street art, painting, performance and audiovisual. Recently, he co-directed the documentary "EXISTEN (Urban Art Resistance in Cuba)," providing an educational insight into the lives of street artists in Cuba and the legal consequences of their artistic practice on the island.