| Mario Carreño [La Habana, 1913] |
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1925 Enrolls in the San Alejandro Art School, which he abandons that same
year. |
| 1930 First individual exposition in Cuban. |
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1932 Travels to Spain, where he coincides with Wilfred Lam. |
| 1934 Meets Pablo Neruda, poet. |
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1935 Another exposition in La Habana. |
| 1936 Works and exhibits in Mexico, comes into contact with the muralist
works of Orozco, Rivera and Siquieros. |
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1937 Travels to Paris, where he studies with Jacques Cobon and meets the
surrealist Canarian (Canary Island, Spain) Oscar Dominguez who introduces
him to Picasso |
| 1939 Exhibit in the Galeria Bernheim Jeune de Paris and during the 2ND
World War he moves to New York where he teaches painting classes in the
New School for Social Research. |
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1941 Exhibits in the Perls Gallery of New York. |
| 1942 Returns to Cuba, where he marries Maria Luisa Mena, a promoter of
contemporary art. |
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1957 He establishes himself in Chile and gains Chilean citizenship; he
still lives there today. |
