EDUCATION

• 1987-91 Visual Arts College (Instituto Superior de Arte), Havana
• 1984-87 National School of the Arts (Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas, ENAP), Havana
• 1983-84 Academia de San Alejandro, Havana
• 1980-83 School of Visual Arts (Escuela Provincial de Artes Plasticas), Pinar del Río, Cuba

Carlos Luna at Green Machine: The Art of Carlos Luna; Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2016

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• 2018 Flower Power; Art of the World Gallery, Houston, TX*
  Public Art Project; Zócalo, Fiscalía, Panteón, Puebla, Mexico
  
• 2017 Deep Line, Drawings by Carlos Luna; Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
  Green Machine: The Art of Carlos Luna; American University Museum,Washington, DC*
  Dialogues: Carlos Luna; Fort Smith Regional Art Museum, Forth Smith, AR
  Scope Miami; Espinasse 31, Milan Italy
  
• 2016 Green Machine: The Art of Carlos Luna; Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños, Oaxaca, Mexico *
  
• 2015 Green Machine: The Art of Carlos Luna; Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL *
  
• 2011 Carlos Luna: Los Decorados; Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA *
  
• 2009 Pablo Picasso Ceramics | Carlos Luna Paintings; Complejo Cultural Universitario BUAP, Puebla, Mexico *
  Pablo Picasso Ceramics | Carlos Luna Paintings; Miramar Cultural Center - Artspark, Miramar, FL*
• 2008 Pablo Picasso Ceramics | Carlos Luna Paintings; Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL *
  Carlos Luna: El Gran Mambo; American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC *
  Carlos Luna: El Gran Mambo; Museum of Latin American Art – Molaa, Long Beach, CA *
  
• 2007 Carlos Luna: Personal Histories; (Oil paintings) Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA *
  Carlos Luna: Personal Histories; (Works on amate paper) The Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, Lebanon Valley Collage, Annville, PA *
  Carlos Luna: Personal Histories; (Oils and works on amate paper) Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL *
  Art Santa Fe; Osuna Art, Washington, DC *
  
• 2006 Naci pa’ ser feliz; Gomez Fine Art-Galeria, San Juan, PR *
  
• 2005 Retratos de Carlos Luna; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL *
  Carlos Luna; Leonard Tachmes Gallery, Miami, FL
  
• 2001 Paso a Paso; Museo Poblano de Arte Virreinal, Puebla, Mexico *
  
• 1998 Women of Sensuality; Amalia Mahoney Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Presencia de Carlos Luna; Casa de la Cultura, Puebla, Mexico
  
• 1997 Yo traigo de Todo; Casa de los Muñecos, University Museum, Puebla, Mexico *
  Carlos Luna; Oscar Roman Gallery, Mexico DF
  
• 1996 Entre Gallos y Mujeres; Amalia Mahoney Gallery, Chicago, IL
  
• 1995 Mi Madre, Mi Patria; Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico *
  
• 1994 El Bestiario II; Claustro de Sor Juana, Mexico DF *
  
• 1993 El Bestiario; Javier Lumbreras Fine Arts, Coral Gables, Florida, USA *
  
• 1992 El Fuego Secreto; La Casita Gallery, Mexico DF
  
• 1991 Sin permiso no se puede tumba; Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, NL, Mexico
  
• 1987 Imágenes del Paraíso; Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas Gallery, Havana
  
• 1986 Carlos Luna II; Atilano Armenteros Ramos Gallery, San Luis, Pinar del Rio, Cuba
  
• 1984 Carlos Luna; Atilano Armenteros Ramos Gallery, San Luis, Pinar del Rio, Cuba
  

Green Machine: The Art of Carlos Luna; Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL, 2015

Jack Rassmusen, Carlos Luna, and Ramon Osuna at Green Machine: The Art of Carlos Luna; American University Museum,Washington, DC, 2017

Green Machine: The Art of Carlos Luna; Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL, 2015

The Luna family, 2015

Carlos Luna at Green Machine: The Art of Carlos Luna; Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2016

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 2018 Nomadic Murals: Contemporary Tapestries and Carpets; Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
  ART: The Fifth Element; Art of the World Gallery, Houston, TX
  Exintex; Bonasa, Puebla, Mexico
  
• 2017 Latin American Art; Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA *
  Homage to Mango Street, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY
  
• 2016 Evocación al Paisaje; Manuel García Arte Contemporaneo, Oaxaca, México
  Talavera Poblana. Pasado y Presente; Franz Mayer Museum, México D.F.*
  Group Show; Art of the World Gallery, Houston, TX
  
• 2015 KIAF Art Seoul; Art of the World Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
  75 años, 75 artistas; Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico.
  Agave y Caña; Instituto Cultural de Mexico, Miami, Florida *
  
• 2014 Concept, Art Basel; Galeria Medicci, Miami, FL
  FIA; XXll Feria Iberoamericana de Arte, Galeria Medicci, Caracas, Venezuela *
  Group Show; Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA
  
• 2013 Art Wynwood Fair; Galeria Medicci, Miami, FL
  FIA; XXll Feria Iberoamericana de Arte, Galeria Medicci, Caracas, Venezuela *
  Houston Fine Art Fair; Art Of The World, Houston, TX
  
• 2012 Houston Fine Art Fair; Art Of The World, Houston, TX
  Palm Springs Fine Art Fair; Heather James Fine Art, Palm Springs, CA
  LA to LA; LA Artcore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, CA *
  Grabado; University of the Arts, Havana, Cuba.
  
• 2011 Salon d'Automne 2011: l'AlteRnaTive; Paris *
  Group Show; Heather James Fine Art, Jackson, WY
  Cuba On My Mind; The Von Liebig Art Center, Naples, FL
  Independiente; Espacio-Reforma, Oaxaca, Mexico *
  
• 2010 !Si Cuba!; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
  !Latinas!; Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
  Four Views from the MOLAA Permanent Collection; Museum of Latin American Art – Molaa, Long Beach, CA *
  Art in Embassies Program, United States Embassy El Salvador, San Salvador, 2010 - 2013 *
  Unbroken Ties: Dialogues in Cuban Art; Flint Institute of the Arts, Flint, MI *
  Art Santa Fe; Osuna Art, Washington, DC
  
• 2009 Latinamerican Art: Classic to Contemporary; Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA
  Latin American Painting Now (Pintura Latino Americana de Ahora) Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL
  
• 2008 Art in Embassies Program, United States Embassy Santiago, Chile, 2008-2011 *
  Unbroken Ties: Dialogues in Cuban Art; Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL *
  Visiones: 20th Century Selections from the Nassau County Museum of Art; Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
  Art Santa Fe; Osuna Art, Washington, DC
  
• 2007 Latin American Art: Myth & Reality; Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
  Art Miami; Gomez Fine Art-Galeria, San Juan, PR *
  Arte Americas; Maxioli Gallery, Miami, FL *
  Group Show. Latin American Art Gallery; Scottsdale, Arizona
  Alarca, Talavera Contemporanea; El Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico DF *
  
• 2006 Unbroken Ties: Dialogues in Cuban Art; Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA *
  Diversidades. Del Caribe al Sur; Gomez Fine Art-Galeria, San Juan, PR
  Group show; Lurie Fine Art Galleries, Miami, FL
  
• 2005 Figuratively Speaking; Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
  Arte Americas; George Billis Gallery, Convention Center, Miami, FL *
  Works on paper; Osuna Art, Bethesda, Maryland
  Wet; Edge Zones, Worlds Art Building, North Miami, FL *
  Growth Spurt; Edge Zones. Worlds Art Building, North Miami, FL
  
• 2004 "Latin Visions": A Collector's Insight; Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
  Scope Miami, Art Basel. Townhouse Hotel; Leonard Tachmes Gallery, Miami, FL
  It’s for the Birds; Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL *
  Summer Miami; Leonard Tachmes Gallery, Miami, FL
  TONDO; Galeria Botello, Hato Rey, PR
  Art Miami; Latin Collector Gallery, Miami, FL *
  Erase una vez en Mexico; Institute of Mexico in Miami, Miami, FL
  American Dream; The Olga M. & Carlos Saladrigas Gallery,The Ignatian Center for the Arts, Miami, FL *
  The Soul of Latin American Art; Lurie Fine Art Galleries, Boca Raton, FL
  
• 2003 Transfiguration; Palazzo Mediceo-Seravezza, Italy *
  Group Show; Latin Collector, New York, NY
  Group Show; Jorge M. Sori Fine Art, Miami, FL
  Affordable Art Fair; Latin Collector Gallery, New York, NY
  Second Year Anniversary Exhibition; Leonard Tachmes Gallery, Miami, FL
  
• 2001 Pequeño Formato; La Boheme Fine Art Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
  
• 2000 Una Constelación de Noches; Lopez Quiroga Gallery, Mexico DF *
  
• 1999 Talavera Contemporánea; San Francisco Cultural Center, Contemporary Art Gallery, Puebla, Mexico *
  Millennium; La Boheme Fine Art Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
  Pequeño Formato; La Boheme Fine Art Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
  Mixta s/papel ’99; Lyle O. Reitzel Contemporary Art, Santo Domingo, DR
  Salón de Pequeño Formato; El Espacio Gallery, Mexico DF
  Colección Gobierno del Estado de Puebla; Galeria de Arte Contemporaneo, Puebla, Mexico
  
• 1998 Group Show; Drexel Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico
  Arte Erótico; Casa de los Muñecos, University Museum, Puebla, Mexico
  
• 1997 Artistic Odyssey: Cuba-USA; Amalia Mahoney Gallery, Chicago, IL
  
• 1996 Premio MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico *
  Anatomía; Oscar Roman Gallery, Mexico DF
  Artistas unidos contra el SIDA; Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico DF
  El Circo, Oscar Roman Gallery; Mexico DF
  Concurso Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo de Pintura Joven en México. Competition of young painters sponsored by Interamerican Development Bank in Mexico; SHCP Cultural Center, Mexico DF; Art Gallery of Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico *
  
• 1995 Advento; Group Exhibition of Contemporary Art; Tecali, Puebla, Mexico
  Formas de Expresión; 180º Gallery, Puebla, Mexico
  Group Exhibition; El Angel Gallery, Ciudad Mexico
  Arte Contemporáneo; 180º Gallery, Puebla, Mexico
  
• 1994 One Group Show; Javier Lumbreras Fine Art, Coral Gables, FL
  Ojos que no ven; In Spazio Gallery, Puebla, Mexico
  Aquí y Ahora; 180º Gallery, Puebla, Mexico
  
• 1993 Nacidos en Cuba; Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR *
  One Group Show; Javier Lumbreras Fine Art; Coral Gables, FL
  Colectiva; La Troje de San Mateo Gallery, Atlixco, Puebla, Mexico
  
• 1992 I Bienal de Pintura del Caribe; Santo Domingo, DR
  VIII Bienal Iberoamericana de Arte, América Nuestro Continente, Domeq Cultural Institute, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico DF *
  Pabellón Cubano de las Artes; World Show, Seville 1992, Spain
  La Década prodigiosa; Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico DF *
  
• 1991 IV Bienal de La Habana. El Desafío a la Conquista y Colonización; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana *
  VIII Trienal de la India; Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, India
  En sus marcos listos II; IV Bienal de la Havana, Havana Gallery, Havana
  18 peintres de Cuba a Paris; Federation Du Val-d´Oise, Paris *
  Salón de profesores; Luz y Oficio Gallery, Havana
  En sus Marcos Listos; Havana Gallery, Havana
  Nacidos en Cuba; Universidad de Valencia, Centro de Arte de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela; Museo de Arte de Toluca, Toluca, Mexico *
  
• 1990 Andar Pinar; Luz y Oficio Gallery, Havana
  V Salón de Premiados; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana
  Exposición Colectiva Itinerante de Serigrafía en Centros de Arte de África: School of Fine Arts, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Nommo Gallery, Kampala, Uganda; National Art Museum, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; National Art Museum, Harare, Zimbabwe; Ecole de Poto-Poto, Brazzaville, Congo
  
• 1989 De lo Abstracto; Havana Gallery, Havana
  Salón Nacional Asociación Hermanos Saínz; Casa del Joven Creador, Havana
  Homenaje del Instituto Superior de Arte a la Casa de las Américas; Casa de las Americas, Havana
  Jornada de la Cultura Cubana; Tres Mundos Gallery, Managua
  III Bienal de la Habana; Instituto Superior de Arte Gallery, Havana
  V Salón Provincial de Artes Plásticas; Pinar del Rio Gallery, Pinar del Rio, Cuba
  IV Salón de Premiados; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana
  
• 1988 Arte Cubano Joven; Art Institute of Massachusetts; Boston, Massachusetts
  Festival de la Creación y la Investigación Artística; Instituto Superior de Arte Gallery, Havana
  Jóvenes Artistas Plásticos; Abel Santamaria Museum, Santa Clara, Cuba
  IV Salón Provincial de Artes Plásticas; Pinar del Rio Gallery, Pinar del Rio, Cuba
  Salón de la Ciudad; Luz y Oficio Gallery, Havana
  
• 1987 Veintitantos Abriles; Havana Gallery, Havana
  Salón de la Ciudad; Servando Cabrera Moreno Gallery, Havana
  III Salón Provincial de Artes Plásticas; Pinar del Rio Gallery, Pinar del Rio, Cuba
  
• 1986 Salón Interescolar; Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas and Academia de San Alejandro, Havana
  
• 1985 Salón Nacional de Escuelas de Arte; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana
  

Green Machine: The Art of Carlos Luna; Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL, 2015

Camila Luna sitting with “El Gran Mambo.” Green Machine: The Art of Carlos Luna; Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL, 2015

Carlos Luna: El Gran Mambo; American University Museum, Washington, DC, 2008

Carlos Luna working at his studio, 2017

Public Art Project; Zócalo, Fiscalía, Panteón, Puebla, Mexico, 2018

Carlos Luna working with his dog Churro, 2017

Green Machine: The Art of Carlos Luna; Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL, 2015

Carlos Luna with his three children, Camila, Carlos, and Cristobal, Puebla, Mexico 2001

Deep Line, Drawings by Carlos Luna; Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL, 2017

Carlos and Claudia Luna examining ceramics before an exhibition, Puebla, Mexico, 2010

Carlos Luna: Los Decorados; Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA, 2011

Robert Lennon, Carlos Luna and Ramon Osuna at a solo show, Art Santa Fe, 2007

MUSEUM AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
The Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, Lebanon Valley Collage, Annville PA
Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL
Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
Museo Poblano de Arte Virreinal, Puebla, Mexico
Museo Casa de los Muñecos, Puebla, Mexico
Museo de Arte Afroamericano, Caracas, Venezuela
Banco de Mexico Collection, Mexico DF
Secretaria de Hacienda y Credito Publico Collection, Mexico DF
Gobierno del Estado de Puebla Collection, Puebla, Mexico
Casa de la Cultura, Puebla, Mexico
Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico
Colección Talavera Santa Catarina, Puebla, Mexico
Talavera Uriarte Ceramics Collection, Puebla, Mexico
Alarca Museo de la Talavera, Puebla, Mexico
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana
Wifredo Lam Center, Havana
The Ludwig Foundation, Germany
The Jaime Wasch Foundation, Spain
The Miterrand Foundation, France

Scope Miami; Espinasse 31

Carlos Luna and his daughter Camila examining amate paper, Atlixco, Mexico, 1997

SCULPTURE IN PUBLIC SPACES

Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
Complejo Cultural Universitario BUAP, Puebla, Mexico

AWARDS

• 2008 Artist in Residence; Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL
  New American Paintings; Juried Exhibition-in-Print, Number 76 *
  
• 2001 Grant award; Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY *
  
• 1998 Fellowship; State Government of Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
  
• 1997 Fellowship; State Government of Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
  
• 1991 First Prize; Salon de Profesores, Luz y Oficio Gallery, Havana
  
• 1989 First Prize; V Salón Provincial de Artes Plásticas; Pinar del Rio, Cuba
  “IV Salón Nacional de Premiados” Award; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana
  
• 1988 First Prize; Salon de la Ciudad, Luz y Oficio Gallery, Havana
  First Prize; IV Salón Provincial de Artes Plásticas, Pinar del Rio, Cuba
  
• 1987 Honorable Mention; Salón de la Ciudad, Servando Cabrera Moreno Gallery, Havana
  
• 1986 “Salón Interescolar” Award; Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas and Academia de San Alejandro, Havana
  

SPECIAL AWARD

In 2001, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service granted Carlos Luna an EB-1-1 (Alien of Extraordinary Ability) Immigrant Visa. Granted under very special circumstances to applicants who can prove outstanding artistic, scientific, athletic, community, or scholarly performance, the EB-1-1 Visa affords the recipient and his family permanent residence status in the U.S.

Pablo Picasso Ceramics | Carlos Luna Paintings; Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 2008

Carlos and Claudia Luna, opening night at the Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale, 2008

AUCTIONS

• 2016 Freeman's Modern & Contemporary Art, [Lots 103, 104 & 105] December 6, 2016, Philadelphia, PA
  
• 2015 Latin American Art Auction # 767, [Lot 15] Morton Auction House, Mexico, DF
  Latin American Art Auction #745, [Lot 122] Morton Auction House, Mexico, DF
  
• 2014 Latin American Art Auction #726, [Lots 136 & 137] Morton Casa de Subastas, Mexico, DF
  
• 2013 Latin American Art Auction #670, [Lot 197] Morton Casa de Subastas, Mexico, DF
  
• 2012 All About Art, [Lot 47] Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
  Mexican and Other Artists Art Auction #642, [Lot 158] Morton Auction House, Mexico, DF
  
• 2011 Auction 2011, [Lots 32 & 55] Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
  
• 2009 Sotheby's Latin American Art, [Lot 175] November 19, 2009, New York, NY
  Auction 09, Contemporary Latin American Art, [Lot 43], Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
  
• 2008 Sotheby's Latin American Art, [Lot 250] November 19, 2008, New York, NY
  Sotheby's Latin American Art, [Lot 277] May 30, 2008, New York, NY
  Auction 08, Contemporary Latin American Art, [Lot 31], Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
  The Rare Event Auction, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, FL
  
• 2007 Sotheby's Latin American Art, [Lot 290] November 21, 2007, New York, NY
  The Rare Event Auction, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, FL
  Auction Carnaval do Rio – Oba, The ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
  Modern and Contemporary Art Auction, [Lot 158] Morton Auction House, Mexico, DF
  
• 2006 Sotheby's Latin American Art, [Lot 185] May 25, 2006, New York, NY
  Auction 06, Contemporary Latin American Art, [Lot 8 & 151], Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
  
• 2005 Auction 05, Contemporary Latin American Art, [Lot 22], Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
  Internacional Kids Fund, Latin American Art Auction 2005, Miami Art Central, Miami FL
  

Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale, annual Gala El Gran Mambo featuring Carlos Luna's work, 2009

Francisco Hernández, Gerardo Ramos Brito, Carlos Luna, Enrique Aguera, Pedro Angel Palou, Santiago Espinosa de los Monteros, Ramón Almela, Elsa Hernandez, conference at the Complejo Cultural BUAP, Puebla, Mex. 2009

Claudia Luna at Deep Line, Drawings by Carlos Luna; Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL, 2017

* Exhibition accompanied by catalogue