Osmeivy Ortega Pacheco

Cuban artist Osmeivy Ortega Pacheco is an emerging printmaker who works with traditional techniques to produce anatomical and nature-inspired images that explore the surrounding environment of culture of his native country. Occasionally printing on fabric, including the thin rags used for cleaning around this studio, Ortega’s work often uses animals to evoke social issues, such as his work Paisaje, which depicts a group of turkeys peering out from behind a chain-link fence. Influenced by the dark woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer and the elegant studies of Michelangelo and Da Vinci, Ortega’s prints are exquisitely rendered and exemplify the beauty and technique of traditional printmaking.

Ortega has been exhibited extensively in Cuba as well as at the tenth and eleventh Havana Biennales, the Cleveland Institute of Art, the London Print Studio, and in Sweden, Mexico, Panama. Ortega received an award of Honorable Mention from the Tamarind Institute of the University of New México 2004, and a Special Mention at the 10th La Joven Estampa Prize in 2009.