Pablo Medina
Pablo is a Cuban-Colombian-American artist who recently relocated to Medellin, Colombia after having studied, lived and made art in New York City for 35 years.
In 2018, he won the Latin American Contemporary Fine Art Competition (Chelsea, NY) and was awarded an exhibition space in Miami’s Spectrum Art Fair during Art Basel. In 1999, He was the youngest exhibitor in the Design Triennial exhibition at the Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt Museum. He has been a contributing artist for a series of fundraising exhibitions that have collectively raised over $15,000 for non-profit organizations including ACLU, The Standing Rock Council, Make the Road NY and City Harvest.
On October 3, 2020, he marched along with hundreds of other artist activists in the historic Wide Awakes procession, protesting police violence, encouraging voting and manifesting Black joy. He has taught art and design at Parsons School of Design, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and at California College of the Arts (CCA).