Juan Carlos Alom Havana, Cuba | 1964
Selected by Time magazine as one of Latin America’s most relevant photographers of the millennium, Alom creates work that investigates the various communities and identities that comprise Cuba and its diaspora.
Juan Carlos Alom is a filmmaker and photographer who has exhibited throughout Cuba, the Americas, Europe, and South Africa. Starting his career as a photojournalist in 1990s Cuba, Alom developed an artistic vision that was informed by the need for spontaneity demanded by that period of crisis. Among the films that Alom has directed are Una Harley recorre la Habana (1998), Habana Solo (2000), Evidencia (2001), Iroko (2004), Diario (2009), and No Limits (2013), with Ismael de Diego and Armando Suárez Cobián. A retrospective of his 16mm films was screened at the 2018 Los Angeles festival “Ism, Ism, Ism: Experimental Cinema in Latin America.” Recent group exhibitions include Without Masks: Contemporary Afro-Cuban Art, Audain Gallery, Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada (2014) and On the Horizon, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL (2017), among many others. Solo exhibitions have taken place at the San Francisco Art Institute, Buzz Art Gallery, Miami; University of Connecticut Jorgensen Gallery; and El Apartamento Gallery, Havana. His work is held in permanent collections at Cuba’s Museum of Fine Arts; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Ludwig Forum for International Art, Germany; Fototeca de Pachuca, Mexico; the Pérez Art Museum; the University of Texas’s Blanton Museum of Art; Tate Modern, London; Frost Art Museum, Miami. He lives and works in New York.
