Tomás Esson: The GOAT

Published on the occasion of the artist's first solo museum presentation at ICA Miami, “Tomás Esson: The GOAT” surveys major series of work spanning his thirty-year studio practice. This publication features contributions from scholars Erica James and Antonio Eligio, and an interview with the artist conducted by Gean Moreno, Director of the Knight Foundation Art + Research Center at ICA Miami.

Tomás Esson was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1963. He graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, in 1987. His work was showcased in a number of controversial exhibitions in the late 1980s, as he became a central figure in the decade’s renaissance in Cuban art and began to exhibit internationally. In 1990, he left Cuba and has since then lived in Miami and New York City. His work is in the collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany; and Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico.

Editor
Gean Moreno

Format
Hardcover
8 x 10 in.

Publisher
Hirmer

Pages
296

Designer
Ernesto Oroza, Liliam Dooley