William Carmona

Description

Painted at the height of Carmona’s “Tropical Surrealism” period, following his 1996 solo

exhibition at the Museo de las Américas in San Juan and his 1997 New York exhibition of

the same name. Riders on fish-like forms cross an open desert beneath a clear

Caribbean sky — a signature example of his dreamlike visual language.

 

Born in Cuba in 1967 and trained at the University of Fine Arts in Havana, Carmona has

lived and worked in San Juan since the early 1990s. His work is held in collections

including the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, the

Fanjul Foundation and the United Nations Latin American Art Collection.