The moment is shrouded in secrets. Cuban artist Belkis Ayón’s family home sits on a quiet street of central Havana, the charm of the house belying the mysteries of her death. White shutters open to ...

Belkis Ayón took her own life at the age of just 32, cutting short the Cuban artist’s promising career. Yet she left behind a prolific body of innovative prints, mostly in ghostly shades of black and ...

Ayón's work, a masterful blend of varied, greyscale textures, highlights a single female entity with which she'd greatly identified. Afro-Cuban feminist legend Belkis Ayón is celebrated as a master ...

The 15th Havana Biennial unites global and Cuban artists in a citywide celebration of contemporary art, culture, and community dialogue. Contemporary Cuban art cannot be fully understood without ...

Belkis Ayón was a Cuban printmaker whose black, gray, and white collographs refer to the mythology of Abakuá, an Afro-Cuban religious fraternity, often fusing it with Christian iconography. Ayón takes ...

It would be difficult to overstate the significance of putting women into the male roles of such an iconic patriarchal symbol, not only in the context of 1990s Cuba, but also in reference to Abakuá ...

A major work by the late Cuban printmaker Belkis Ayón is not on show at the Venice Biennale because of complications prompted by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The piece, entitled La consagración ...

Ten years ago, one of Cuba's leading young artists took her own life, with no warning to family or friends. Her name was Belkis Ayon, and a major exhibit of her work is now under way in Havana. The ...

In her late teens, the Cuban artist Belkis Ayón became fascinated by Abakuá, an ancient Afro-Cuban tradition centered on the transmission of sacred knowledge, shared in secret lodges restricted to men ...