Mabel Poblet
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Bio
Mabel Poblet (b. 1986, Cienfuegos, Cuba) lives and works between Cuba and Madrid. Her multimedia practice explores themes of identity, mobility, and belonging. Poblet graduated from the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts in 2007 and later earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of the Arts (ISA), in 2012. In 2008, she participated in the workshops of the Cátedra Arte de Conducta, organized and directed by Tania Bruguera.
She has presented solo exhibitions including No (Body) Is an Island at the Brownstone Foundation, Paris (2024), and What Does All the Blue in the Sea Have That the Sky Doesn’t? at Pan American Art Projects, Florida (2024). At an international level, Poblet has participated in several editions of the Havana Biennial and was invited to represent Cuba in the Cuban Art Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. Her work has also been included in major group exhibitions such as Complicated Beauty: Contemporary Cuban Art, Tampa Museum of Art (2016), and Under the Spell of the Palm Tree, at the Harn Museum of Art, 2023, among others.