Anita Guerra was born in Havana Cuba and received her art training in the United States, Spain, and Italy. In 1984 she obtained her M.F.A. degree in Painting from Temple University, Philadelphia. She has been living and exhibiting in Rome, where she resides, since 1977. Her works hang in collections at the National Museum of Sacred Art, Castello Piccolomini, Celano, Aquila; Centre d'Etudes Saint Louis de France, Rome; PricewaterhouseCoopers, NYC, The Caproni Museum in Trento and in private collections throughout Europe and the United States. Travel and research grants have funded trips back to Cuba to paint and work on her illustrated family memoir and exhibit entitled initially “Tres Patrias” and currently, “Queridos”.
Degrees
M.F.A. in Painting (cum laude) from Tyler School of Art/Temple University in Philadelphia, PA
B.F.A. in Painting (cum laude) from Tyler School of Art/Temple University in Philadelphia, PA
Completed four of those years in Italy
Courses Taught
ART 3512 - Rome Sketchbook
ART 1501 - Painting on Paper for Non-Tyler BFA Students
ART 3508 - Painting on Paper-Rome
Recent Exhibits
Selected Group Exhibits
2024 “Biennale di Amelia” Palazzo Petrignani, Amelia, Italia
2024 “Amore e Psyche”& “Pluto in Acquario” Studio Poerio 16B, Rome, Italy
2024 “Donna, Vita, Libertà” Biblioteca Casa del Parco, Rome, Italy
2024 “Conversations” Temple Gallery, Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy
2023 “Donna, Vita, Libertà” Casa Internazionale delle Donne, Rome, Italy
2023 “La Gabbia e Il Volo” Aula Consiliare, I Municipio, Rome, Italy
2023 “&” Faculty & Guests, Temple Gallery, Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy
2022 “Remanso” Ex-Cartiera Latina, Parco di Via Appia, Rome, Italy
2022 “Controvento. Artisti per Pasolini” Villa Guglielmi, Fiumicino, Italy
2021 “Arteporto Fuori Confine”, Ancient Port of Trajan and Claudius, Fiumicino, Italy
2021 “Io e Me: Self Portraits During Lockdown” Sala 1, Permanent collection, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma, Rome, Italy
2021 “50+PontidiConoscenza” https://50piupontidiconoscenze.wordpress.com
2020 “Cross-Connect: One-to-One interviews with Creatives Around the Globe”
Anita Guerra meets Gail Shaw-Clemons, Virtual encounter. IA&A at Hillyer, Washington DC, USA
2020 “RAW Faculty Exhibit” Rome Art Week, Temple Gallery, Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy
2019 “Looking at the Trees, Gazing at the Sky” with critical text by Roberta Melasecca, St. Stephen’s Cultural Center, Rome, Italy
2019 “RAW Faculty Exhibit” Rome Art Week, Temple Gallery, Temple University Rome Rome, Italy
2018 “Under Another Roof” with Marina Buening, Maria Korporal, Kristien de Neve. IA&A at Hillyer, Washington DC, USA
2018 “Under the Same Roof” with Marina Buening, Maria Korporal, Kristien de Neve. Sala 1, Rome, Italy
Solo Exhibits
2020 ”Tres Patrias” Temple Gallery, Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy
2016 “Mi Cuba, La Mia Italia: reliving the past, living the present” Critical text by
Manuela De Leonardis Exhibit for Italian Cultural Week, November 20-27,2016
Casa de la Obra Pía, Habana Vieja, Havana, Cuba
2016 “Volver a Cuba” St. Stephen’s Cultural Center, Rome, Italy
Artists Statement
I am an artist who has moved a lot and has lived in different cultures. I gather the various fragments of linguistic, geographic, political and emotional experiences; fluctuating alliances and identities and attempt to unite them in my paintings and multi-media installations. Lately, as a metaphor for our life-journey, I paint or embroider the human figure suspended in space, on surfaces of gauze, glass, mosquito netting, canvas, wood and found objects. Each layer aims to bridge the past to the present and in their connection, to create a viable path towards the future.
Publications
2023 “Los objetos usurpados que se venden en Cuba tienen el olor de la muerte” Interview by journalist and art historian, William Navarrete, CUBANET, https://www.cubanet.org/. October 1, 2023
2016 “On Cuba” Claudia García Pérez interviews Anita Guerra about her exhibition,
“Mi Cuba, La Mia Italia” at the Museum Casa de la Obra Pía, Havana Cuba
2012 “Building Bridges of Opportunity: Migration and Diversity” Painting,
“Tras-tevere used as logo for conference organized by the US Embassy to the Holy See, Rome, Italy
2011 Herrera O’Reilly, Andrea, “CAFE--Cuban Artists Across the Diaspora: Setting the Tent Against the House” The University of Texas Press, Austin, TX USA
T.V. and Radio Interviews
2019 “Live Social-By Night” Radio Roma Capitale, Anita Guerra , live radio interview. Rome,Italy
2016 “Vitrales” Cultural Program created by Katia Cárdenas Radio Emisora Cuba.
Anita Guerra , live radio interview about “Mi Cuba, La Mia Italia” exhibit for the XIX Week of Italian Culture, Havana, Cuba
2016 “I Giochi dell’Armonia” Cultural Program created by Alessandra Petitta of Vatican Radio. Anita Guerra , live radio interview about exhibit “Volver a Cuba”
Rome, Italy http://it.radiovaticana.va/news/2016/05/27/pagine,_fogli,_parole_sognare/1231447
Research and Grants
2024 Awarded the Emily Harvey Foundation Artist Residency in Venice for the Summer of 2025.
2018 Temple University Presidential Humanities and Arts Award. Research trip to Miami and Havana to work on an illustrated memoir. (May 2018-May 2020)