Acaymo S. Cuesta (Gran Canaria - Canary Islands, 1983).
Multidisciplinary artist Bachelor of Arts (BA) of La Laguna University and a Master’s degree in Artistic Production from the Polytechnic University of Valencia.
He has exhibited his individual and collective work in spaces such as C.A.A.M. Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (Gran Canaria - Canary Islands - Spain), SACO9 Contemporary Art Festival (Antofagasta - Chile), Nomad Biennial at the Anthropological Museum and Contemporary Art - M.A.A.C.(Guayaquil, Ecuador), Clamplight Gallery, (San Antonio - Texas - EE.UU), Fundación Francis Naranjo (Gran Canaria - Canary Islands/Spain), Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporània, (Valencia - Spain), Fernando Pradilla Gallery (Madrid - Spain), IX SIART International Art Biennial (La Paz - Bo-livia), La Regenta Art Centre (Gran Canaria - Canary Islands/Spain), S.A.C. Sala de Arte Contemporáneo (Tenerife - Canary Islands - Spain), Blanca Soto Gallery (Madrid - España), No Lugar Gallery (Quito - Ecuador), Pérez de la Riva Cultural Centre (Madrid - Spain), One Project in Art Madrid’17 with La Isla Gallery (Madrid - Spain), TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (Tenerife -Spain), Hardy Tree Gallery (London - U.K.), Espacio AB9 (Murcia - Spain) and Laboratorio21 (Viareggio - Italy) among others
He has been awarded production grants and artistic residencies such as: Artistic Residency at I.S.L.A. Instituto Superior Latinoamericano de Arte (Antofagasta, Chile), financed by the Programme for the Internationalisa-tion of Spanish Culture (PICE) of Acción Cultural Española, grant in the Cé-sar Manrique Research and Artistic Creation Projects coordinated by the Government of the Canary Islands (Gran Canaria - Canary Islands/Spain), grant in Artists in Residence CAAM (Gran Canaria - Canary Islands/Spain), artist-in-residence grant at Residency.ch, PROGR Art Production Centre (Bern/Switzerland), VII Encontro de Artistas Novos (Santiago de Composte-la - Spain), Invited to an artistic residency at the Fate Festival (Naples - Italy), Artistic residency at No Lugar (Quito - Ecuador) and for two and a half years he received a grant from the Government of the Canary Islands as an artist in residence in studio 7 of the Espacio de Producción de Artes Visuales of La Regenta Art Centre (Gran Canaria - Canary Island - Spain).
His work can be found in the following collections, Antonio P. Martín Art Collection (Gran Canaria - Canary Island - Spain), Ofelia Martín and Javier Núñez Collectión (Lanzarote - Canary Island - Spain), Museum and Contem-porary Art - M.A.A.C. (Guayaquil, Ecuador), Nomadic Cinema for the Arts Foundation (La Paz - Bolivia), Municipality of San Potito Sannitico (Naples - Italy), Canary Islands Foundation Luján Pérez (Sta Mª de Guia/ Spain), Peace one day Organization, (London, U.K.), Artistic Foundation of the U.L.P.G.C. C. (Gran Canaria - Canary Island - Spain) and private collections in Chile, Barcelona, Madrid, Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Milan.
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We are conditioned by our environment, either at the family and social level, and especially at the political level. History and experiences form/constitute a very important active part in the construction of the individual, since everything that surrounds us lends itself to become impulses that build or destroy it.
In this sense, I understand the configuration of the subject and the history as a container of irrational impulses provoked by external agents. I am inte-rested in the use of the word as a shaper of the individual, and how it can be used as a tool to control, indoctrinate, tame or distract him.
Under these premises, my work deals with the tensions between the in-dividual, society and the word; materialised through the development of pieces that combine multidisciplinary techniques and that ultimately seek to awaken a critical or reflective attitude in the spectator.
