CURRICULUM VITAE:

Mabel LLevat Soy
Date of Birth: July, 7, 1975
Place of Birth: Havana city, Cuba

Occupation: Photographer, art critic, currently working for the Arte Cubano Magazine and curator of the Fototeca de Cuba, main institution dedicated to photography in the country.

STUDIES
- 1993-1998 Graduate of the Havana University in Art History
-1999 Course-Simposium for the teaching of appraisal, Ludwig Foundation of Cuba, Higher Institute of Arts and Alex Rosenberg, President of the Association of Appraisals of the United States.
-2003 Course of photography. Prof. Félix Arencibia. International Institute of Photojournalism “José Martí” of Cuba.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS AS CURATOR
-1999 Un estanque es el espejo, event of Latin-American fantastic literature, Center of Literary Research, Casa de las Américas. Havana city, Cuba.
-2000 Casi Carmen o el mundo invertido, Sala Contemporánea of Casa de las Américas. Havana city, Cuba.
-2001 Free Jazz, Sala Contemporánea of Casa de las Américas, Havana city, Cuba.
-2001 Entrópicos, Cultural Center of Spain, Havana city, Cuba.
-2002 El arte no es para entenderlo. III Salon of Contemporary Art, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales.
-2002 Mois de la Photo. Fnac Etoile, Fnac Forum des Halles, Fnac Place des Italies. Exhibitions and auction of Cuban photography Paris, France.
-2004 Mayo Abstracto. with Nelson Herrera Ysla. Center Wifredo Lam, Havana city, Cuba.
-2005 Entrópicos II. Festival of the Paix Foundation, Antigua Guatemala City, Guatemala. 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS AS PHOTOGRAPHER
-2003 Habano Fair, space for artistic exhibitions in the Palace for Conventions, Havana city, Cuba.
-2003 Espacio Interior, young Cuban artists, Fototeca de Cuba, VIII Havana Biennial, Havana city, Cuba.
-2004 Art Digital Salon, Sala Majadahonda, Centro Pablo de la Torriente Brau, Havana City, Cuba.
-2004  8 women, Casa Guayasamín, Habana Vieja, Havana city, Cuba.
-2004 Arte Digital, new photographers and digital artists, L Gallery (extensión universitaria), Havana city, Cuba.
-2005 Me han estremecido un montón de mujeres, Homage for the 8 of march, Sala Majadahonda, Centro Pablo de la Torriente Brau. Havana city, Cuba.

SOLO EXHIBITION 
-2005 La Favorita, Casa de la Poesía, Havana city, Cuba.

Editorial collaboration
-Cartelera magazine (Havana city, Cuba.)
-Tabloid Noticias de Arte Cubano (Havana city, Cuba.)
-La Gaceta de Cuba magazine (Havana city, Cuba.)
-Electronic magazine of Casa de las Américas www.arteamerica.org (Havana city, Cuba.)
-Arte Cubano magazine (Havana city, Cuba.)
-Dédalo magazine (Havana city, Cuba.)
-Photovision magazine (Estados Unidos)
-Cuartoscuro magazine (México)
-Petit Journal des Galeries Photo (Francia) 

Texts for catalogues of artists
- 1998 Espera un milagro from the artist Antonio Gómez Margolles. Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana city, Cuba.
-2000 No me agradezcan el silencio from the artist Alexis Leyva Kcho in the Galería Latinoamericana of Casa de las Américas, Havana city, Cuba.
-2001 Evidencias from the photographer Juan Carlos Alom in La Casona gallery, Havana city, Cuba.
-2002 Cartas desde el inxilio from the artist Cirenaica Moreira in La Casona gallery, Havana city, Cuba.
-2003 Catalogue of the photographer José Luis Álvarez Pupo, titled Trance.}
-2005 Sueños Húmedos from the artist Cirenaica Moreira in La Casona, Havana city, Cuba. 

Lectures
-1998 International Colloquium Un siglo de plástica latinoamericana. Casa de las Américas, Havana city, Cuba.
-1998 Third Encounter of Contemporary Art. Wifredo Lam Center, Havana city, Cuba.
-2004 Salon and Colloquium of Digital Art. Centro Pablo de la Torriente Brau, Havana city, Cuba.
-2005 Lectures of Cuban graphic art and photography for the Festival of the Paix Foundation in Guatemala
-2005 Colloquium and debate about art critic in Cuba. IV Salon of Contemporary Art, Havana city, Cuba. 

Awards and Recognitions
- 1997 Award of the Scientific Quest with the Students of the Havana University, Arts and Language Faculty.
-2002 Award for the curator. El arte no es para entenderlo.(Art is not to be understood) III Salon of Contemporary Art, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba.
- 2003 Mention in the Guy Perez de Cisneros Cuban Art Critic Contest in the category of essay.