My inner landscapes at the Mellwood Art Center, March 2026
My Inner Landscapes presents creation as an existential projection. With more than 90 artwork, this exhibition consists of two bodies of work, similar in execution, yet distinct in the histories they tell.
"Anthropic Elements" is a series of paintings produced in 2021, shaped by a creative process formed while I was living under the Cuban dictatorship, when existence unfolded along a fragile thread between adaptation and the denial of lived circumstances. The work within this group titled Landscape #4
"re-exists" as a work of art after having been subjected to institutional censorship in Cuba in 2023.
"Anthropic" marks a second stage, initiated in Cuba in 2023 and extending through 2026. It focuses on the relationship between paradigms of Western culture and contemporary issues such as cultural heritage, democracy, migration, and human rights.
Anthropic, 2024 - 2026
Anthropic, 2022 - 2023
Anthropic Elements, 2021 - 2022
Reliquiae Imaginum, 2018-2020
Traces of Deconstruction, 2016 - 2017
Pacific 1945 / oil on canvas / 19 1/2 in x 29 1/2 in (each piece) / 2016
He is a painter graduated from the Academia Profesional de Artes Visuales ALBA in Holguin, Cuba, earning his Degree in Visual Arts from 2009 to 2013. Afterward, he pursued a BFA in Visual Arts at University of the Arts in Havana from 2016 to 2021.
Molina is best known for his evocative compositions that explore the intersection between mental imagery and pictorial space. His work approaches information as layers that overlap and merge to construct new narratives. He is interested in the direct relationship between historical photography and painting.
Molina’s work is characterized by a focus on memory, perception, and the fluid boundaries between inner and outer realities. He classify his style as metaphysical realism and explore the connections between the anthropological and the natural, using painting to discuss immediate reality and its historical context. Among his most significant projects is the ongoing series Anthropic Elements, in which he investigates the construction of mental landscapes through gestural mark-making, historical photography and spatial distortion.
He has exhibited widely in galleries and institutions across the United States and internationally, including solo and group exhibitions in Louisville, Miami and Havana. His work is held in several private collections in USA, Canada and Spain.