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Agustin Cárdenas was born in Matanzas, Cuba, on April 10, 1927 to a family of tailors.
He decided to attend the Academy of Fine Arts of San Alejandro in 1943, where he studied until 1949. In 1955, Cárdenas arrived in France and settled in Montparnasse, where he met André Breton, who offered him to attend at a group exhibition at the surrealist gallery “L'Etoile Scellé” in 1956. Read the full biography

Agustin Cárdenas was born in Matanzas, Cuba, on April 10, 1927 to a family of tailors.
He decided to attend the Academy of Fine Arts of San Alejandro in 1943, where he studied until 1949. In 1955, Cárdenas arrived in France and settled in Montparnasse, where he met André Breton, who offered him to attend at a group exhibition at the surrealist gallery “L'Etoile Scellé” in 1956. From then on, Cárdenas participated in around one hundred group exhibitions and had 34 solo exhibitions. He was made a Knight of Arts and Letters and received the Bill and Noma Copley Award. Since 1968 he lived and worked regularly in Meudon-Bellevue and in his studio in Nogent-sur-Marne, where his five children were born.
Cárdenas also worked in Canada, Austria, Japan, Israel and Korea, but especially in Italy, in Carrara, where he sculpted marble, in Pietrasanta, where his bronze sculptures were cast. From 1994 to 2001 he lived in Havana, where he passed away.