(b, Havana, Cuba, 1959).
Marta María Pérez Bravo graduated from Havana’s Instituto Superior de Arte in 1984 and the Institute for Contemporary Art in Portland, Oregon in 1996. Pérez Bravo started making art in 1986 and came to learn about Santería and Palo Monte as an adult. Subjectivity is central to her photographs, which are composed with an underlying symbolism alluding to her personal form of spirituality. Since 1982, her work has been shown and collected internationally. She has held solo exhibits at the Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, 2001; Universidad de Salamanca, Spain, 2001; and Todo viene de tierra ajena, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela, 1999. Her group exhibitions include: Shifting Tides: Cuban Photography after the Revolution, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001; Latin American Still Life, Reflection of Time and Place, Museo del Barrio, New York, 2000; and Estética Iberoamericana, Museo
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