Rafael Domenech Cuba/USA, b. 1989

Born in Havana, Cuba, in 1989, Rafael Domenech lives and works in New York.

Rafael Domenech conceives objects colliding in space, organizing a sequence of artworks with physical or theoretical connections into a larger system, especially their own fabrication. His work explores how the artwork itself is part of an ecosystem of practices outside the studio into the institution and world beyond art and is a story of human relation-ships before aesthetic considerations. Situated at the forefront of artists who are redefining the exhibition experience, Rafael Domenech creates architectural interventions which intersect publishing methodologies such as cutting, redacting, revising, and circulation as research tactics to amplify his interest in the exhibition model as an active machine for production rather than a repository space.
Domenech’s work has been exhibited in France at the Passerelle Centre d’Art Contemporain in Brest (2022), as well as in numerous international institutions such as the Bass Museum (Miami), Sculpture Center (New York), Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York), ASE Foundation (Shanghai), and the Asia Society Texas (Houston),
His works are included in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), the Pérez Art Museum Miami, The Bass (Miami Beach), the Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh), and the CINTAS Foundation (Miami), and notable private collections such as the Jill and Peter Kraus collection (New York).
Domenech is a graduate of Columbia University. He has been a recipient of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Tulsa Artist Fellowship, and the Cintas Foundation, among others.