We are pleased to announce Casado Santapau’s represented artist Alexandre Arrechea’s new group exhibition at the Lowe Museum in Miami, Florida, USA. «El Pasado Mio/ My Own Past»

The exhibition “El Pasado Mío / My Own Past: Afrodescendant Contributions to Cuban Art” at the Lowe Art Museum is guest-curated by Alejandro de la Fuente, Director of Harvard Afro-Latin American Research Institute.

Following its debut in Cambridge, the exhibition was brought to Miami through a collaboration with the Lowe, presenting a groundbreaking survey that sheds light on the historical erasure and marginalization of Afrodescendant artists within Cuban art history. Through an important selection of works and research, “El Pasado Mío / My Own Past” reexamines cultural memory, visibility, and the profound contributions of artists of African descent to the Cuban artistic canon.

Concurrently, the Lowe is also presenting a companion exhibition expanding the dialogue and historical context surrounding the project.

May 1 – September 12, 2026

This landmark exhibition celebrates the work of forty-three Afro-Cuban artists who were active between the 1820s and the present. While several of those featured have achieved global fame, many have yet to receive the attention they deserve, prominent among them a group of eleven female artists whose works will be displayed together for the first time. The contributions of these and other creatives represented in the show cannot be reduced to a singular “black” style, theme, approach, or technique. The exhibition offers the opportunity to understand these artists and their work by critically engaging with the historical, political, and socio-economic contexts in which they were created. Largely inspired by A Mão Afro-Brasileira—the legendary exhibition curated by Afro-Brazilian artist and curator Emanoel Araújo in 1988—this show explores Cuba and its complexities through the lives, experiences, and production of featured Afro-Cuban artists.

El Pasado Mío/My Own Past was originally presented in 2022 at The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art at Harvard University, where it was curated by Alejandro de la Fuente in collaboration with other prominent scholars. The Lowe’s iteration of this show has been modified by Dr. de la Fuente to include critical works of art from local Miami collections.