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Biography
Yovani Bauta is a Cuban painter.
Career
At age twenty he graduated as Professor of Painting and Drawing at the National School of Art. He obtained a Law Degree from the University of Havana. He spent six years as a lawyer. In 1983 he resigned due to political pressure and returned to the visual arts.
Bauta and several friends founded a comedy group called La Seña del Humor. In 1991, he was invited to exhibit at the Biennial of Havana and in 1992 traveled to exhibit in the Canary Islands.
In 1993 he arrived in New York to give a talk about Cuban Art at Harvard University. He traveled to Miami where he became Art Instructor and Art Event Coordinator at Miami Dade College.
He has lectured and taught at several universities in the United States and maintains an open art studio.