José Bedia (b. 1959, Havana) is a Cuban-born artist based in Miami whose work draw on Afro-Atlantic and Indigenous American cultures. He studied at the San Alejandro Academy and graduated with honors from the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, and was an integral part of "Volumen Uno" (1981), the exhibition that inaugurated a radical transformation of Cuban art. Alongside his long engagement with the Indigenous cultures of the Americas, he studied Afro-Cuban religions in depth and was initiated in 1983 into the Regla Kongo (Palo Monte), whose ritual imagery recurs in his work. Travel to Angola and later to Haiti, Zambia and Kenya, deepened his interest in the African roots of American culture. After living in Mexico he settled in Miami. He has exhibited at the Havana, São Paulo and Venice biennales, and his work is in collections including the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana, MoMA and the Metropolitan Museum.
