Rachel Valdés (b. 1990, Havana, Cuba) is a visual artist based between Havana and Barcelona. A graduate of the San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts, she specializes in painting but works across photography, land art, public interventions and large-scale immersive installations. Her art explores perception, materiality and interaction with space, often using mirrors, glass, stainless steel and polycarbonate to create sensory experiences that connect viewers to their surroundings and to themselves. Her mirrored installation "Happily Ever After" was installed on Havana's Malecón for the 2012 Havana Biennial, and "Blue Cube" (2015) became a landmark of public art in the city. Her work "The Beginning of the End" (2016) was shown in Times Square in New York. Her works are in collections including the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation and the Donald Rubin Foundation, and she is represented by Galeria Mayoral.
Rachel Valdés. Photo by Rachel Valdés, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
