Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1984. She currently lives and works between the Netherlands and Cuba. From 2011 to 2013, she completed postgraduate studies at the HfG | University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe, Germany. From 1998 until 2008 she studied in the Fine Arts Academy “San Alejandro” and the High Institute of Arts (ISA) in Havana, Cuba.
She has been artist in residency of Caribbean Linked VI 2021 (virtual edition), CAD+SR 2019-20 Research Fellowship in Italy and Kenya (2019-2022); as well as Guest Professor with the Peter and Irene Ludwig Grant at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, 2020. She had as well the CIFO Grants & Commissions Program Award, Miami, US, 2019; AIR of the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna, Austria, 2017; AIR SKÖVDE, Skövde, Sweden, 2016; Apexart Fellowship, New York, US, 2016; KulturKontakt, Vienna, Austria, 2013; MAP Residency in ARTEZ and B93, Enschede, The Netherlands, 2010-2011; the Art Centre Darling Foundry in Montreal, 2009 and others.
Her work has been exhibited in the following biennials and international art events : Berlin Biennale (2022), 14 Dakar Biennial, Senegal (2022) ; Lubumbashi Biennial, Democratic Republic of Congo (2019) ; 12th and 13th Havana Biennial (2015, 2019) ; 13 Biennial of Media Arts, Centro Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo Cerrillos, Santiago de Chile (2017) ; New Talents Biennale 2016, Cologne, Germany ; Cuban Pavilion at the Venice Biennial (2015) ; International Biennale of Contemporary Art (BIAC), Martinique (2013) ; IV Bienal deformes de performance, Chile (2012) ; III Biennale Arts Actuels Réunion, Reunion Island, France (2011) ; International Photography Exhibition, World Festival of Black Arts and Cultures, Dakar, Senegal (2010) ; 7th Gwangju Biennial, South Korea (2008).
Amongst her principal solo shows are Not alone, Continua gallery, Paris, France (2026); Achievement, Secession, Vienna (2024); Empathy, Continua gallery, San Gimignano, Italy (2024); Abriendo paso, FOROF, Rome (2023) ; Resilience, TRUCK, Calgary, Canada (2022); Body Present, KIOSK, Gent, Belgium (2019) ; Jardinera, GALLERIA CONTINUA, Les Moulins, France (2018) ; Dibujo intercontinental, GALLERIA CONTINUA, Havana (2017) ; Un chino de paso por Venecia, ICI, Venice, Italy (2017) ; Bala perdida, Galería Villa Manuela, Havana, Cuba (2017) ; Reclaiming meaning, Skövde Art Museum, Sweden (2016) ; Tropiques hèritage, André Arsenec Gallery, Tropiques Atrium, Fort de France, Martinique (2015) ; Sleeper, NAOS gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany (2012) ; Fiebre cerebral, Villa de Bank Gallery, Enschede, Netherlands (2011).
Her work has also been featured in numerous international group exhibitions like The true size of Africa, Unesco World Heritage Site Volklinger in Germany ( 2024), Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) Grants & Commissions Program Exhibition, Museo del Barrio, New York, US (2019); Cross currents, DuSable Museum and Smart Museum in partnership with National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, US (2019); Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, and Materiality, Cranbrook Art Museum’s Detroit, US (2019); Altered states, WUK, Vienna, Austria (2019); Resilience and Resistance in African Diaspora, New Museum of African Civilizations, Dakar, Senegal (2018); Variaciones contempladas en silencio, Museum of Cuban Art, Havana City, Cuba (2014), among others.