Rafael DOMENECH
BIO
2015 BFA New World School of the Arts 2009 BA National Academy of Fine Arts San Alejandro
Lives and works in Miami, FL and NYC.
Rafael Domenech was born in 1989 in Havana, Cuba. In 2009, he graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts San Alejandro. Having grown up and been educated in a socialist system, an interest for architectural spaces and public propaganda naturally defined the foundation for Domenech’s early work.
Rafael worked for a year as an assistant at a planning office in a section that dealt with political propaganda. As a result of this experience, Rafael began to see the city as an outlet where one can acquire experiences, find objects and seek ideas. To understand the urban habitat as a revolving force, a rich energy source generating knowledge, creating forms, suggesting materials.
In 2010, Domenech arrived in the United States, and a year after enrolled in the New World School of the Arts, graduating in the 2015. This transition and process of geographical relocation and cultural integration was transformational, quickly broadening the influences and interests of the artist.