Alberto Rey

Alberto Rey (born 7 August 1960 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban-American painter, illustrator, filmmaker, educator and writer. His work has been featured in over 200 exhibitions and screenings and has been included in the permanent collections of twenty museums including Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Burchfield Penney Art Center, El Museo del Barrio, Extremaduran and Latin American Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Museum of Latin American Art, and the Peabody Essex Museum. Rey is currently a distinguished professor at the State University of New York at Fredonia and in 2012 was inducted into the Burchfield Penney Art Center's ''Living Legacy Project''. He has written several books corresponding to series of his work: ''Candaway Creek - Western New York'' (2021), ''Lost Beauty: Icebergs'' (2021), ''Lost Beauty: Part II - The Art of Museum Stories'' (2021), ''Extinct Birds Project'' (2018), and ''Complexities of Water - Biological Regionalism: Bagmati River, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal'' (2016) about the holiest and most polluted river Bagmati River in Kathmandu, Nepal. He has also had many articles and illustrations published in several magazines including the ''Buffalo Spree'', ''Gray’s Sporting Journal'', ''Art of Angling Journal'', ''Fish and Fly Magazine'', ''American Angler'', and ''Saltwater Fisherman''.

In 2021, he gave a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo9DRKnK684 video lecture on his work] in conjunction with the Alberto Rey retrospective exhibition, ''Life Streams'', at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art where he discussed the evolution of his work over the past thirty years and the community projects that influenced his artwork. Articles about his work have been written in the Buffalo Spree in [https://albertorey.com/buffalo-spree-december-2018/ 2018], [https://albertorey.com/buffalo-spree-august-2019/ 2019], [https://albertorey.com/buffalo-spree-august-2021/ 2020], [https://albertorey.com/buffalo-spree-october-2021/ 2021] and [https://albertorey.com/buffalo-spree-april-2023/ 2023].''The Virginia Sportsman'' magazine also published an extensive article about Alberto's work and life in their [https://issuu.com/summit-publishing/docs/vas_fall2023_issuu?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ&fbclid=IwAR1eDGEPBCAXvC1PF8eU3vFXpKDdN6rRMks8T-2MP19pnDZ3vyjbY6Tt9CM Fall 2023 issue.] Art historians and curators have also written one book and several essays about his work. Rey was selected as an international finalist for the 2020 Orvis Freshwater Guide of the Year and the winner of the 2021 Orvis Fly Fishing Guide of the Year. Provided by Wikipedia