Cuban multidisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, installation, film and performance — from Havana’s stages and television screens to museum exhibitions in Florida. His work is in the Rice Collection of Cuban Art and has been shown at the Harn Museum of Art and the Tampa Museum of Art.
Trained in music and theater in Havana, Lavoy works wherever the idea needs to go — the canvas, the gallery, the camera or the stage.
The River, from the series Color Girl (2014–2015), is in the Rice Collection of Cuban Art and was shown at the Harn and Tampa museums.
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Solo shows Sensus (Fábrica de Arte Cubano, 2014) and Empty Space (Kendall Art Center, 2017); co-curator of Cuban Ingenuity at the Cade Museum (2019).
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Exhibition films for the Kennedy Center, the Art Museum of the Americas and the Cade Museum, making-of films for musicians and artists, and aerial work in North Florida.
Watch the films →A childhood debut on Cuban television, leading roles in telenovelas and TV plays, and years as host of the music-video program Colorama on Canal Habana.
Career →Jorge Lavoy (b. 1988, Havana, Cuba) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Gainesville, in North Florida. He graduated from the Manuel Saumell music school as a drummer and from the Escuela Nacional de Arte (ENA) in theater. From this foundation in music and performance, Lavoy has expanded his practice to encompass painting, documentary and fine-art photography, film, television, music, mixed media, installation, and sculpture — an ongoing exploration of form and narrative across disciplines.
His parallel life as a financial trader gives the work its most distinctive thread: works in which a real market session is transformed into abstract form. It is a practice built on observation — of people, of screens, of the collective emotion that moves both audiences and markets.
Selected exhibitions across the United States, Cuba, Brazil and Spain, from early photographic work in Havana to museum presentations in Florida.
Each work begins with a real trading session — a moment of structure, reaction, or reversal — distilled into geometric form in gold on a dark ground. Each title carries the market and date of the session it records. Click any piece to view it larger.
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Lavoy has traded futures professionally since 2019, across metals, energy and equity index markets. The sessions he trades are the raw material for the work: a market's collective emotion, recorded as structure.
From a childhood debut through leading roles in film, television drama, and national TV presenting — built on theater training at the Escuela Nacional de Arte (ENA), Havana.
Founder and director of the audiovisual production company (founded 2013, Havana). Credits include documentary and music-video work — among them Artxiomas for the Art Museum of the Americas (Washington, 2016), the short film Cuban Ingenuity for the Cade Museum (2019, for the exhibition he co-curated), and promotional and making-of films for artists and brands across Cuba and Florida.
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