Little Havana
Calle Ocho's murals run the full emotional range of the Cuban-American experience — nostalgia and exile, celebration and grief, political fury and domestic tenderness. The neighborhood's art reflects 60 years of a community that came thinking it would stay two years and built a permanent home instead, painting the streets with an image of Cuba that is real and imagined simultaneously.
Featured Artists
All artists →Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada
Cuban-born, Miami-based artist known for massive portrait murals and land art. The "Celia Cruz" mural on Calle Ocho is his most visited Miami piece — a 60-foot portrait of the Queen of Salsa painted in tropical colors that evoke both Cuban folk art and Caribbean carnival. Rodriguez-Gerada chose to depict Cruz in her element on stage rather than in formal portraiture, capturing movement and joy rather than monument.
Moisés Finalé
Havana-born Miami artist whose work documents Cuban exile community life with warmth and humor. "Domino Park" on the exterior wall of Máximo Gómez Park — where old men have been playing dominoes in public every day for decades — captures the game and its players across time: the same table, different decades, the same argument in slightly different voices.
Reinier Gamboa
Cuban artist who emigrated to Miami in 2015 and began documenting the Old Havana of memory — the city as it existed before the Revolution's particular form of decay, the city as exiles remember it and as their descendants have inherited the memory. "La Habana Vieja" reconstructs pre-revolutionary Havana streetscapes from archival photographs, presenting memory as architecture.