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Ileana Mulet Batista

"Creating imaginary cities is my greatest passion"

Ileana Mulet Batista

1952. Holguín, Cuba

Painter, Draftsman, Designer, and Writer

Ileana Mulet Batista’s practice moves between painting, drawing, design, and literature, creating a visual language in which the city becomes a space of memory, imagination, and poetic transformation. Urban landscape particularly Havana and its historic architecture has remained a central presence throughout her work.

Her compositions transform streets, buildings, figures, and fragments of the colonial city into expressive and often imagined environments. Rather than approaching landscape as a literal representation of place, Mulet uses color, gesture, texture, and symbolic elements to evoke the emotional experience of inhabiting and remembering the city.

Painting and poetry maintain a close dialogue within her practice. Her visual and literary work frequently intersect, allowing words and images to become complementary forms of expression. Through this relationship, Mulet constructs an intensely personal vision of the urban landscape in which history, femininity, memory, and imagination coexist.

works

The moon bathes me

The moon bathes me

I look at you

I look at you

Red heels

Red heels

Pleasure

Pleasure

Two moons

Two moons

The house, the story

The house, the story

Bathing in the sea

Bathing in the sea

Girl lying on the doggy

Girl lying on the doggy

Havana woman in bay

Havana woman in bay

City and colors

City and colors

Career

BIOGRAPHY

Ileana Mulet Batista (b. 1952, Holguín, Cuba) is a Cuban painter, draftsman, designer, and writer whose career has developed across the visual arts, design, and literature. She studied Visual Arts at the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts in Havana, specializing in Interior Design, and later worked in costume design for Cuban television.

Over the course of several decades, Mulet has developed an extensive international exhibition history, with more than forty solo exhibitions and numerous group presentations in Cuba and abroad. Her work has been exhibited in countries including Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Italy, Uruguay, Jamaica, and the United States, and she has participated in international art fairs including ARCO Madrid, the International Contemporary Art Fair in Marbella, and Art Basel.

Her artistic and educational practice has extended beyond the studio. In 2000, Mulet developed the preliminary project and founded the first School of Fine Arts in Arauca, Colombia. She has also given lectures, workshops, and master classes, maintaining an active engagement with education and the transmission of artistic knowledge.

Mulet’s work is represented in public and private collections internationally, including collections associated with the Museum of the City of Havana, the Camagüey Museum, the Museum of Dance in Havana, and the University of Houston in Texas. Throughout her career, she has maintained a sustained dialogue between visual art, urban memory, design, and literature, establishing a distinctive voice within contemporary Cuban art.

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