Born in 1983 in Sagua la Grande, Cuba, Gustavo Díaz Sosa graduated in 2002 with a Degree with Honors from

San Alejandro’s Fine Art Academy of Cuba, where he was teaching painting from 2000 until 2004. 

In 2004 he came to Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, thanks to a scholarship granted by Arteleku. He studied

engraving, lithography and serigraphy between 2004 and 2007. In 2022 he worked as a visiting professor at

the Drawing Workshop of the University of Darmstadt, Germany.

Gustavo Díaz Sosa’s artistic goal is “to describe a lost, anonymous, global, surrendered and desperate society

functioning in a system which presumes to exist as a democracy on a global level.” 

His characters “continue to run towards nowhere looking for doors or exits from the monumental walls that

keep them trapped under the burocratic and established rules.” 

The artist uses architecture in his works like a tool or a symbol of power. “Architecture has always been used

to protect man, but also to dominate him”, states Gustavo Díaz Sosa. “Religion, myths, politics have always

relied on huge temples in order to confirm man’s fragility when faced to power. My intention is to get the

viewer to reflect upon these issues.”