Kcho lives happily in Havana, which means that the artist — a personal friend of Fidel Castro — hasn't been allowed to enter the United States since 1996. That hasn't hurt his career. His work is ...

Alexis Leyva Machado, better known as Kcho, is a Cuban figurative artist born in Nueva Gerona, Isla de la Juventud in 1970. His work illustrates the fragile state of Cuba and the strife of its ...

Alexis Leiva Machado (known as Kcho) was born on the Isla de la Juventud in Nueva Gerona, Cuba. As a child, he was influenced by the conceptual work of Bruce Nauman, and went on to obtain his BA in ...

Alexis Leyva Machado, better known as Kcho, is a Cuban figurative artist born in Nueva Gerona, Isla de la Juventud in 1970. His work illustrates the fragile state of Cuba and the strife of its ...

Kcho: Rowing Against the Current, is a show that takes us on a tour through the last twenty-five years of the artist’s career, including a selection of works on paper created specifically for our ...

Despite service being very slow, Cubans flock to cultural centre in Havana and welcome a rare source of open-access internet service Young Cubans are flocking to use the first known free, open-access ...

Equipped with laptops, the room in the Havana neighborhood of El Romerillo resembles an internet cafe or a co-working space, but is chiefly home to the studio of Cuban artist Alexis Leiva Machado, who ...

Artist Kcho operates a cultural centre in western Havana that is mostly frequented by young people Cuba's state telecom agency Etecsa has granted approval to the artist Kcho to open the country's ...

Cuba is taking small steps to loosen its grip on internet access in the country. Recently, a cultural center in Havana began rolling out access to free, public Wi-Fi — the first of its kind in Cuba.