Fernando Reyna Escalona is a Cuban-born visual artist whose work spans portraiture, cultural memory, Caribbean identity, religious imagery, and large-scale figurative painting. Born in 1985 in Bayamo, Granma, Cuba, he received his early formal training at the Oswaldo Guayasamín Academy of Plastic Arts from 2001 to 2005, then continued advanced studies at the University of the Arts in Havana, where he graduated in 2013.
Reyna has built an extensive international exhibition record, with more than twenty solo exhibitions and over fifty group exhibitions in Cuba, Belize, and abroad. His work has appeared in three editions of the Havana Biennial, and in 2015 he was invited to participate in the First Biennial of the South at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Caracas, Venezuela. In 2016, he completed an artist residency at Lemon City Studios in Miami.
Since 2019, Reyna has lived and worked in Belize, where he has become an important presence in the local art community. His studio practice continues to connect Cuban artistic traditions with Belizean cultural life, including portraits, historical subjects, Caribbean figures, Maya themes, Garifuna subjects, and works inspired by the communities around him.
In 2025, Fernando and Janet Reyna launched Reyna’s Art Gallery & Café in San Ignacio, Belize. The gallery and café serve as both an exhibition space and a cultural meeting place, supporting Belizean artists, cultural exchange, and a warm public experience of art, music, conversation, food, and handmade wines.
Reyna’s work is held in significant public and private collections, including the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the CdeCuba Collection in Spain, the Alison Rockefeller Private Collection in New York, and the José Martí National Library of Cuba in Havana. His paintings are also part of private collections in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Spain, Belize, and beyond.