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Oandris (Joa) Tejeiro is a Cuban visual artist who began his artistic career as a self-taught artist in Cuba. He studied Sociocultural Studies at the Universidad de Oriente in Santiago de Cuba. And the same time began to work on the theme of portraiture, and use it as way to tell stories about the people around him. Joa also worked for 10 years as visual arts expert and curator at the Casa del Caribe ( Cultural Institution in Santiago de Cuba).
Joa Tejeiro also carries out art projects with young people and children, where experimentation with alternative materials is the main focus, as well as three-dimensional and figurative art work

His works have been exhibited in numerous galeries in Cuba such a Centro de Arte en Santiago de Cuba, Galeria Oriente, Casa del Caribe y Casa de las Américas, and international art spaces such as the CCC Kunstraum Galerie in Munich, Villa Sponte, Galerie am schwarzen Meer and the Casa de Carraresi, Treviso, Italy. He also participated in the Xll Bienal de la Habana, Cuba ( Collateral Project), and the Summer Art Salon of Buenos Aires, Argentina, among other personal and collective exibitions.
Oandris (Joa) Tejeiro work in Germany, where he continues through portraiture and alternative art media to tell stories about people of the Afro-Cuban diaspora.