 Born
in Havana, Cuba, Vicente Dopico-Lerner has lived in Miami and has
traveled throughout the Caribbean since 1965. In 1974 he received his
B.A. from the University of St. Thomas in Florida. Shortly thereafter in
1976 he received his Masters degree in Science as well as completing
several courses at the Art Student League, Florida Atlantic University
and Florida International University. 
Dopcio-Lerner is the author of several essays on Cuban and
Latin American art and featured in the Dominican Encyclopedia of Fine
Arts. As
a museum artist, the intriguing works of Dopcio-Lerner have
captivated
viewers for decades. His watercolors on paper and oil on canvas paintings
have expressive and symbolic clues to the inner psyche. Restless spirals
lose and then gain clarity as the artist spontaneously creates a statement
of emotions. His figures and faces convey both human and animal
characteristics which are open to the universe. There are bodies, some
full and some fragmented without any apparent physical limitation. Subtle
motives seem to occur and reoccur in the depths of Dopico-Lerner’s work
reclaiming energies and actions that have been drawn out in thin lines.
 Vicente
Dopico-Lerner has won several awards and has participated in more than
50 group and individual fine art expositions such as: The Contemporary
Latin-American Art Exhibition held at The Museum of Art and History in
Delray Beach, FL, May, 2000 / Latin-American Painters of Today held at
The Museum of the Americas in San Juan, Puerto Rico, August, 1999 / 5th
Exposition of Arawak Drawings held at The Museum of Modern Art in Santo
Domingo, Dominican Republic, January, 1998.
“The work of Vicente Dopico-Lerner takes place at a crossroad
where the encounter between reality and it’s abstraction seem to
search for each other in a continuous play of illusions”.
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