Andrés Conde is a Cuban-American painter known for his narrative realism, distinctive portrayals of women, and the ongoing SOCIAL series, a project exploring memory, identity, nostalgia, and Cuban cultural history through imagined magazine covers and visual storytelling.

Surface & Subtext presents both the art and the ephemera of a life lived across continents, tracing the evolution of an artist who insists that beauty can confront history, and that painting can witness both chaos and renewal.