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.

To view Andrés Conde's paintings solely through the lens of nostalgia is to miss something essential. While his work frequently draws upon the architecture, glamour, and visual culture of pre-revolutionary Cuba, these images are not simply romantic recollections of a vanished world. They are reminders.

Surface & Subtext traces Cuban-American artist Andrés Conde’s evolution in pop-realist painting—where beauty meets meaning. View works, ephemera, and his acclaimed SOCIAL series, available through Conde Contemporary.

Known for his acclaimed SOCIAL series and psychologically charged portraits, Andrés Conde creates paintings that explore beauty, historical memory, resilience, and the enduring complexities of the human condition.

Originally published in 2016, writer John Sevigny examines a shift away from spectacle-driven contemporary art and argues for a renewed appreciation of representation, technical mastery, and the human figure, highlighting artists represented by Conde Contemporary.