Ofill Echevarria was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1972. He studied at the Elementary School of Fine Arts ’20 de Octubre’ and the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Art, both in Havana. He received a BFA from the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Art in 1991. Ofill lives and works in New York City.

In his early years as a student at the elementary school, also known as School of 23 & C, he founded together with some of his best friends the controversially famous Havanan art collective Arte-Calle [Street-Art] Group. The group, as has been pointed out by many scholars of the time becomes part of the Cuban art scene of the late eighties because of its series of Murals, Graffitis, Happenings and Performances between 1986 and 1988.

In 1991, ...