A Name That Keeps Showing Up
Ask a Miami interior designer who painted the oversized floral canvas anchoring a client's living room, and increasingly the answer is the same name: Eric Alfaro.
Eric Alfaro's paintings have moved through Context Art Miami, the Palm Beach Show, a Paris gallery circuit, and a commissioned mural for the City of Miami, and each stop has added another line to a biography that is easy to encounter in fragments and hard to find assembled in one place. This is that place.
From Ciego de Ávila to an International Gallery Circuit
Eric Alfaro Gómez was born in 1991 and trained at the Provincial Academy of Fine Arts Raúl Martínez (APAP), in the city of Morón, Ciego de Ávila, Cuba, a province on the island's central coast known for its rigorous, technically demanding art education. That training shows in the paintings themselves: even his most expressionist, disrupted compositions rest on a foundation of careful drawing and observed color, the kind of grounding that lets an artist break a rule on purpose rather than by accident.
Alfaro's early exhibition history reflects that Cuban foundation directly. In 2019, his work appeared in "90 Miles from Havana" and "Visions of Cuba," both presented by the Florida Council of the Arts at the Gato Factory Building in Key West, a natural staging ground for Cuban-American artistic exchange given the ninety-mile distance the first title references. Two years earlier, in 2017, his work was shown in "Familiar Faces" at MOCANOMI, the Museum of Contemporary Art of North Miami, an early signal of institutional interest before his gallery representation expanded.
Building a Market: Carousel Fine Art and Beyond
Carousel Fine Art has represented Alfaro since the gallery's own Design District debut in 2021, and the relationship has grown alongside Carousel's own footprint. He has shown in the gallery's grand opening in Miami's Design District (2021), Art Market Hamptons in Bridgehampton (2021), CONTEXT Art Miami across multiple years (2021 through 2023), the Palm Beach Show and Palm Beach Modern & Contemporary (2022 through 2024), and Carousel's September Soiree in Saint-Tropez (2022), the gallery's pop up on the French Riviera.
His footprint extends past Carousel's own program. In 2022, "New Depths" was presented at Boffi De Padova in Miami. In 2023, a solo exhibition titled "Flowers" opened at Lanford Gallery in Cologne, Germany, the same year his work appeared at "Escape" with OA Fine Art in Paris and at Art Luxembourg. He has also shown at Paratissima, the contemporary art fair in Torino, Italy, and at North Miami's Copperfest Arts Festival. That spread, a solo show in Germany, a fair in Italy, gallery representation in Paris, alongside a steady presence in Miami and Palm Beach, is the kind of geographic diversification collectors look for as a signal of market depth rather than regional novelty.
In 2021, the City of Hialeah commissioned Alfaro for a mural, "The Dream of the Flamingos," installed at the John F. Kennedy Library as part of a city arts grant, a public commission that sits alongside his gallery and fair work as evidence of civic as well as private-market recognition.
The Series a Collector Should Know
Alfaro's output organizes into a small number of clearly defined series, each with its own visual logic.
The Blossom Series, unveiled at Carousel's Spring Reverie exhibition in May 2024, is his best-known current body of work: thick impasto flowers set against smudged, motion-blurred backgrounds, built around the idea that a bouquet is always mid-transition between bloom and fade. Key works include "A New Beginning," "In Love," "Passion," and "Porcelaine."
The Water Lilies, a series Alfaro has described working on for years, trace directly back to his early training and his stated debt to Impressionism, Claude Monet specifically. Where the Blossom Series disrupts the still life with motion, the Water Lilies stay closer to observed reflection and light, rendered in the same thick, spatula-built impasto that defines his hand.
Becoming, an earlier, more figurative series, shifted his subject from flowers to the human form: torsos without faces, worn sneakers sprouting wildflowers, a meditation on adolescence and identity rather than still life. It marks the more conceptual, narrative end of his practice, distinct from the floral and landscape work that makes up the bulk of his current output.
Across all three, Alfaro has described his own throughline as a search for "environments that pivot between traditional and contemporary ideology," built through a consistency of technique meant to be as recognizable, in his words, as a familiar face.
Where His Work Lives Now
Alfaro's paintings sit in private collections across more than two dozen countries, including Cuba, the United States, Canada, Italy, France, England, Germany, Switzerland, Russia, Spain, Egypt, Singapore, South Africa, China, and much of Latin America. Institutionally, his work is held by the Copperbridge Art Foundation, by F&F Media Corp., and in the collection of the Lincoln Center Orchestra in New York. His work has also been featured in CdeCuba Art Magazine and Four Seasons Magazine.
Carousel Fine Art currently represents Alfaro across its Miami, Atlanta, and Saint-Tropez locations, with rotating inventory across the Blossom Series, the Water Lilies, and select earlier work.
FAQ
Who is Eric Alfaro? Eric Alfaro Gómez is a Cuban-born contemporary painter, born in 1991, trained at the Provincial Academy of Fine Arts Raúl Martínez in Morón, Ciego de Ávila, Cuba. He is known for thickly textured, impasto floral still lifes and water garden paintings, and is represented by Carousel Fine Art in Miami, Atlanta, and Saint-Tropez.
What is Eric Alfaro's art style? Alfaro builds paintings in heavy impasto, layering oil or acrylic paint with brushes, palette knives, and his hands until forms rise off the canvas, then often disrupts the composition with smudged, motion-blurred passages. His work draws on Impressionism, particularly Claude Monet, while remaining rooted in contemporary still life and figurative subjects.
What are Eric Alfaro's most well-known series? His current best-known body of work is the Blossom Series, unveiled in 2024, alongside his long-running Water Lilies paintings. His earlier figurative series, Becoming, remains a notable departure into portraiture-adjacent, faceless figure work.
Where can I see or buy Eric Alfaro's paintings? Carousel Fine Art represents Eric Alfaro across its Miami, Atlanta, and Saint-Tropez galleries, with additional exhibition history through Context Art Miami, the Palm Beach Show, and international venues including Lanford Gallery in Cologne and OA Fine Art in Paris.
Is Eric Alfaro's work in any museum or institutional collections? His paintings are held by the Copperbridge Art Foundation and in the Lincoln Center Orchestra's collection in New York, alongside private collections in more than two dozen countries. His 2021 mural commission for the City of Hialeah, installed at the John F. Kennedy Library, is a public rather than private holding.
The Line That Keeps Growing
Every artist's biography is really just a list of rooms someone decided the work belonged in: a museum in North Miami, a library in Hialeah, a gallery in Cologne, a living room overlooking Biscayne Bay. Eric Alfaro's list has been growing steadily since his first exhibitions in Cuba, and Carousel Fine Art has been one of the rooms it keeps returning to.
To view available works by Eric Alfaro or arrange a private viewing at Carousel's Miami, Atlanta, or Saint-Tropez locations, get in touch with the gallery directly.
