An Award-Winning Cuban artist and author with over twelve years of experience as a published author and creative visual storyteller. Yannis Lobaina’s writing has appeared in various literary magazines worldwide.
2025
Resilience (2024) Minimal nature sculpture: Ficus bonsai trunk (deadwood), Polymita picta (Cuban land snail) shells, Canadian land snail shells, acorns
Reminiscence(2025)
Minimal nature sculpture: memorabilia objects in an altoids tin
Resilience and Reminiscence were featured in the
group exhibition Shinrin Yoku: The Healing Art of Forest
Bathing, curated by Yannis Lobaina at the Etobicoke
Civic Centre Art Gallery (July–August 2024).
The exhibition received support from the Ontario Arts
Council Exhibition Assistance grant program. Both
artworks are limited-edition pieces from Lobaina’s current
minimal nature sculpture series, Reminiscencia.
The Polyglot Magazine. Issue 15: Daaira.
The Polyglot Magazine. Issue 15: Daaira.
The Art of Mindful Nature Photography A Contemplative Journey as an Immigrant in Canada By Yannis Lobaina. Article on Canadian Photography Magazine. Vol.3.No.3. Fall 2025.
Spanish
Barcelona Short story. Revista Quimera. Número 468 | December 2022 .
2023 “SHINRIN YOKU” Poetry THIS POEM APPEARS IN Book collection by
Feria Iberoamericana del Libro en Canadá · 1 September , 2023. Fun facts Do you know the title of the group exhibition is inspired by one of my poems? You can listen here! 🙏🏿, Thanks, Gracias, Merci, #poetry #ecopoetry #ecoart #advocateforsustainability. Listen here, read by my beloved daughter Amélie #readaloud. Now, You can listen here,
Selected Published Stories
2024 Forthcoming
Mapas of my Life, Poetry and Photographs Collections. Forthcoming(2024). Some of the photographs are from 2022 Space Award Recipients. Toronto Arts Foundation. Photography project Series “Catch and Release”.
2023 “Shinrin-Yoku”Poetry. This poem appears in the Book collection by Feria Iberoamericana del Libro en Canadá · 1 September. 2023.
SIGNS IN MY PATH, A NON-FICTION SHORT STORY BY YANNIS LOBAINA.Finding The Way (Anthology by Immigrant Writers) Kindle Edition by Immigrant Writers Association.
2022 DETOUR/ Desvío. Published on Volume 2.0 The Stories We Share. May 2021, page 52, by Muse Arts.
2022 “Flashback” and “Cazando Cronopios”. Portals. Issue 9 – Multilingual Art Lab Issue. https://youtu.be/V6Ou_-BFE1Q
I acknowledge that all this has been possible because I Was recognized as an award finalist for Toronto Arts Foundation’s 2022 Space Award Recipients – Neighbourhood Arts Network and in 2021 I received the Ontario Arts Council’s “Skills and Career Development: Arts Professionals of Colour” Grant for my Hybrid short stories collections.
2021 Una noche con Marina Abramovic. Poetry. Literary magazine Isliada.
2011 Short story, Ménage à Trois https://www.isliada.org/menage-a-trois/
En la @LaMuelaconHannah. It was a fantastic night. I read in Spanish poetry called: One Night with Marina Abramovic.
2019 https://theshoeprojectstories.com/stories_session20/these-boots-are-made-for-walking-in-the-snow
2020 Canadiana Boots. Flash Nonfiction. Issued in Tint Journal. https://tintjournal.com/nonfiction/flash-nonfiction/232-canadiana-boots.
2020 Deeply rooted. Short story. Anthology Crisscross stories Publisher www.EditorialMapale.com. Canada, Ottawa.
2012 Juana de León, esa soy yo, Anthology, El retrato Ovalado, Published by Thesaurus.
2011 Mamá juega a las cuquitas Anthology, Las Cuentas Cuentos. Published by Gente Nueva.
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.― Maya Angelou
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