Ada Lescay (Santiago de Cuba, 1991) is a researcher and curator. She has a bachelor in art history, Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba. Recently, she obtained a diploma in Anthropology, Cuban Institute of Anthropology, La Habana. In this moment she is doing a Master in Cuban and Caribbean Studies. She is interested in topics concerning colonialism, coloniality, racism, cultural discrimination and their implications in art visuals expressions.
Since 2014 she works at the African Cultural Center “Fernando Ortiz” in Santiago de Cuba. She is one of the specialists of the Patrimony Department. She has worked as curator in this institution. She worked on exhibitions like: Convergent Extremes, Escape to Ocean, Faces, Scenes and Fidel and Africa. She has written several texts for catalogs such as: Reticular Connections, XXV Anniversary of Namibia Liberation, Africa has woman´s name, The destiny of navigator, Vodú Rituals, Gullah Heritage. She has worked with artist like Jorge Luis Hernández Pouyú, Pedro Luis Ramirez García, Waldo Regüeiferos, and Raquel Epam. In this moment she is organizing an exhibition by the artist Alberto Lescay Merencio.
She has various publications such as “Approaching the exhibit of Christopher Colombus to Junkanoo”, “Intertextuality in the resistance space”, “The Conceptual, the Descriptive and the Systemic in the Studies on Cuban Religions of African Origin”.