Eduardo Verdecia was awarded the Juror's Prize by Luella Tripp in 3rd Street Gallery's Winter Collection Exhibition this past January, 2018. Verdecia is a Cuban artist who lives and works in the United States. He was born in Holguin, Cuba in 1978, where he received his BFA from the Academy of the Fine Arts “El Alba”, in 1998 and had his first major exhibition which focussed on "discontent with late 20th century Cuba´s immediate reality through anecdotes arising out of the relationship between society and individuals."