Award and Selection of Oil painting entitled "Scared Intruders" for Third Biennial, Newark Museum, New Jersey, 1981.

Priority fellowship winner. New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Oil Painting award 1983-1984.

Fellowship award from Cintas Foudation. Institute of International Education, New York 1983.

Recognition for outstanding artistic production by Paterson County College, New Jersey 1988.

Award by Professional /association of Bergen County, New Jersey 1989.

Named Honor Guest Artist for Cuba-USA First Generation Traveling Exhibition- Washington DC. New York City. Chicago Illinois. Minnesota. Tampa and Miami. Florida. Selected by the late Cuban Art Curator Giulio Blanc.1990-1992.

National Outstanding Artist. Painting award by Telecommunications N. Jersey Network 1995-1996.

Honorary Prize for exceptional Artistic Achievements in Oil Paintings awarded by Bergen County of New Jersey. 1997.

Selected for inclusion in Who is Who in American Art since 2001.

Silver Medal Award by The French Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters in Paris, the same year of the publication of his memoirs of Cuba under the name Back to Cuba (The Return of the Butterflies)

Nominated as the Visual Artist of the year 2004  by The Biographical Center of Cambridge. Cambridge University, England.