LUIS CRUZ AZACETA La Habana, Cuba, 1942. Vive y trabaja en New Orleans / NY, USA. ESTUDIOS 1969 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, USA. EXPOSICIONES PERSONALES (Selección) 2010 Intrusion in Paradise, Allegro Galería, Panamá Laberintos, Lyle O Reitzel Gallery, Santo Domingo, Rep. Dominicana Swimming to Havana, New Orleans Museum of Art, LA Exile 50, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA 2009 AMBULATORY: Museum Plan, Emmanuel Gallery, Colorado University Museum, Denver, CO 2008 Luis Cruz Azaceta: 1999 Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA Museum Plans, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL* No Bounds, Gertrude Herbert Institude of Art, Augusta GA, USA. 2007 Local Anesthesia, Arthur Roger Gallery, N.O. LA * Ambulatory: Museum Plan, Galería Ramis Barquet, Chelsea, NYC, USA. Sin palabras/without Words, Galería Lyle O. Reitzel, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana. 2006 Bloom, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL, USA. 2005 Migraciones, Laberintos y Alucinaciones, Galería Lyle O. Reitzel, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana. Eyeshot, Galería Ramis Barquet, Chelsea, New York, NY, USA. 2004 Happy/Deadly in New Orleans, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA, USA. 1996 Self as another, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA. 1995 Dislocations, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA, USA. 1994 Hell: Luis Cruz Azaceta, Selected Works from 1978-93, The Alternative Museum, New York, NY, USA. 1993 Biting the edge, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA, USA. 1992 The AIDS Epidemic Series, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, USA. 1988 Luis Cruz Azaceta, Kunst Station, Sankt Peter, Cologne, Germany.
EXPOSICIONES COLECTIVAS (Selección) 2010 AMÉRICA LATINA: ARTE y CONFRONTACIÓN, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City DF, Mexico (travelling to Paris & Brazil) TRIENAL INTERNACIONAL DEL CARIBE, Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (Special Invitation) Pintando a Borges / Painting Borges: A pictorial Interpretation of his Fictions, Universidad Católica Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina ART Panama, Primera Feria de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá, Allegro Galería, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá, Panamá The Gulf: Works completed prior to the BP Spill, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA PINTA: Art Fair, PanAmerican Art Projects, London, England LATIN AMERICAN ART FROM THE COLLECTION OF PEARL AND STANLEY GOODMAN, Fort Lauderdale Museum. FL. RECENT ACQUISITIONS FROM THE LATIN AMERICAN ART COLLECTION OF THE MUSEUM ART, Fort Lauderdale Museum, FL. ARTAMERICA, Convention Center, PanAmerican Art Projects, Miami, FL. PAISAJE,TRAYECTOS: MEMORIA, Arte contemporáneo en la Colección FEMSA Instituto Estatal de Cultura, Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico (travelling Exhibition) HIGH WATER MARKS: ART & RENEWAL AFTER KATRINA, The Amistad Center at the Wadworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT. 2009 MATRIX, Museum of Fine Arts Florida state University, Tallahassee, Fl. Exile: 3 Cubans from the 80's Generation, GalerÍa Ramis Barquet, Chelsea, NY AJIACO: Spirituality in Contemporary Cuban Art, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, CT (traveling exhibition) The Art of Fashion and the Fashion of Art, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL. Trouble in Paradise: Examining Discord between Nature & Society, Tucson Museum of Art, AZ 2008 PROSPECT 1, International Biennial, New Orleans Katrina: Catastrophe and Catharsis, Arthur Roger Gallery, N.O. Andamiajes/Scaffoldings, Allegro Galería, Panama On the margins, The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA. 2007 PEEP: Art since 1963 from the Kerry Stokes Art Collection, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia. Latinamerican Art: Myth & Reality, The Nassau County Art Museum, NY, USA. 2007 Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Samuel P. Hearn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA (exposición itinerante). KATRINA: Catastrophe & Catharsis, Fine Arts Center of Colorado Springs, CO, USA. 2006 Unbroken ties: Dialogues in Cuban Art, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California, USA. 2005 Art in the Toon Age, organized by Kresge Art Museum, Michigan, USA. (exposición itinerante). 2003 Visiones: 20 th Century Latin Art: Selections from the Nassau County Museum of Art s Permanent Collections, Dowling College, NY, USA.
2002 Human Park/ Parque Humano, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona, España. (exposición itinerante). 2001 The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, the Human Figure in Painting from 1950 to the Present, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY, USA. 2000 Cinco continentes y una ciudad, Tercer Salón Internacional de Pintura, Museo de la Ciudad de México, México D.F., México. 1999 Accounts: Southeast Transience, SECCA Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC * 1998 1998 New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, USA. 1997 Out of Bounds: Part II, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, TX, USA. 1996 Thinking Print: Books to Billboards 1980-1995, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA. Cuba Siglo XX: Modernidad y Sincretismo, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain * (traveling exhibition: Caixa, Palma de Mallorca; Santa Monica; Barcelona; Kunsthalle Bielefeld) 1995 It`s Only Rock & Roll: Currents in Contemporary Art, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA. (traveling exhibition: Lakeview Museum of Art, Peoria, IL; Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, VA; Tacoma Art Museum, WA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL; Nexus, Atlanta, GA; The Phoenix Art Museum, AZ; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX; Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, OH: Lowe Art Museum, FL; Milwaukee Art Museum, WI) Cuba: La Isla Posible, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Spain. 1994 Old Glory: The American Flag in Contemporary Art, The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH, USA. 1993 43 rd Biennal of Contemporary American Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA. 1992 Latin American Artists of the 20 th Century, curated by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY * (traveling exhibition: Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla, Spain; Pompidou Museum, Paris, France; Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany) COLECCIONES (Selección) Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio Alternative Museum, New York, NY. The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK. Diana & Moises Berezdivin Art Collection. Puerto Rico Cintas Foundation Art Collection, Frost Art Museum at FIU, Miami, FL. Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA.
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE. The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA. Fine Arts Center of Colorado Spring, CO. Fort Lauderdale museum of Art, Fl. The Four Seasons Hotel, Miami, Fl Fundación FEMSA, Monterrey, Mexico Fulton Montgomery Community College, State University of NY. Greenville County art Museum, S.C.. Harlem Art Collections, State Office Building, New York, NY. The Howard Farber Cuban Art Collection, NY, NY Thte Houston Museum of Fine Arts, TX. Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, TX. Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ. Kerry Stokes Art Collection, Perth, Australia Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL. Kresge Art Museum, Lansing, MI MACO, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, México The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA. Mills College Art Collections, Oakland, CA. Miami Art Museum, FL, USA. Miami Public Library Art Collection, FL. Museo del Barrio, New York, NY. Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela. Museo Jaureguia, Navarra, España The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY, USA. Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY The New Orleans Museum of Art, L.A. The New School of Social Research, New York, NY Phillip Morris Art Collection, New York, NY Rene & Veronica De Rosa Foundation, Napa, CA Renaissance Arts Hotel, New Orleans, LA Rhode Island School of Design Museum Collection, RI, USA. Richard Brown Baker Art Collection, Yale University, CT Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA Sidney & Frances Lewis Art Collection, Virginia Museum of Art, VA The Smithsonian Institute of Art, Washington, DC. South Campus Art Collection, Miami- Dade Community College, FL Sprint Art Collection, KS Tucson Museum of Art, AZ University of Arizona Art Museum, Tucson, AZ University of California Fine Arts Collection, Davis, CA University of Missouri Museum of Art, Columbia, MI University of New Jersey Art Collection, Rutgers State, NJ University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA. Xavier University Art Collection, New Orleans, LA. PREMIOS 1992 Penny McCall Foundation (PMF), NY, NY, USA. 1991-92 National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC, USA. 1989 Mid- Atlantic Grant for Special Projects, Baltimore, MD, USA. 1985 National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC, USA.
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Grant, NY, NY, USA. New York Foundation for the Arts, NY, NY, USA. 1984 MIRA: Canadian Club Hispanic Award. 1981-82 Creative Artist Public Service (CAPS), NY, NY, USA. 1980-81 National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC, USA. 1975-76 Cintas Foundation, Institute of International Education, NY, NY, USA. 1972-73 Cintas Foundation, Institute of International Education, NY, NY, USA.