Ricardo Estanislao Zulueta

Ricardo Estanislao Zulueta is an American contemporary artist and scholar. His work as a visual artist primarily involves photography, film/video, performance, sculpture and installation.[1]

Early life and education

Zulueta was born in Havana, Cuba to parents of Basque and Spanish descent. He grew up in Miami, Florida. Since 1985 he has lived in Manhattan in New York City and Miami. He has also spent a couple of years working on projects in Madrid and Paris. Zulueta studied Visual Art, Museum Studies and Arts Policy at graduate school at New York University where he was selected to be the distinguished Helbein Scholar. In addition, he earned a M.F.A. in Visual Arts and a Ph.D. from the Cinema and Interactive Media Department both with Academic Merit Honors at the University of Miami where he was named a McKnight Doctoral Fellow.

Career

Ricardo E. Zulueta has exhibited/presented is work nationally and internationally in venues such as the Grey Art Gallery at NYU, White Columns, Artists Space, the Western Front in Vancouver, Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Museo Alejandro Otero in Caracas, International Center for Photography in NYC, and the Smithsonian Museum In Washington, among others. In the U.S.A. his works can be found in collections including the International Center of Photography in New York; Cintas Foundation; Margolis Sculpture Collection at Florida International University, Miami, Florida; Lehigh University Museum; Metro Dade Public Libraries in Miami; Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale; J.I. Kislak Corporate Art Collection; Jeffrey Steiner; and the Boca Raton Museum of Art.

Awards and recognition

Zulueta has been the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a CAVA Fellowship from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, a Visual Artist Fellowship from the Cintas Foundation, and artist grants from Art Matters, Artists Space, Ludwig Vogelstein and the Igor Foundation among others. He has executed public art commissions for Metro Dade Art in Public Places and the San Francisco Arts Commission.

Selected publications

Zulueta work has been mentioned or featured in the following works:

References

  1. "Ricardo Zulueta Shoots People in Their Underwear". Miami New Times. 23 November 2010. Retrieved 5 December 2014.

2. https://artforum.com/inprint/issue=198904

3. http://books.google.com/books/about/Mixed_blessings.html?id=lOZQAAAAMAAJ

4. https://books.google.com/books?id=uWXqAAAAMAAJ&q=whole+cloth&dq=whole+cloth&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mgjyVJKCMpfGsQThqoGoAQ&ved=0CBQQ6AEwAA

External links

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