Miguel Luciano
San Juan, PR, 1972
San Juan, PR, 1972
Painter, Photographer and installation artist. Obtained his BFA from New World School of the Arts at University of Florida in 1997 and a MFA also from the University of Florida in 2000. He is the recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award Grant, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Award Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Artist Fellowship: Painting, and a fellow of the smARTpower program – a community-based art initiative of the Bronx Museum of the Arts and the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the Department of State of the United States. His work is featured in the permanent collections of The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC; The Brooklyn Museum in New York; El Museo del Barrio in New York; the Newark Museum in New Jersey, United States and at Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His work has been shown in both solo and group exhibits in Puerto Rico, the United States, Brazil, France, Slovenia, Rusia and Mexico, among others. His work addresses both playful and painful exchanges between the United States and Puerto Rico, questioning a colonial relationship that exists to present day, and problematizing the space between the two cultures.
I feel it’s my responsibility to make work about things that I’m passionate about. I’m passionate about our history and culture, and also about human rights and social justice. But it doesn’t mean that I want to make didactic political work. History is full of contradictions and complexities. This is what makes it interesting. I’m particularly interested in how our visual history has informed (and misinformed) our consciousness about the Puerto Rican / Latino imaginary. My work often intervenes in that history, organizing images from past and present into new layers that challenge old, persistent narratives.
Source: “Q&A: Miguel Luciano”. Flab Magazine. 4 de septiembre de 2010. http://flabmag.com/qas/miguel-luciano/
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Anduze, Laura. “En la piel ajena”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 28 de abril de 2007.
Bahrampour, Tara. “Written on the Wind”. Washington Post (Washington, EEUU) 8 de diciembre de 2012.
Cotter, Holland. , “Infinite Island: Caribbean Visions of Tropical Paradise and Protest”. New York Times (Nueva York, EEUU), 31 de agosto de 2007.
Cotter, Holland. “Critical Consumption, Review”. New York Times (Nueva York, EEUU) 7 de marzo de 2003.
Jacobson, Aileen. “Celebrating Heritage, Drawing Others in”. New York Times (Nueva York, EEUU) 28 de diciembre de 2012.
Kilgannon, Corey. “Video: It’s the Cart that’s Art, as Cold as Ice”. New York Times (Nueva York, EEUU) 1 de octubre de 2008.
Newhall, Edith. “One Man’s Revelation…”. The Philadelphia Inquirer (Pensilvania, EEUU) 11 de Julio de 2008.
Genocchio, Benjamin. “Images of Tropical Lands, Issues of Caribbean Identity”. New York Times (Nueva York, EEUU) 21 de diciembre de 2003.
Vega, Maria. “La gallina de los huevos de plástico/The Hen with the Plastic Eggs”. El Diario (Nueva York, EEUU), 28 de agosto de 2003.
Rivera. Raquel. “Las Nikes Macheteras”. Claridad (San Juan, PR), 31 de enero de 2008.
Rodriguez, Jorge. “Una propuesta subversiva e irreverente de antiarte”. Primera Hora (San Juan, PR), 23 de noviembre de 2003.
López Pagán, Pedro. “Oro no es. Plata no es”, Primera Hora (San Juan, PR), 14 de septiembre de 2006.
Navarro, Mireya. “Tufiño- Painter of the People: Eye Trained on Puerto Rico’s Traditions”. New York Times (Nueva York, EEUU), 26 de marzo de 2003.
Lee, Felicia R. “Seeking Truth and Beauty in a Plastic Frog”. New York Times (Nueva York, EEUU), 18 de noviembre de 2001.
Block, Holly. Roving Eye: Into Africa. Art in America. 2012.
Portfolio: Miguel Luciano, Esse, Montreal, Quebec, Canadá, Spring / Summer 2010.
Velo: Bicycle Culture and Design, Gestalten, Berlin, Germany, 2010.
Brown, Jenny. Art Talk – Creative Spins. Art News. (Estados Unidos) septiembre 2009.
Csaszar, Tom. Global Warming at the Ice Box. Sculpture Magazine (Estados Unidos), septiembre 2009.
Marshall, Wayne; Rivera, Raquel Z. Visualizing Reggaeton, Duke University Press, 2009.
Levitt, Peggy. Feet in Both Worlds, Harvard Review of Latin America (Massachusetts, EEUU) Primavera2008.
Kunitz, Daniel. Treasure Islands. Village Voice (Nueva York, EEUU) 11 de septiembre de 2007.
Caragol, Taina. Notes on Changing Concepts of Identity in Puerto Rican Art. None of the Above, Real Art Ways (Connecticut, EEUU 2004.
Luker, Amanda. Street Artists Speak Out, Utne Reader (Estados Unidos) junio 2004.
2010 PBS / Thirteen, Annenberg Media Foundation, Art Through Time: A Global View, Episode One: Converging Cultures.