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Luis Cruz Azaceta

Education

1966-1969
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2002
Happy Deadly, Galeria Ramis Barquet, New York, NY

2001
Prayer Beads In the Age of Terrorism, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Adrift, Generous Miracles Gallery, Chelsea, NY
Mapping, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL

2000
Structuring Fear, Galeria Ramis Barquet, New York
NO/NY, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1999
Back Streets, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1998
Bound, Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art, New York, NY
Breakout, Galeria Ramis Barquet, New York, NY
Susurro, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
Hybrid States, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

1997
Dead Line, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL

1996
Self as Another, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
A Painter's Passage, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ

1995
Luis Cruz Azaceta, Johnson Community College, Overland Park, KS
Stripped Bare, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY
Made on Tchoupitoulas, Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Dislocations, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA

1994
Fragile Crossing, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Diaspora, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
Recent Works, J. Maddux Parker Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Street Life in America, A Man Caught Between Two Cultures, A Survey of Northern California and Bay Area Collections, La Raza/Galeria Posada, Sacramento, CA
HELL: Luis Cruz Azaceta Selected Works from 1978-93,The Alternative Museum, New York, NY

1993
New Paintings from the New Orleans Series, Miami Art Fair and Galeria Ramis Barquet, Monterrey, Mexico
Crossing, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
Biting the Edge, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
In the Big Easy, Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Identity and Chao, Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1992
Luis Cruz Azaceta Works on Paper, J. Maddux Parker Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Selected Works, Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Selected Works, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
Day Without Art, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
Fragile Crossing, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Picturing the World Turned Upside Down: Paintings by Luis Cruz Azaceta, Galeria Ramis Barquet, Monterrey, Mexico
New Paintings, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY

1991
New Drawings, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY
Trayectoria, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico
Selected Works, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

1990-92
The AIDS Epidemic Series, The John & Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL; The Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY; University of Minnesota: Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN; Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH

1990
Broken Realities, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY
Eugene Binder Galerie, Cologne, Germany

1988
Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY
Luis Cruz Azaceta, Kunst-Station, Sankt Peter, Cologne, Germany

1986
Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, NY

1979
Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2002
II Biennial Intemacional de Estandartes, Centro Cultural, Tijuana, Mexico
Human Park/Parque Humano, lnstitut de Culturade Barcelona Palau Dela, Virreina, Barcelona, Spain

2001
I Love New York, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
Rembrant to Rauschenbetlq: Building the Collection, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin

2000-01
The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, The Human Figure in Painting from 1950 to the Present, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY

2000
This is Not the Place, Ramapo College, Berrie Center, Mahwah, NJ

1999
Contemporary Narrating in American Print, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT
Saints, Sinners and Sacrifices: Religious Imagery in Contemporarv Latin American Art, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
FIAC, Pads Art Fair, Galeria Ramis Barquet, Pads, France
Peintures et Sculptures D'Amerigue Latine, CHEFS D'OEUVRE DU XXcme SIECLE (colecion Museo de Beaux Arts de Caracas, Venezuela, Festival de Biarritz, France
Contemporary Collaborations: The Artist and the Master Printer, Sherman Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
Material Preception: Celebrating Art & Architecture, LA Salle Gallery at National Bank Plaza in Charlotte, NC
Accounts Southeast Transience, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
Fabled Impressions, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
Art about Art, George Adams, New York, NY
ARCO, Madrid Art Fair, Galeria Ramis Barquet, Madrid, Spain
Parody, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas, Austin, TX
Formerly Known as Something Else, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

1998
Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Loin de Cuba (Far from Cuba), Musee des Tapisseries and the Pavillon de Vendome, Provence, France

1997
Breaking Barriers: Selections from the Museum of Art's Permanent Contemporary Cuban Collection, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
New Acquisitions: Mari and James Michener Collection of 20th Century American Art, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery Museum, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Queens Artist Hilighlight of the 20th Century, Queens Museum of Art, Flushing Meadows, NY
Out of Bounds: Part II, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Premio MARCO '96, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico
Altered Egos, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY
The Boat: Object and Metaphor , Pratt Art Center, Buffalo, NY

1996
Latin Viewpoint: Into the Main Stream, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
Vessels, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tampe, AZ
Thinking Print: Books to Billboards 1980-1995, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Out of Bounds: New Work by Eight Southeast Artists, Olympic Arts Festival, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Cuba Siglo XX: Modernidad v Sincretismo, Centro Atiantico de Art Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Traveled to: Caixa (Palma de Mallorca); Santa Monica (Barcelona); Kunsthalle Bielefeld (Bielefeld)
Point Counter Point: Two Views of 20th Century Latin American Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

1995
Caribbean Visions: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Center for Fine Arts, Miami, FL; New Orleans Museum of Art; The Brooklyn Museum; The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; Kingston, Jamaica
Painting in the 90's, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Inside Out: Psychological Self-Portraiture, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Cuba: La Isla Posible, Centro de Cultura, Contemporanea de Barcelona, Spain

1992
Latin American Artists of the 20th Century, Museum of Modern Art, NY; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla; Pompidou Museum, Pads; Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
Migrations, Art Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

1990
The Decade Show, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY

1987
Art of the Fantastic: Latin America, 1920-1987, Indianapolis Museum of Art; The Queens Museum; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami; Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
Hispanic Art in the United States: Thirty Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Corcoran Museum of Art; The Lowe Museum, Miami; The Museum of New Mexico at Santa Fe; Los Angeles County Museum; Brooklyn Museum

Selected Collections

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, OH
The Alternative Museum, New York, NY
The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Chemical Bank Collection, New York
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Fine Arts Collection, University of California, Davis, CA
Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, FL
Fulton Montgomery Community College, State University of New York
Greenville County Art Museum, SC
Harlem Art Collection, State Office Building, New York, NY
The Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Huntington Gallery Museum, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL
MARCO (Museo de Arte Contemporaneo), Monterrey, Mexico
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Miami Public Library Art Collection, Miami, FL
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WS
Mills College Art Collection, Oakland, CA
Museo del Barrio, New York Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Museum of Art, University of Missouri, Columbia
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
The New School for Social Research, New York, NY
Philip Morris Collection, New York, NY
Rene and Veronica DiRosa Foundation, Napa, CA
Rhode Island School of Design, Museum Collection, Providence, RI
Richard Brown Baker Art Collection, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Rutgers State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Sidney and Frances Lewis Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, VA
The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
South Campus Art Collection, Miami-Dade Community College, FL
Sprint Art Collection, Kansas Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
University of Arizona Art Museum, Tucson, AZ
Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY

Grants Awarded

1992
Penny McCall Foundation

1991-92
National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC

1989
Mid-Atlantic Grant for Special Projects

1985
National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Grant, New York, NY
New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY

1984
Mira: Canadian Club Hispanic Award

1981-82
Creative Artist Public Service (CAPS), New York, NY

1980-81
National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC

1975-76
Cintas Foundation, Institute of International Education, New York

1972-73
Cintas Foundation, Institute of International Education, New York

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