LyleOreitzel

artist

Cruz Azaceta, Luis Cuban / American

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Biography

1942 Azaceta's works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Smithsonian Institution, New York; and the Whitney Museum of Art, New York, among others. He has been recipient of numerous awards, including the Cintas Foundation Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Grant. Born in Havana, Cuba in 1942.
Lives and works in New Orleans.
Education

 

School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

1967 Acquires U. S. Citizenship
1976 Cintas Foundation, Institute of International Education, New York
1981 National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC
1982 Creative Artist Public Service (CAPS), New York, NY
1984 Mira: Canadian Club Hispanic Award
1985 National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC
1985 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Grant, New York, NY
1985 New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
1989 Mid-Atlantic Grant for Special Projects
91-92 National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC
1985 Penny McCall Foundation

Exhibitions

2009

Arteamericas 09, Miami Beach Convention Center, Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery, Miami, Fl

2008

DOMINICAN POWER & SOLID FRIENDS, DURING ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH 08, Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery, Wynwood Art District, Miami, Fl
2008 No Bounds, Gertrude Herber Institute of Art, Augusta, GA* (solo)
2007 Sin Palabras/Without Words, Galeria Lyle O. Rietzel, Santo Domingo, DR (solo)
2007 Ambulatory: Museum Plan, Galeria Ramis Barquet, New York* (solo)
2007 Local Anesthesia, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA * (solo)
2007 Atraves del Espejo: Arte Cubano Hoy, Allegro Galeria, Panama
2007 Latin American Art: Myth & Reality, The Nassau County Museum of Art, New York
2007 Peep (Kerry Stokes Art Collection), Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
2006 Art Basel Miami Beach, Galeria Ramis Barquet, Miami, FL
2006 Bloom: Paintings and Constructions by Luis Cruz Azaceta, Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville, FL (solo)
2005 Eyeshot, Galeria Ramis Barquet, New York (solo)
2004 Happy/Deadly, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans (solo)
2003 Navegante, Galeria Ramis Barquet, Monterrey, Mexico. (solo)
2003 Joy-Ride, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, Florida (solo)
2003 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA.
2003 Paper, Galeria Ramis Barquet, New York, NY.
2003 Inside the Paper, Centro Cultural Espanol, Miami, FL.
2003 Rutgers Center for Innovative Print & Paper, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
2002 Structuring Fear, Galeria Ramis Barquet, New York (solo)
2002 NO/NY, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA (solo)
2001 Prayers-Beads-Cells, Arthur Roger Gallery (solo)
2001 New Orleans Mapping, Fredric Snitzer Gallery (solo)
2001 Miami Adrift, Generous Miracles Gallery, New York (solo)
00-01 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
1999 Saints, Sinners and Sacrifices: Religious Imagery in Contemporary Latin American Art, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
1999 FIAC, Paris Art Fair, Galeria Ramis Barquet, Paris, France
1999 Peintures et Sculptures D'Amerique Latine, CHEFS D'OEUVRE DU XXcme SIECLE (colecion Museo de Beaux Artes de Caracas, Venezuela, Festival de Biarritz, France
1999 Contemporary Collaborations: The Artist and the Master Printer, Sherman Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
1999 Material Preception: Celebrating Art & Architecture, LA Salle Gallery at National Bank Plaza in Charlotte, NC
1999 Accounts Southeast Transience, SECCA, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
1999 Fabled Impressions, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
1999 Back Streets, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA (solo)
1998 Bound, Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art, New York (solo)
1998 Breakout, Galería Ramis Barquet, New York (solo)
1998 Susurro, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, Florida (solo)
1998 Hybrid States, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ (solo)

Selected Public Location

Alternative Museum, New York, NY
The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Chemical Bank Collection, New York, NY
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 Fine Arts Museum, TX