Join us April 28th at 5PM for the Spring 2021 Digital & Interdisciplinary Art Practice Visiting Artist Lecture with Lionel Cruet.
https://ccny.zoom.us/j/82843571916

Meeting ID: 828 4357 1916

Lionel Cruet was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, lives and works in New York City and San Juan. Cruet uses multiple mediums including experimental digital printing processes, performance, and audiovisual installations to confront issues that concern ecology, geopolitics, and technology. Cruet‘s artworks have been included in exhibitions at the Bronx Museum of the Arts (2017); Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse (2017); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (2013); and Universidad de Sagrado Corazón, Puerto Rico (2014); and a solo exhibition at the Bronx River Art Center (2015) and have been reviewed Made in Mind Magazine, designboom, Daily Serving California College of the Arts, and Latinx Spaces. Cruet works with the New York City Department of Education, as well as multiple nonprofits that promote art and aesthetic education for immigrant youth. In 2020, Cruet developed an independent art program in Puerto Rico, banasta: residencia artistica, that offers an artist residency and sessions of art criticism to develop the artist’s production.

Cruet received a Bachelor in Fine Arts from La Escuela de Artes Plásticas en Puerto Rico and a Master in Fine Arts from CUNY – The City College of New York, and a Masters in Education from the College of Saint Rose; was the recipient of the Juan Downey Audiovisual Award in 2013 at the 11th Media Arts Biennale at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago, Chile and in 2018 was a Fellow at the Socrates Sculpture Park in New York City, and a fellow from The Laundromat project an organization that focuses on the arts and social engagement in New York City. In 2021 he continued research to art projects at a residency in the Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Quito, Ecuador.