Lionel Cruet
Lionel Cruet is a visual artist and art educator born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He lives and works in New York City and San Juan where he has studied and exhibited his artwork. In his artistic work, he uses digital media from printed materials and audiovisual installations that confront problems related to the economy, geopolitics, and technology through referential metaphors about nature.
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Lionel CruetDuskDaybreak 1, 2020Archival pigment print on photographic paper30 x 20 in$ 1,500.00
76.2 x 50.8 cm -
Lionel CruetDuskDaybreak 4, 2020Archival pigment print on photographic paper30 x 20 in$ 1,500.00
76.2 x 50.8 cm -
Lionel CruetDuskDaybreak 2, 2020Archival pigment print on photographic paper30 x 20 in$ 1,500.00
76.2 x 50.8 cm -
Lionel CruetDuskDaybreak 3, 2020Archival pigment print on photographic paper30 x 20 in$ 1,500.00
76.2 x 50.8 cm -
Lionel CruetDuskDaybreak 5, 2020Archival pigment print on photographic paper30 x 20 in$ 1,500.00
76.2 x 50.8 cm -
Lionel CruetDuskDaybreak 6, 2020Archival pigment print on photographic paper30 x 20 in$ 1,500.00
76.2 x 50.8 cm -
Lionel CruetDusk Daybreak Exhibition Poster I, 2020Poster18 x 12 in$ 29.00
45.7 x 30.5 cm -
Lionel CruetDusk Daybreak Exhibition Poster II, 2020Poster18 x 12 in$ 29.00
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Lionel CruetA Speculative Atlas of The Caribbean, 2019Photographic InstallationDimensions variable
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Lionel CruetInterference, 2019InstallationDimensions variable
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Lionel CruetParadis, 2018Digital Print20 x 30 in$ 1,200.00
50.8 x 76.2 cm -
Lionel CruetParadis, 2018Digital Print20 x 30 in$ 1,200.00
50.8 x 76.2 cm -
Lionel CruetBetween Us (Entre Nosotros), 2017Audiovisual Installation, sand, rowboatDimensions variable
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Lionel CruetShade of Paradise, 2016Digital Print12 x 12 in$ 580.00
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Lionel CruetShade of Paradise, 2016Digital Print12 x 12 in$ 580.00
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Lionel CruetFractured Light (Sunrise), 2014Digital Print20 x 30 in$ 680.00
50.8 x 76.2 cm -
Lionel CruetFractured Light (Sunset), 2014Digital Print20 x 30 in$ 680.00
50.8 x 76.2 cm
Lionel Cruet (b. San Juan, Puerto Rico) lives and works in New York City and San Juan. 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.
Cruet uses multiple mediums including experimental digital printing processes, performance, and audiovisual installations to confront issues that concern economics, 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 New York City Department of Education, as well as multiple nonprofits that promote art and aesthetic education for immigrant youth.
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LIONEL CRUET: DUSK/DAYBREAK
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Creator Series: Lionel Cruet
Ann Binlot, atoms, September 3, 2020 -
Dusk / Daybreak Lionel Cruet
Blog, Terremoto, September 2, 2020 -
Delicious Line Exhibition Review
Audra Lambert, Delicious Line, August 27, 2020 -
El artista boricua Lionel Cruet presenta una nueva exhibición en Nueva York
El Nuevo Dia, August 26, 2020 -
The Weekly Journal - Lionel Cruet Explores Ecological Spaces With Latest NYC Exhibit
Giovanna Garofalo, The Weekly Journal, August 26, 2020