Lionel Cruet

Lionel Cruet (born in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a contemporary audiovisual and geopolitical artist best known for depicting the interactive nature of the environment using digital printing, performance, and installations. Cruet lives in both New York City and San Juan, Puerto Rico and frequently collaborates with other artists, as well as musicians, students, writers, and communities.

In 2013, Cruet was the recipient of the Juan Downey Audiovisual Award at the 11th Annual Media Arts Biennale at the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago, Chile.

Education and career 

Cruet received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño de Puerto Rico in 2011 and a Masters of Fine Arts from the City College of New York in 2014.

In 2017, Cruet participated in the exhibition Seen and Heard: An Active Commemoration of Women's Suffrage, on display from June 10 through August 27, 2017 at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY. The exhibition explored the use of the arts as a catalyst for social change and featured the work of nine contemporary artists as well as several works from the Everson's permanent collection. Selected as an artist-in-residence for the exhibition, Cruet constructed two installations: At the End of Daybreak and A Speculative Atlas of the Caribbean.

In 2016, Cruet participated in the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Program at The Bronx Museum of the Arts which provides professional development opportunities and mentorships to emerging artists and audiovisual performers living in New York City.

In his 2014 solo exhibition, Lionel Cruet: In Between, Real and Digital at the Bronx River Art Center in New York City, Cruet presented a digitally interactive show to incite pertinent discussions relating to geopolitics, nature, and technology.

In 2013, Cruet's art was featured in various group exhibitions including "SuperReal: Alternative Realities in Photography and Video" at El Museo del Barrio in New York, "Colonial Comfort" at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, and "Sound Art Fair at Sala de las Artes" at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in Puerto Rico.

Cruet's work has been published in Made in Mind Magazine, Designboom, and Catálogodiseño Magazine.

Cruet has served as a Teaching Assistant of 2D Design under Professor Joy Garnett at the City College of New York and as a Teaching Artist and Mentor at Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education, a contributing organization to the Center for Bronx Non-Profits (CBNP).

Articles, Reviews, and Publications
 2018 - ArtSlant, Lionel Cruet Answers 5 Questions, New York, NY
 2017 - Latinx Spaces Art, Lionel Cruet and ‘Seen and Heard’ Contemplate Possibilities Beyond Colonial Frameworks, by Carly Dennis
 2017 - Daily Serving An International Publication for Contemporary Art, CCA FanMail Lionel Cruet, by Mailee Hung, San Francisco, California
 2017 - Puerto Rico Art News, "Entre Nosotros (Between Us) Variation II", Puerto Rican artist Lionel Cruet installation at The Masur Museum of Art
 2017 - Hyperallergic, Spring/Break Art Show Trades Labyrinthine Rooms for Immersive Installations, by Claire Voon, New York, NY
 2017 -  ArteFuse, BKLYN Immersive – Spring/Break Art Show, by Stephen Barry, New York, NY
 2017 - Vice, Exploring a Huge, Glowing, Immersive Warehouse Experience at Frieze Week by Andrew Nunes, New York, NY
 2017 - W Magazine, Inside Bklyn Immersive, Spring/Break's First-Ever Brooklyn Edition by Stephanie Eckardt, New York, NY
 2017 - Artishock, Arte, Playa y Economia de la Amistad. La Gran Bienal Tropical by Alejandra Villasmil, Santiago, Chile
 2017 - Distrito Arte, Americano soy: Lionel Cruet, by Clara Gómez Carrillo, Buenos Aires, Argentina 
 2016 - POSTmatter, Puerto Rico-born Lionel Cruet creates an audiovisual installation in a storage unit to explore the contemporary immigrant experience in the United States by Helen Longstreth, London, UK
 2016 - Puerto Rico Art News, Intangible Sites instalacion de Lionel Cruet en The PASEO Art Festival Taos, New Mexico
 2016 - LiveTaos, Whats in the Box? by Chelsea Reidy, Taos, New Mexico
 2016 - Unframe, A Conversation with Lionel Cruet, by Despoina Tzanos, London, UK
 2016 - 空間インスタレーションで雲の実体化, Tokyo Design Week, Tokyo, Japan 
 2016 - dis-up!. Lionel Cruet instala nubes al interior de un Espacio Intangible, Santiago, Chile
 2016 - designboom, lionel cruet materializes the cloud on espacio intangible, designboom, Italy
 2015 - Made in Mind Magazine, Lionel Cruet, Italy
 2015 - Puerto Rico Art News, Exhibition ExplorArt: Puerto Rico 
 2014 - ArtBookGuy, Interview Lionel Cruet, "Environmental Immersion" by Michael Corbin, ArtBookGuy, NY
 2014 - Zona f8. Exhibicion fotográfica ‘Colonial Comfort’ en St. Croix, USVI
 2014 - Repeating Islands, "Colonial Comfort" in St. Croix", USVI
 2014 - ARC the Magazine, "Colonial Comfort" photography exhibition CMCArts in St Croix" ARC the Magazine
 2014 - Arte-Sur.org, "Colonial Comfort" Arte-Sur.org, Paris, France
 2014 - NY Art Beat, "Lionel Cruet: In Between, Real and Digital" New York, NY
 2014 - American Towns Bronx NY, "Exhibition - Lionel Cruet: In Between, Real and Digital" American Towns, Bronx, NY
 2013 - m100, 11 BIENAL DE ARTES MEDIALES, Santiago, Chile
 2013 - artNexus, Feria de Arte Sonoro de Puerto Rico 3ra edición, by Cheryl Hartup, San Juan, Puerto Rico
 2013 - 80 Grados, Feria de Arte Sonoro de Puerto Rico y Giratorio, San Juan, Puerto Rico
 2013 - Son de aqui, Feria de Arte Sonoro de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
 2013 - Artischok, Autonomia: La Bienal de Artes Mediales y su enfoque artístico cultural y educacional, Artishock revista de arte contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile
 2013 - The New York Times, Lens Blog: What Is Real?, by David Gonzalez, New York, NY
 2010 - El Nuevo Dia, Art & Culture "Puntadas para el agua" by Ana Teresa Toro, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions
 2017 - Lionel Cruet: Entre Nosotros (Between Us), Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
 2016 - Intangible Sites, PASEO Taos, Taos, NM
 2015 - Colonial Comfort, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (MAC PR), San Juan, PR 
 2015 - An Economy of Light, XY Atelier, New York, NY
 2015 - Explorart: Puerto Rico, Vargas Gallery, Jose Maria Vargas University, Pembroke Pines, Miami, FL
 2014 - MFA Thesis Exhibition, CUNY – The City College of New York, New York, NY
 2014 - Colonial Comfort, Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts, Frederiksted, St. Croix, USVI, Curated by Lisa Ladner
 2014 - Lionel Cruet: In Between, Real and Digital, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY, Curated by Karine Duteil
 2014 - Me, Myself & I, Runnels Gallery, Golden Library, Eastern New Mexico University, NM
 2013 - Rapid Pulse International Performance Festival 2013, Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, IL 
 2013 - Working it out!, The Painting Center, New York, NY
 2013 - SuperReal: Alternative Realities in Photography and Video, El Museo del Barrio New York, NY
 2013 - ¡Dale! from Puerto Rico to Galapagos Islands, Casita Maria Gallery, Bronx, NY

Collaborations
 2018 - Socrates Sculpture Park, Annual Exhibition 2018, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY
 2018 - Revival, Pattern and Decoration in Contemporary Art, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
 2018 - Transoceanic Visual Exchange, Deakin Geelong Waterfront Campus, Deakin University, Mealburne Australia 
 2018 - Isla Imaginaria, School of Visual Arts, Curatorial Studies, New York, NY, Curated by Natalia Viera  
 2017 - Seen and Heard, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, curated by DJ Hellerman
 2017 - AIM Biennale, The Bronx Museum for the Arts, New York, NY
 2017 - Transoceanic Visual Exchange, Fresh Milk, Barbados
 2016 - Rotative Repository of Latin American Video Art, New Latin Wave NY, 67 Ludlow, New York, NY, Curated by Hernan Rivera Luque
 2015 - Strange Oasis, Project by Pablo Helguera, Kent Fine Art, New York, NY 
 2015 - Ripen: Forbidden Truth Leslie Parker, HERE and Performance Mix Festival, New York, NY
 2014 - Poetics of Reparation Monica Carrillo aka Oru and Martin Fuks

References 

Category:1989 births
Category:Living people
Category:City College of New York alumni