LUIS CRUZ AZACETA (b. Havana, Cuba) lives and works in New Orleans.

Luis Cruz Azaceta’s work, which includes paintings, drawings and wood sculpture, is engaged politically and emotionally.  Apart from creating compelling photo collages related to Hurricane Katrina, over the last two years, Azaceta has been working on a series he calls Museum Plans, which explores the idea of the museum as a container for ideas and perception, and in which debris from Katrina’s destruction becomes “found objects.”

Azaceta’s work has been exhibited at major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum Of Modern Art, New York; and the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.  He has received many grants including the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Grant, the NEA Grant, and the New York Foundation for the Arts Grant.  The artist’s work is in the permanent collections of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, TX; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Miami Art Museum, FL; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela; and MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico.

Azaceta is represented by Ramis Barquet in New York, Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery in Miami, and Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

www.arthurrogergallery.com
www.ramisbarquet.com
www.bernicesteinbaumgallery.com