Miguel Luciano

Pimp My Piragua, 2009. Performance with modified wooden pushcart. Courtesy the artist

BIOGRAPHY

Born: San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1972

Resides: Brooklyn, New York

Education: University of Florida (M.F.A., 2000); New World School of the Arts, University of Florida (B.F.A., 1997)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008

"Miguel Luciano," Lorenzo Homar Gallery, Taller Puertorriqueño, Philadelphia.

2006

"Miguel Luciano," Cue Art Foundation, New York.

2004

"Recent Paintings," Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut.

2002

"La Carrera, la Parada, y lo Comprado," The Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2012

"El Panal / The Hive," San Juan Poly/Graphic Triennial, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2011

"Essays on Geopoetics," Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

"América Latina: Arte y Confrontacíon 1910–2010," Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City.

2010

"Global/National," Exit Art, New York.

"Voces y Visiones – Forty Years of El Museo del Barrio's Permanent Collection," El Museo del Barrio, New York.

2009

"Kréyol Factory," La Grande Halle de la Villette, Parc de la Villette, Paris.

"Puerto Rico: Human Geography," Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C.

"Bike Rides," The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut.

2008

"Center of Everywhere," Queens Museum of Art.

"The Labyrinth," Exit Art, New York.

"OURS: Democracy in the Age of Branding," Parsons The New School for Design, New York.

"Grotesque Histories," Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn.

2007

"Infinite Island," Brooklyn Museum.

"27th Biennial of Graphic Arts," Ljubljana Biennial, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

2006

"War ImPRessions," Zverev Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow.

"Interplay," Exit Art, New York.

"Tropicalisms: Subversions of Paradise," Jersey City Museum, New Jersey.

2005

"26th Biennial of Graphic Arts," Ljubljana Biennial, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

2004

"Latin America and the Caribbean," San Juan Poly/Graphic Triennial, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2003

"The Caribbean Abroad: Contemporary Latino Artists and Migration," The Newark Museum, New Jersey.

"American Dream," Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., New York.

2002

"The S-Files," El Museo del Barrio, New York.

"AIM 22," The Bronx Museum of the Arts.

Selected Bibliography

2010

WNET/PBS–THIRTEEN. Art Through Time: A Global View, Episode One: Converging Cultures. Annenberg Media Foundation.

2009

Brown, Jenny. "Art Talk – Creative Spins," Art News (September).

2008

Kilgannon, Corey. "It's the Cart That's Art, as Cold as Ice," The New York Times (October 1).

2007

Cotter, Holland. "Infinite Island: Caribbean Visions of Tropical Paradise and Protest," The New York Times (August 31).

Kunitz, Daniel. "Treasure Islands," The Village Voice (September 11).

2003

Cotter, Holland. "Critical Consumption," The New York Times (March 7).

Genocchio, Benjamin. "Images of Tropical Lands, Issues of Caribbean Identity," The New York Times (December 21).