Ricardo Estanislao Zulueta

Ricardo Estanislao Zulueta is an American contemporary artist and scholar. His work as a visual artist primarily involves photography, film/video, performance, sculpture and installation.^[1]

Early life and education

Zulueta was born in Havana, Cuba to parents of Basque and Spanish descent. He grew up in Miami, Florida. Since 1985 he has lived in Manhattan in New York City and Miami. He has also spent a couple of years working on projects in Madrid and Paris. Zulueta studied Visual Art, Museum Studies and Arts Policy at graduate school at New York University where he was selected to be the distinguished Helbein Scholar. In addition, he earned a M.F.A. in Visual Arts and a Ph.D. from the Cinema and Interactive Media Department both with Academic Merit Honors at the University of Miami where he was named a McKnight Doctoral Fellow.

Career

Ricardo E. Zulueta has exhibited/presented is work nationally and internationally in venues such as the Grey Art Gallery at NYU, White Columns, Artists Space, the Western Front in Vancouver, Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Museo Alejandro Otero in Caracas, International Center for Photography in NYC, and the Smithsonian Museum In Washington, among others. In the U.S.A. his works can be found in collections including the International Center of Photography in New York; Cintas Foundation; Margolis Sculpture Collection at Florida International University, Miami, Florida; Lehigh University Museum; Metro Dade Public Libraries in Miami; Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale; J.I. Kislak Corporate Art Collection; Jeffrey Steiner; and the Boca Raton Museum of Art.

Awards and recognition

Zulueta has been the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a CAVA Fellowship from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, a Visual Artist Fellowship from the Cintas Foundation, and artist grants from Art Matters, Artists Space, Ludwig Vogelstein and the Igor Foundation among others. He has executed public art commissions for Metro Dade Art in Public Places and the San Francisco Arts Commission.

Selected publications

Zulueta work has been mentioned or featured in the following works:

Domesticated Homosapiens... (catalog), Role Playing Consumer Status, Zulueta and Digital Culture, Berta Sichel, December, 2010.
Art Nexus (magazine), Domesticated Homosapiens...review, Dinorah Perez-Rementeria, March, 2011.
Whole Cloth (book), Mildred Constantine and Laurel Reutor, Monacelli Press, 1998.
Memoria: Cuban Art of the 20th Century (book), California/International Arts Foundation, published 2001.
Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America (book), Lucy Lippard, Pantheon Books, 1990.
Images of Ambiente (book), Rudi Bleys, Contiuum Publishing, 2000.
Flash Art, Global Art - Ricardo Zulueta, Berta Sichel, January/February, 1998.
Camera Austria International, Ricardo Zulueta, No. 62-63, pg. 94-104, Graz, Austria.
Arte y Parte, La Segunda Piel, Juan Carlos Rego, No. 14, April–May 1998, Spain.
Village Voice, Choices, Kim Levin, April 29, 1997, New York, New York,
New York Times. Still/Life, Charles Hagen, April 7, 1995, New York, New York.
New York Times, From Diversity Comes Struggle, Vicki Goldberg, Sec. H 39, November 27, 1994.
Los Angeles Times, Action Station, Susan Kandel, Section F, August 31, 1995.
Nueva Luz, Volume 4 #1, Deborah Willis (En Foco, Bronx, NY: 1993).
European Photography, Humane Society, Suzanne Muchnic, July 1992, Göttingen, Germany.
Ricardo Estanislao Zulueta (catalog), Anne H. Hoy and Kathleen M. McGuire, International Center for Photography and MOCHA, New York, New York, 1988.
Artforum, Ricardo Estanislao Zulueta at MOCHA, Jude Schwendenwein, April 1989, New York, New York.