Ricardo E. Zulueta (Studio 109)

Ricardo E. Zulueta is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar born in Havana, Cuba and based in Miami. Zulueta holds a Ph.D. in Cinema and Media Studies and an MFA in Visual Art from the University of Miami and has served as a Helbein Scholar at New York University. His practice functions across a genealogy of mediums including video, digital imaging, photography, software, mixed-media, painting, sculpture, performance, and installation.

From early analogy large-scale photo-performance stills to more recent immersive multi-media installations, his work consistently explores the intersectionality of mediated expressions of gender, sexuality, behavior, and identity within socio-political landscapes. Through research and praxis, Zulueta examines how technology and media shape, interrogate, and subvert normative notions of identity through experimental modes of storytelling. His projects manifest a vernacular of idiosyncratic codes and symbols of disidentification often informed by film and media studies, art history, queer theory, and cultural studies.

Zulueta is a recipient of the Art Matters Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, South Florida Cultural Consortium Artist Fellowship, Cintas Foundation Artist Fellowship, Miami Individual Artist Grant, and Oolite Arts’ Ellies Creator Award. His work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas; Steirischer Herbst, Graz; Dazibao Contemporary Art Center, Montreal; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Western Front, Vancouver; Artists Space, New York; El Museo del Barrio, New York; International Center for Photography, New York; White Columns, New York, Grey Art Museum at New York University, New York, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York; Exit Art, New York; Fotofest Biennial, Houston, and Creative Time Summit at Perez Art Museum Miami.