Luis Cruz Azaceta
1942–
Introduction
Luis Cruz Azaceta (born April 5, 1942) is a Cuban-American painter.
Azateca has been painting and drawing since the late 1970s. In usually large-format works executed with expressive colors, Cruz Azaceta has dealt with themes of urban violence, personal isolation in a large and overcrowded city, the conditions created by mismanaged government, the abuses and oppression of dictatorships, and in a number of works done in the late 1980s, the ravages of AIDS.
Wikidata identifier
Q16105841
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Introduction
Azaceta received his art education at the School of Visual Arts in New York. In 1985, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1981.
Country of birth
Cuba
Roles
Artist, painter
ULAN identifier
500118209
Names
Luis Cruz Azaceta
Information from the Getty Research Institute's Union List of Artist Names ® (ULAN), made available under the ODC Attribution License. Accessed May 8, 2025.
