Miguel Luciano - Multidisciplinary Artist
Born in the Dominican Republic in 1968, Miguel Luciano attended the National School of Fine Arts and Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD) from 1987-1990.In 1990, he was granted a Peace Corps scholarship to pursue studies in Fine Arts and Illustration at Altos de Chavón, a design school in the Dominican Republic affiliated with the Parsons School of Design in New York City. In 1994 Luciano received the Bludhorn Scholarship to attend Parsons School of Design in New York for a BFA in Illustration and lived and worked in New York City for many years. Luciano is a founding member of DYPG, a printmaking collective of artists of Dominican descent formed in 2010. He currently lives and works in Austin, Texas.
Education :
1987
Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo , School of the Arts, Dominican Republic
1990
National School of Fine Art’s, Dominican Republic,
1992
Altos de Chavon School of Desing, Dominican Republic , AAF, Fine Arts / Illustration
1992 - 1996
Parsons School of Desing / The New School, Candidate B.F.A, Illustration
Awards and Grants:
1990
1992
The Peace Corps “Fondo Quiusqueya Scholarship” to pursue studies in Fine arts and Illustration at Altos de Chavon School of Design, La Romana, DR.
The “Bluhdorn Scholarship” to study Illustration at Parsons School of Design/ New school in NYC
Traveling Shows :
Printing the Revolution
Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park, FL
January 18, 2025 – April 6, 2025
Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN
June 28, 2024 – September 29, 2024
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth Hanover, NH
February 4, 2023 – June 11, 2023
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX
February 20, 2022 – May 8, 2022
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC November 20, 2020 – August 8, 2021
Cuerpo e Identidad
Trienal de Arte Latinoamericano (NYLAAT) Governors Island, NY
May 11, 2024
Centro Cultural Banreservas, DR
December 2024 - January 2025
Selected Group Exhibitions:
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1994
Smithsonian National Museum of The American Indian, “ Taino: Native Heritage and identity in the caribbean”, New York City , NY. ( On View till October 2019)
Museo de Historia de Ponce (PR) and Taller Boricua (NY) “La Huella Magistral” (DYPG)
Rush Gallery , “Intersecting Trajectories”, (DYPG), New York , USA
Manhattan Graphics Center “Uptown prints”, (DYPG), New York, USA
Museo del Barrio , “Uptown Exhibition”, (DYPG) ,New York , USA
Rio Penthouse Gallery , “Uptown Prints”, (DYPG), New York , USA
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) , “Resilience”, Reclaming History and The Dominican Diaspora”, Washington , D.C , USA
Bronx Art Space,“Tyranny’s Tear, Mending the Dominican Trauma”, NY, USA
The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center Inc, (DYPG), “5 years / 10 voices”, NY , USA
Centro Cultural de España ,“Consequential Translations”, Santo Domingo, DR
Metropolitan College of New York And Word Up Book store, (DYPG), “Comunidad/ Community”, NY, USA
Bronx Art Space , “Narratives of Self-Exile/Narrativas del Auto-Exilio”, (DYPG), NY, USA
Casa Michoacan , “En Colaboración”, Chicago, IL, USA
El Museo Latino, “Caribbean Waves Up North”, (DYPG), Omaha, NE , USA
Broadway Housing Community at Sugar Hill, No Longer Emty, (DYPG) ,
“If you build it”, NY, USA
Bronx Art Space, “Language is Identity”, Bronx, NY, USA
Rio Penthouse Gallery, “La Lucha”, NY, USA.
Bronx Art Space, “Bronx Latin American Bienial”, Bronx, NY, USA
MOMA PS1, (Expo 1) “ The Colony ” Colaboration with a77 , L.I.C. NY, USA
Manhattan Graphics Center, “Momentum”, (DYPG), NY, USA
Centro León, “Duarte .Visiones colectivas en espacios vinculados”, Santiago, Dominican Republic
University of California-Washington Center, “Here and There/Intermedios”, (DYPG), Washington, DC, USA.
Fundación Mauricio Báez, “ImPRESSiones”, (DYPG), Santo Domingo, DR
National Dominican Student Conference at Wesleyan University, “Here and There”, (DYPG) , Connecticut, USA
Sala de Arte Camilo Carrau “A conciencia”, (DYPG) , Puerto Plata, DR
JEX -Jardín de las Esculturas - IVEC, Xalapa, “Artistas Dominicanos, Identidades Entrecuzadas”, (DYPG) ,Veracruz, México
Manhattan Graphics Center, “Awhere - Stories of Tradition & Change”,
Print Portfolios by (DYPG), NY, USA
Barnard College, “Here and There”, (DYPG), New York, USA
Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA), “Print”, (DYPG), New York, USA
Gráfica de la República Dominicana, curated by Graciela Kartofel, (DYPG), Celaya,
Guanajuato, México
El Panal/The Hive, “Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan”, (DYPG), Puerto Rico, USA
“Art From The Dominican Republic and Latin America”, curated by Graciela Kartofel, (DYPG) , ETNIA VII, Brussels, Liege, Nivelles and Tournai
“Elaxpo 2011” and Espace Wallonie, Brussels, Belgium and The Cultural Center of the Neumünster Abbey, Luxemburgo, (DYPG
Palacio Consistorial, Santiago,“Manifestaciones”, (DYPG), Santiago, DR
Museo de Arte Moderno, “Manifestaciones”, (DYPG), Santo Domingo, DR.
* These exhibits in the Dominican Republic were sponsored by grants from the American Embassy in Santo Domingo and the Smithsonian Latino Center, Washington DC
University of California Washington Center (UCDC) Gallery and The Inter-University Program for Latino Research (IUPLR), “Manifestaciones”, (DYPG), Sponsored by the Embassy of the Dominican Republic Cultural Program, Washington DC, USA.
The Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (MCCLA) “En Papel” A Contemporary look at Latino Printmakers in the U.S. (DYPG), San Francisco, California, USA
Empire State College Metro Gallery, “Manifestaciones”, (DYPG), NY, USA.
CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Gallery, “Manifestaciones”, (DYPG),
The City College of New York, USA.
Local Project, “Random Poetry” LIC, NY, USA.
The Queens Museum of Art “A place after I Die”, Queens, NY, USA
Clemente Soto Velez, “ Borimix”, NYC, USA
District & Co,“Suite Quiqueya”, New Dominican Painting , Santo Domingo, DR
Museo De Arte Moderno “National Biennial”, Santo Domingo, DR
“Caribbean Biennial” public art projects, Santo Domingo, DR
Centro Leon “XVIII Eduardo Leon Jimenes Biennial”, Santiago, DR
The Arawak Foundation, “ The Drawing Salon”, Santo Domindgo, DR
The Committee for Heights In- wood Homeless,“De Bufeo”, NYC, USA
Raritan Valley Community College, “Immigrants Strategies”, Summerville, NJ, USA.
Museo De Arte Moderno, “XIX National Biennial”, Santo Domingo, DR.
2024
IFPDA Print Fair I Fine Art Prints, New York City , NY.
Collections:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York, New York.
Smithsonian American Art Museum.
El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York
CUNY Dominican studies Institute, The City College of New York, New York
Gilberto Cardenas & Dolores Carrillo, Notre Dame, Indiana.
Eduardo Diaz, Washington, DC.
Joanne Flores, Washington, DC.
Rita Milena Garcia, Miami, Florida.
El Museo Latino, Omaha, NE.
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
Diplomacy Center Foundation, Washington, DC.
Curatorial:
2017
2015
2015
2014
2010
“All or Nothing”, Falchi Building , L.I.C Art’s Festival, NY, USA
“ Shangri-la”, The Factory, L.I.C Arts Open, Co-Curated: John Baber, NY, USA.
“5 Years 10 Voices”, Clemente Soto Velez, 5TH Anniversary of DYPG, NY, USA
“Narratives of Sel-Exile”, Bronx Art Space, Bronx, NY, USA.
“Random Poetry”, Local Project, L.I.C, NY, USA.
Publications:
Smithsonian, Archives of American Art | 57.2 , 2018, “The Island Within The Island” Remaping Dominican York, (DYPG), p. 18, by: Tatiana Reinoza.
El Caribe, August 11th, 2011 by: Lilian Carrasco
El Caribe, July 28th, 2011 by: Lilian Carrasco
Listin Diario, July 15th, 2011
Artelia, June 30th, 2011 by: Danilo de los Santos
Periodico Hoy, y Cielo Naranja, July 7th, 2011 by: Miguel Mena
ART NEXUS (spanish), December 10th, 2010 by: Graciela Kartofel
DNAinfo Manhattan News, New York, October 14th, 2010 by: Carla Zanoni
Amsterdam News, New York, April 14th, 2011 by: Juan Espinal
Member of the Following Organization:
2010
Founding Member of DYPG , a printmaking collective of artists of Dominican descent who live and work in and around New York City, 2010.