page_title: Lionel Cruet
section_title: Education and career
hierarchical_section_title: Lionel Cruet / Education and career
caption_attribution_description: English: Puerto Rican artist Lionel Cruet materializes the cloud in his immersive installation, ‘Espacio Intangible’ (Intangible Space). Image credit: Pablo Corradi via designboom
context_page_description: Lionel Cruet is a contemporary audiovisual and geopolitical artist best known for depicting the interactive nature of the environment using digital printing, performance, and installations. Cruet lives in both New York City and San Juan, Puerto Rico and frequently collaborates with other artists, as well as musicians, students, writers, and communities.
  In 2013, Cruet was the recipient of the Juan Downey Audiovisual Award at the 11th Annual Media Arts Biennale at the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago, Chile.
context_section_description: Cruet received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño de Puerto Rico in 2011 and a Masters of Fine Arts from the City College of New York in 2014.
  In 2017, Cruet participated in the exhibition Seen and Heard: An Active Commemoration of Women's Suffrage, on display from June 10 through August 27, 2017 at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY. The exhibition explored the use of the arts as a catalyst for social change and featured the work of nine contemporary artists as well as several works from the Everson's permanent collection. Selected as an artist-in-residence for the exhibition, Cruet constructed two installations: At the End of Daybreak and A Speculative Atlas of the Caribbean.
  In 2016, Cruet participated in the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Program at The Bronx Museum of the Arts which provides professional development opportunities and mentorships to emerging artists and audiovisual performers living in New York City.
  In his 2014 solo exhibition, Lionel Cruet: In Between, Real and Digital at the Bronx River Art Center in New York City, Cruet presented a digitally interactive show to incite pertinent discussions relating to geopolitics, nature, and technology.
  In 2013, Cruet's art was featured in various group exhibitions including "SuperReal: Alternative Realities in Photography and Video" at El Museo del Barrio in New York, "Colonial Comfort" at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, and "Sound Art Fair at Sala de las Artes" at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in Puerto Rico.
  Cruet's work has been published in Made in Mind Magazine, Designboom, and Catálogodiseño Magazine.
  Cruet has served as a Teaching Assistant of 2D Design under Professor Joy Garnett at the City College of New York and as a Teaching Artist and Mentor at Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education, a contributing organization to the Center for Bronx Non-Profits (CBNP).
caption: Puerto Rican artist Lionel Cruet materializes the cloud in his immersive installation, ‘Espacio Intangible’ (Intangible Space), 2014. New York City
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