Lionel Cruet

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If we think about the environment, migration, and the body then I can say that is where my work starts. It is shaped by the experience of living between Puerto Rico and New York. I use installation, image making, and light-based media, to present scenarios on how climate change, displacement, and colonial histories alter both landscapes and our perception. I am interested in how these conditions are felt intimately through light, and atmospheric references rather than understood only as distant data. Poetic, political, and making spaces you and everyone can see ecological and social transformations as lived experiences.

Lionel Cruet is a Puerto Rican artist based in New York and San Juan. He works in installation, photography, and time-based media. Cruet engages ecology, climate change, and migration as lived conditions. He exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Des Moines Art Center, and the Everson Museum of Art. They participated in residencies including Art OMI and the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. Cruet expands his work beyond the studio through teaching and collaboration with immigrant and diasporic communities in New York City.