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Miguel Luciano

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Miguel Luciano is a multimedia visual artist whose work explores themes of history, popular culture, social justice and self-determination through painting, sculpture, and socially engaged public art projects. His work is featured in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, National Gallery of Art, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Portrait Gallery, National Museum of African American History and Culture, The Brooklyn Museum, El Museo del Barrio, and the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. He lives and works in New York and is currently a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts and Yale University School of Art.

Featured Artwork

Made from the frames of two 1952 Schwinn Phantom bicycles, this work commemorates the year of Puerto Rico’s constitution and the beginning of its Commonwealth status.
Miguel Luciano. Double Phantom / Entro.P.R., 2017.1952 Schwinn Phantoms, restored and customized, flags. 120" x 40" x 32". Courtesy of the Collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Made from the frames of two 1952 Schwinn Phantom bicycles, this work commemorates the year of Puerto Rico’s constitution and the beginning of its Commonwealth status.
Miguel Luciano. Double Phantom / Entro.P.R., 2017 (DETAIL).1952 Schwinn Phantoms, restored and customized, flags. 120" x 40" x 32". Courtesy of the Collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Images of Hiram Maristany on colorful glass like a mural on the street.
Miguel Luciano. Joy, Love and Resistance in El Barrio, 2022 (DETAIL). A public art project at Metropolitan Hospital in East Harlem featuring photographs by Hiram Maristany. Ceramic frit with dichroic film on glass. Image courtesy of the artist.
Traditional pushcart for selling shaved ice (piraguas) hyper-modified tricycle-pushcart with a hi-fi sound and video system.
Miguel Luciano. Pimp My Piragua, 2008. Customized tricycle-pushcart, sound system, video, LED underbody lights. Image compilation courtesy of the artist.
School bus sidings repurposed into protest shields with the PR independence flag on it.
Miguel Luciano. Shields / Escudos, 2020. Metal from decommissioned school busses in Puerto Rico, wood, acrylic and spray paint. Image courtesy of the Collection of The National Gallery of Art.

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Miguel Luciano’s Cemí-Libre | Civic Practice Partnership, 2017–2021

The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Event
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Exhibit showcases Puerto Rican artists’ reaction to Hurricane Maria and its aftermath - By Jeffrey Brown & Alison Thoet (2023)

PBS News | Article
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Miguel Luciano’s Portrait of a Puerto Rico in Crisis - By Frances Solá-Santiago (2023)

National Gallery of Art | Article