EDUCATION
PH.D. Doctor of Philosophy, University of Miami, (Cinema & Media Studies, Contemporary Art)
Award of Academic Merit
M.F.A. Master of Fine Art, University of Miami, (Visual Art & Experimental Media/Performance)
Award of Academic Merit
Helbein Scholar, New York University, (Graduate Studies in Visual Art, Museum/Curatorial Studies)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS/PRESENTATIONS:
2022 Networked Gestures v. 2, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, Florida.
2020 Anonymous Strangers, Printed Matter, New York, New York.
Anonymous Strangers, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada.
2015 Sugar Free, Elga Wimmer –PCC, New York, New York.
2011 Domesticated Homosapiens in Traditional Costume Circa Twenty-First Century, Part II,
Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida.
2010 Domesticated Homosapiens in Traditional Costume Circa Twenty-First Century, Wynwood Project
Space, catalog essay by Berta Sichel, Miami, Florida.
2007 Ricardo E. Zulueta, Elga Wimmer-PCC, New York, New York.
2005 Ricardo E. Zulueta, Elga Wimmer-PCC, New York, New York.
2001 Project No. 1, Elga Wimmer-PCC, New York, New York.
1999 i love you, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, New York.
1998 Ricardo Zulueta, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria.
1997 zulueta zone, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, New York.
1994 Art in Transit, San Francisco Art Commission, curated by Jill Manton, San Francisco, California.
Ricardo Estanislao Zulueta, Nina Menocal Gallery, catalog essay by Ruben Gallo, Mexico City, Mexico.
1993 Humane Society, The Western Front, catalog essay by Lucy Lippard, Vancouver, Canada.
1993 Information Stands, Center for Fine Arts (Miami Art Museum), Metro Dade Art in Public Places,
National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, curated by Louis Grachos, Miami, Florida.
Information Stands II, School 33, Baltimore, Maryland.
1992 In Memoriam, Artists Space, curated by Carlos Guiterrez-Solana, New York, New York.
1988 Basement Therapy, International Center for Photography & Museum of Contemporary Hispanic
Art, catalog with essays by Anne H. Hoy and Kathleen McGuire, International
Center of Photography, New York, New York .
Mise-en-Scene, Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, Florida.
1987 Tableau Utopia, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, curated by
Tom Sokolowski, New York, New York.
1985 Bohemians, Washington Square East Gallery, New York University, New York, New York.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS/PRESENTATIONS:
2024 Legacy in Light, Coral Gables Museum of Art, Coral Gables, Florida.
2023 ATOPIA, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, Florida.
South Florida Cultural Consortium Winners, Art and Culture Center/Hollywood, Florida.
2022 Invisible Labor, Critical Practices Inc. (CPI), curated by Laura Marsh, New York, New York.
2021 Currents, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, Florida.
2020 Postcards from the Edge, Visual AIDS, New York, New York.
2019 Collabo 6 All In!, Mana Contemporary, Miami, Florida.
Pull & Release, site specific performance, Gay Village, Montreal, Canada.
Loading Festival - The Wrong Biennale, Mana Contemporary, Miami, Florida.
New Media Selections, SUNY Press, CAA, Los Angeles, California.
2018 Queer Interventions, Creative Time Summit: On Archipelagos and Other Imaginaries,
Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, Florida.
Baby Planet, The Nightclub, Farside Gallery, curated by Angela Valella & Arturo Mosquera, Miami, FL.
Queer Interface, Society of Cinema and Media Studies, Toronto, Canada.
Intransitivity, Destabilization, and Collaboration, QGCon, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
2014 Impact and Legacy: 50 Years of the Cintas Foundation, Museum of Art and Design, Miami, FL.
2011 Art Miami Fair / Art Basel Miami Beach, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL.
Attraction of the Opposites, CUCOSA, Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
2010 Aesthetics & Values (Bert Rodriguez, Guerra de la Paz, TM Sisters, Frances Trombly,
Richard Haden, Ricardo Zulueta), Frost Museum of Art, Miami, Florida.
Separated by Daily Life, Rhubarb-Rhubarb, (curated by Rhonda Wilson), Birmingham, U.K.
Recent Acquisitions from the Permanent Art Collection, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale,
Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
2009 New Work, Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida.
Gallery Artists, Elga Wimmer PCC, New York, New York.
2008 Cintas Foundation Visual Arts Finalists’ Exhibit, Dacra & Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida.
2005 Don’t Call It Performance, Domus Atrium 2, Center for Contemporary Art, University of
Salamanca, (curated by Deborah Cullen and Paco Barragan), Salamanca, Spain.
2004 Don’t Call It Performance, El Museo del Barrio, (curated by Deborah Cullen and Paco Barragan), New York, NY.
2002 Metropolis Now, (Oladele Bamgboye, Jeremy Blake, Slater Bradley, Jonathan Horowitz,
Ebru Ozsecen, Paul Pfeiffer, Steven Pippin, Pipilotti Rist, Julia Scher, Franck Scurtti,
Ricardo Zulueta), Centro Reina Sofia Museum of Art, Madrid, Spain.
2000 Metropolis Now, Borusan Art & Culture Foundation, Istanbul, Turkey.
1997 20th Anniversary Benefit Auction, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York.
Arco International Art Fair, Madrid, Spain.
American Voices, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
Fall Social, Four Walls, Brooklyn, New York.
1996 Doug Aitken, Mariko Mori & Ricardo Zulueta, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, New York.
Untitled, (Pipoliti Rist, Oliver Herring, Vanessa Beecroft, Ricardo Zulueta, Mariko Mori,
and Y.Z.Kami), Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Poughkeepsie, New York.
Offerings, Thread Waxing Space, New York, New York.
1995 Way Cool, Exit Art, New York, New York (curated by Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo).
Action Station, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California (curated by Sue Spaid).
Still/Life, The Body as Object in Contemporary Photography, Americas Society, New York,
New York (curated by Elizabeth Ferrer).
1994 Amendments, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, New York.
American Voices, Fotofest, Houston, Texas (curators: Elizabeth Ferrer, Ricardo Viera, Charles Biasiny Rivera).
What is Art?, Art in General, New York, New York.
Free Falling, Berlin Shafir Gallery, New York, New York.
1993 Cintas Photography Collection, Florida International University Art Museum, Miami, Florida
(curated by Manuel Gonzalez).
Romper los Margenes, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela.
New York is a Zoo, Nova Zembla, Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.
1992 Art & Politics: Mixing It Up, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, New York
(curated by Lucy R. Lippard).
Performance Behind the Curtain, White Columns, New York, New York (curated by Bill Arning).
Recent Acquisitions, International Center of Photography, New York, New York.
The Neurotic Art Show, Artist Space, New York, New York.
Salon, Art in General, New York, New York (curated by Holly Block).
1991 Son of Sam and Delilah (1991), performance artist in film directed by Charles Atlas, New York, New York.
De Quelques Troubles D’Identite de la Photographie Contemporaine, Dazibao, Montreal,
Canada (catalog) (curated by Alain Laframboise).
Intentions and Techniques, Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (catalog).
Double Take, New York Foundation for the Arts, Y.W.C.A, New York, New York.
1990 A Decade of the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York (curated by
Laura Hoptman).
Fact & Fiction: State of Florida Photography, (curated by Bruce Weber):
Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida.
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida.
Florida State University Fine Arts Museum, Tallahassee, Florida.
Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida. Pensacola Museum of Arts, Pensacola, Florida.
Pensacola Museum of Arts, Pensacola, Florida.
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainsville, Florida.
1986 Andres Serrano & Ricardo E. Zulueta, Lightsong Gallery, University of Arizon,Tucson, Arizona.
Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York (curated by Holly Block).
28th Annual Hortt Memorial, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Twenty Under Thirty, Art & Culture Center, Hollywood, Florida.
1985 Burnt Toast, Moosart Gallery, Miami, Florida.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/MEDIA:
A Glitch in the Grid: Ricardo E. Zulueta and the Cyborgian Gaze, Burnaway Reader, Claudia Mattos, Spring 2023.
Nueva Luz, Vol. 23.2, Tanya Melendez-Escalante, Fall/Winter 2019.
Attraction of the Opposites (book), Cucosa Press, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 2013.
Ricardo Estanislao Zulueta (review), Art Nexus magazine, Dinorah Perez-Rementeria, December 2010.
Role Playing Consumer Status: Zulueta and Digital Culture, (catalog essay by Berta Sichel, Madrid), November 2010.
“Arlene Raven’s Legacy, Critical Matrix,” The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender and Culture, edited by Johanna Burton and Anne Swartz, Volume 17, Spring 2008.
Herrera Ysla, Nelson. “Arte Cubana A Vuelo de Pajaro Entre Dos Siglos,” in Nosotros, Los Mas Infieles: Narraciones Criticas Sobre el Arte Cubano (1993-2005), Ed. By Andres Isaac Santana. (Cendeac, Centro de Documentacion y Estudios Avanzados de Arte Contemporaneo, 2007), pp. 258.
JFL: What Does Why Mean?(book), Octavian Esanu, J & L Books, 2007.
The New Yorker, Art Museums and Libraries, September 20, 2004.
Memoria: Cuban Art of the 20th Century (book), Nodal, Vives et al., California International Arts Foundation, 2001.
Images of Ambiente (book), Rudi Bleys, Contiuum Publishing, 2000.
Whole Cloth (book), Mildred Constantine and Laurel Reutor, Monacelli Press, 1998.
Flash Art International, “Global Art:Ricardo Zulueta,” Berta Sichel, Jan/Feb 1998.
Camera Austria International, “Ricardo Zulueta,” No. 62-63, pp. 94-104, 1998.
Arte y Parte, “La Segunda Piel: El Arte de Tejer y Otras Historias,” Juan Carlos Rego, No. 14, April/May, 1998.
Village Voice, “Never-Never Land,” Elizabeth Hess, May 24, 1995.
New York Times, “Still Life,” Charles Hagen, April 7, 1995.
Los Angeles Times, “Action Station,” Susan Kandel, Section F, August 31, 1995.
Still/Life catalog essay, Americas Society, Joseph R. Wolin, 1995.
The Portrait Now catalog essay, Elga Wimmer Gallery, Berta Sichel, 1995.
The New York Times, “From Diversity Come Struggles,” Vicki Goldberg, p. H-39, November 27, 1994.
Michigan Quarterly Review, “El Diario de Miranda / Miranda’s Diary,” Coco Fusco, Vol. 33, No. 3, 1994.
Village Voice, “Scene & Heard,” Robert Atkins, July 12, 1994.
San Francisco Art Commission brochure essay, Face It: Information Stands II, Arlene Raven, 1994.
Fotoseptiembre catalog, Nina Menocal Gallery, “The Labyrinth of Identity: Zulueta and Subterranean Photography,” Ruben Gallo, 1994.
Flash Art, News, Summer 1993.
Art Nexus, Reviews-R.E. Zulueta, Carol Damian, September 1993.
Humane Society catalog essay, “Up From Under,” Western Front Art Center, Lucy R. Lippard, January 1993.
Art Papers, Interview, Jenni Lukac, January, 1993.
Nueva Luz, Ricardo Zulueta portfolio, essay by Deborah Willis, February 1993.
Cintas Photography Collection catalog, “Caught Among the Cultures,” Manuel Gonzalez, October 1993.
Miami Herald, Art in Public Places – 20th Anniversary, Helen Kohen, October 30, 1993.
Miami Herald, “Photos are Linked….,” Helen Kohen October 30, 1993.
El Nuevo Herald, “Pongale Pare al SIDA,” Judy Cantor, May 4, 1993.
European Photography, Humane Society performance stills, text by Suzanne Muchnic, July 1992, Gottingen, Germany.
Photo Metro, Humane Society performance stills, text by Suzanne Muchnic, June 1992.
Sun Sentinel, Roger Hurlburt, Fort Lauderdale, p. F1 and F6, May 17, 1992.
Le Devoir (Montreal), “L’espace du Je,” Marie-Michele Cron, June 15, 1991, p. C-9.
Voir (Montreal), Au-Dela Du Reel, Luc Boulanger, May 30, 1991, p. 21.
Dazibao, De Quelques Troubles d’Identite de la Photographie Contemporaine, catalogue essay Alain Labramboise, May 1991.
Antenna, Art Reviews, Alina Diaz, March 29, 1991, Miami Beach, pp. 23-25.
Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America (book), Lucy Lippard, Pantheon Books, 1990.
Village Voice, Choices, Arlene Raven, August 14, 1990, Vol. XXXV, No. 33, p. 99.
Interview magazine, Contributors’ Page, October 1990.
Fact & Fiction exhibition catalog, Contemporary Florida Photography, Norton Gallery of Art, Bruce Weber, March 1990.
Miami Herald, “Norton’s Photos Show Floridians’ Versatility,” Helen L. Kohen, March 11, 1990.
Channel 16, Manhattan Cable, Behind the Velvet Ropes, October 1989.
Embracing Mystery exhibition catalog, “A Mystery Every Minute,” Jude Schwendenwein, September 1989.
MOCHA/ICP exhibition catalog, “Reflections on Zulueta and Alternative Traditions,” Anne H. Hoy and Kathleen Matolcsy McGuire, November 1988.
Paper magazine, The Arts, December 1988.
ACADEMIC ACTIVITY
CONFERENCES
Zulueta, Ricardo E. “Intransitivity, Destabilization, and Collaboration: Queer Gameplay Simulation in Center Jenny,” Queer Gameplay panel, The Queerness and Games Conference (QGCon), Montreal, Quebec, Canada. September 2018.
Zulueta, Ricardo E. “Networked Future Selves: Cyber Aesthetics in the Films of Ryan Trecartin.” Cyberqueer Strategies in Contemporary Art and Film panel, Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, Chicago, Illinois. March 2017.
Zulueta, Ricardo E. “Dragging Fashion into American Silent Cinema: Sartorial Influences that Shaped Cross-dresser Popularity.” Cross-dressing in Silent Cinema: Fashion, Costume, and Gender panel, Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, Atlanta, Georgia. March 2016.
Zulueta, Ricardo E. “Masculinity on Display: Celebrating Beauty in Robert Gardner’s Deep Hearts.” Looking with Robert Gardner panel, Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. March 2015.
Zulueta, Ricardo E. “A Single Man: Authorship and the Cultural Implications of Keeping a Heteronormative Stiff Upper Lip - On and Off Screen.” Performing Sex, Gender & Sexuality conference, Florida Atlantic University. March 2012.
Zulueta, Ricardo E. “Queering New Media: The Video Performance Carnival,” LGBTQ Regional Conference, FIU, FAU and UM, April 2014.
BOOK
Zulueta, Ricardo E. (April, 2018). Queer Art Camp Superstar: Decoding the Cinematic Cyberworld of Ryan Trecartin, State University of New York Press (SUNY Press).
https://www.sunypress.edu/p-6552-queer-art-camp-superstar.aspx
CHAPTER / EDITED COLLECTION
Zulueta, Ricardo E. “Nomadic Metrosexuals: Framing Beauty, Editing Ritual, and Exhibiting Masculinity in Deep Hearts,” in Looking with Robert Gardner: Essays on His Films and Career, ed. by Rebecca Meyers, William Rothman, and Charles Warren, SUNY Press, 2016.
PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS
Zulueta, Ricardo E. (June 2015). “Gender Flux: Transatlantic Influence on Fashioning the American Crossdresser in Silent Cinema from 1913 to 1926.” Fashion Theory, The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture, Bloomsbury Publishing.
Zulueta, Ricardo E. (Fall 2012). “Tomboy,” Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Film and Television.
Zulueta, Ricardo E. (May 2016). “VALIE EXPORT,” entry in Film and Modernism section, Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism.
Zulueta, Ricardo E. (Forthcoming, 2017), “Jack Smith,” entry in Film and Modernism section, Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism.
Zulueta, Ricardo E. (Forthcoming, 2018). “A Single Man: Authorship and the Cultural Implications of Keeping a Heteronormative Stiff Upper Lip – On and Off Screen.” Film, Fashion & Consumption, Intellect Publishers.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
"Ms. Bardot: Liberated Post War Sex Symbol and Style Icon" film series, publication and lecture, curated from Norton Herrick Center for Motion Pictures, exhibited at the Cosford Cinema, March 28 and April 11, 2013.
“The Cinematic Gaze,” Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, May 5 -31, 2012.
“Thirtieth Anniversary of the Public Art Collection Exhibition,” permanent art collection and new commissioned work by Dan Corson, Broward County, Florida, January – December 2006.
AWARDS / HONORS
2025 Miami Individual Artist Grant - Department of Cultural Affairs
2024 Miami Individual Artist Grant - Department of Cultural Affairs
2023 South Florida Cultural Consortium Artist Fellowship
Miami Individual Artist Grant - Department of Cultural Affairs
2022 The Ellies Creator Award - Oolite Arts
Miami Individual Artist Grant - Department of Cultural Affairs
2014 Ford Foundation Honorable Mention
2011 McKnight Fellowship
2010 Fleur Jacobs Memorial Art Award
1994 Art Matters Foundation Grant
1993 NEA Mid Atlantic Art Foundation Artist Residency
1991 New York Foundation for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship
1991 – 1993 National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts CAVA Fellowship (nka YoungArts)
1991 Cintas Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship
1989 Igor Foundation Artist Fellowship
1987 New York State Council on the Arts Grant
1986 Artists Space Grant
1985 Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Artist Fellowship
ART COLLECTIONS
International Center of Photography
Cintas Foundation Art Collection
National Gallery of Canada
Stanford University
Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum
Lehigh University Art Collection
University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
Philip Aarons and Shelley Fox Aarons Collection
Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale
Miami-Dade Public Library Art Collection
Boca Raton Museum of Art
Jay I. Kislak Collection
Miami-Dade Art in Public Places Art Collection
Jeffrey Steiner
Berta Sichel
* various private art collections