Raúl Cruz
Illustrator / fine artist
He has developed his personal work within Fantastic Art. Futuristic aesthetics and science fiction combined with Mesoamerican art generated his personal work, mixing the past and present with unpredictable futures.
His work has been exhibited at Gallery of the Society of Illustrators, New York, National Museum of Mexican Art Chicago, Latino Art Museum Los Angeles, Consulate General of Mexico, LA, Foro Heredia Santiago de Cuba, Art Gallery Andromeda Trento, Casaloca Milán Italy, Caos Community Valencia España. Salón de la Plástica Mexicana, Arte XXI Gallery, among other.
His work has been included in various international publications such as the New York Illustrators Society Yearbook, Heavy Metal Science fiction magazine, SPECTRUM yearbook, worldwide compendium of Fantastic Art creators for 8 consecutive years, Fantasy + 3, The Future of Erotic Fantasy Art I and II, 3D Total Publishing, Sketches from the imagination/ Magic & Myths, Imagining AI, Oxford University, among others.
Guest at the Third Spectrum exhibition with his work "Tercentenario", together with legends of fantastic art such as Boris Vallejo, Donato Giancola, at The Society of Illustrators gallery, in New York.
Invited by Milenio TV to create a pictorial work with the theme "Love seen through Art", which includes an interview, a traveling exhibition and an entire national broadcast program.
His work and biography have been compiled in a book co-edited by the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México and Editorial MILENIO, España.
He published his first book, anthology with 27 years of Fantastic Art. He recently published the first sketchbook, part of a series of ten more.
Invited to give a talk on Global Narratives of Artificial Intelligence, Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago.
He has given workshops in Mexico and Italy.
Some of his most important clients are:
Wizards of the Coast / Magic the Gathering, Seedify found, Fifth Avenue Press, 3D Total Publishing, Arcane Tinmen / Dragon Shield, Apex Publicatios, Flame Tree Publishing, The Hamline University, Business for Life, Fleer Sky Box, Virtual World, among other.
racrufi@gmail.com +52 1 55 14 78 10 89