Date & Time
6:00pm EDT - 8:00pm EDT
About This Event
SUPERNATURE: In Conversation with Ricardo E. Zulueta and René Morales
Tuesday, December 1, 6 - 7 pm reception, 7 - 8 pm, talk
The Betsy Hotel, 1440 Ocean Dr, Miami Beach, FL 33139
In partnership with Dot FiftyOne Gallery and Oolite Arts, artist Ricardo E. Zulueta and curator René Morales discuss Zulueta’s solo presentation, SUPERNATURE, featured at Untitled Art Miami Beach 2026. Centered on large-scale diptych paintings, bio-plastic sculptures, and embedded video, the talk explores how technology and media shape and interrogate contemporary constructions of identity, surveillance, and post-human iconography. The discussion will also touch upon Zulueta's site-specific video installation, Rising Glitch Levels, projected on The Betsy Orb during Miami Art Week.
Ricardo E. Zulueta (b.1962, Havana, Cuba) is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar based in Miami, Florida. Zulueta holds a Ph.D. in Cinema and Media Studies and an M.F.A. in Visual Art from the University of Miami and has served as a Helbein Scholar at New York University. His practice functions across a genealogy of mediums including video, digital imaging, photography, painting, computational media, sculpture, performance and installation. From early analogy large-scale photo-performance stills to more recent immersive multi-media installations, his work consistently explores the intersectionality of mediated expressions of gender, sexuality, behavior, and identity within socio-political landscapes. Through research and praxis, he examines how technology and media shape, interrogate, and subvert normative constructions of identity and develops experimental modes of storytelling that manifest a vernacular of idiosyncratic codes and symbols of disidentification.
René Morales is an independent curator and researcher based in Chicago and Miami. He is currently serving as Glenn W. and Cornelia T. Bailey Contemporary Curator in Residence at the Norton Museum of Art and Senior Curatorial Fellow with the Bakehouse Art Complex. Morales recently organized Quisqueya Henríquez: The Center Can Be Everywhere at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, as well as Dread Scott: The Body Politic and Rael San Fratello: Prototypes and Provocations for the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. He is the former Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, where he co-organized a major career survey of the work of Gary Simmons titled Public Enemy, among other exhibitions. Morales had previously held the role of Director of Curatorial Affairs and Chief Curator at Pérez Art Museum Miami, where he organized dozens of exhibitions including Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Surrounded Islands, Dara Friedman: Perfect Stranger, Marjetica Potrc: The School of the Forest, Meleko Mokgosi: Your Trip to Africa, and Amelia Peláez: The Craft of Modernity. Before PAMM, Morales worked at the RISD Museum in Providence, where he organized a number of exhibitions including Island Nations: New Art from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. He studied at Swarthmore College and Brown University.
About This Event
SUPERNATURE: In Conversation with Ricardo E. Zulueta and René Morales
Tuesday, December 1, 6 - 7 pm reception, 7 - 8 pm, talk
The Betsy Hotel, 1440 Ocean Dr, Miami Beach, FL 33139
In partnership with Dot FiftyOne Gallery and Oolite Arts, artist Ricardo E. Zulueta and curator René Morales discuss Zulueta’s solo presentation, SUPERNATURE, featured at Untitled Art Miami Beach 2026. Centered on large-scale diptych paintings, bio-plastic sculptures, and embedded video, the talk explores how technology and media shape and interrogate contemporary constructions of identity, surveillance, and post-human iconography. The discussion will also touch upon Zulueta's site-specific video installation, Rising Glitch Levels, projected on The Betsy Orb during Miami Art Week.
Ricardo E. Zulueta (b.1962, Havana, Cuba) is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar based in Miami, Florida. Zulueta holds a Ph.D. in Cinema and Media Studies and an M.F.A. in Visual Art from the University of Miami and has served as a Helbein Scholar at New York University. His practice functions across a genealogy of mediums including video, digital imaging, photography, painting, computational media, sculpture, performance and installation. From early analogy large-scale photo-performance stills to more recent immersive multi-media installations, his work consistently explores the intersectionality of mediated expressions of gender, sexuality, behavior, and identity within socio-political landscapes. Through research and praxis, he examines how technology and media shape, interrogate, and subvert normative constructions of identity and develops experimental modes of storytelling that manifest a vernacular of idiosyncratic codes and symbols of disidentification.
René Morales is an independent curator and researcher based in Chicago and Miami. He is currently serving as Glenn W. and Cornelia T. Bailey Contemporary Curator in Residence at the Norton Museum of Art and Senior Curatorial Fellow with the Bakehouse Art Complex. Morales recently organized Quisqueya Henríquez: The Center Can Be Everywhere at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, as well as Dread Scott: The Body Politic and Rael San Fratello: Prototypes and Provocations for the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. He is the former Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, where he co-organized a major career survey of the work of Gary Simmons titled Public Enemy, among other exhibitions. Morales had previously held the role of Director of Curatorial Affairs and Chief Curator at Pérez Art Museum Miami, where he organized dozens of exhibitions including Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Surrounded Islands, Dara Friedman: Perfect Stranger, Marjetica Potrc: The School of the Forest, Meleko Mokgosi: Your Trip to Africa, and Amelia Peláez: The Craft of Modernity. Before PAMM, Morales worked at the RISD Museum in Providence, where he organized a number of exhibitions including Island Nations: New Art from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. He studied at Swarthmore College and Brown University.
Date & Time
6:00pm EDT - 8:00pm EDT