Luis Gispert

Luis Gispert (born Jersey City, New Jersey U.S., 1972) is an American sculptor and photographer, living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Luis Gispert earned an MFA at Yale University in 2001, with a 1996 BFA in Film from Art Institute of Chicago, and attended Miami Dade College from 1990 to 1992. His contemporary style reflects his Miami/Latino upbringing. He grew up in Miami during the Cocaine Wars and the inception of hip-hop.

Luis Gispert creates art through a wide range of media, including photographs, film, sounds, and sculptures, focusing upon hip-hop and youth culture, and Cuban-American history. Some of his sculptures incorporate objects identified with hip hop, such as turntables, chrome tire rims, and boom boxes, into functional designs usable in other manners, such as furniture. His installation art graced the 2002 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and has been exhibited internationally at galleries and museums such the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Studio Museum in Harlem in New York, Art Pace in Texas, the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Palazzo Brocherasio in Turin, and The Royal Academy in London. Gispert has also participated in several exhibitions with high-profile commercial galleries including Gagosian Gallery, Andrea Rosen Gallery, and Deitch Projects in New York. He is represented by Zach Feuer Gallery in New York, and Fredric Snitzer Gallery in Miami, FL.

Works include films such as "Stereomongrel" [http://chelseaartgalleries.com/Zach+Feuer+Gallery+_28LFL_29/Stereomongrel.html] . His 2005 photograph "Señoritas Suicidio" is a modern reinterpretation of Picasso's painting "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"; it shows five suicide girls in poses very similar to those of Picasso's models, photographed as they emerge from a swimming pool. [http://www.artnewsblog.com/2006/09/new-les-demoiselles-davignon.htm] [http://www.artnet.com/artwork/424626440/424303357/luis-gispert-senoritas-suicidio.html] His 2008 project "El Mundo es Tuyo (The World is Yours)," shown at Mary Boone and Zach Feuer galleries in New York consisted of a film that involved references to the Brian de Palma movie "Scarface" with a semi-autobiographical story about a young boy living in Miami, along with an environment of props relating to this work. The film, titled "Smother", starred Steven Bauer, an actor from the original "Scarface", and Taryn Manning [http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/davis/davis2-15-08.asp]