Raul C.

Raúl Cruz ILLUSTRATOR / FINE ARTIST He has developed his personal work within the genre called Fantastic Art. Futurist aesthetics and science fiction combined with Mesoamerican art directly influenced his work, mixing the past and the 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, Foro Heredia Santiago de Cuba, Art Gallery Andromeda Trento, Casaloca Milán Italy. Salón de la Plástica Mexicana, Arte XXI Gallery, universities and cultural spaces in different entities of the country in Mexico. 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, The Future of Erotic Fantasy Art I and II among others. Selected as one of the 20 best artists in manual techniques of Fantastic Art for the book called Fantasy + 3 edited in China. His work also appears in various websites of Fantastic Art. He published his first book, anthology with 27 years of Fantastic Art. It imparts conferences and workshops in universities and cultural spaces. Invited to participate in the exhibition Third Spectrum exhibition with his work Tricentenario, along with legends of the fantastic art like Boris Vallejo, Donato Giancola, carried out in the gallery of The Society of Illustrators, in the city of New York. His work and biography have been compiled in a book co-edited by the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México and Editorial MILENIO, España. Invited to give a talk at a workshop on Global Narratives of Artificial Intelligence, Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago. Besides his pictorial work, he works in the experimentation of materials and dimensional and sculptural techniques, always with themes of Fantastic Art. In the area of ​​advertising he has worked independently developing all kinds of commercial art. [login to view URL] [login to view URL]