Osvaldo Budet (b. 1979) is a Puerto Rican artist whose work examines the physical, historical, and political dimensions of colonization and post-colonization. Through painting, drawing, photography, video, and research-based practice, Budet reflects on how culture is shaped by the systems we inhabit, and how those systems reveal their values, contradictions, and histories.

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Budet holds a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he studied under Grace Hartigan. Since 2008, he has lived and worked across Berlin, Germany, San Juan, Puerto Rico, New York City, USA, and Sydney, Australia.

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He has received numerous awards, fellowships, and residencies, including a fellowship at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study in Germany, the Leipzig International Art Program, the Museo del Barrio de Santurce residency, and the German Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research Arctic Residency, where he was the pilot artist.

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His work has been exhibited in museums and institutions including the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, me Collectors Room Berlin / Stiftung Olbricht, BMW / Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the Institute of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture Museum in Chicago, the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, MOLAA, Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, California, and Dumbo Arts Center in New York, among others.

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Budet’s work has also been included in gallery exhibitions at LAB Eigen+Art in Berlin, MOMENTUM in Berlin, Kunstwerk-Spinnerei in Leipzig, Black & White Gallery in New York, Walter Otero Gallery in Puerto Rico, and the de la Cruz Collection. He has also been commissioned to create environmentally engaged work for the Umweltbundesamt in Dessau, Germany, and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico.

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For more information, you can download Osvaldo Budet’s Curriculum Vitae.

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