Rafael Consuegra

He quickly developed a reputation as a ceramist and sculptor, and exhibited widely throughout France, Spain, Denmark, Switzerland, Russia and Serbia.

Upon his return to the US, he set up his primary studio in Miami, and spent over 50 years creating a large body work ranging in size from small-scale sculptures to monumental public art commissions.

Represented in both private and public collections across the globe, his work explores the subjects of cloning, education, law v. justice, the human body in motion, mythology, religion, and freedom.

[citation needed] After relocating to the United States in the 1960s, Consuegra studied the arts in Miami Dade College with fellow artists Emilio Falero and Rafael Soriano, and received his associate degree in 1967.

[6][7] Consuegra was commissioned to produce numerous public artworks, and won a nationwide competition to represent the United States in an arts exchange program between the sister cities, Duluth, Minnesota, and Petrozavodsk, Russia.

[10] In 2020 Consuegra was also commissioned by real estate developer and impact glass magnate Sam Moussa to create an abstract original metal sculpture for his private residence Aqua Azure.

Across all mediums, Consuegra's art varies between levels of high and intermediate abstraction, occasionally with spiritual and religious subject matter, such as crucifixes and angels.