During this time, he also associated with a cluster of experimental artists, several of them Puerto Rican immigrants, and he began making art of his own. Some of these props, saturated in Caribbean popular culture, took on a sculptural life of their own. His growing reputation, though, was largely confined to Latino institutions, segregated from the mainstream art world. This changed when the Whitney Museum of American Art commissioned him to create a big installation for its 1993 Biennial. Judging by the object-packed décor, the occupants are Puerto Rican.

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Persons: Merián Soto, ” it’s Organizations: Galleries, Whitney Museum of American Art Locations: Puerto Rican, Fort