Luis Cruz Azaceta (b. 1942) is a Cuban-born American painter, printmaker and mixed-media artist whose work confronts violence, political oppression, displacement and human suffering. Born in Havana, he immigrated to New York in 1960 and earned his B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in 1969. His early paintings address urban violence, racism and the AIDS epidemic, while later works explore war, terrorism, migration and environmental catastrophe. In the early 1980s Azaceta taught at UC Davis, where his work was exhibited at the Richard L. Nelson Gallery in 1981. He also exhibited at Folsom's influential Candy Store Gallery and was featured in the Manetti Shrem Museum's New Flavors: Collected at the Candy Store (2021). A recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, Azaceta is represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art and Smithsonian American Art Museum.