Ruben Toledo
Ruben Toledo (born 1961, Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban-American artist based in New York City.
Ruben Toledo
- Name
- Ruben Toledo
- Born
- 1961
- Birthplace
- Havana, Cuba
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- designer · illustrator · scenographer
- Known for
- Birdie
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Key facts
• Name — Ruben Toledo • Born — 1961 • Birthplace — Havana, Cuba
Documentary record
Ruben Toledo, born in 1961, is documented in the authority records of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. The birth is recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
Personal life
Personal life
Toledo and his wife Isabel met in high school in West New York, New Jersey.
Documentary record
The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek records New York, NY as a place of activity.
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Ruben Toledo's collaboration with his fashion designer wife, Isabel Toledo, was the subject of both a book and a museum exhibition titled Toledo/Toledo: A Marriage of Art and Fashion at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Identity
Identity
Ruben Toledo is recorded as designer, illustrator and scenographer.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
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1961
Ruben Toledo born at Havana.
Books
In 1997, Toledo authored Style Dictionary, a collection of drawings and watercolors. He completed his first film, Fashionation, an animated history of French fashion, based on a book of the same name. Toledo illustrated special edition book jackets for Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions of Jane Eyre, Dracula, The Scarlet Letter, Wuthering Heights, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Pride and Prejudice. List of titles: * *
Primary material
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reference work
- “Ruben Toledo”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q7376005: Ruben Toledo
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Awards
Ruben and Isabel Toledo were the recipient of the 2005 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for their work in fashion.
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