Tom Cubereo

Tomas “Tom” Cubereo, the son of a Turkish father and a French mother, grew up in the outskirts of Paris in the banlieue l’Abreuvoir, in “Quatre vignt-treize” Department 93. Throughout his youth, he grew up feeling the isolation of being both French and Turkish, yet neither fully one or the other. His art has tried to reconcile those two “doorways” into his consciousness one Turkish, one French.

Cubereo moved to America to attend art school as part of an international scholarship program run by the EU, and after a brief return to France, has remained in America ever since, currently residing in Brooklyn.

Miniatures Series

His current series references the motifs of Ottoman, Persian and Mughal miniature illustration and re-appropriates their use to tackle current events in the United States and abroad. 

Beyond the obvious personal link, Cubereo chooses these miniatures as his reference point because of their beauty and because he feels that they have been under-represented within the traditional canon of art history. Created during the same time period as the Italian Renaissance, these miniatures, often made in workshops where authorship is not strictly known (most all works never carried a signature by the artist,) act as a counter-narrative to the humanism-driven view of art perpetuated by the artists and scholars of Europe at that time.