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Ruben Toledo (born 1961, Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban-American artist based in New York City.[1]

Ruben Toledo
Born	1961 (age 60–61) Havana, Cuba
Nationality	Cuban-American
Spouse(s)	Isabel Toledo ​ ​ (m. 1984; died 2019)​

Personal life

Toledo and his wife Isabel met in high school in West New York, New Jersey.[2]

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.[1] 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.[1]

List of titles:

• Style Dictionary. Abbeville Press. 1997. ISBN 0789203480.
• Fashionation. Edition 7L. 2009. ISBN 3865213014.

Exhibit

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.[3]

Awards

Ruben and Isabel Toledo were the recipient of the 2005 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for their work in fashion.[4]

External Resources

• "Isabel & Ruben Toledo: A Studio Visit". Studio 360. Retrieved October 20, 2012.
• "Isabel & Ruben Toledo Interview". The Artist Toolbox.

References

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