Ronnie Cutrone (New York, 1948 – Lake Peekskill, 2013) was a leading exponent of American Pop Art.

He attended School of Visual Art from 1966 to 1970. Between 1972 and 1980 he was an assistant to Andy Warhol, in the most productive years of his famous Factory, working on prints, paintings or films and giving birth to a style that critics would call “Post – pop.” His artistic production began in 1982 with a special interest in cartoons, bright and bright colors proper to the Pop figurative tradition. Since 2001, he has been focusing his attention on the socio-political dynamics affecting America in the 21st century, giving birth to two artistic projects: RED CROSS and CELL GIRLS. In addition to the incisive presence in South America in 1998 in Curitiba, Salvador de Bahia, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, his works are present among the most important American and European museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Withney Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Boymans Beunigen Museum in Holland.

The artist’s presence in Italy is evidenced by numerous exhibitions at institutional venues and galleries: Galleria Lucio Amelio, Naples, in 1982, Salvatore Ala, Milan 1984-87, Lorenzelli Arte in 1995, Museo di Castelnuovo in 1997 in Naples, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome.

It is important to note Cutrone’s presence in 2004 at the Milan Triennale on the occasion of the Pop Art exhibition.

He died in New York in 2013.

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