Press
Articles, Interviews, Reviews
Wave Hill: Cultivating Portraits, Whitehot Magazine, October 2024.
Queerness and Nature Intersect at Wave Hill, Hyperallergic, July 2024.
Photographer Ruben Natal–San Miguel Hits The Drag March & Finds Love All Around, Trey Speegle, June 2024.
Wave Hill House: Ruben Natal-San Miguel: Nature Finds A Way, The Eye of Photography, May 2024.
Whitehot Recommends: Ruben Natal-San Miguel at Wave Hill, Whitehot Magazine, April 2024.
Video: Spotlight on Ruben Natal-San Miguel with Curators Layla Bermeo and Kendall DeBoer at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, October 2023.
‘Seen and Celebrated’: Harlem-Based Photographer Ruben Natal-San Miguel’s Work Explores Cultural Identity, Columbia Neighbors, September 2023.
Ruben Natal-San Miguel Museum Acquisition, Griffin Museum, August 2023.
Ruben Natal-San Miguel | Griffin State of Mind, The Griffin Museum of Photography, May 2023.
Seeing Color: The Street Portraiture of Ruben Natal-San Miguel, Blind Magazine, April 2022.
Women R Beautiful: A Photo Exhibit by Rubén Natal-San Miguel, Repeating Islands, January 2022.
MODfest 2022: Women R Beautiful, Vassar College Events, January 2022.
Last Stop: Coney Island Ruben Natal-San Miguel, MTA Arts & Design, 2021.
MTA Arts & Design Unveils Three New Digital Artwork and Photography Exhibitions, Digital Sign Federation, June 2021.
Art Out: Mona Kuhn, Ruben Natal-San Miguel, Lia Halloran, Musée Magazine, June 2021.
Be Well: unforgettable words on the Apollo’s iconic marquee, 20x200, May 2021.
Conversations on Content with Ruben Natal-San Miguel, Claire Oliver Gallery, March 2021.
Women R Beautiful | Ruben Natal San Miguel | Mint Museum Online Exhibition | International Women's Day and Women's History Month, South x Southeast Magazine, March 2021.
On View: ‘Love Letters for Harlem,’ Photographs by John Pinderhughes, Ruben Natal-San Miguel, Jeffrey Henson Scales and Shawn Walker at Claire Oliver Gallery, Culture Type, March 2021.
Vassar College Museum : Ruben Natal-San Miguel : Expanding The Pantheon : ” Women R Beautiful ”, The Eye of Photography, 2021.
With Power, Poise And Confidence, These 'Women R Beautiful', NPR, January 2021.
How Will We Remember the Pandemic? Museums Are Already Deciding, The New York Times, May 2020. (PDF)
Ruben Natal-San Miguel’s “Women R Beautiful” Exhibit, Musée Magazine, May 2020.
Focus On Ruben Natal-San Miguel, Photograph, April 2020. (PDF)
These Photos Will Remind You of What Makes New York City Great, Lemonade, 2020.
Photographer Ruben Natal-San Miguel Is Capturing a New, Silent New York, ARTnews, March 2020.
It Was Their Big Debut. Then a Pandemic Hit., The New York Times, March 2020. (PDF)
Ruben Natal-San Miguel “Women R Beautiful” at Postmasters Gallery, Whitehot Magazine, March 2020.
On the Daily: 24 Hours in the life of Ruben Natal-San Miguel, Mint Museum
Cabin Fever with Ruben Natal-San Miguel, Arcade Project Zine
Making the Invisible Visible: Ruben Natal-San Miguel, CPW, March 2019.
La Fotografía Urbana y Provocadora de Rubén Natal-San Miguel, La Voz – Bard College, September 2019.
Video: Ruben Natal-San Miguel, “Mama”, Musée Magazine, September 2018.
Disaster Under a Sunny Sky: Ruben Natal-San Miguel’s Strangely Electric Photographs of Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria, Humble Arts Foundation, January 2018.
Vibrant Photos Showcase the Rebirth of Puerto Rico, Vice, January 2018.
Ruben Natal San Miguel: Puerto Rico: Paradise Ruined and its Aftermath, Lenscratch, January 2018.
Made in NYC: Ruben Natal-San Miguel's Sensitive Photos of a Rapidly Changing City, Humble Arts Foundation, November 2017.
Ruben Natal-San Miguel, Posit Journal, June 2017.
Rule Breakers: Ruben Natal San Miguel, Don’t Take Pictures, September 2015.
See vivid and striking photographs of NYC street life, TimeOut New York, September 2015.
Ripe Art Gallery celebrates the Rights of Summer, TBR News Media, August 2015.
Photographer Ruben Natal-San Miguel’s “The Rights of Summer” opens August 11 in Provincetown, News Link Live, August 2015.
Photographs by Ruben Natal-San Miguel, The Provincetown Independent, June 2015.
How People in New York City Stay Cool in the Summer, Slate, July 2015.
The Heart of Harlem-Photographer Ruben Natal-San Miguel, Slideshare, January 2014.
Ruben Natal-San Miguel: Making The Invisible Visible, The Eye of Photography
Capturing Colorful, Enchanting, and Sassy in New York, Slate, November 2013.
Portraits of Harlem Kids on Halloween Photographed by Ruben Natal-San Miguel, Feature Shoot, November 2013.
Ruben Natal-San Miguel –West Harlem, The Eye of Photography, 2009.
Featured Artist Pages
CENTRO Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College
Exhibition Pages
Ruben Natal-San Miguel: Nature Finds A Way, Wave Hill
Ruben Natal-San Miguel in Uptown Triennial 2023, Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University
Ruben Natal-San Miguel: Women R Beautiful, Postmasters Gallery
NYC: Concrete Jungle at En Foco, Inc.
State of Affairs Panel Discussion at The Center for Photography at Woodstock, CPW
Balloons, Fitchburg Art Museum
WE:AMEricans, Station Independent Projects
Publications
HARLEM by Ruben Natal-San Miguel, 2019, Kris Graves Projects
Excesiva Fotofobia, 2015, at Printed Matter