Early Career
Muniz arrived in New York in 1983 and worked as a framer. He also took theatre and scenography classes at the New School and the New York University. A friend lent him a studio, where he started his career as a sculptor, which led him to his first solo exhibit in 1988. He began experimenting with drawing and photography, ultimately combining these media in a series of images he made of families that worked on sugar plantations on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts. Beginning with Polaroids of several of the children of plantation workers, Muniz "drew" their images with sprinkled sugar and rephotographed these compositions. The finished work was included in the Museum of Modern Art's "New Photography" exhibit in 1997.
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