Lizania Cruz (she/her) is a Dominican participatory artist and designer interested in how systemic issues, mythmaking, historiography, and language shape our understanding of otherness and belonging. Through research, oral history, and audience engagement, she develops projects that expand and share pluralistic narratives on migration.
Cruz is a 2024–2025 Latinx Artist Fellow with the US Latinx Art Forum and was the recipient of the 2023 New York City Artadia Award. That same year, The Shed commissioned her installation Evidence 071: Frederick Douglass and the Commission of Inquiry for Open Call 2023. In 2021, she participated in ESTAMOS BIEN: LA TRIENAL 20/21 at El Museo del Barrio, the institution’s first national survey of Latinx artists, and in 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone at the Aldrich Museum. She has presented solo exhibitions at A.I.R. Gallery, CUE Art Foundation, the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), Alma Lewis, and Proxyco Gallery. Her work has also been shown at the Sharjah Design Biennale, ICA VCU, Vancouver Art Gallery, Brooklyn Museum, Untitled Art Miami Beach, NADA Miami, The High Line, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and more.
She has participated in numerous residencies and fellowships, including Yaddo, Saratoga Springs (2024); Fundación Ama Amoedo, Uruguay (2023); ISCP (2022); Planet Texas 2050 Artist Residency, University of Texas (2022); Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in Visual Arts (2021–2022); Artists Circle on Climate Displacement Fellowship, Institute of Othering and Belonging, UC Berkeley (2021); Center for Book Arts (2020–2021); BRIClab: Contemporary Art (2020–2021); A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship (2020–2021); Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Studio Immersion Project (2019); Stoneleaf Retreat (2019); IdeasCity, New Museum (2019); Recess Session (2019); Laundromat Project Create Change Fellowship (2017–2019); Design Trust for Public Space (2018); and Agora Collective, Berlin (2018).
Her work has been featured in Hyperallergic, Fuse News, KQED Arts, Dazed Magazine, Garage Magazine, and The New York Times.
︎ info@lizania.com
︎ @lizaniacruz
Cruz is a 2024–2025 Latinx Artist Fellow with the US Latinx Art Forum and was the recipient of the 2023 New York City Artadia Award. That same year, The Shed commissioned her installation Evidence 071: Frederick Douglass and the Commission of Inquiry for Open Call 2023. In 2021, she participated in ESTAMOS BIEN: LA TRIENAL 20/21 at El Museo del Barrio, the institution’s first national survey of Latinx artists, and in 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone at the Aldrich Museum. She has presented solo exhibitions at A.I.R. Gallery, CUE Art Foundation, the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), Alma Lewis, and Proxyco Gallery. Her work has also been shown at the Sharjah Design Biennale, ICA VCU, Vancouver Art Gallery, Brooklyn Museum, Untitled Art Miami Beach, NADA Miami, The High Line, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and more.
She has participated in numerous residencies and fellowships, including Yaddo, Saratoga Springs (2024); Fundación Ama Amoedo, Uruguay (2023); ISCP (2022); Planet Texas 2050 Artist Residency, University of Texas (2022); Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in Visual Arts (2021–2022); Artists Circle on Climate Displacement Fellowship, Institute of Othering and Belonging, UC Berkeley (2021); Center for Book Arts (2020–2021); BRIClab: Contemporary Art (2020–2021); A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship (2020–2021); Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Studio Immersion Project (2019); Stoneleaf Retreat (2019); IdeasCity, New Museum (2019); Recess Session (2019); Laundromat Project Create Change Fellowship (2017–2019); Design Trust for Public Space (2018); and Agora Collective, Berlin (2018).
Her work has been featured in Hyperallergic, Fuse News, KQED Arts, Dazed Magazine, Garage Magazine, and The New York Times.
︎ info@lizania.com
︎ @lizaniacruz
Photo by Manolo Salas
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