Sunday, June 29, at 12pm
A.I.R. Gallery (155 Plymouth Street)
Join us on Sunday, June 29, at 12pm for an Artist Walkthrough with A.I.R. New York Artist Lizania Cruz, 2024–2025 A.I.R. Fellow Stephanie Santana, and 2024–2025 Louise H. McCagg Fellow Caroline Garcia in conjunction with their solo exhibitions currently on view at A.I.R. Gallery.
Lizania Cruz (she/her) (b. 1983) is a Dominican participatory artist and designer interested in how systems of oppression, mythmaking, and historiography shape our understanding of otherness and belonging. Through research, oral history, and audience engagement, she creates projects that expand and highlight pluralistic narratives in the public sphere. Cruz is a 2024-2025 Fellow with US Latinx Art Forum and in 2023 she received the New York City Artadia Award. A commissioned installation was presented by The Shed’s Open Call program in 2023. She was part of 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone at the Aldrich Museum and ESTAMOS BIEN: LA TRIENAL 20/21, the first national survey of Latinx artists at el Museo del Barrio. Her work has been exhibited at Sharjah’s First Design Biennale, Untitled, Art Miami Beach, The Highline, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and more. She has presented solo shows at A.I.R. Gallery, CUE Art Foundation, International Studio & Curatorial Program, ISCP, Alma Lewis, and Proxyco gallery, and has been featured in Hyperallergic, Fuse News, KQED arts, Dazed Magazine, Garage Magazine, and The New York Times.
Stephanie M. Santana (b. 1984, Los Angeles, CA) constructs mixed media textile works and print editions that explore interior worlds, mythologies, navigational tools, and resistance strategies of African diasporic origins. Rooted in the responsive encounter with archival material while engaging with the expansive traditions of quilting, printmaking, painting and collage, her practice centers an interest in unearthing useful information and alternative spaces of self-definition.
Recent exhibitions include solo presentations Ways of Knowing at The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA (2024) and The Armory Show, New York, NY (2024). Santana’s work has been included in group exhibitions at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN; Textile Arts Center, New York, NY; and John & Robyn Horn Gallery at Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC; among others. Her work is held in permanent collections that include Whitney Museum of American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Getty Research Institute.
Santana is the recipient of a Dieu Donné Workspace Residency (2025), A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship (2024), Ace Hotel Artist Residency with curatorial partner Powerhouse Arts (2024), NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship (2023), and a Kahn/Mason SIP Fellowship with EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (2023). Her work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Hyperallergic, and Pressing Matters.
Santana is a founding member of printmaking collective Black Women of Print. She lives and works in New York.
Caroline Garcia is a 2025-28 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow: Technology Centered Arts, 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow: Digital/Electronic Arts, 2021 New York Artadia Awardee, 2021-22 Franklin Furnace Fund recipient, and the 2018/19 American Australian Association’s AUSART Fellow. She has presented work at The SHED, Lincoln Center, Apexart, Creative Time Summit X & HQ, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Smack Mellon, and The Vera List Center, among others (all NYC); and internationally at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney Opera House, Manila Biennale, Art Central Hong Kong, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Galerie Tanja Wagner, and Salzburger Kunstverein, among others. She was in residence at the EMPAC in 2016/17, The Studios at MASS MoCA in 2019, Pioneer Works (Tech) and the Institute for Electronic Arts (Experimental Projects) in 2021, and was awarded the Edwards Charitable Giving Trust Residency at ISCP in 2020 & 2023. She is a former Recess Session artist for 2021-22, LMCC Workspace artist for 2022-23, and is currently the Louise H. McCagg A.I.R. Fellow for 2024-25. Garcia holds an MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons The New School of Art, Media, and Technology.