Session 1: Lizania Cruz
Monday, May 17, 2021, 9 am EST
Webinar Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87834665716
Webinar ID: 878 3466 5716
Investigation’s Timeline (2019-2021)
In our first session of this series, we will hear from Lizania Cruz, visual artist, and 2020-2021 A.I.R. Fellow. We will learn about her practice that deals with research, archives, and documentation. This talk will be centered around her project "Investigation of the Dominican Racial Imaginary”, the first chapter of which is on view in her solo exhibition In Search of Motives at A.I.R. Gallery from April 23-May 23, 2021.
Lizania Cruz is a Dominican participatory artist, designer, and curator interested in how migration affects ways of being & belonging. Through research, oral history, and audience participation, she creates projects that highlight a pluralistic narrative on migration. Cruz has been an artist-in-residence and fellow at the Laundromat Project Create Change (2017-2019), Agora Collective Berlin (2018), Design Trust for Public Space (2018), Recess Session (2019), IdeasCity:New Museum (2019), Stoneleaf Retreat (2019), Robert Blackburn Workshop Studio Immersion Project (SIP) (2019), A.I.R. Gallery (2020-2021), BRIClab: Contemporary Art (2020-2021), Center for Book Arts (2020-2021), and Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, Visual Arts (2021-2022).
Her work has been exhibited at the Arlington Arts Center, BronxArtSpace, Project for Empty Space, ArtCenter South Florida, Jenkins Johnson Project Space, The August Wilson Center, Sharjah’s First Design Biennale, Untitled, Art Miami, among others. Most recently she is part of ESTAMOS BIEN: LA TRIENAL 20/21 at el Museo del Barrio the first national survey of Latinx artists by the institution. Furthermore, her artworks and installations have been featured in Hyperallergic, Fuse News, KQED arts, Dazed Magazine, Garage Magazine and the New York Times.