CYNTHIA CRUZ
Born in Miami, FL
Lives and works in Miami
EDUCATION
MFA at Goldsmiths University of London, UK
BFA at New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL
Solo and 2 person shows
2019
Faces Faeces,Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London, UK
2015
The Girl Who Ate All Her Hair, Goldsmiths studio award show ACME project space, Judges David Batchelor, Adriana Paice, Richard Noble and Jonathan Harvey, London, UK
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
(upcoming) Imago Mundi, Benetton Collection curated by Pernilla Holmes, London, UK
2019
Elephant Lab Residency, Elephant studios, London, UK
Group exhibition curated by Kirsty Maffioli, The Scalpel Building, London, UK
2018
Art on a postcard auction, Hepatitis C Trust, London, UK
The Strangeness Will Wear Off (Art Basel 2018), David Castillo Gallery, Miami, Fl
Summer Hots, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
Interior fiction (curated by Julia Alexander Bates), The vast lab, Los Angeles, CA
SSFX Space sounds film screening, (GROK), Queen Mary University, London UK
2017
NSWA Alumni Art Auction, Faena Forum, Miami, FL
Electric Spectra, (GROK), ASC Gallery, London UK
Domain of Sensible Knowledge, ASC Gallery, London UK
Eye Catcher Big Screen Southend (GROK), Focal Point Gallery, London, UK
2016
Griffin Art Prize, Griffin Gallery curated by Judges Becca Pelly-Fry, Vicky Wright, Rebecca Lewin and Jenny Lindén Urnes, London, UK
Myth Material curated by Cynthia Cruz and Stephanie Moran, TAP (Temporary Arts Project), Southend, UK
2015
Liminal Space Residency, Temporary Arts Project, Southend, UK
Transmetric, Lewisham Art House, London, UK
Slideluck Miami II Curated by José Carlos Diaz, Bass Museum, Miami, FL
2014
Goldsmiths MFA Show, Goldsmiths University, London, UK
2013
Shortlisted (1st round) Bloomberg New Contemporaries, London, UK
2012
Situation Range, Legal Art, Miami, FL
2011
Art Basel, Casa Lin, Miami, FL
Wynwood Art Fair, Miami, FL
Smash and Grab Fundraiser, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
Mission Impossible, Little River Yacht Club, Miami, FL
80 Inches of Art, NWSA Alumni Art Auction, Sagamore Hotel, Miami, FL
Abe's Penny, Artseen, Miami, FL
Collections (The End), BFI, Miami, FL
2010
Art Basel, Walgreens Window commissioned by the Bass Museum, Miami, FL
Art Basel, Casa Lin, Curated by Fred Snitzer, Miami, FL
Smash and Grab Fundraiser, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
DCG Open, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
2009
Art Basel, Casa Lin, Miami, FL
Bindings, New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL
Smash and Grab Fundraiser, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
Optic Nerve, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
Drawings and Paintings, Artseen, Miami, FL
Arte Americas, Miami, FLScreenings (Experimental Films), Artseen, Miami, FL
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Workshops
2016
Whitechapel Gallery, Digital painting Workshop, London, UK
Curatorial
2017
Domain of Sensible Knowledge curated by Cynthia Cruz and Stephanie Moran, ASC Gallery, London UK
Electric Spectra curated by Cynthia Cruz and Stephanie Moran, ASC Gallery, London UK
2016
Myth Material curated by Cynthia Cruz and Stephanie Moran, TAP (Temporary
Arts Project), Southend, UK
Myth Material Artist talks with artist Alastair MackInven and writer Josephine
Berry, Southend, UK
Collaborations
GROK (on going collaboration with musician Simon Howlett from thenoisebeforewesleep)
AWARDS / SCHOLARSHIPS / RESIDENCIES
2019 - 2019 Elephant Lab Residency
2014 - 2015 Acme Goldsmiths MFA Studio Award
2009 - 2010 Douglas Turner Grant
2009 - 2010 New World School of the Arts Honors Program
2006 - 2009 New World School of the Arts Scholarship
2005 - 2006 Frances Wolfson Scholarship
Selected Bibliography
Benson, Louise. "Monsters and Aliens Roam Free in the Sci Fi World of Cynthia Cruz". Elephant.art, February 19, 2019
Preece, Robert. "London Calling? Exploring the overseas MFA option - A conversation with Cynthia Cruz". artdesigncafe.com,Sept 17, 2018
Laugh Magazine, (issue 3), laugh-magazine.com,2017
Floor Magazine, floorrmagazine.com, February 09, 2017
Mothes, Kate. young-space.com, January 06, 2017
Clarendon, Emma. “REVIEW: Griffin Art Prize Exhibition, Griffin Gallery” Lovelondonloveculture.com, Nov 24,2016
Brewer, Jenny. “Griffin Art Prize shortlist reveals a female-heavy line-up of emerging contemporary artists” Itsnicethat.com, Oct 10, 2016
Warren, Caitlin. “Women take the lead in the Griffin Art Prize shortlist” Spindlemagazine.com, Oct 10, 2016
Hutchinson, Jack. “The week’s top exhibitions” a-n.co.uk, Nov 9, 2015
Maraffio,Costanza. “ Art and Provocation: Intellectual Stimulation or Bad Taste?” Thevoiceoflondon.co.uk, Nov 06, 2015
Folgar, Abel. “Artist Cynthia Cruz takes on Silver Hollow’s Four” Tuffgnarl.com, April 21, 2014
“Long live transfinite mountains, the hollow earth, time machines, fractal writing, aliens, dada, telepathy, flying saucers, warped space, teleportation, artificial reality, robots, pod people, hylozoism, endless shrinking, intelligent goo, antigravity, surrealism, software highs, two-dimensional time, gnarly computation, the art of photo composition, pleasure zappers, nanomachines, mind viruses, hyperspace, monsters from the deep and, of course, always and forever, the attack of the giant ants!”
― Rudy Rucker