b. 1998, New York, NY
Lives and works in New Haven, CT
EDUCATION
2023 MFA, Yale University, School of Art, Painting/Printmaking, New Haven (US)
2016–2020 BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Interdisciplinary Sculpture, Minor in Critical Theory, Baltimore (US)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
NADA Miami, EMBAJADA, Miami, FL
2023
Hound, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (DE)
2022
Woodland Sermon, HOUSING NY, New York (US)
One Morning Soon, Embajada, San Juan (PR)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum, New York, NY
2025
Code Switch: Distributing Blackness, Reprogramming Internet Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (US)
Undermining The Immediacy, MMK Frankfurt (DE)
2024
dwell in me, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (DE) Nexus, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (DE)
2023
Teen Art Salon: A Protospective, MoMA PS1, New York (US)
The Last Great Painting, Martos Gallery, New York (US)
Of Orchids and Wasps, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (DE)
2022
These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things, Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
Light Whispers, HOUSING NY, New York (US)
Solar Time Ritual, Control the Virus Vol 03, online exhibition
2021
Mas damas, damas, damas, damas, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee Curated by Embajada (US)
A Gathering, HOUSING NY, New York (US)
Embajada’s 5th Anniversary Exhibition: documento, Embajada, San Juan (PR)
2020
BFA Student Show, Serving the People, online exhibition
Decameron 7, New Release Gallery, New York, online exhibition
2019
Face Value, The Parlour Gallery, Baltimore (US) Conditioning Leather, Bronx Art Space, New York (US)
2018 Retrospective, Pfizer Factory Building, New York (US) 2017 Intermission/Intervention/Interruption, RISD Museum Guild, Providence (US)
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2025
Rema Hort Mann Fund Emerging Artist Grant (US)
2022
Black Space Residency x Mare Residency, San Francisco (US)
2019 GO-A: Goya Opportunity Award
2016–2020 MICA Dean’s List Creative Vision Award MICA, Baltimore (US)
SELECTED PRESS
2024 Alex Greenberger, Taína Cruz’s Eerie Paintings Merge Gritty Realism and Haunting Spirituality, Art in America, November 2024
Antoine Clauss, City Kid Sees Beyond Between, Arcane, April 2024 2023
Max L. Feldman, No Escaping the Nastiness: Taína Cruz’s Portraits in the Age of the Selfie, Elephant, December, 2023
Charlotte Youkilis, In Conversation: Taína Cruz, Speciwoman, June 2023 2022
Murrel, V., Why Chicago’s art scene is thriving, Dazed, April 2022 Taína Cruz, Cyberfeminism Index, Taking from her the power that she could not hold, 2022 2021
Francesca Altamura, Control the Virus, Solar Time Ritual Interview, September 2021 2020
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Taína Cruz, Zaiba Jabbar (HERVISIONS) and BORA MICROCOSME, Her Visions at LUX, Out of Touch Panel Discussion, 2020
Diana Eusebio, Taína Cruz for MIRROR, 2020
Claire Banse, How to Exhibit at the Biggest Online BFA Student Show, PaperMag, May 2020 2019
Michael Anthony Farley, Friday Gallery Roundup: The Parlour, Mono Practice, ICA Baltimore, BmoreArt, October 2019