FYE’s Contemporary Visual Language Lecture Series presents an artist talk by IS ’20 alum, Taína Cruz.
Taína lives and works in New Haven, CT. Across painting, sculpture, installation, and video, she builds immersive worlds where figures, objects and animals inhabit charged architectural spaces, staging acts of becoming. Drawing on African American and Caribbean traditions and shaped by coming of age within networked image culture, Cruz approaches identity as fluid and iterative. Her work stages moments of transformation where folklore and contemporary visual systems overlap and evolve.
Earlier this year, Taína was the youngest artist to be included in the Whitney Biennial.