Current & Upcoming Exhibitions:
ICA San Francisco: stay, take your time, my love.
May 16–December 7, 2025
Opening May 2025 is stay, take your time, my love, site-specific solo exhibition by David Antonio Cruz, including newly commissioned paintings and drawings created in response to the queer histories of San Francisco.
ICA Boston: Portraits from the ICA Collection
Jan 25, 2025 – Jan 4, 2026
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art: Haunt Me
Opening Reception: Friday, April 11, 2025
Sugar Hill Museum of Art: When The Children Come Home
Opening Reception: September 10th, 2024
Newark Museum of Art.: The Spanish Caribbean Body" in Seeing America: 20th & 21st Century.
Seeing America encourages an expanded view of American art that looks beyond geographical boundaries and conventional approaches to American art. Ten thematic galleries place Latin American, Latinx, Asian American, African American, and Indigenous art within the context of major schools and movements of the 20th and 21st century.
Ongoing: Summer and Fall 2024
PAST EXHIBITIONS
Monique Meloche Gallery: Come Close, Like Before
Monique Meloche Gallery.
Opening Reception is on Friday, September 13th, 2024
Ulrich Museum of Art: [RE]POSE: Leisure Bodies and Empowered Postures
July 29, 2024 — December 7, 2024
Tufts University Art Galleries: Portrait as Place / Place as Portraiture
Sep 5 – Dec 11
Portrait as Place / Place as Portraiture is organized in gratitude to our newest collections group who made a number of these recent acquisitions possible—the TUAG Acquisition Committee (TAC). Founded by generous supporters, TAC is invested in diversifying TUAG’s permanent collection to reflect our community by actively purchasing artworks by BIPOC, women, and LGBTQ+ artists.
Featuring artwork by David Antonio Cruz, Julia Csekö, Gonzalo Fuenmayor, Dell Hamilton, Annette Lemieux, Helina Metaferia, Evelyn Rydz, Lorna Simpson, Taravat Talapesand, Margaret Rose Vendryes, and Suara Welitoff.
Zuckerman Museum: {UNDER}flow
A Group Exhibition celebrating the work of four Afro-Caribbean Artists: Josué Azor, Firelei Báez, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, David Antonio Cruz, and Didier William
August 29 – December 9, 2023
Curated by Cynthia Nourse Thompson
Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección
May 19, 2023–March 10, 2024
El Museo del Barrio
New York, NY
ICA PHILADELPHIA: WHEN THE CHILDREN COME HOME
August 18- December 17th
When the Children Come Home is the first major solo presentation of David Antonio Cruz’s work in Philadelphia—and also the first in his hometown. The title signifies his collaboration with Monique Long, the exhibition’s curator, and their shared origins in North Philadelphia. The exhibition includes paintings, drawings, sculptures, and performances created from 2004 to present, with an installation produced especially for ICA.
so you are back again, you are here, and we are here with you.
Galleria Poggiali, Milan
Foro Buonaparte, 52, 20121 Milano March 23, 2023 thru May 2023
Public Opening: Thursday, March 23rd
Neo Chicago
The Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection presented by The Peninsula Chicago.
Curated by Laura Dvorkin and Maynard Monrow
April 14, 2023 through May 2023.
The Armory Show | Monique Meloche Gallery | Solo Project | Booth 12
Curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates
PREVIEW: Thursday, Sept 8th PUBLIC: Friday Sept 9th - Sunday, Sept 11th
ICA Boston: A Place For Me
Mar 30 – Sep 5, 2022
ICA Boston | 25 Harbor Shore Dr, Boston, MA 02210
Curated by Ruth Erickson.
Eyes of the Skin
June 9 – August 12, 2022
Lehmann Maupin Gallery | 501 West 24th Street. New York, NY
Curated by artist Teresita Fernández.
New England Triennial 2022
April 8 – September 11, 2022
Elegies: Still Lifes in Contemporary Art.
Museum of the African Diaspora | 685 Mission St, San Francisco
Curated by Monique Long.
Kemper Art Museum: American Portraiture
Sept 10 - Jan 23, 2022
Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis
STUDIO News:
Joan Mitchell Center Artists-in-Residence
We are pleased to announce the selection of 35 artists to participate in residencies at the Foundation’s Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans this year. The 2025 cohort includes a dynamic group of 21 artists from across the United States participating alongside 14 artists local to New Orleans, and divided into Spring, Summer, and Fall sessions.
In Conversation: David Antonio Cruz & Monique Long
at Sugar Hill Museum.
Thursday, January 30th at 6PM
OBSERVER:
Artist David Antonio Cruz
Celebrates Joy Over
Trauma With Images of
Human Connection
By Elisa Carollo
HYPERALLERGIC:
12 Art Shows to See in
Chicago This Fall
More about the curator Monique Long and her projects.
Figurative Painting: Creating Symbols and Narrative Workshop at Anderson Ranch Art Center.
Aug 4 - 8, 2025
NY Times: When the Children Come Home:
What to do in New York City in November.
Anderson Ranch Art Center: Visiting Artist
David Antonio Cruz uses painting and performance to explore the visibility and intersectionality of brown, black, and queer bodies. Cruz lives and works in New York City, where he is the Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University.
When the Children Come Home | ICA Philadelphia
Installation Images
Exhibition Catalog: so you are back again, you are here, and we are here with you.
Galleria Poggiali, Milan.
Press: The Guardian
“Chosen family are the folks that love you undeniably, unconditionally,” artist David Antonio Cruz tells the Guardian. “They don’t come with restrictions or rules.” He’s been thinking about chosen family a lot lately, as his new solo show at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania is all about tracing his steps back to the non-biological family that has nurtured him.
Family Portrait Day at ICA Philadelphia
Saturday, December 16th & Sunday, December 17th.
Join us for a special photo session with the artist, David Antonio Cruz. Check back for link to sign up.
Performance:
green,howiwantyougreen
Poetry Foundation in Chicago on Saturday, November 4th at 2 p.m.
green,howiwantyougreen is an experimental operatic performance piece based on the last 11 poems by the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, Sonnets of Dark Love, which were banned for 50 years following his assassination in 1936. Featuring four voices, a reader, and a musician, the bilingual Spanish and English libretto fuses references to popular culture, queer slang, and Latino and Black gay culture to explore love and desire in dark places.
The performance will be followed by a talkback with Carla Acevado-Yates.
In Conversation: David Antonio Cruz & Monique Long
NOV 8, 2023, 6PM
Exhibiting artist David Antonio Cruz and guest curator Monique Long reflect on the process for creating When the Children Come Home – a momentous survey exhibition of Cruz’s work on view at ICA through December 17th. Expanding on their decade-long collaboration, Long and Cruz will discuss ideas of chosen family, queer possibility, and the importance of North Philadelphia to both of their practices. The artist and curator will be joined in conversation by Edwin Ramoran, independent curator and curatorial fellow at Desert X.
Performance:
green,howiwantyougreen
ICA Philadelphia on Sunday, October 22nd at 2 p.m.
Green is performed by David Antonio Cruz, Jennifer Jade Ledesna, Diego Carvajal Peñaranda, Lisa Strum, and musicians Daniel de Jesus and Samuel Thompson. The text is written by David Antonio Cruz with music by Daniel de Jesus.
Awarded the Mass Cultural Council’s Artist Fellowship.
Mass Cultural Council is honored to announce the Fiscal Year 2022 Artist Fellowship awards in Drawing & Printmaking, Fiction/Creative Nonfiction, and Painting.
Virtual Exhibition Walkthrough - David Antonio Cruz: icutfromthemiddletogetabetterslice
Monique Meloche Gallery 451 N Paulina Street | Chicago, IL 60622
Jibaro Series
Works from 2004 to 2006.
Radical Figuration in the Spirit of Alice Neel and Robert Henri: a conversation with David Antonio Cruz
Watch a conversation with David Antonio Cruz on the occasion of the exhibition Alice Neel: People Come First, which features a comparative painting by Robert Henri (1865–1929), who taught at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, where Neel herself studied decades later.
Recorded on May 19, 2021
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UPCOMING ARTIST CONVERSATIONS
Kemper Art Museum at St Louis | SL Oct 23 2021
Transart Institute | NY Oct 27, 2021
Past Conversations:
University of Wisconsin Peck School of the Arts | Oct 2021
Gage Academy of Art, Seattle | May 2021
Anderson Ranch Arts Center
Painting the Figure through the Lens of Politics & History Workshop
SUMMER 2022
This workshop for advanced painters explores the fundamental properties of figurative painting and portraiture through the lens of political and historical gestures and poses.
Diálogos: A conversation with
Rodrigo Moura, Chief Curator at El Museo del Barrio
National Portrait Gallery Presents a Conversation with Artists Antonius-Tín Bui and David Antonio Cruz
Portrait Gallery Curator Taína Caragol will moderate the discussion via Zoom on Tuesday, January 12 at 5PM