Current & Upcoming Exhibitions:
Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way
Buffalo AKG Art Museum. March 6, 2026–September 6, 2026
Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way explores contemporary Latinx artists’ innovations and interventions within established traditions of painting, inviting discussion on a variety of themes and revealing the diversity and expansiveness present within the field. The fifty-eight artists in the exhibition—and those in the Latinx field more broadly—encourage us to interrogate the continued relevance of boundaries, from political borders to disciplinary confines.
PAST 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.
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art: Haunt Me
Opening Reception: Friday, April 11, 2025
ICA Boston: Portraits from the ICA Collection
Jan 25, 2025 – Jan 4, 2026
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
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
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
ICA Boston: A Place For Me
Mar 30 – Sep 5, 2022
ICA Boston | 25 Harbor Shore Dr, Boston, MA 02210
Curated by Ruth Erickson.
STUDIO News:
2025 Latinx Art Fellowship
The 2025 Latinx Art Fellowship cohort was chosen to reflect the broad range of practices and experiences within the Latinx art community. The 2025 Latinx Artist Fellows were selected by a jury from nearly 200 nominees recommended by invited external nominators with Latinx art expertise. The U.S. Latinx Art Forum was formed in 2015 as the only national organization exclusively dedicated to Latinx visual art and art history, and is committed to supporting the creation of a more equitable art world by championing artists and arts professionals dedicated to Latinx art through research, studio practice, pedagogy, and writing.
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.
OBSERVER:
Artist David Antonio Cruz
Celebrates Joy Over
Trauma With Images of
Human Connection
By Elisa Carollo
More about the curator Monique Long and her projects.
NY Times: When the Children Come Home:
What to do in New York City in November.
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.
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.
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.
Jibaro Series
Works from 2004 to 2006.