Lizania Cruz (she/her) is a Dominican
participatory artist, and designer interested in how migration affects
ways of being & belonging. Through research, oral history, and
audience participation, she creates projects that highlight a
pluralistic narrative on migration. Cruz has been an artist-in-residence
and fellow at the Laundromat Project Create Change (2017-2019), Agora
Collective Berlin (2018), Design Trust for Public Space (2018), Recess
Session (2019), IdeasCity:New Museum (2019), Stoneleaf Retreat (2019),
Robert Blackburn Workshop Studio Immersion Project (SIP) (2019), A.I.R.
Gallery (2020-2021), BRIClab: Contemporary Art (2020-2021), Center for
Book Arts (2020-2021), Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, Visual Arts
(2021-2022), Artists Circle on Climate Displacement Fellowship,
Institute of Othering and Belonging, Berkeley University (2021), Planet
Texas 2050 Artist Resident — University of Texas (2022), and
International Studio & Curatorial Program, ISCP (2022).
Her work has been exhibited at the Arlington Arts Center,
BronxArtSpace, Project for Empty Space, Oolite Art Center, Jenkins
Johnson Project Space, The August Wilson Center, Sharjah’s First Design
Biennale, Untitled, Art Miami Beach, The Highline, Bemis Center for
Contemporary Arts among others. She has presented solo shows at A.I.R.
Gallery and CUE Art Foundation. Most recently she was part of ESTAMOS
BIEN: LA TRIENAL 20/21 at el Museo del Barrio, the first national survey
of Latinx artists by the institution. Furthermore, her artworks and
installations have been featured in Hyperallergic, Fuse News, KQED arts,
Dazed Magazine, Garage Magazine and the New York Times.
