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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260211T180000
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SUMMARY:CAA Public Lecture: David Antonio Cruz (Galleries Closed)
DESCRIPTION:Join Cranbrook Academy of Art at deSalle Auditorium for a free\
 , public lecture with David Antonio Cruz on Wednesday\, February 11\, 2026
 \, at 6pm. Please enter through the Cranbrook Academy of Art Library\; Cra
 nbrook Art Museum’s galleries close at 5pm.\nDavid Antonio Cruz is an in
 terdisciplinary artist working in painting\, drawing\, performance\, and s
 ite-specific installations. Drawing on a mix of queer discourse\, fashion\
 , history\, and pop culture\, his work interrogates Western traditions of 
 representation and invites subjects to pose as a form of resistance and pl
 ay\, queering the act of posing. Cruz's recent solo exhibitions include "s
 tay\, take your time\, my love" at ICA San Francisco (2025)\; "hauntme" at
  Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art (2025)\; and "When The Children Come
  Home" at ICA Philadelphia (2023).\nHis work has been included in notable 
 group exhibitions at the ICA Boston\, Newark Museum of Art\, The Block Mus
 eum of Art at Northwestern University\, the Smithsonian National Portrait 
 Gallery\, El Museo del Barrio\, the Ford Foundation\, the Brooklyn Museum\
 , McNay Art Museum\, and the Kemper Art Museum. Forthcoming solo exhibitio
 ns include the Wave Hill Gardens Museum\, Bronx\, NY (2026).\nRecent resid
 encies and fellowships include Joan Mitchell Artist-in-Residence\, New Orl
 eans\, LA (2025)\; Latinx Artist Fellowship (2025)\; Anderson Ranch Arts C
 enter\, Snowmass Village\, CO (2025\; 2024)\; the Joan Mitchell Foundation
  Painters &amp\; Sculptors Award (2018)\; Neubauer Faculty Fellowship\, Tu
 fts University\, Boston (2018)\; BRIC Workspace Residency\, Brooklyn (2018
 )\; Gateway Project Spaces\, Newark\, NJ (2016)\; and the LMCC Workspace R
 esidency\, New York (2015). Cruz is a 2025 Outwin Boochever National Portr
 ait Competition prizewinner. Cruz lives and works in New York City\, where
  he is the Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University.
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CATEGORIES:Lectures + Talks
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