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David Antonio Cruz: Meet the Artist

When

Sat, May 16, 2026 2:00PM – 3:00PM

Where

Glyndor Gallery

Price

Free

with admission to the grounds

Join us for an artist-led exhibition walk-through in Glyndor Gallery. David Antonio Cruz will discuss the paintings, drawings, and installations he has on view in his solo exhibition. In conversation with Director of Arts and Chief Curator Gabriel de Guzman, Cruz will describe his creative process and the themes he is engaging in his work. At this event, we will also be celebrating the publication of the catalogue for this exhibition, which will be available to visitors for free.

Meet the Artist is an ongoing series of conversations between exhibiting artists, the curatorial team, and sometimes invited guests at Wave Hill. The program offers visitors, the artist community, and others an opportunity to hear from the artist and gain deeper insight into their work.

Glyndor Gallery is wheelchair-accessible. There is an accessible, ground-level entrance at the front of the building with an elevator that provides access to the gallery level. The Sunroom Project Space can be accessed with an ADA-compliant ramp. The restroom on the gallery level is all-gender and ADA-compliant.

David Antonio Cruz

David Antonio Cruz

David Antonio Cruz is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting, drawing, performance, and site-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 play, queering the act of posing. Cruz's recent solo exhibitions include stay, 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 the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA (2023). His work has been included in notable group exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston, MA; Newark Museum of Art, NJ; The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Everson, IL; the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY; the Ford Foundation, New York, NY; the Brooklyn Museum, NY; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX; and the Kemper Art Museum, Kansas City, MO. Recent residencies and fellowships include Joan Mitchell Artist-in-Residence, New Orleans, LA (2025); Latinx Artist Fellowship (2025); Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO (2025, 2024); the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Award (2018); Neubauer Faculty Fellowship, Tufts University, Boston, MA (2018); BRIC Workspace Residency, Brooklyn, NY (2018); Gateway Project Spaces, Newark, NJ (2016); and the LMCC Workspace Residency, New York, NY (2015). Cruz is a 2025 Outwin Boochever National Portrait Competition prizewinner. Cruz lives and works in New York City, where he is the Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University. He earned a BFA from Pratt Institute and an MFA from Yale University.