Date & time
Thursday, October 30, 2025
6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.
6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Studio arts, Arts & culture
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David Antonio Cruz
Conversations in Contemporary Art Series
Cost
This event is free.
Contact
Where
Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex
1515 St. Catherine W.
York Amphitheatre
Room 1.605
Accessible location
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Image courtesy of David Antonio Cruz
In this lecture, David Antonio Cruz will discuss his work across painting, drawing, performance, and site-specific installation over the last 25 years, focusing on the relationships between portraiture, queer discourse, fashion, history, and popular culture.
Seating is first-come, first-served and everyone is welcome.
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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 has exhibited at ICA San Francisco, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, ICA Philadelphia, ICA Boston, Newark Museum of Art, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, El Museo del Barrio, the Ford Foundation, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Kemper Art Museum. He was a 2025 Latinx Artist Fellow and has completed residencies at Joan Mitchell, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and Villa Bergerie Art. Cruz lives and works in New York City.
Conversations in Contemporary Art is a free event series sponsored by Concordia University's Studio Arts MFA Program. The series provides a unique opportunity to hear artists, designers, critics, writers, educators, and curators share their practice(s) and perspectives.