Patrick Cruz
Individual
Roles
Artist, Curator, EducatorBiography
Patrick Cruz is an artist and educator who considers the role of spirituality, improvisation, intuition, and play as emancipatory tools to reify embedded colonial frameworks and ideologies in art making. Cruz employs meditation, divination, and hypnosis as research methodologies to exhume and retrieve hidden knowledge. His works are informed by the intersections of clown philosophy, magic, and the occult, and its syncretic manifestations and relationship in contemporary life. Most recently, Cruz has been making works using material retrieved from past-life regressions to navigate and side-step cultural and ancestral identity. He received the Thirteen Artist Award in 2021 from the Cultural Center of the Philippines and the 17th RBC Canadian Painting Competition in 2015. He is co-director of the Kamias Triennial with Su-Ying Lee and Karie Liao, a collaborator at Boring Earth with Laila Fox, a member of Ben Flores Fan Club Collective with Christian Vistan, and a member of the Plumb. He is an Assistant Professor, Studio Art in Department of Arts, Culture, and Media at the University of Toronto Scarborough and is cross-appointed at the Master of Visual Studies, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto.Patrick Cruz, 2024
Website
https://www.patrickcruz.org/Related programs
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