David Antonio Cruz

David Antonio Cruz (amụrụ 1974) bụ onye na-ese ihe na-arụ ọrụ na eserese, eserese, vidiyo na arụmọrụ.  A maara Cruz nke ọma maka eserese uche ya na-ejikọta ihe atụ, abstraction, na collage.[1]  E gosipụtara ọrụ ya n'ọtụtụ ebe, gụnyere El Museo del Barrio, na Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, ma nyekwa ya ọtụtụ mkpakọrịta.[2]  Cruz bi ma na-arụ ọrụ na New York City. 

## Ndụ mmalite na agụmakwụkwọ
Cruz bụ onye omenkà Puerto Rican tụọnụ na Philadelphia .  Mgbe ọ dị afọ iri na ndụ, Cruz kwagara Brooklyn, New York ịga Pratt Institute .  Ọgara Bachelor of Fine Arts na Painting na Pratt na 1998. Ọ gara n'ihu nwere ikike Masters of Fine Art in Painting and Printmaking na Mahadum Yale .  Cruz gara ụlọ akwụkwọ Skowhegan maka ihe na ihe ọkpụkpụ na mmemme AIM na Bronx Museum na 2006.

A zụlitere Cruz n'ụlọ Puerto Rican ọdịnala. "Mgbe m tolitere, abụ m nwa nwoke dị jụụ, edebekwara m onwe m. M na-etinye oge m ịse, eserese na ime ihe. Agba bụ ụzọ kachasị mma m nwere ike isi kwupụta onwe m. Ọ naghị adị m ka m na-ekwu okwu ma ọ bụ ide ihe." 

"Dịka m nwere ike icheta, echeghị m na e nwere oge m na-ewereghị onwe m dị ka onye na-ese ihe. Ọ bụ naanị ihe m nwere ike icheta. M na-echeta na ụlọ akwụkwọ elementrị, m ga-eji oge ezumike m n'ime ụlọ nkà., M si na klaasị pụta n'isi ụtụtụ gaa n'ọnụ ụlọ nka ma onye nkuzi ụlọ m nyere m ntaramahụhụ kacha mma site n'ime ka m pụta n'èzí ka ọ bụrụ egwu. 

Na Philadelphia na New York, a naghị agbagha njirimara ya, mana, n'oge ngosi mbụ ya na Puerto Rico, a na-ekwu David dị ka onye na-ese ihe "onye mba ọzọ". O juru ya anya kpamkpam. "Ọ dị m ka anọghị m ebe a ma ọ bụ ebe ahụ." 

## Ọrụ
Cruz abụghị naanị na-akpali ókè nke mgbasa ozi nka nka, kamakwa ụzọ ndị na-ese ihe nwere ike isi nọchite anya oghere uche metụtara njem . Ọrụ Cruz na-anọchi anya ndụ ezinụlọ ndị ahụ na-akwaga mba ọzọ hapụrụ ala nna ha, nọrọ, ma ọ bụ laghachi azụ wee kewaa n'etiti ebe abụọ. 

N'ime omume ya, ọ na-ndị vidiyo, eji ejiji, na-egosi, na usoro iji na kọwapụta queerness, diasporic, nke uche, na ebe na- agbanwe agbanwe mgbe niile.  [1] E ihe ihe osise ya na El Museo del Barrio, Bronx Museum of Arts, Jersey City Museum, Museo de Puerto Rico, na veranda dị iche iche.  O gosikwara na Lehmann Maupin, Islip Art Museum, Momenta Art, na Performa 13. [2] Ọ bụ onye bi na 2015 na Gateway Project Spaces.  [3] E sere ihe nkiri ya na Big Screen Project, Anthology Film Archives, Arte Americas, El Museo del Barrio, na nrụnye dị iche na Philadelphia, Chapel Hill, Los Angeles, na Miami .

El Museo del Barrio nyere Cruz ọrụ na Nkwado sitere na Franklin Furnace Fund Opera .  E taka ọrụ a dị ka nke Performa 13, ọ pịa ndị na-eme ihe nkiri iri atọ, ndị na-eme ihe nkiri iri, onye na-agụ opera, onye na-agụ jazz, na obere m mini ndị .  Ndị na-ese ihe bụ Elia Alba na Mickalene Thomas sokwa na mmemme ahụ.  Ọrụ ahụ, dị ka onye na-ese ihe, nwere ike izi uche.  Cruz, "Abụ m eze ihe nkiri na ihe nkiri mgbaghara maka ya."  Sasha Dees, na-egosi akwụkwọ ARC, kwuru, sị, "Ọ bụ ọtụtụ ihe ị ga-abanye, mgbe ụfọdụ na-agbagwoju anya na ọgụ mbụ. Efere ndị gbajiri agbaji, ihe onyonyo zoro ezo n'azụ nnukwu chọkọletị na agba.  ọcha, ụgbọ elu akwụkwọ na-adịghị emebi emebi, oche, uwe mwụda oge, na iko dị n'ime akpụkpọ ụkwụ ikiri ụkwụ dị elu na- , oriri ya na mkpu, eg opera, na achị ọchị  ] Kọmịshọna nke abụọ Bronx Council na Arts ka ha weghachi ọrụ ahụ, Piano Piece (nke emere na 2008 na Gọvanọ School for Arts na Norfolk, Virginia ), maka Longwood Art Gallery sochiri ọrụ a na 2014. 

Mgbe afọ ahụ gasịrị, a gụnyere ihe osise ya na ihe ngosi ogologo afọ, Portraiture Now: Staging The Self, na Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery na Washington D.C.

Cruz “jiri ndị, vidiyo, ihe ọkpụkpụ, na ịwe ejiji wee pụta nke ndị mba ọzọ”, na-eme nchọpụta “nke emechibidoro” mgbe ọ na- ndị “Mbu-ịga Puerto Rican”.  O dere, sị, "Site n'ụdị dị iche iche nke ọhụrụ na ndị a ezera, dị ka enamel, gold-leaf, china, uwe ndị nwere na akwa akwa, m na-ekpuchi ihe ọrụ m ma na-ewuli elu.  ha n'ịgbalẹ ime ka anụ ahụ na-ahụ anya, iji ejiji ya., ma ohere oghere ebe ọ dị ma m na-ada ụgbọ n'elu ụgbọ ma ọ bụ onye ihe osise na-ese na chocolate, m na-eji  seduction mee ka onye na-ekiri ya ndị na-ama kparịta ihe a na-enye mgbe ọ na-ekpuchi ihe ndị mara nke ọma." 

Onye na-ese ihe na-ehota "ụwa echiche efu nke Dorothy's Oz na ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị nke Maria's West Side Story" na-ekwu na "akụkọ nke onwe, ihe omume America na akụkọ ihe mere eme, ihe nkiri kpochapụwo, na ejiji" na-akwado ọrụ ya.  Na mgbakwunye, ọ “kọwagharịrị[s] akụkọ ihe mere eme a na-adịghị ahụ anya” nke “ndị na-akwaga mba ọzọ na anụ ahụ dị egwu.

1hie, na ejiji" kwadoro ọrụ ya. Na mgbakwunye, ọ “kọwagharịrị[s] akụkọ ndị a na-adịghị ahụ anya” nke “ndị na-akwaga aAwdd,qmba ọzọ na ahụ ndị mmụọ”. 

.Onye na-ese ihe na-ehota "ụwa efu nke Dorothy's Oz na ndị soja nke Maria's West Side Story " na-ekwu na "onye nke onwe, ihe omume America

## Ihe ngosi na onyinye

* 2018 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Award
* 2018 BRICworkspace obibi, Brooklyn, NY
* Ọrụ 2016 maka onye na-ese ihe efu na ebe obibi, Newark, NJ 
* 2015 LMCC Workspace, New York, NY
* 2013 Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
* 2011 Urban Artist Initiative Award, New York, NY
* 2009 Yale Summer School of Art na Norfolk Fellowship Award, Norfolk, CT
* 2006 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship Grant Award, Madison, ME
* 2006 Onye na-ese ihe n'ọma ahịa, Bronx Museum of Arts, Bronx, NY 

## Isi mmalite

## Njikọ mpụga

* DavidAntonioCruz.com

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