Taína H. Cruz
Pixie Theatre
11 SEP – 7 NOV 2026
Opening – 10 SEP 2026, 6–10 pm
Taína H. Cruz, Pollen, 2026 (video still)
Courtesy the artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler Berlin and Munich
Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler is pleased to announce Pixie Theatre, Taína H. Cruz’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.
Taína H. Cruz (b. 1998, New York) lives and works in New Haven. Across painting, sculpture, installation, and video, she builds immersive worlds where figures, objects and animals inhabit charged architectural spaces, staging acts of becoming.
Taína H. Cruz, Breathing comes first, oil on linen, 103 x 123.3 x 2 cm, 2026
Courtesy the artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler Berlin and Munich
Photo: Marjorie Brunet Plaza
Drawing on African American and Caribbean traditions and shaped by coming of age within networked image culture, Cruz approaches identity as fluid and iterative. Her work stages moments of transformation where folklore and contemporary visual systems overlap and evolve.
Relevant exhibitions include MoMA PS1, New York (2026); The Whitney Biennial, New York (2026); Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2025); MMK Frankfurt (2025); Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2024); MoMA PS1, New York (2023); Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2023, solo); Studio Mondial, Berlin (2023); Martos Gallery, New York (2023); Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2023); Housing Gallery, New York (2022, solo); Embajada, San Juan (2022, solo); Housing Gallery, New York (2021); New Release Gallery, Online (2020); The Gormley Gallery, Baltimore, (2020).
Cruz received an MFA from the Yale School of Art (2025) and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (2020), as well as the GO-A: Goya Opportunity Award in San Juan, Puerto Rico (2019), and was featured on the MICA Dean’s List from 2016–2020.