Lizania Cruz is a Dominican participatory artist and designer interested in how systemic issues, mythmaking, historiography, and language shape our understanding of otherness and belonging. Through research, oral history, and audience engagement, she develops projects that expand and share pluralistic narratives on migration. Cruz was a 2024-2025 Fellow with US Latinx Art Forum and in 2023 she received the New York City Artadia Award. She was part of The Shed’s Open Call in 2023, 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone at the Aldrich Museum in 2022, and ESTAMOS BIEN: LA TRIENAL 2021, the first national survey of Latinx artists at el Museo del Barrio.
For the Adobe Creative Residency, Cruz has proposed a research-based site-specific project that documents the relationships of interdependency between humans and nature and the effects of an expanding tropic globally.