Emilio Cruz (American, –2004)

Timeline

1938
Born: in the Bronx, NY
1964–1965
John Hay Whitney Fellowship, Rome, Italy
1965
Cintas Foundation Fellowship, Fulbright Scholarship
1970
Moved to Chicago, IL
National Endowment for the Arts
1981
Illinois Arts Council Fellowship
1970–1982
Taught painting and drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1987
National Endowment for the Arts
1994
Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
1996
Youth Friends Award, The School Art league, New York, NY
2004
Died: in New York, NY

Exhibitions

2007–2008
Living with Art: Modern & Contemporary African-American Art from the Collection of Alitash Kebede, Bermuda National Gallery, City Hall Arts Center, Bermuda
2004
I Am Food I Eat the Eater of Food, Alitash Kebede Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1997
Homo sapiens Series, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
Homo Sapiens Series, Portraits of No-One & Vertebrae, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY
Homo sapiens Series: 18 Panels, Maruice N. Flecker Memorial Gallery, Suffolk County Community College, New York, NY (solo)
Salon de Dibujo de Santo Domingo, Museo de Arte Moderno de Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo
1996
Wheel of Fortune, Artists Interpret the Tarot, Lombard/Pried Fine Arts, New York, NY
1995
Body Language, Jamaica Arts Center, Jamaica, NY
Face to Face, Artists on Artists, Gallery Swan, New York, NY
Serial Histories, Lombard/Fried Pine Arts, New York, NY
New York University Faculty Show in Two Parts, Apex Gallery, New York, NY
1993
Ciphers of Identity, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
Emilio Cruz and Kathy Acker, Two Person Exhibition, Galerie Francois et Sea FrÈres, Baltimore, MD
New Acquisitions, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Free Within Ourselves: African American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
1992
Gallery Revue, Porter Randall Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Socrates Unbound, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
1991
Drawings Informing the Painting, Galerie Francoise et Ses Freres, Baltimore, MD (solo)
Artistas Latino Y Afro Americanos En USA, Museum National De Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
1990
Vessels Incarnate, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
The Decade Show, a collaborative exhibition of The Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, The New Museum and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
1988
Kingsborough College, Brooklyn, NY
California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Alice and Look Who Else Through The Looking Glass, Bernice Steimbaum Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary Nudes, One Penn Plaza, New York, NY
1900 To Now: Modern Art From Rhode Island Collections, The Museum of Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1987
Spilled Nightmares, Revelations & Reflections, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (solo)
Josiah White Exhibition Center, Jim Thorpe, PA
1986
Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
1985
Alternative Museum, New York, NY (solo)
Hand in Hand Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1978
Walter Kelly Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
1977
Krannert Center, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL (solo)
1976
Walter Kelly Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
1975
Walter Kelly Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
1974
One Illinois Center, Metropolitan Structures, Chicago, IL (solo)
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH (solo)
1973
Walter Kelly Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
1969
Loretto Hilton Gallery, Webster College, MO (solo)
1965
Zabriskie Gallery, Provincetown, MA (solo)
1963
Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
English (US)

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