Sara Cruz

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Bio: Cruz has won several awards such as the 2024 International Sculpture Center Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award and the Arthur E. Nelson Ceramic Award in 2023. She has been published in Sculpture Magazine January-February 2025 issue. Cruz recently graduated from California College of the Arts with a BFA in sculpture and currently resides in San Francisco, CA.

Statement: Sara Cruz (San Diego, CA) grew up near one the most contested border regions in the world. Migratory flows, familial threads, and the US-Mexico Border have all been crucial subjects in her artistic practice. Cruz's work takes the exploration of the Latin American identity within her own lens, but also within the context of syncretism. Syncretism as the merging of culture, merging of iconographies, of history, of current contexts, where the Indigenous aspects of Latin America and decolonial aspects merge into what we see as the “melting pot” of the Latine experience. The materiality of resistance is a medium or a conduit for change. Cruz takes the idea that resisting, or expressing issues or concerns about the world using art and sculpture, has given me the opportunity to explore different ways in which I can critique or resist aspects of our world, and create something to send a broader message.