Renata Cruz

Renata Cruz lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.

In her work she seeks to create open and non-linear narratives, where diverse visions, voices and other manifestations of life are present. She appropriates clippings from literary texts, listens to personal stories and organizes them with collected images and other fragments of the world. Graduated in Visual Communication, UNESP, Bauru, Brazil; Artistic Education, UNAERP, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, she was also a foreign student at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain and a postgraduate degree in Integrative Art at Anhembi Morumbi, São Paulo, Brazil. Among the exhibitions in which she participated are: 2021 Tomorrow is now – Labverde Festival; 2020, Amazona –

Adelina Institute, São Paulo, Brazil; 2019, Reserve The abyss does not separate us, it surrounds us – Espaço Cultural Porto Seguro, São Paulo, Brazil; 2018, Forever and a day – MARP Ribeirão Preto Art Museum, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil; 2017, Forever and a day – Blanca Soto Gallery Madrid, Spain; 2016, Kaetemiru, time for changes -Aomori Contemporary Art Center Aomori, Japan; 2015, Liberation Área – EspacioTitilaka Lima, Peru. She currently teaches at the Tomie Ohtake Institute and Sesc Pompéia in São Paulo and is a teaching artist for the Escuelita en Casa project in the Queens, New York.

This residency at El Espacio 23 is presented as part of a collaboration with The55Project