Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Tiago Da Cruz is a visual artist making work in and around the mediums of both Drawing and Photography. In 2022, Tiago received their BFA in photography with a minor in History of Art and Visual Culture from California College of the Arts in Oakland, CA. Tiago is working through the language of queer abstraction making enlargements on gelatin silver paper that undergo cycles of inversion. He is interested in tracking and exhibiting photographs that evolve through methods of inverting, saturating, softening, and exposing gelatin silver paper with solar and lunar light. By focusing on micro landscapes and natural phenomena that occur directly below where he stands, the visual qualities of their work resemble constellations textured and formless. Tiago has shown work in groups shows at Root Division, and Sf Camerawork. In Los Angeles, he has shown work at Reisig and Taylor Contemporary and Little Big Man Gallery.
Contact: tiagodacruzstudio@gmail.com
Tiago André Da Cruz
B. Los Angeles, CA. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Education
2022 – Bachelor of Fine Arts, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2022 – Hollywoodland, Isabelle Percy West Gallery, Oakland, CA
2021 – Diamond District, Test Strip Gallery, Oakland, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 _ Frontier Redux, Little Big Man Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2025 – Propagations, Mt. Fargo, Los Angeles, CA
2025 – (paradise), Reisig and Taylor Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2024 – Linchpins, Thomas P. Kelly Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2024 – Forecast 2024, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
2024 – Apophenia, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG), Los Angeles, CA
2023 – Illusion, Analog Forever Magazine, Online Exhibition
2022 – Artists’ Annual Exhibition, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2022 – you can hear the wind from beneath the floorboards, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2022 – All College Honors, California College of the Arts, Oliver Art Center, Oakland, CA
2021 – Inside Out, Test Strip Gallery, Oakland, CA
Residencies
2022–2023 – Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA