Recently, CULTURED Mag‘s Julia Halperin interviewed Taína Cruz MFA ’25 ahead of Cruz being the youngest artist in this year’s Biennial. Halperin also got a tour of Cruz’s New Haven studio. She writes,
The native New Yorker (b. 1998) began making waves in the art world with her paintings of ghoulish, grimacing figures. She managed to secure gallery representation (with Berlin’s Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler) before she even graduated from Yale’s MFA program. And fresh out of graduate school, she’s been selected for two of New York’s most coveted exhibitions this spring: the Whitney Biennial (where she is the youngest artist in the show) and the Greater New York quinquennial at MoMA PS1 (opening April 16).
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Image credit: Taína H. Cruz, I Saw the Future and It Smiled Back, 2025. Image courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art.