CV — Patrick Cruz

*upcoming solo exhibitions
2024, Boring Earth, Paul Petro
TBA, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines
Spring 2025, SFU Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

Education
2016 MFA, University of Guelph, Ontario Canada
2010 Cert, Pochinko Clowning, Vancouver, Canada
2010 BFA, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada
2005 BFA University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 Whose Museum: Was here, Celsius Projects, Malmö, Sweden
2024 It begins with knowing and not knowing, Richmond Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, curated by Zoe Chan
2024 Hohol, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2024 Diasporia, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
2024 Ina, Mata, Asucena, Kacalisian Artist Village, Pingtung County, Taiwan curated by Yee Chung Kee
2023 15 Paintings, Hunt Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2023 Break it to me gently, Patel Brown, Toronto, Canada
2023 Kaon Na Ta!, ILOMOCA, Iloilo, Philippines
2023 Where have I arrived?, Art museum, Toronto Canada, curated by Sherry Liu
2022 X Avant XVII: Namamahay (to dwell), Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada curated by Kat Estacio
2022 Exiles From The Future, Pumice Raft, Toronto, Canada, curated by Manden Murphy
2022 Hasten Slowly, Afternoon Projects, Vancouver, Canada
2022 X Marks the Spot: Filipinx Futurities, Gales Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2022 13 Artist Award, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines
2021 Vancouver Special: Disorientations and Echo, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2021 Pasapkedjinawong, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
2020 Technical Difficulties, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada
2020 Gnome, Vancouver, Canada curated by Qian Cheng
2020 Every Little Things, Peanuts Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2020 Emotion Sickness, Pinto Art Museum, Antipolo, Philippines
2020 Division of Labour, Art Gallery of Burlington, Ontario, Canada
2019 Air Light Time Space, Pablo, Taguig, Philippines
2019 Common Place: Common-Place, Art Museum, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada curated by Lillian O’Brien Davis
2019 Eleventh Avenue Expo, 11 Ave, Regina, Canada
2019 Pawikan Dashline, Pundido, Makati City, Philippines
2019 Alimentary, Obrera Centro, Mexico City, Mexico, curated by Su-Ying Lee
2019 Pawikan 5: Deuteronomy, Mono8 Gallery, Manila, Philippines
2019 Transparencies II, Fedlfünf, Berlin, Germany, curated by Research and Waves
2019 Bending Towards the Sun, YYZ, Toronto, Canada
2019 Words bounce, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, Canada
2019 How far do you travel?, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2019 Transparencies - Prelude I [0.3,y,0.75], Gallerie Mitte, Bremen, Germany
2018 Forward Motion, Museums and Small Arms Inspection, Mississauga, Canada
2018 It can only be this place, Dorris McCarthy Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2018 An Assembly of Shapes, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
2018 Lessons in Diplomacy Against Diplomacy, Art informal, Manila, Philippines
2018 Fish, Family Exhibitions, Montreal, Canada curated by Nick Howe and Jonathan Schouela
2018 Earth Has Wet Dreams, Balituk Beachfront, Baler, Aurora, Philippines
2018 Dead Horse Revival, Project 20, Quezon City, Philippines
2018 Reinterpreting Vic Delotavo’s posters, Vargas Museum, Quezon City, Philippines
2018 1st Manila Biennial, Manila, Philippines
2018 Second Sight, Artery, Quezon City, Philippines
2017 Every. Day. Objects.Gifts By Artists, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada
2017 Don’t worry, it’s just another white exhibition, Bunker2, Toronto, Canada
2017 88 Artists From 88 Years, Michael O'Brian Exhibition Commons, Vancouver, Canada
2017 Everything in Place, Asian Reel Film Festival, Toronto, Ontario
2017 Thing Object Stuff, Galerie Roberto, Manila, Philippines
2017 Digging for Fire, Art Anton, Pasay City, Philippines
2017 Jungle Chaka, Artery, Quezon City, Philippines
2017 Thinking Forward, Looking Back, Centre A, Vancouver, Canada
2017 Aliens vs Robots, Artery, Quezon City, Philippines
2017 Survival Guide, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
2016 and, something like fire dancing, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2016 A Viewing Room, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2016 When the institute fell over, Queen Square Gallery, Cambridge, Canada
2016 Melted City 3, Blanc Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
2015 Auto Feeling, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2014 The Vending Machine, Vastermalmsgallerian, Stockholm, Sweden
2014 1st Paperweight Biennale, Maillardville Cultural Appreciation Society, Vancouver, Canada
2014 So it goes, Boarding House Gallery, Ontario, Canada
2014 Destroy 3000 years of culture, Post Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
2014 Through the trap door, VIVO media arts center, Vancouver, Canada
2014 Radiation, The Art Center of Chulangkorn, Bangkok, Thailand
2014 Sidewalk Screening, Whipper Snapper, Toronto, Canada
2013 Dark Side of the Sun, Art Informal, Mandaluyong, Philippines
2013 Pagan Formula, LSC, Quezon City, Philippines
2012 Welcome to Sax island, Or Gallery Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2012 Emergent, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, Canada
2012 Ohne Titel, The Crucible Gallery, Mandaluyong, Philippines
2011 Collage Drop Outs, Finale Art File, Makati, Philippines
2009 Earthly Delights, 221 A, Vancouver, Canada

Curatorial Projects
2024 4th Kamias Triennial, Toronto, Canada
2024 Hohol, grunt Gallery, Vancouver Canada, co-curated with Christian Vistan
2023, To Pluck Eternity Along the Lines of Circadian Rhythm, Susan Hobbs, Toronto, Canada
2023, Mutualism 16 (for NH and JL), Scott Rogers, Group Hug, Toronto, Canada
2020 3rd Kamias Triennial, Quezon City, Philippines
2019 Disputed Bodies, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, Canada
2018 Hard Garden, Kamias Special Projects, Quezon City, Philippines
2017 2nd Kamias Triennial, Kamias Special Projects, Quezon City, Philippines
2017 Dream Pool, Mi-Yu, Toronto, Canada
2016 Birds of Paradise, Vancouver, Canada
2015 No Prressurrre, Capacity 3, Ontario, Canada
2014 1st Kamias Triennial, Kamias Special Projects, Quezon City, Philippines
2014 The hatchery, Avenue, Vancouver, Canada, co-curated by Jabari Jordan-Walker
2013 Bohemian Grove, Hammock Residency, Vancouver, Canada, co-curated by Jabari Jordan-Walker
2013 Retail Merchandise Unit Unlimited*, Dynamo Arts Association, Vancouver, Canada, co-curated by Jabari Jordan-Walker
2013 Light Spheres are Luminescent, Dynamo Arts Association, Vancouver, Canada, co-curated by Jabari Jordan-Walker
2012 Dimensions Variable, Dynamo Arts Association, Vancouver, Canada, co-curated by Jabari Jordan-Walker
2012 Katorseng Tumbok: Kinabag ngunit Deluxe, Kanto, Makati, Philippines
2012 Painting 200, Black and Yellow, Vancouver, Canada
2011 Mahal, Yactac, Vancouver, Canada
2011 Psychic Plaza, Shudder Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

Awards + Grants
2024 City of Vancouver, Communities and Artists shifting culture project grant, City of Vancouver
2024 Canada Council for the Arts, Concept to Realization
2024 Ontario Arts Council, Curatorial projects: Indigenous and Culturally Diverse (Kamias Triennial)
2023 Toronto Arts Council, presentation project grant (Kamias Triennial)
2023 Research and Creation, Canada Council for the Arts
2021 Thirteen Artist Award, Cultural Center of the Philippines
2021 Explore and create for Kamias Special Projects, Canada Council
2019 Sobey Arts Award longlist
2019 Arts Abroad Program, Canada Council
2018 Exhibition Assistance Grant, South Asian Visual Arts Centre
2018 Arts Across Canada: Travel Grant, Canada Council
2018 Curatorial Projects: Indigenous and Culturally Diverse, Ontario Arts Council
2017 Research and Creation, Canada Council for the Arts
2016 Exhibition Assistance Grant, South Asian Visual Arts Centre
2015 National Winner of the 17th Annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition
2015 Graduate Travel, Research and Creation Fund, University of Guelph
2015 Ontario Graduate Fellowship, University of Guelph
2014 Graduate Travel, Research and Creation Fund, University of Guelph
2014 Board of Graduate Studies Research Scholarship, University of Guelph
2014 College of the Arts Dean’s Scholarship, University of Guelph
2014 Dean’s Material Bursary, University of Guelph

Projects + Collaborations + Screenings + Performances
2024 Fae Fae Fi Fi Fou Fou, Boring Earth, Moire’s Catwalk with Laila Fox, Toronto, Canada
2024 Pulutan x Karaoke with Dean Baldwin Lew, MKG, Toronto, Canada
2023 Mga maiikli ngunit malalalim na hininga sa nakakapagbagababag na mundo, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada, curated by Noa Bronstein
2023 Kitchen Codex: Vancouver, Live Biennial, Vancouver, Canada curated by Derrick Chang
2023 Crown Land, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada curated by Kate Wong
2022 Occupy Mudroom, in collaboration with Nicolas Fleming, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario
2021 Easter Eggs in collaboration with Qian Cheng, SPAM by #3 Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2020 Lost Frames, Art Fair Philippines, Makati, Philippines
2019 CAG artist performance | Patrick Cruz aboard the moving bus, CAG, Vancouver, Canada
2018 Sound II, Crutch CAC, Toronto, Canada, curated by Veronika Ivanova
2018 Celluloid Brushes, Establissement D’en Face, Brussels, Belgium
2018 Toronto Art Fair x Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
2018 Forest City Gallery with Jasmine Reimer, London, Canada
2018 Toronto Art Book Fair, Toronto, Canada
2018 Plus Art Festival, Toronto, Canada
2017 Landscape painting version 7, Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2017 Symphony of Fire III, Sunset Terrace, Vancouver, Canada
2017 Lost Frames London, Gasworks, London, United Kingdom
2016 Stop.Motion, Lost Frames, Quezon City, Philippines
2015 Taxonomical Measurements through primordial auto-tune, Can’t Complain Gallery, Ontario, Canada
2013 Ultra Lights King Size, The Crying Room, Vancouver, Canada
2013 Esoteric as in Learning, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, Canada, with Jabari Jordan-Walker
2012 Influx, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, Canada
2012 With Within Without, Shudder Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2011 Live Biennale, Vancouver, Canada
2011 Usti Nad Labem, Usti Nad Labem, Czech Republic
2011 Undercovers: Performances Reinterpreted, Art Bank, Vancouver, Canada
2010 So Warm, VIVO media arts centre, Vancouver, Canada

Lectures + Artist Talks + Residencies + Workshops

2024 Low residency at Moire’s Catwalk with Laila Fox, Toronto, Canada
2024 Piegon, Seagull and Crow, Podcast episode, Centre A, Vancouver, Canada
2023 ArtWork 2023, Hart House, Toronto, Canada
2023 Artist talk at Patel Brown in conjunction with Nicolas Fleming’s exhibition More of a Mudroom, Toronto, Canada
2022 Arts writing mentorship program, Centre A, Vancouver, Canada
2022 Artist talk at Art 350, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
2021 This useful time machine, online residency, Bangkok x Vancouver
2021 CAG Reads, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2020 Visiting Speaker, University of Ottawa, MFA, Ottawa, Canada
2020 Visiting Speaker, University of Saskatchewan, MFA, Saskatchewan, Canada
2020 Visiting Speaker with Allison Collins, Emily Carr University Art + Design Low Res MFA, Vancouver, Canada
2020 3rd Kamias Triennial Panel Discussion, Quezon City, Philippines
2019 Whose Museum: Chapter 5, Malmö, Sweden
2019 Lips of One thousand nine hundred and ninety six teachers, GNO, Sudbury, Canada
2019 Lobster Spirits, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS, Canada
2019 Artist talk, University of Toronto Scarborough, Scarborough, Canada
2019 Artist talk, Nova Scotia School of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada
2019 Reading Group: The culture game with Patrick Cruz, Fillip, Vancouver, Canada
2019 Artist talk, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
2019 Freestyle workshop, Arts Ahead, Toronto, Canada
2019 Sunday Talk, Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
2019 Code Switch, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, Canada
2018 Artist talk, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2018 Artist talk, Langara Fine Arts, Vancouver, Canada
2018 Talk by visiting artist, SFU, Vancouver, Canada
2017 Making the Beyond, Platform Speaker Series, Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2017 Now What? 30th Anniversary Mentorship Project, Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
2017 Identity & Abstraction, Kapisanan Philippines Centre for Arts + Culture, Toronto, Canada
2017 Survival Guide, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
2016 Picturing images, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2016 Material Art Fair, Mexico City, Mexico
2015 Twilight Speaker Series, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada
2015 Zavitz New School of the Arts, Ontario, Canada
2012 Pro-Am: Art and Culture on the Internet, Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
2012 Show & Tell Press, Vancouver Book Fair, Vancouver, Canada
2012 City School of Visual Arts, Quezon City, Philippines
2012 Philippine Studies Professional Conference, UBC, Vancouver, Canada
2011 Hammock Residency, Vancouver, Canada

Art Publications

2022 The Capilano Review, collaboration with Laiwan, Vancouver, Canada
2022 Vancouver Special: Disorientations and Echo, Vancouver Art Gallery
2022 Tech Lab: Experiments in Media Art 1999 - 2019, Surrey Art Gallery
2021 Calendar by #3 Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2019 The Artist Cookbook volume 1, Toronto, Canada
2019 Disputed Bodies publication, Toronto, Canada
2018 Art + Wonder, Issue 5, Montreal, Canada
2017 Artist Cocktails, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2016 Birds of Paradise, Centre A, Vancouver, Canada
2016 Calendar, Moniker Press, Vancouver, Canada
2016 Relief, colouring book series Vancouver, Canada
2015 ddoogg 2, Vancouver, Canada
2014 Issue Magazine, Unit/Pitt, Vancouver, Canada
2014 Bartleby Review: Issue 1-20, Publication Studio, Vancouver, Canada
2013 Sabbatical for Dummies, Project Space Press, Vancouver, Canada
2013 Proposals for a new career, Brick Press, Vancouver, Canada
2013 Junk Jet#6: Here and there issue, Stuttgart, Germany
2012 Made in Vancouver, Show & Tell Press, Vancouver, Canada
2012 Arteleria, April Issue, Manila, Philippines
2012 Junk Jet #5 Net Heart Issue, Stuttgart, Germany
2011 Setup Magazine, Vancouver, Canada

Bibliography + Interviews + Reviews + Texts

2023 Martin Weeko, Bianca, Frame Work, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2023 Sproule, Michelle, On Alternative Ways of ‘Doing & Doing’, with Local Artist-Slash-Art-Activist Dan Siney, Scout Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada
2023 Zhou, Coco, Magic as Pedagogy, Reissue Pub, Vancouver, Canada
2021, Pablo, Carlito, artist Patrick Cruz finds echoes of past amid maze of images, Vancouver, Canada
2021 Kong, Yani, Galleries West, Vancouver, Canada
2020 Rozansky, Chelsea, Canadian Art Magazine, Canada
2020 Gora, Sasha, C Magazine, Canada
2019 Heyn-Jones, Zoe, Canadian Art Magazine, Canada
2019 Kovler, Anna, Border Crossings Magazine, vol 37, #4, issue 148, Canada
2018 Witt, Andrew, Peripheral Review, Vancouver, Canada
2017 Durey, Lucien, Canadian Art Magazine, Vancouver, Canada
2017 Muñoz Gomez, Mariana, Public Parking, Winnipeg, Canada
2017 Sorell, Lindsay, Akimbo, Calgary, Canada
2017 Lavery, Lauren,Peripheral Review, Vancouver + Toronto, Canada
2017 Enright, Robert, Border Crossings Magazine, issue 143, Winnipeg, Canada
2017 Abramson, Stacey, Galleries West, Winnipeg, Canada
2017 Fathalla, Marina, C Magazine, Toronto, Canada
2017 Gerges. Meeray, Canadian Art Magazine, Toronto, Canada
2016 Ling, Steffanie, Akimbo, Vancouver, Canada
2016 Docot, Dada, The immigrant experience as resource for art production:
2016 Philippine Canadian News
2016 Chiang, Alison, The Source, Vancouver, Canada
2016 Milbrath, Claire, Editorial Magazine, Montreal, Canada
2016 Zarum, Lara, CBC Arts, Vancouver, Canada
2015 Todd, Sarah, Akimbo, Calgary, Canada
2014 Jacobs, Mark, Vandocument, Vancouver, Canada

Auctions + Donations
2023 Buddies in Bad times theatre, Toronto, Canada
2022 Arts Umbrella, Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2022 C Magazine, Toronto, Canada
2022 Peripheral Review, Toronto, Canada
2022 Arts Umbrella, Vancouver, Canada
2022 The People’s Voice, Toronto , Canada
2022 Exotik Framing , Vancouver, Canada
2021 Exotik Framing x Afternoon Projects, Vancouver, Canada
2021 Centre A, Vancouver, Canada
2021 Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada
2020 Project 20, Quezon City, Philippines
2019 TPW, Toronto, Canada
2019 C Magazine, Toronto, Canada
2019 Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
2018 Border Crossings Magazine, Winnipeg, Canada
2017 Forest City Gallery, Ontario, Canada
2017 Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada
2017 C Magazine, Toronto, Canada
2017 Centre A, Vancouver, Canada
2017 Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
2016 Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2016 Canadian Art Foundation Toronto, Canada
2016 Younger than Beyonce, Toronto, Canada
2016 Access Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2016 Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
2016 C Magazine, Toronto, Canada
2015 Stride Gallery, Calgary, Canada
2014 Project Space, Vancouver, Canada

Art Fairs
2023 Art Toronto, Paul Petro Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2021 Papier Art Fair, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2020 Art Fair Philippines, Project 20, Makati, Philippines
2019 Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2019 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
2018 Art Fair Philippines, Artery, Makati, Philippines
2017 Art Toronto, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2017 Art Toronto, Wil Aballe Art Projects, Toronto, Canada
2017 Material Art Fair, Projet Pangee, Mexico City, Mexico
2017 Nada NYC, WAAP, New York, USA
2017 Art Basel Switzerland, Art Metropole, Basel, Switzerland
2016 Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Metropole, Miami, USA
2016 Material Art Fair, Ed Video, Mexico City, Mexico
2013 Art Fair Philippines, LSC, Makati, Philippines

Public Art Commissions

2023 Crown Land, Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, curated by Kate Wong, Toronto, Canada
2022 Flower Bed, Georgetown by Anthem Properties, Surrey, BC
2019 Step Mother Tongue, Translink + Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2011 Usti Nad Labem, Usti Nad Labem, Czech Republic with Dirk Wright

Public and Private Collections
Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Royal Bank of Canada
TD Bank

Private collections in Manila, Hongkong, Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Florida, and Frankfurt.