Guillermo Garcia Cruz (Uruguay, 1988) is a young and promising artist born in Uruguay, who studied contemporary art, mostly oriented to drawing and painting, being part of the Washington Studio School and Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, Washington, USA.

The passion for teaching precedes the artist ́s profile, sharing his knowledge with the local community. On that direction, in 2013 Garcia Cruz founded the “Taller García Cruz” -TGC-, an Art School for young and adult students, and the Multidisciplinary Visual Arts Space -MAG-, both of them based in Uruguay. For several years, he taught at IPA Montevideo, and, since 2015, he also works as Professor of Visual Arts at the prestigious “Universidad Católica de Uruguay”,

“The work of Garcia Cruz is composed by a series of paintings and sculptures that play with the formal legacy left by Latin American concretism, either through Lygia Clark and her paintings from the Planos em Superfície Modulada series, as well as through the production of the movement Uruguayan-Argentine MADI from the 1940s. According to the movement’s group of artists, painting should not be conditioned by the rectangular canvas, on the contrary, the shape of the canvas should follow the structure of the painting. These references place us historically so that, from there, we can determine the similarities and differences that the artist proposes in his projects...” (Renan Araujo, Curator )

His work has started to be part of important collections: Cisneros Fontanals Foundation (CIFO)USA, Northwestern University Collection, Chicago, USA, Luis Bassat Collection, Barcelona, Spain, Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Perez Museum, Miami, USA, Alberto Rebaza Collection, Lima, Perú, and more.

Currently, he lives and works between Mexico City and New York.

Statement

“...If, on the one hand, we have a formal rapprochement between García Cruz and the constructivist heritage, on the other hand, we have an attempted rupture that occurs in the very structure of the work. This collapse that occurs within the object is most evident in this glitched works - the paintings and sculptures are always on the verge of separating, multiplying elsewhere, seeking a life of their own by fragmenting their body-structure into contextual space. Historically, we can relate this act of rupture with a reflection on the project of modernity and its collapse in Latin American contexts, as well as on our current moment of global changes where we feel disoriented and anxious about what is about to happen.

García Cruz considers this production as an attempt to disorient the viewer’s perception in relation to the plane of the work and produce an effect of noise, like a temporary error or a “glitch”, an appropriate term used by the artist in the computer context and a reference to the title of the current exhibition. Repetition, movement, transformation, the limits between interior and exterior are some of the visible concerns in the artist’s production, in addition to the pictorial work itself, which may contain apparently opposite elements on its surface such as brightness and opacity, texture and flatness and that are not antagonistic, but rather share the same terrain and interest.”

Renan Araujo, Curator

Art works I Exhibitions

About the artist

Art Prizes and Awards

• 2021 Commission for the permanent Collection of Chicago Northwestern University,

  U.S.A.

• 2021 Carmen and Lluis Bassat award, Swab Art Fair, Barcelona

  2019 FEFCA Scholarship Award. Ministerio de Educación y Cultura. Uruguay

• 2016 Honorable Mention. Premio Paul Cezzane. Montevideo, Uruguay

• 2011 Honorable Mention. Premio Nacional de Pintura ISUSA. Montevideo, Uruguay

• 2005 1st Prize, Premio Nacional de Pintura del Club de Leones. Montevideo, Uruguay

Art Residencies

• 2021 JOHS Residency, Mexico City, Mexico

• 2021 Taco, Talleres de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico

• 2021 Barranguet Arts Residency, Connecticut, USA

• 2020 Recoleto Creative, Javea, Spain

• 2020 Cerro Gallinero, Land Art Museum, Avila, Spain

• 2020 Atelier Solar, Madrid, Spain

  Collections

• Cisneros Fontanals Foundation (CIFO)

• Northwestern University collection, Chicago, USA

• Luis Bassat Collection, Barcelona, Spain

• Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Perez Museum, Miami, USA

• Alberto Rebaza Collection, Lima, Perú

• DiGood Collection, Madrid, Spain

• Carlos Manzano Collection, Madrid, Spain

• La Escalera Collection, Valencia, Spain

• Recoleto Collection, Valencia, Spain

• Prince Dushan of Serbia Collection, New York, USA

• Friob Collection, Luxembourg

Solo Exhibitions

2022

• “Glitched Space VII”, Zielinsky Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

• “Glitched Space VI”, Impakto Gallery, Lima, Perú

  2021

• “Muy Frágil”, Latchkey Gallery, NYC, EE.UU.

• “Glitched Space V”, Galería del Paseo, Uruguay

• “Glitched Space II”, Barranguet Arts, Conneticut, EE.UU.

  2020

• “UNTITLED SPACE V”, Recoleto Creative, Javea, Spain

• “Alchemy”, Latchkey Gallery, Nueva York. EE.UU.

• “Room 45”, Programa Taide, Madrid, Spain

  2019

• “UNTITLED SPACE IV”, Fundación Iturria, Montevideo, Uruguay

• “UNTITLED SPACE III”, Juan Risso Gallery, Madrid, España

• “Evidence”, Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo, Uruguay

  2016

• “Still Them”, Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo, Uruguay

  2014

• “Talking Black”, Sofitel Casino Carrasco, Montevideo, Uruguay

• “Garcia Cruz”, Interamerican Development Bank, Washington. EE.UU. 2013

• “Conventional”, Embassy of Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay 2012

• “Inmanente”, Diana Saravia Gallery, Montevideo, Uruguay

Art Fairs 2021

• Zona Maco, México City

• Pinta Miami Art Fair, Miami

• Estampa Art Fair, Madrid, Spain

• Swab Art Fair Barcelona, Spain

  2020

• Otra Feria de Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  2019

• Pinta Miami Art Fair. Florida, EE.UU.

• ArtLima. Lima, Perú

• JustLX Art Fair. HeartBeats Gallery. Lisboa, Portugal

• Art on Paper Art Fair. Nueva York. EE.UU.

• Just Mad Art Fair. Madrid, España

  2018

• Pinta Miami Art Fair. Florida, EE.UU.

• Este Arte. Punta del Este, Uruguay. 2017

• Este Arte. Punta del Este, Uruguay. 2004

  Group Exhibitions 2022

• “Dúo 1/5”, Nueva Gallery, Madrid, Spain. 2019

• “Tensiones del paisaje”, Centro de exposiciones SUBTE Municipal, Montevideo, Uruguay

• “Proyecto Evidencia”, Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo, Uruguay

• “Premio Paul Cezanne”, Final Selection, EAC, Montevideo, Uruguay

  2017

• Uruguay Contemporary Art, Tianjin Art Academy, China

  2016

• “Temporada 22”, Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo, Uruguay

• “Seres”, Centro Cultural de México, Montevideo, Uruguay

• “Premio Paul Cezane”, EAC, Montevideo, Uruguay

• Montevideo Comics. AFE. Montevideo, Uruguay.

2015

• “Rizzo, Foglino, Garcia Cruz”, Diana Saravia Gallery, Montevideo, Uruguay

• “Invadir sin conquistar”. Performance with Santi Senso. CCE. Montevideo

  Uruguay

• “Retrato Contemporáneo”, Subte, Montevideo, Uruguay

  2014

• “Andy NY tribute”, Exhibition with Vicky Barranguet, New York, EE.UU

• Opening Marte Art Gallery, Montevideo, Uruguay 2013

• “Arte 58”, Torre 58, Montevideo, Uruguay

• “Revolutum”, Harlem School of Arts, New York, EE.UU

• “Fernandez, Barranguet, Garcia Cruz, Dejavu Art”, New York, EE.UU

• “Arty Nights”, BG MOCA International, Portezuelo, Uruguay

  2012

• “Pink Spring”, World Trade Center, Montevideo, Uruguay

• “Arte en Demolición II”, Montevideo, Uruguay

• “Marte invita”, Marte Centro Cultural, Montevideo, Uruguay

  2011

• “Arte en demolición”, Montevideo, Uruguay

  2009

• “Viñetas sueltas”, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  2005

• “Yo Diseño”, Centro de Arte Casa Blanca, Montevideo, Uruguay 2004

• “Montevideo Comics”, AFE, Montevideo, Uruguay

• “In Praise of Shadows”, Zielinzky Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

  2021

• “Taller Transversal”, Mexico City

  2021

• “Geometria Austral”, Galería del Paseo, Punta del Este, Uruguay