THIS IS(NT) FOR YOU: Lorena Cruz Santiago

Lorena Cruz Santiago, one of the exhibiting artists of Interloper’s conversation series “THIS IS(NT) FOR YOU”, tells us about her art at both Interloper and Das Schaufenster in Seattle.

Go to www.interlopterinterloper.com/thisisntforyou to see the work talked about in this episode.

Lorena Cruz Santiago is a Mexican-American artist from Northern California currently based in Detroit, Michigan. She received her BFA in Photography from Sonoma State University in 2016 and her MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2019. Cruz Santiago has attended residencies like ACRE (Steuben, WI), Tesselate (Pontiac, MI), and most recently Pocoapoco Residency in Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, MX. Her work has been included in shows at El Comalito Collective (Vallejo, CA), Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (Grand Rapids, MI) and in ArtMile Detroit 2020. Through an interdisciplinary practice that spans photography, video, and painting, she investigates decolonization.