Maia Cruz Palileo

Maia Cruz Palileo is a multi-disciplinary artist. Migration and the permeable concept of home are constant themes in her paintings, installations, drawings, and animations. Influenced by oral history of her family’s arrival in America from the Philippines and growing up in the Midwest, Cruz Palileo infuses these narratives with memory and imagination. When stories and memories are subjected to time and constant retelling, the narratives become questionable, bordering the line between fact and fiction while remaining cloaked in the convincingly familiar.

Cruz Palileo is a recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant, Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Award, and Astraea Visual Arts Fund Award. Her work has appeared in solo exhibitions at Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York, and Soapbox Gallery, Brooklyn, as well as group exhibitions at Alexander Gray Associates, New York, The Bronx Museum of the Arts and Wave Hill, Bronx, NY and CUE Art Foundation, New York.

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