About

Amina Cruz is an artist born and raised in Los Angeles, CA and spent her teen years in Tampa, FL. She hitchhiked around the country before deciding to move to New York City, where she earned her BFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design. She also holds a MFA from University of California, Los Angeles.

Cruz’s photographs are utopias and landscapes filled with conversations, power, relationships, memories, joy, and fantasies that you can feel. Her interests are based in queer culture, film/analog photography, and exploring the space between transformation and identity.

Her work has been exhibited at MOCA Tucson, San Diego Art Institute, Creative Center for Photography, The Getty, and galleries throughout the country. Cruz’s work is held in various private collections and institutions, including Loyola Marymount University, University of California, Santa Barbra, and The Getty. 

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Selected Press:

Eijkel den van, Wouter. “Nowhere but the Night: 13 kindred artists who, like Erwin Olaf, link nightlife with activism.” Gallery Viewer, December 2025. Online. Article

Johnson, Jameson. “30 Artists Defining Queer Art Now.” Artsy, June 2025. Online. Article

Gomez, Ed, host. “Amina Cruz: Through the Lens, Beyond the Veil.” PARA/normal Borders, MexiCali Biennial, 26 July 2025, Online. Podcast

Gleisser, Faye Raquel. Risk Work: Making Art and Guerrilla Tactics in Punitive America, 1967-1987. The University of Chicago Press, 2023, pp. 31, 191-93, 197. Print

Hanson, Candace. “The Revelatory Photography of Amina Cruz.” SPIN, January 2023. Online. Article

Gutierrez, Raquel. “Slow Burn: On Amina Cruz’s Photography.” Air/Light Magazine, Issue 4, Fall 2021. Online. Article

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