Alejandro Cruz (b. 1975, Montevideo, Uruguay) will use the Grant to compile and restore a set of 12 works created since 2007 that address the Afro universe through a symbolic lens, while also developing a new body of work.

Alejandro Cruz is a visual artist, curator, audiovisual designer and teacher. He has been selected in several editions of the Premio Nacional de Artes Visuales and Premio Municipal de Artes Montevideo. In 2007, he was responsible for the Uruguayan submission of videos to the 8th Biennial of Video and New Media in Santiago de Chile and he co-curated the 4th Montevideo Biennial in 2019. As an artist and curator he has participated in numerous exhibitions in Uruguay and abroad. He currently works for a mentorship program of the Darryl Chapelle Foundation and the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. In parallel, he teaches curatorial classes at the Faculty of Arts of the Universidad de la República de Uruguay.