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- updated may 3rd, 20242023 Production and Membership Coordinator, Centre For Art Tapes, Halifax NS
2022 Interim Executive Director, Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax NS
2021 Exhibition Coordinator, Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax NS
Media and Design Coordinator (to present), EVERYSEEKER Music Festival, Halifax NS
Social Media Engagement Coordinator, EVERYSEEKER Music Festival, Halifax NS
Graphic Designer, Marketing and Communications Coordinator, RadStorm, HalifaxNS
2016/2017 Coordinator, START gallery, Sackville, NB
EDUCATION
2021 Anna Leonowens Gallery & Studio Management Certificate, NSCAD, Halifax NS
2020 BFA Intermedia (Video, cyberart and performance), Concordia University, Montreal QC
2015-2018 BFA student, Mount Allison University, Sackville NB
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (JURIED)
2024 [AD]Venture Capital, The Khyber, Halifax NS
2019 “I AM NOT LIKE OTHER GIRLS”, Xpace Xternal Space, Toronto
2017 Cold Cuts, START Gallery, Sackville NB
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 (upcoming) Comfort Zone, Whipper Snapper Gallery, Toronto ON
2023 [AD]Venture Capital, Anchor project, NOCTURNE Art at Night, Halifax NS
“No Ceilings” Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts, Sackville NS
Courting Otherness: Prop Performance and Camp in Contemporary Canadian Video Art, Dazibao and Videographe, Montreal QC. Curated by Yannick Desranleau and Chloe Lum
VIDEO CLUB Screening, Silent Green Berlin, Berlin GR
Land & Stories, The Blue Building, Halifax NS
Maya Ben David & Marissa Sean Cruz, Neutral Arc, Regina SK
Tropical Gothic, curated By Excel Garay and Liuba González de Armas, The Khyber, Halifax NS
2022 Immersive Infinite, IOTA Institute, Halifax NS
PLATFORMS Projects, curated by Maddie Lychek and Emma Ongman, Athens GR
Low-Hanging Fruits, Ed Media Arts Centre, Guelph ON
Temporary Collection, Ed Media Arts Centre, Guelph ON
Long Winter Toronto + Hearth Gallery, Toronto ON
2021 “BILLED-A-BEAR ʕ´•ᴥ•`ʔ” Liminal: NOCTURNE Art at Night curated by Liliona Quarmyne
SAPPYFEST INFINITE VARIETY, SappyFest, Sackville, NB
Queersphere, curated by Dana Snow and Sean Sandusky, InterAccess, Toronto ON
2020 Un/Spoken, curated by Mariana Munoz Gomez and Marie-Anne Redhead; Gallery 1C03,Video Pool Media Arts Centre and VUCAVU Winnipeg, Manitoba
Fruit Salad!, Umbrella Projects curated by Hannah Bridger , Emily Falvey, Lucas Morneau , The Owens Art Gallery & Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre, Sackville NB
No More Metaphors, curated by Justice Thélot, New Art City Online Platform.
2019 The Bald Eagle's Claw, curated by Phillip Ocampo, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto ON
Cruising, curated by Jan Christian Bernabe, Center for Art and Thought
Digital Dreams, curated by Felix Boudry, Art Matters, Studio Rialto, Montreal QC
2018 NORTH FORK ARTS PROJECTS: Showcasing Filipino-Pilipinz Artists, curated by Eileen R. Tabios, Saint Helena, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (JURIED)
2021 Ripa – recontre interunisitaire de performance actuelle, UQAM, Montreal QC Imagined Topographies, FOFA Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal QC
2020 BFA 2020, Serving the People
2019 "a smoke filled room" for Third Shift, Saint John Tool Library and Visitors Shop, Third Space, Saint John NB
2018 Soft Stimuli, Galerie VAV, Montreal QC
re(MIX) for Nuit Blanche, Studio 303, Montreal QC
2017 PAY ATTENTION TO US, START Gallery, Sackville NB
Photo Geniuses, Open Gallery, Mississauga ON
RESIDENCIES/CURATORIAL WORK
2023 Neutral Ground Artist-in-Residence, Regina SK
2022 Curated FRUIT LOOPS, Struts Gallery and Faucet Media Centre, NB
2021 Liminal Residency, Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax NS
HEAT WAVES 2021 Artist in residency, EyeLevel Gallery, Halifax NS
2020 Artist Takeover: Marissa Sean Cruz, Riverdale Projects, Toronto ON
Ease on Down the Road residency, Struts Gallery and Faucet Media Centre, Sackville NB
WORKSHOPS/PANELS/TALKS
2024 Keynote Speaker, Art History, Concordia University, Montreal QC
Guest Lecturer ART353, Concordia University. Montreal QC
2023 Artist Talk, “Time_Time_Time”, Struts Gallery + Faucet Media Arts, Sackville NS
Artist Talk,“Pixelated Archives: A conversation with Riss Sean Cruz”, Concordia, Montreal QC “
Artist Talk by Marissa Sean Cruz” Khyber Centre For the Arts, Halifax NS
Artist Talk, Neutral Ground, Regina SK
2021 Hybrid Echoes: A conversation with Yang Guo & Riss Sean Cruz, EyeLevel Gallery, Halifax NS
Panelist Ripa – recontre interunisitaire de performance actuelle, UQAM, Montreal QC
“We Are Still Processing: Conversation with Wendy-Alexina Vancol, Marissa Sean Cruz, Ryth Kesselring, Maya Rae Oppenhuim, Geneviene Wallen & Eunice Belador” FOFA Gallery + Conversations in Contemporary Art (CICA).
2020 “Un/spoken Video Series, Sovereign Intimacies: conversation with Léuli Eshrāghi and Marissa Sean Cruz,”. ICA + Gallery 1C03 facilitated by Mariana Muñoz Gomez and Marie-Anne Redhead “Allegories of the Abject and Obscure: Challenging Hegemonic Structures in Art. Feminist ArtConference. Toronto, ON.
“PLATFORM HEELS, LATEX, AND THE GREEN SCREEN”. Struts Gallery + Faucet Media Centre, Sackville NB
SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS
2024 Video Editing for Shaya Ishaq, “A Boundless Love”.
2022 Graphic design for Mount Saint Vincent University Gallery, Halifax NS
Graphic design for Barre Studios, Halifax NS
Graphic design for Ecole D’Art Pointe Saint Charles, Montreal QC
Exhibition Catalogue design, “Unlike a hippopotamus, a bird”, Centre For Art Tapes, Halifax NS
“Escape From Intern Purgatory Review”, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax NS
“Uh-Oh! Seven” stills, Carnation Zine, Vol. 2, Winnipeg MB
2020 Graphic design for “The Unseen: A virtual Exhibition” Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax NS
Featured sound-piece “carbonated milk” on xxfiles radio, n10.as, Montreal QC
2019 audiovisuals and DJ of “DIRTY STINKY SMELLY” radio show, IMCA Raydeeoh, Montreal QC
"Writing in an apocalyptic world: In Conversation w Arielle Twist" Public Parking. Winnipeg, MB
Featured artist in Filipino/a/x American Artist Directory. St. Louis, MO
2018 Featured writing for Roundtable Residency, the Dragon Academy, Toronto ON 2017
Featured artist in the Filipino/a/x American Artist Directory. Janna Añonuevo Langholz, St.Louis, MO
Photos in Seven Mondays, Mount Allison University Publication. Sackville NB
Featured story in femmeFM, Halifax NS
SELECTED PRESS/PUBLICATIONS
2023 “landscapes and stories” by Ryan, Delaney. billie, Sept, 2023
“Tropical Gothic” — Cinthia Arias Auz, Kayza DeGraff-Ford, Carmel Farahbakhsh, Shaya Ishaq, Pamela Juarez, Marissa Sean Cruz, Excel Garay” ekwuyasi, francesca. C Mag.
2022 “Inner Space with Marissa Sean Cruz”, Featured Artist, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto ON.
Fellini, Dallas. “Fantastic Futures: Cosplay in the Works of Phil Lý and Marissa Sean Cruz”, Function Magazine, Ryerson University, Toronto ON
2021 MacLaurin, Megan. Featured interview, photo. Canadian Art Magazine, Toronto ON. March 24.
“Machinic Companions”, Madison Hames, Art Discourse. Pacific Northwest College of Art.
“Real Life Is Unappetizing: A review on Fruit Salad” Au, Kara. Visual Art News, Halifax NS
Koutsogiannis, Anastasia. “Marissa Sean Cruz on Robotic Puppy Love” Between Layers, FOFA Gallery, Exhibition essay.
2020 Cunningham, Meg. ““Fruit Salad” features queer and gender-nonconforming art online” Canada Info. Sackville NB, November 11.
2019 “Editors Pick: April Exhibitions at Xpace Cultural Centre – Canadian Art”, Canadian Art Magazine, Toronto ON. April 12.
"Marissa Sean Cruz Explores Pizza Obsession, Identity and Commodification in I AM NOT LIKE OTHER GIRLS", She Does the City. June 10.
2018 “All Nuit Long Vidéodanse Re(MIX)”. Experimental Cinema, February 02.
Roundtable Residency Catalogue, The Dragon Academy, Toronto ON. September 20.
2017 Hamilton, Greta. “How to take a selfie: an interview with Marissa Sean Cruz”, The Arts Abstract, July 05.
MEMBERSHIPS/BOARDS
The Khyber – Board Member, Halifax NS
Independent Media Arts Alliance (IMAA) – Board Member
Visual Art Nova Scotia – Member, Halifax NS
RadStorm – Steering Committee, Halifax NS
CKDU – Member, Halifax NS
Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative – Member, Halifax NS
Eyelevel Gallery – Member, Halifax NS
Centre for Art Tapes – Member, Halifax NS
La Centrale – Member, artist run centre, Montreal QC
Struts and Faucet Media Centre – Member, Sackville NB
GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS
2023 Arts NS, Emerging Artist Recognition Award
Arts NS, Creation Grant, ([AD]Venture Capital), Halifax NS
Emerging Digital Artist Award – Honorable Mention, EQ BankTrinity Square Video, Toronto ON
2022 Music NS, Artistic Creation, (everything is an ending), Halifax NS
Visual Arts Nova Scotia Open Grant, Halifax NS
2021 Emerging Digital Artist Award – Honorable Mention, EQ Bank Trinity Square Video, Toronto ON
MusicNS, Artistic Creation, (Fossilized), Halifax NS
Centre for Art Tapes Technical Creation Grant (fire, wire, gas, glass, peoples, pets & poison) ArtsNS
Creation Grant, (fire, wire, gas, glass, peoples, pets & poison), Halifax NS
2020 Anti-Oppression Typography Grant, FFAR, Concordia University Montreal QC 2018 Fine Arts Student Alliance Special Project Grant, Montreal QC
2017 Majorie Young Bell Fine Arts and Music Grant, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB
BMO Financial Group Scholarship, Mount Allison University, Sackville NB
Chalmers Family Scholarship, Mount Allison University, Sackville NB
Class of 60' Scholarship, Mount Allison University, Sackville NB
Laurie Sophia Wood Prize for Excellence in Fine Arts, Mount Allison University,Sackville NB
Marster Humour in Art Prize, Mount Allison University, Sackville NB
Lavinia Estabrooks Scholarship in Fine Arts, Mount Allison University, Sackville NB
2016 Sackville Film Society Photo of the Year Runner-Up, Mount Allison University, Sackville NB