Combined digital forms of art making, photography, disposed architectural pieces and natural objects make their way to my studio where I create new and sometimes fragile structures, fragmented narratives for a temporal space. My conversations tend to be extended meditations on our current status quo and my preoccupation with humanity. I have curated group exhibitions, helped organize a collective, created public activations, and developed a gallery space. Most recently, I launched Oral Fixation Art Podcast, a long-term project documenting the lives and art practices of artists.
I live and work in Chicago where I explore diverse forms of art-making including time-based media, painting, mixed media, and installations. I also volunteer at an art makers' space.
In art, everything is particular. The more particular and the more intimate you get, the more you can give in the piece.
- Doris Salcedo
Pia Cruzalegui (b. Peru) is an interdisciplinary artist working with digital media, installation and curatorial practices. She received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in Video, Film and Multimedia from Florida Atlantic University. She has shown her works and curated exhibitions in the US and abroad. Some notable acknowledgements include a 2019 award from the Ministerio de Cultura y Patrimonio in Ecuador, for her work, Rojo Rosa Rosado, and the commissioned video documentation project, American Tales in the Making, funded by the National Endowment of the Arts Big Read, now archived at the Freeport Art Museum, in Illinois. Pia is the producer and host of the Oral Fixation Art Podcast, and is a foundations teaching artist at college of dupage.