Nube Cruz is an artist and writer working across photography, performance, and sculpture. Their practice conjures “ghost objects” and pueblo epistemologies that bridge Indigenous memory, queer hauntology, and migrant materiality. A graduate of UCLA and the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, and currently an MFA candidate at UC San Diego, Cruz’s work explores diasporic cosmologies, post-collapse survivance, and the poetics of the unseen. Through baroque-esque materials, photographs, and performative gestures, they trace how ghosts, archives, and proletarian materials transmit histories of opacity, survivance, and queer affect.
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They hold a BFA from UCLA Art 2024 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture 2024. Recent exhibitions include the Clemente Center in NYC and Murmurs in Los Angeles, with performances at the Feminist Center for Creative Work and Coaxial DTLA.

Their research has included the Mobile Indigenous Community Archive Project and Mapping Indigenous Los Angeles, focusing on Indigenous archives. Nube’s work has been featured in Der Greif (Munich, Germany) and in Our Work is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance by Syan Rose. Their work is held in the Collection at the American Indian Community Center Archive at UCLA.