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PAT(I)ENCE: Patrick Cruz, Steffani Jemison, Ensemble (after Ben Kinmont)
August 23rd - September 6, 2025
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Patrick Cruz is an artist, educator, and albularyo who considers the role of spirituality, improvisation, intuition and play as emancipatory tools to reify embedded colonial frameworks and ideologies in art making. Cruz employs healing, meditation, divination, exorcism and hypnosis as research methodologies to exhume and retrieve hidden knowledge. His works are informed by the intersections of clown philosophy, magic, and the occult, and their syncretic manifestations and relationship in contemporary life. Most recently, Cruz has been
making works using material retrieved from past-life regressions to navigate and side-step cultural and ancestral identity.
In 2021, he received the prestigious Thirteen Artist Award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines and won the national title for the 17th RBC Canadian Painting Competition in 2015. He is an Assistant Professor in Studio Art at the University of Toronto Scarborough and Daniels Campuses. He is the founder and co-directo of the Kamias Triennial, co-curator of Ben Flores Fan Club Collective with Christian Vistan, collaborator at Boring Earth with Laila Fox, and one of the 19 members of the artist-run collective the Plumb.
Ben Kinmont is an artist, publisher, and antiquarian bookseller whose work explores alternative systems of exchange, archival methodologies, and social sculpture. His project-based practice often involves publishing and distributing materials outside traditional art world channels to create more direct connections with audiences. Kinmont started his Antinomian Press in 1995 as an alternative to the commercial gallery system and as a means to distribute the free books and ephemera crucial to project-based artwork.
making works using material retrieved from past-life regressions to navigate and side-step cultural and ancestral identity.
In 2021, he received the prestigious Thirteen Artist Award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines and won the national title for the 17th RBC Canadian Painting Competition in 2015. He is an Assistant Professor in Studio Art at the University of Toronto Scarborough and Daniels Campuses. He is the founder and co-directo of the Kamias Triennial, co-curator of Ben Flores Fan Club Collective with Christian Vistan, collaborator at Boring Earth with Laila Fox, and one of the 19 members of the artist-run collective the Plumb.
Ben Kinmont is an artist, publisher, and antiquarian bookseller whose work explores alternative systems of exchange, archival methodologies, and social sculpture. His project-based practice often involves publishing and distributing materials outside traditional art world channels to create more direct connections with audiences. Kinmont started his Antinomian Press in 1995 as an alternative to the commercial gallery system and as a means to distribute the free books and ephemera crucial to project-based artwork.
Steffani Jemison (b. 1981) lives and works in New York. Solo exhibitions, screenings, and performances include Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford (2025); Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon (2025; 2021); Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève (2024); Greene Naftali, New York (2024, 2021); JOAN, Los Angeles (2022); Annet
Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2022, 2020); Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati (2021); Kai Matsumiya, New York (2019); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2019); Lincoln Center, New York (2018); Jeu de Paume, Paris (2017); CAPC Bordeaux (2017). Notable group exhibitions include Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient
Egypt, 1876–Now, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2024-25); Counterpublic, St. Louis (2023); ; Greater New York, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York (2021); Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, organized by The Studio Museum in Harlem and The American Federation for Arts (travelled 2019–21); Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2019).
Jemison is Associate Professor of Art & Design at Rutgers University; her first novel, A Rock, A River, A Street, was published by Primary Information in 2022.
Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2022, 2020); Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati (2021); Kai Matsumiya, New York (2019); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2019); Lincoln Center, New York (2018); Jeu de Paume, Paris (2017); CAPC Bordeaux (2017). Notable group exhibitions include Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient
Egypt, 1876–Now, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2024-25); Counterpublic, St. Louis (2023); ; Greater New York, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York (2021); Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, organized by The Studio Museum in Harlem and The American Federation for Arts (travelled 2019–21); Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2019).
Jemison is Associate Professor of Art & Design at Rutgers University; her first novel, A Rock, A River, A Street, was published by Primary Information in 2022.