About the Artists

Adriana Torres Cruz is an MFA student in Studio Art with a concentration in Printmaking at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Adriana Torres Cruz is a Puerto Rican artist who received their BFA in Printmaking at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2018. After graduating, they returned to Puerto Rico where they worked as a freelance illustrator and as a studio assistant for a local printmaker. In the artist’s studio, Adriana worked as a printer for other artists and as an assistant/collaborator for extensive projects, such as the 2020 SGCI Conference “Puertográfico,” and “El Portalito,” a permanent collaborative installation located at El Yunque National Rainforest’s Visitor Center. In 2021, Adriana moved to Virginia, where they kept developing their own work and became an artist in residence at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond.

adriana.torres.pr@gmail.com / atorresc@vols.utk.edu