photo by yétúndé olagbaju

Jacob Cruz-Rine

Jacob Cruz-Rine is an artist currently based in Los Angeles, CA. Through film and photography, he is exploring creation story, the effects of colonialism, a deep longing for “home”, and ancestral practices associated with Guahan, as a CHamoru person living in the contiguous United States. 

Cruz-Rine received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2018. He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in film directing at California Institute of the Arts. He has shown work at Bass and Reiner, CTRL+SHFT Collective, ProArts, Kearny Street Workshop, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and SFMOMA.