Solo show
Taína H. Cruz: I Saw the Future and It Smiled Back
8 Mar 2026 — 1 Sep 2026 at Whitney Museum of American Art
· New York
This artwork is featured on the building facade on Gansevoort Street across from the Whitney and the High Line. Graffiti is a major inspiration for Taína H. Cruz's (b. 1998, New York, NY) paintings and drawings, including those she created on-site on one of the Whitney's fifth-floor gallery walls for the 82nd edition of the Museum's Biennial.
Her work, I Saw the Future and It Smiled Back, on the Gansevoort Street billboard, reflects a child-like sense of newness and anticipation. This work is part of Whitney Biennial 2026.
This project is made possible by the Whitney Museum of American Art, TF Cornerstone, and the High Line. Taína Cruz: I Saw the Future and It Smiled Back is part of Outside of the Box programming, which is supported by a generous endowment from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation.
Her work, I Saw the Future and It Smiled Back, on the Gansevoort Street billboard, reflects a child-like sense of newness and anticipation. This work is part of Whitney Biennial 2026.
This project is made possible by the Whitney Museum of American Art, TF Cornerstone, and the High Line. Taína Cruz: I Saw the Future and It Smiled Back is part of Outside of the Box programming, which is supported by a generous endowment from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation.
About the artist
About the venue
Whitney Museum of American Art
· New York
The Whitney Museum of American Art is a modern and contemporary American art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States. The institution was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, a prominent American socialite…
