Michael Cuadrado Gonzalez (b. 1995) is an artist from San Juan, Puerto Rico. By way of painting, drawing, and installation, Cuadrado investigates the optics of spatial perception in hopes of exploring, and perhaps further complicating, the slippery relationship between identity and formalism. How do our assumed understandings of identification form how we engage with and interpret our surrounding spaces? Beginning with his affinities and aversions to the Bauhaus philosophies of design, Cuadrado maps the development of his formal inquiries alongside his engagement with Black, Brown, queer, and gender studies. He earned a BFA in Drawing from Pratt Institute in 2018 and an MFA in Painting & Printmaking from Yale University in 2024. Following his MFA, he attended the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University, where he studied under scholar Stephen Michael Best. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at Harkawik in 2021, Coco Hunday in 2022, and Turley in 2025. He is currently working towards his first Chicago solo exhibition with 65Grand. He currently lives and works in Chicago, IL.

Michael Cuadrado Gonzalez (b. 1995) is an artist from San Juan, Puerto Rico. By way of painting, drawing, and installation, Cuadrado investigates the optics of spatial perception in hopes of exploring, and perhaps further complicating, the slippery relationship between identity and formalism. How do our assumed understandings of identification form how we engage with and interpret our surrounding spaces? Beginning with his affinities and aversions to the Bauhaus philosophies of design, Cuadrado maps the development of his formal inquiries alongside his engagement with Black, Brown, queer, and gender studies. He earned a BFA in Drawing from Pratt Institute in 2018 and an MFA in Painting & Printmaking from Yale University in 2024. Following his MFA, he attended the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University, where he studied under scholar Stephen Michael Best. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at Harkawik in 2021, Coco Hunday in 2022, and Turley in 2025. He is currently working towards his first Chicago solo exhibition with 65Grand. He currently lives and works in Chicago, IL.

Michael Cuadrado Gonzalez (b. 1995) is an artist from San Juan, Puerto Rico. By way of painting, drawing, and installation, Cuadrado investigates the optics of spatial perception in hopes of exploring, and perhaps further complicating, the slippery relationship between identity and formalism. How do our assumed understandings of identification form how we engage with and interpret our surrounding spaces? Beginning with his affinities and aversions to the Bauhaus philosophies of design, Cuadrado maps the development of his formal inquiries alongside his engagement with Black, Brown, queer, and gender studies. He earned a BFA in Drawing from Pratt Institute in 2018 and an MFA in Painting & Printmaking from Yale University in 2024. Following his MFA, he attended the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University, where he studied under scholar Stephen Michael Best. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at Harkawik in 2021, Coco Hunday in 2022, and Turley in 2025. He is currently working towards his first Chicago solo exhibition with 65Grand. He currently lives and works in Chicago, IL.