May Lyn Cruz

Biography

May Lyn Cruz is an Assistant Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Theory at the College of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines Diliman, where she teaches courses in Philippine art history and art education. She holds undergraduate degrees in Economics and Art History from the same university, and a Master’s degree in Arts Management from the State University of New York – University at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo), where she studied under a Fulbright scholarship.

Her research interests lie in the intersecting fields of art history, art education, and museum studies. In addition to her academic role, she maintains a professional practice as a museum consultant and curator. She is a respected scholar on the Metropolitan Museum of Manila, one of the major art museums in the Philippines, and has curated numerous major exhibitions for the museum since the 1990s.

In the past two years, she has curated exhibitions drawn from the museum’s collection, which includes Philippine contemporary art as well as American and European modern and contemporary prints. She has several upcoming exhibitions based on the same collection, which aim to continuously highlight its relevance to current and critical discourses in museums, art, and society.

May Lyn Cruz, Professor at the University of the Philippines in Quezon City, Philippines, has been awarded by the Getty Foundation.