Vanessa Hernández Cruz (she, her, ella) is an interdependent & interdisciplinary Chicana Disabled dance artist, filmmaker, visual artist, poet, & a Disability Justice activist. This year she premiered her new experimental contemporary dance solo titled ‘Soul Seeker' for the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition show 'Abundance' and at On The Boards for the Mouthwater Dance Festival in Seattle. Early in the fall she recently premiered her first evening length at Highways Performance Space titled: Void Decryption ERROR.

Over the past few years Vanessa’s work has been shown nationally & internationally. She is currently the recipient of the 2023 California Arts Council x The Center of Cultural Power Artist Disruptor Award. This year she has performed an excerpt of Jérôme Bel’s work ‘GALA’ at REDCAT, performed with Good Troublemakers, and she has finished her Pieter Performance Space residency with a showing of a duration dance performance ‘Cyber Realms’. In 2023, she had two exciting dance solos that premiered in the summer: “Metal, Plastic, Skin” debuting at The Odyssey Theatre’s Dance Festival and “Exhale Static, Inhale Fumes” with her debut at The REDCAT’s NOW Festival.

Her dance, visual artwork, and writings are often woven together to generate works that have influences of dark aesthetics, horror, abstractions, experimentation, and storytelling that merges her Chicana Disabled experiences.