Chroma showcased the experimental and multidisciplinary nature of Cruz-Diez’s practice. The exhibition consisted of two public site-specific installations and new work specifically conceived for SCAD Museum of Art’s interior gallery space. The installations provided an overview of Cruz-Diez’s fundamental concerns regarding the transformative possibility that color is the diachronic and unstable, dependent on individual perception, space and context. In addition to the installation within the museum, a series of outdoor interventions were extended to the museum’s courtyard space to extend the dialogue, a strategy common in Cruz-Diez’s practice. A large, altered shipping container placed in the museum courtyard held “Chromosaturation,” a series of connecting color chambers that provided the intangible experience of pure color. A large-scale crosswalk painting, a Cruz-Diez trademark, was also installed in the museum’s courtyard

Chroma opened during SCAD deFINE Art program on February 21, 2017. The exhibition was curated by Storm Janse van Rensburg, SCAD head curator of exhibitions, and SCAD art history alumna Raquel Serebrenik Sultan in cooperation with the artist’s studio Articruz and the Cruz-Diez Art Foundation. SCAD deFINE Art is the university’s annual program celebrating leading international artists from the contemporary art world and held at SCAD locations in Savannah, Atlanta, and Hong Kong.