Ian Cross is an interdisciplinary artist who investigates current approaches to visual phenomena, cognitive studies, and language acquisition. Researching historical and contemporary examples of typography, narratology, semiotics, and phenomenology, his creative projects embrace seeing as a form of active reading.

His recent creative efforts have been shown in various venues around the globe, including the US, China, Canada, and Eastern Europe. In 2024, he was invited to present and discuss his creative projects at the Vermont Studio Center.

Receiving a Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking and Drawing (2004) from Ohio State University, Ian Cross continues to establish novel theoretical investigations that reframe the foundations of text as a picture.

Ian Cross was born in Fairfax, VA. He lived there briefly before traveling abroad and hopscotching across shifting geographies that traversed the US, Asia, Europe, and the Arabian Peninsula. These cross-cultural experiences imprinted on him the accents of a life without rootedness and continue to form a philosophy crafted and centered on change, unlearning, and relearning. The sum of these encounters with otherness and dislocation taught him to embrace new ideas, cultural values, and practices of difference.