Mauro Agustín Cruz (b. 1991, Mar del Plata) briefly studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in La Plata in 2013, before returning to his hometown, where he joined the workshop “Todo es Escultura” led by Juan José Souto. In 2014, together with Nahuel Agüero, he founded Le Putit Galerie, the first gallery dedicated to young art in Mar del Plata.

His first solo exhibition was Respeto Ironía at Le Putit Galerie (2014). Other shows from his years of active practice include La Cabida Eterna, Foyer del Auditorio de Mar del Plata (2015); Colección Privada, Moria Galería, Buenos Aires (2016); and the group exhibition Post Dial Up at Centro Cultural Recoleta (curated by Seba Acampante, 2016). Together with MOTP he took part in arteBA Focus La Boca (2016); Paisajismo, Chauvin continuo, Auditorio de Mar del Plata (2018); and Bueno, hay otras maneras, Moria Galería (2018).

In 2017 he completed an artist residency at URRA with Max Gómez Canle for the exhibition Fulminante at La Casa de las Culturas in Tigre. In 2019 he was selected by the Fondo Nacional de las Artes (Argentina) to exhibit at the Casa Nacional del Bicentenario and received a grant from Club TRI (Mar del Plata) to lead an intensive open air painting seminar.