The Tramp shares the process of creating collaborative art

June 25, 2026

The Voice of San Francisco reviews Caguiat Delacruz’s The Tramp.

Caguiat Delacruz, The Tramp, 2026, production still.

Caguiat Delacruz, production still from The Tramp, 2026. Courtesy of the artists, Greene Naftali, New York, Hoffman Donahue, New York and Los Angeles, and Modern Art, London.

On view through November 21, 2026, the exhibition brings together a newly commissioned film, installation, painting, and prints, marking the artists’ first institutional exhibition on the West Coast. At its center is a film following the characters Wesley, his dog Chips, and Hiroko (played by Butoh dancer Hiroko Tamana) as they wander through Oakland and Half Moon Bay, reimagining Charlie Chaplin's Tramp for the present moment. The gallery itself becomes part of the work, with deconstructed film sets, storyboards, costumes, and ephemera filling the space, and a VHS transfer of the film that randomly rewinds and fast-forwards so no two viewings are quite the same.