Beatriz Cortez
Beatriz Cortez
Beatriz Cortez is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. In retro-futuristic sculpture made of steel, plants, electronics and a myriad of other industrial and organic materials, the work explores concepts of simultaneity, life in different temporalities, alternative versions of modernity, memory and loss in the aftermath of war, and the experience of migration and how it relates to imagination and the future.
She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including a recent solo at the Craft Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles (2019). Recent group exhibitions include Frieze Sculpture, New York (2020); In Plain Sight at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2019); Candelilla, Coatlicue, and the Breathing Machine at Ballroom Marfa, Texas (2019) and Made in LA at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2018); Queens Museum, New York (2019); BANK / MABSOCIETY in Shanghai, China (2019); the Whitney Museum of American Art (2017); Centro Cultural Metropolitano in Quito, Ecuador (2016); Museo de Arte MARTE in San Salvador, El Salvador (2014), among others.
Cortez has received the Artadia Los Angeles Award (2020), Frieze LIFEWTR Inaugural Sculpture Prize (2019), Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant (2018), and California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists (2016), among others. She holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, and a Ph.D. in Literature and Cultural Studies from Arizona State University. She teaches at California State University, Northridge. Cortez is represented by Commonwealth and Council.
