Beatriz Cortez

Beatriz Cortez is a multidisciplinary artist born in El Salvador and based in Los Angeles and Davis, CA. Her work explores simultaneity, multiple temporalities, and speculative imaginaries. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including recent solo exhibitions at Storm King Art Center (2023); Williams College Museum of Art (2023); Commonwealth and Council (2022); Pitzer College Art Galleries (2022); and Craft Contemporary Museum of Art (2019). Her work is included in the 60th International Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, Foreigners Everywhere (2024), and the 14th Shanghai Biennial. Cortez is the recipient of the Latinx Artist Fellowship (2023), Borderlands Fellowship (2022-24), and Artadia Los Angeles Award (2020). Her work is represented in the collections of the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Michigan State University Broad Art Museum; El Paso Museum of Art; Ford Foundation, New York. Cortez received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and a PhD in Latin American Literature from Arizona State University. She is Associate Professor of Art at the University of California, Davis.

Programs:

• 2024 Marcus Exhibition (Art on the Grounds): Future Dreaming… A Path Forward

Artworks:

• Cosmic Mirror (The Sky over Saratoga) (2022, reconfigured 2024) 
• Ilopango, the Volcano that Left (2023)