William Cordova
Born in Lima, Peru
Lives and works in Lima, Peru Education
1996
B.F.A., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2003
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2004
M.F.A., Yale University, Master of Fine Arts, New Haven, CT
Grants
2005 Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York, NY
New York Community Trust, New York, NY
2003 Yale Graduate Residency scholarship, New Haven, CT
2001 South Florida Cultural Consortium, Miami, FL
2000 Fellowship, Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
Solo Exhibitions
2009 "Trienal Poll/fráfica de San Juan", Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, Puerto Rico
"More than Bilingual", Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Vermont
2008 "pachacuti, pachacuti, pachacuti", OK Mountain, Austin,
"Moby Dick (Tracy)", Artpace, San Antonio,
"the house that frank lloyd wright built for atahualpa, fred hampton y mark clark”, Three Walls Gallery 2D, Chicago
2007 “Pachacuti (Stand up next to a mountain)”, Arndt & Partner, Zürich
2006 “Pálante”, Arndt & Partner, Berlin
“Drylongso (Pichqa Suyo)”, PS.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island, New York
2005 “Drylongso (Pichqa Suyo)”, PS.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island, NY
2003 “No More Lonely Nights”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
2002 “You Shook Me All Night Long”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada
2001 “Maybe I’m Amazed”, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
Group Exhibitions
2008 “NeoHooDoo: Art for a forgotten faith”, The Menil Collection, Houston
“Whitney Biennial”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Casa de Carton”, Ingalls & Associates, Miami, Florida
“Street Level”, Massachusetts Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
“Core program Exhibition”, Core: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
2007 "Street Level", Nasher Museum, Duke University, Durham, NC
"Street Level", Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
"Core: Artist Residency exhibition", Core: Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX
2006 "I wish it Were True", Jamaica Center for The Arts & Learning, Queens, NY
"New York Narratives", Oakland University, Detroit, Michigan
"The Beautiful Game", Roebling Hall, New York, NY
"Fine Print", Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ
2005 "I Wish it Were True", Project Row House, Houston, TX
"Being There", Cuchifritos, New York, NY
"Scratch", The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
"Maximum Flavor", Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
2004 “Color Theory”, Vitamin Art Space, Turin, Italy
“Thesis Exhibition”, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2003 “Altoids”, Curiously Strong Collection, New Museum, New York, NY
“Utopia Station”, 49th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2002 “Americas Remixed”, Faborica de Vapore, Milan, Italy
“Mass Appeal”, Arts Intercultural, Quebec, Canada
2001 “Humid”, The Moore Space, Miami, FL
Collections
Center for photography, Woodstock, NY
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal
Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany
Nasher Museum, Duke University, Durham, NC
New Museum, New York, NY
Miami Dade Public Library, Miami, FL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
Polaroid Collection, Boston, MA
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Museum Collection, Harvard, Cambridge, Ma
Bibliography
2007 Broili, Susan. "Urban Landscapes", The herald Sun, March 22, Pg 21-22
Canavan, Gerry. S"treet Painting Men,” Independent Weekly, March 28, Pg 14-15
Schoonmaker, “Trevor”, Street Level. March 2007
Martin, Courtney, “I wish it were true Catalogue”. December 2007
2006 Borcherdt, Gesine, “Ground Zero”, Monopol. October/November, 2006, Pg 98-100
Nesbett, Peter, Slight of Hand, Art on Paper, May-June 2006, Pg 48-49
Richmond, Susan, Gimme Shelter, Art Papers, March-April 2006, Pg 52,53
Martin, Courtney, Fine Print Catalogue, Spring 2006
Ward, Jeff.M, Round 23, Artl!es, Winter, 2006, Pg 117
2005 Ammirati, Domenick. “Best pick: I wish it were true”, Art Forum.com, December 2005
Carter, Holland, “Scratch”, The New York Times, Art & Leisure, July 24, 2005, Pg 14
Scobie, IIka. “Go for it,” Artnet.com, May 2005, Pg 2
2004 Moreno, Gean. “Review of NMLN”, Flash Art, March/April 2004, Pg 85
2003 Feinstein, Roni. “Expanding Horizons”, Art in America, December 2003
Ocana, Damarys. “In the Mix”, Street, November28, 2003, Pg 34
Kerr, Merrily. “New Wave at Kravits/Wehby”, Flash Art, March/April 2003, Pg 50
2002 Finch, Charlie. “More Racist than Trent Lott”, Artnet.com, January 12, 2002
Enright, Robert. “The Glove and Mail”, Section R, September 18, 2002, Pg 5
Turner, Elisa. “Another Kind of Pop Artist”, The Miami Herald, September 22, 2002. Pg 14, 15
2001 Lamb, John. “Maybe I’m Amazed”, High Plains Reader, November 18, 2001, Pg 12, 15
Wallach, Amei. “In Miami, A hot spot of Art”, The New York Times, Sept 16, 2001. Pg 3
Espinoza, Eugenio. “Making Art in Miami”, Art Nexus, April 2001, Pg 114-115
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