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Home My WebLink AboutBack-Up DocumentsXavier Cortada 0 r: J ` / 0 CJ @xcortada 14275 SW 73rd Avenue, Palmetto Bay, FL 33158 xavier@cortada.com 1305-858-1323 I www.cortada.com PROFESSIONAL: • Professor of Practice: Artist, Department of Art and Art History, University of Miami (2019-present) • Collaborator, McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER (Long Tern Ecological Research) Project, Antarctica (2018-present) • Artist -in -Residence, Pinecrest Gardens (2017-present) • Artist, Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, White Mountains, NH (2012-present) • Visiting Professor/Adminstrator, Artist -in-Residence, Florida International University (2011-2018) College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts (CARTA) College of Arts, Sciences & Education (CASE) I School of Environment, Arts and Society (SEAS) • Professional Artist (1997-present) EDUCATION: • Juris Doctor, University of Miami School of Law Coral Gables, FL (1991). • Master of Public Administration, University of Miami Graduate School, Coral Gables, FL (1991). • Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences, Coral Gables, FL (1986). SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS • Permanent collection of the Perez Art Museum Miami • Permanent collection of the NSU Museum of Art Ft. Lauderdale • Permanent collection of the Whatcom Museum • Permanent collection of the Patricia and Philip Frost Art Museum • Permanent collection of the MDC Museum of Art + Design • The World Bank • Department of State Art Collection, State of Florida SELECTED PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS 2013-18 Miami -Dade Housing Authority, ten sites, Miami, FL 2012-15 Broward County Public Art and Design Program, Port Everglades Terminal 2 and 4, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 2012 Miami -Dade Art in Public Places, City of Miami Gardens Aquatic Center, Miami Gardens, FL 2008 State of Florida Art in State Buildings, Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL. 2008 Monroe County Art in Public Places, Upper Keys Government Center, FL. 2008 Pinellas County Art in Public Places, Florida Botanical Gardens, Largo, FL. 2007 Monroe County Art in Public Places North Key Largo Fire Station, Key Largo, FL. SELECTED MEDIA: • "T Agitprop: 12 Artists on Climate Change," by Zoe Lascaze, New York Times, T Magazine, August 22, 2018. • Art in the Anthropocene, by Alan C. Braddock and Renee Ater. Source: American Art, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Fall 2014), p. cover2. Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Smithsonian American Art Museum • When Science Meets Art, by the Editorial Staff at COSMOS Magazine. Published in COSMOS 77 — Summer 2018, April 25, 2018. • Painting the Genome for the Public, Science, 4 February 2011: Vol. 331 no. 6017 p. 548 • Green Museum, by Allison Compton, Public Art Review, Issue 40, pp 52-55 (Spring/Summer 2009). • Global Warnings, by Suzaan Boettger, Art in America, Issue No. 6, pp. 154-161, 206- 207, June/July 2008. • Kunsthaus Miami exhibit. Review by Milagros Bello. Published in arte al dia (International Magazine ofContemporary Latin American Art), edition 119, (July 2007). SELECTED GRANTS/Residencies/Conferences/Awards: • H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest Artist -in Residence (Oregon), 2016 • NEA & Kennedy Center: Future of Arts & Creativity in America Convening, (DC), 2016 • Arts in Democracy Research Exchange I Kettering Foundation (Dayton, OH), 2016 • Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest Artist -in Residence (New Hampshire), 2016 • The Robert Rauschenberg Residency: Rising Waters Confab (Captiva, FL), 2015 • Flower Power: Cultivando / Flowers for Cuba, The Studios Key West, Key West, FL, 2014 • Art for the Compact Muon Solenoid in CERN's Large Hadron Collider, Geneva, Switzerland, 2013 • Cintas Fellowship in Art, Finalist 2012-13, • Arts Alliance of Northern New Hampshire Artist -in Residence, White Mountain National Forest, NH, 2012 • BLOOM at Kaohsiung International Container Art Festival, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, 2011 • The Coral Eco-Art projects, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, ECHO (Education through Cultural and Historic Organizations), Honolulu, Hawaii, 2010 • Paths and Traces/Chemins et Traces, Fondation Derouin — Symposium 2009, Les Jardins du Precambrien, Val -David, Quebec, Canada, 2009 • Kunst- en natuurwandeling OverLeven, Foundation Nature Art Drenthe (Stichting Natuurkunst Drenthe), Drenthe, The Netherlands, 2009 • 90N (North Pole) Installations, New York Foundation for the Arts, NYFA sponsored artist, 2008. • Art in Antarctica (South Pole Installations), National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, 2006-2007 • Prior grantors also include: U.S. State Department, USAID, State of Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, Miami -Dade Cultural Affairs Council, Miami -Dade Art in Public Places and NYFA Sponsored Artist. SELECTED LECTURES In recent years, Cortada has delivered formal lectures about his art at: White House, Washington, D.C. (2015) I TEDxFIU, Miami, FL (2013) I Gulf Coast State College, Panama City, FL (2013) I Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL (2013) I Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL (2014) 1 University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (2014) I Harn Museum, Gainesville, FL (2013) I CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (2013) I Florida Museum of Natural History, Tallahassee, FL (2013) I Auburn University, Auburn, AL (2009) I Exploratorium (at the Palace of Fine Arts), San Francisco, CA (2009) I NKNU Graduate Institute of Interdisciplinary Art, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (2011) I Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY (2011) I Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA (2008) Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (2010) I San Jose State University, San Jose, CA (2010) I United States Embassy, Helsinki, Finland (2008) I University of South Florida St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, FL (2011) I White Mountain National Forest, Campton, NH (2012) LEADERSHIP: • Chair, Miami -Dade Cultural Affairs Council, Miami, FL (2018-present) • Influencers, Miami Herald, 2018 • Climigration Network, Steering Committee (2018-present) • University of Miami Alumni Association, Board of Directors (2017-present) • South Arts, Board of Directors, Atlanta, GA (2016-present) • Vice Chair (2012), Florida Council on Arts and Culture, Tallahassee, FL (2008-2012) • Councilor, Miami -Dade Cultural Affairs Council, Miami, FL (2005-present) • Member, City of Miami Arts and Entertainment Council, Miami, FL (past) • Executive Committee, Miami -Dade Community Relations Board (CRB) (past) SELECTED GROUP and SOLO EXHIBITS: 2018 Miami New Media Festival, 13th Edition, Concrete Space, Dora!, FL 2018: 90N, Creative Pinellas, Largo, FL 2018 "Endangered Species: Artists on the Front Line of Biodiversity," Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA 2018 "Vanishing Ice: Alpine and Polar Landscapes in Art 1775-2012," Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN 2018 Florida is..., The Frank, Pembroke Pines, FL 2018 "Arrived," Lighthouse ArtCenter Gallery, Tequesta, FL 2017 "Temperature Check: Body of Evidence," MACLA, San Jose, CA 2017 DEERING SPRING CONTEMPORARY "PLATFORM 450" exhibit, Deering Estate, Palmetto Bay, FL 2017 Elements of Climate Change, CCSU Galleries, New Britain, CT 2015 CLIMA, Milander Center, Hialeah, FL 2015 The National Weather Center Biennale, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 2015 Anthroposcene: Art and Nature in a Manufactured Era, University of Miami CAS Gallery, Miami, FL 2015 Vanishing Ice: Alpine and Polar Landscapes in Art, 1775 — 2012, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Ontario, CA 2015 Fermilab Art Gallery presents Art @ CMS, Fermilab, Batavia, IL 2014 Littoral Creatures, Broward College, Davie, FL 2014 Flower Power: Cultivando I Flowers for Cuba, Oldest House and Garden Museum, Key West, FL SELECTED GROUP and SOLO EXHIBITS (continued): 2013 The "500 Exhibit", Marjorie Stoneman Douglas Biscayne Nature Preserve Gallery, Key Biscayne, FL 2011 BLOOM: Kaohsuing International Container Art Festival, Kaohsuing Museum of Art, Kaohsuing, Taiwan 2010 Sequentia, Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL 2010 The Liberators Project/Liberadores (Denver Biennial of the Americas), Museo de las Americas, Denver, CO. 2009 Water: Three States, Auburn University Art Gallery, Auburn, AL. 2009 Polar Identity, Works Gallery, San Jose, CA. 2009 Antarctica: Collection from the Bottom of the World, Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, MD. 2008 Polar Attractions, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA. 2008 EPA (Environmental Performance Actions), EXIT ART, New York, NY. 2007 Weather Report, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO -- curated by Lucy Lippard. 2007 Envisioning Change, presented by the Natural World Museum and the United Nations Environment Programme at the Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Norway (June -August), and the BOZAR Center for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium (October- December), and the Ministry of Culture in Monaco (2008). 2006 Miami in Transition, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL. Xavier Cortada '' c ireM c)Y• @xcortada Xavier Cortada's science art practice is oriented toward social engagement and environmental concerns. The artist has created art installations in the Earth's poles to generate awareness about global climate change: In 2007, as a National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writer's Program Fellow, the artist used the moving ice sheet beneath the South Pole as an instrument to mark time; the art piece will be completed in 150,000 years. In 2008, he planted a green flag at the North Pole to reclaim it for nature and launch an eco-art reforestation effort. Cortada serves as Professor of Practice: Artist at the University of Miami. Through his primary appointment in the faculty of the Department of Art and Art History, he serves in the university's Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy, College of Arts and Sciences, Miami Business School, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (RSMAS), School of Architecture, School of Communication, and School of Law. Cortada often collaborates with scientists in his art making: • He serves as Collaborator on the Antarctic McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER (Long Term Ecological Research) project. • At CERN, Cortada worked with a physicist to develop a site -specific art installation capturing the five search strategies that the CMS experiment has used to discover a new Higgs -like particle. The five giant banners hang at the location where the particle was discovered. • He has also worked with a population geneticist on a project exploring our ancestral journeysout of Africa 60,000 years ago, with a molecular biologist to synthesize an actual DNA strand made from a sequence randomly generated by participants visiting his museum exhibit, and with botanists in participatory eco-art projects to reforest mangroves, native trees and wildflowers. • Cortada is currently working with scientists at Hubbard Brook LTER on a water cycle visualization project driven by real-time data collected at a watershed in New Hampshire's White Mountains. • Collaborating with the Florida Coastal Everglades LTER team at Florida International University, Cortada developed works depicting the glass shells of diatoms preserved in sedimentary core samples studied by scientists to grow our understanding of sea level rise in South Florida. From 2011-18, Cortada based his engaged art -science practice at Florida International University where he served as Visiting Professor/Administrator and Artist -in -Residence at FIU School of Environment, Arts and Society and the FIU College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts. Recent works that address Sea Level Rise and Global Climate Change include: • Underwater HOA I Village of Pinecrest (2018) • DO NOT OPEN I MACLA, San Jose (2017) • Hot for Hialeah I Union of Concerned Scientists (2016) • Five Action Steps to Stop Sea Level Rise I Rauschenberg Residency (2015) • Just Below the Surface (Founding of Miami Beach) 1 Florida Coastal Everglades LTER (2015) Earlier works include: • Endangered World: Biscayne National Park (2010) • Native Flags: North Pole I NYFA Sponsored Artist (2008) • Longitudinal Installation NSF Antarctic Writers and Artists Fellowship (2007) • Antarctic Ice Paintings 1 NSF Antarctic Writers and Artists Fellowship (2007) • The Reclamation Project I Frost Science Museum (2006) The Miami artist has also worked with groups globally to produce numerous collaborative art projects, including peace murals in Cyprus and Northern Ireland, child welfare murals in Bolivia and Panama, AIDS murals in Switzerland and South Africa, juvenile justice murals and projects in Miami and Philadelphia, and eco-art projects in Taiwan, Hawaii, and Holland. Cortada has also been commissioned to create art for CERN, the White House, the World Bank, Florida Botanical Gardens, Miami City Hall, Miami -Dade County Hall, the Florida Turnpike, Miami -Dade Housing Authority, the Frost Science Museum, Museum of Florida History, and the Frost Art Museum His work is in the permanent collections of the Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), the NSU Museum of Art in Ft. Lauderdale, the Whatcom Museum, and the Patricia and Philip Frost Art Museum. Corporations such as General Mills, Nike, Heineken and Hershey's have commissioned his art. Publishers like McDougal and Random House have featured it in school textbooks and publications. His work has also been featured in National Geographic TV and the Discovery Channel. Cortada's studio is located at Pinecrest Gardens where he serves as artist -in - residence, implements his participatory art projects and runs the Hibiscus Gallery. The artist also serves on boards of various national, regional and local groups, including: University of Miami Alumni Association, South Arts, Climidration Network and the Miami -Dade Cultural Affairs Council, which he chairs. Cortada, who was born in Albany, New York and grew up in Miami from the age of three. He holds three degrees from the University of Miami: Bachelor of Arts, College of Arts and Sciences (1986), Master of Public Administration, Miami Business School (1991) and Juris Doctor, School of Law (1991). Learn more at http://www.cortada.com. II Xavier Cortada ^xtartada 6 March 2019 Honorable Willy Gort Commissioner City of Miami 3500 Pan American Drive Miami, Florida Re: Restoring 17th Avenue Public Art Dear Commissioner Gort, I am writing into respectfully propose that I be contracted to help restore my Allapattah mural and help create new works to beautifying the flyover at the 17th Avenue on the North Bank of the Miami River. I've divided the proposal into two parts. Attached please find PDF files containing images depiciting how I would approach this effort. PART A: EXISTING ART WORK Image A-1: Restore existing mural of my Allapattah Alligator (the restoration would include an enhancement to the backdrop so that it isn't just a plain solid color field) Images A-2 and A-3: Restore the art work (of my mangrove seedlings) existing in the flyover's three columns-- the seedlings would be repainted with new designs. PART B: NEW ART WORK Images B-1-A, B-1-B, and B-2: Design and paint a new mural along the flyover wall (on NW North River Drive) facing the Miami River depicting my mangrove roots. Attached also please find a proposed budget and my resume. References of other public art works are available upon request. If approved, I would coordinate a team of paid assistants and volunteers to help me with this undertaking. When painting the Mangrove Roots mural (depicted in PART B of the proposal) on NW N. River Drive, I would request that the city help coordinate traffic needs. We would select mutually agreed upon times (e.g. early weekend mornings) to block the left lane adjacent to the wall. The work on Part A is self-contained within sidewalks and safe spaces and should not require any traffic disruption or support from the City. Sincerely, Xavier Cortada, Artist 14275 SW 73rd Avenue, Palmetto Bay, FL 33158 phone: 305-858-1323 email: xavier@cortada.com website: http://www.cortada.com PROPOSAL by XAVIER CORTADA, INC Allapattah 17th Avenue Underpass Artwork: Restoration of existing art and creation of new artwork PART A: RESTORE/ENHANCE EXISTING ARTWORK PART B: CREATE NEW ARTWORK Underpass: Columns (3) and Alligator Mural Side wall: Manrgove Roots PROJECT MANAGEMENT Project Coordinator/Administative Costs $ 700.00 $ 500.00 DESIGN and CREATION Artist Fee $ 25,000.00 $ 15,000.00 Assistants $ 2,500.00 $ 2,500.00 MATERIALS Paint Pressure Clean and site prep $ 500.00 $ 850.00 Paint and sealer $ 2,500.00 $ 2,250.00 Brushes, buckets, etc $ 750.00 $ 250.00 OTHER COSTS Photodocumentation/printing/stencils $ 350.00 $ 200.00 Miscellaneous (e.g., transport, refreshments) $ 450.00 $ 450.00 SUBTOTAL $ 32,750.00 $ 22,000.00 TOTAL $ 54,750.00 Copyright Xavier Cortada 2019 Xavier Cortada xavier@cortada.com www.cortada.com Mangrove Roots 7th Avenue Public Ar r rt DATE: March 6 th, 2019 SCALE _ N/A DRAWN Xavier Cortada JOB Allapattah Street Art SHEET B-1-A Copyright Xavier Cortada 2019 Xavier Cortada xavier@cortada.com www.cortada.com Mangrove Roots 17th Avenue Public Art: Side Wall (75 Q rri DATE: March 6 th, 2019 SCALE, N/A DRAWN Xavier Cortada JOB Allapattah Street Art SHEET B-1-B Copyright Xavier Cortada 2005 Xavier Cortada xavier@cortada.com www.cortada.com 111 Q 0 cc 2 L 17th Avenue Public Art: Side Wall DATE: March 6th, 2019 SCALE, N/A DRAWN Xavier Canada JOB Allapattah Street Art SHEET B-2