Contemporary Artist Lecture Series featuring Beatriz Cortez

Beatriz Cortez, Artist & Scholar

The Department of Art is featuring LA-based artist Beatriz Cortez as part of its 2020-21 Contemporary Artist Lecture Series. Primarily working in sculpture, Cortez explores themes of memory and loss in the aftermath of war, the experience of migration, and the imagination of possible futures. She was recently featured in Made in L.A. 2018 at The Hammer Museum and as part of The Getty’s Pacific Standard Time LA/LA initiative in 2017. She has also exhibited at institutions such as Craft Contemporary, The Vincent Price Museum, Ballroom Marfa, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, and she was the winner of the inaugural Frieze Arto LIFEWTR Sculpture Prize in 2019. Cortez, who was born in El Salvador, holds a Ph.D. in Latin American Literature and is a professor at California State University, Northridge. 

Friday, November 20 from 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
https://calstatela.zoom.us/j/85988180743


Beatriz Cortez, installation shot of Trinidad: Joy Station, at Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles (January 27-May 12, 2019).