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"Not only having access to the DMCA but learning how to use programs properly gave me a bigger pallette from which to work. Learning discipline and how to simplify a process with so many choices made working and thinking clearer."
William Cordova was born in Lima, Peru and raised in Miami, Florida. He earned a BFA from The Art Institute of Chicago in 1996 and MFA from the Yale University School of Art in 2004.
Cordova examines the transitional points within time and space and their relationship to architecture.
Cordova has received several awards and grants in the arts including The Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant and The New York Community Trust Grant (2005; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2003); South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship (2001); Brandywine Workshop Fellowship/Residency, Center for Visual Arts, Philadelphia, PA (2000) and Flat Iron Artist Residency Program, Chicago, IL (1999).
His recent exhibitions include a one man show at Arndt & Partner, Zurich (2007); Street Level at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (2007); Scratch at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (2005). Previous exhibitions include Thesis Exhibition at Yale University, New Haven, CT (2004); Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, New Museum, New York, NY (2003) and solo exhibition No More Lonely Nights, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL (2003); Americas Remixed, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy (2002); Utopia Station, 49th Venice Biennale (2001); and The Present Absent: Seven Artist from Miami, Paco Imperial, Rio de Janeiro (1999).
Currently, William Cordova is an artist-in-residence at the Core Program at the Glassell School of Art within Houston's Museum of Fine Arts and is working on public art projects and museum exhibitions both nationally and internationally. |
