Xavier Cortada serves as Artist-in-Residence at Pinecrest Gardens, where his studio, gallery and socially engaged art practice are based. He developed the curriculum for the Cortada Science Art Academy at Pinecrest Gardens by distilling lessons from three decades of art-making across six continents.
Cortada has created art installations at the North Pole and South Pole to address environmental concerns at every point in between. He has developed numerous collaborative art projects globally, including peace murals in Cyprus and Northern Ireland, child welfare murals in Bolivia and Panama, AIDS murals in Geneva and South Africa, and eco-art projects in Hawaii, New Hampshire, Taiwan, Holland, and Latvia.
The artist has been commissioned to create art for the White House, the World Bank, Pinecrest Village Hall, Miami City Hall, Miami-Dade County Hall, Florida Botanical Gardens, the Miami Art Museum, Museum of Florida History, Miami Science Museum and the Frost Art Museum.
Cortada is in the collections of the Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), the NSU Museum of Art in Ft. Lauderdale, the Whatcom Museum, the Frost Art Museum, the MDC Museum of Art + Design and the World Bank.
Cortada is Professor of Practice at the University of Miami Department of Art and Art History and Chair of the Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Council. He grew up in Miami and holds undergraduate, graduate and law degrees from the University of Miami.