Xavier Cortada performs “Surrender at Tunnel Brook” during his White Mountain National Forest Residency where he and participants engage in the futile attempt of rerouting the flow of Tunnel Brook by levitating a boulder.
Engaged Projects
- “FLOR500” – Combining art, nature, and history to commemorate Florida’s quincentennial (presented by the FIU College of Architecture + the Arts Office of Engaged Creativity in partnership with the FIU School of Landscape Architecture, Viva Florida 500, Museum of Florida History, Florida Higher Education Arts Network, History Miami, Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants Institute for Systematic Botany, Florida Wildflower Foundation, and Espana Florida Foundation, Florida).
- “Hill Farm Dinner Party” – Explaining the human history of the White Mountain National Forest and the need to protect important archeological sites (created during his residency at White Mountain National Forest in collaboration with archaeologist Terry Fifield, historic archaeologist Sarah Jordan, and descendants of the Merrill family, Thornton Gore, NH).
- “Surrender at Tunnel Brook” – Performing the futile attempt of rerouting the flow of water at White Mountain National Forest to conditions prior to Tropical Storm Irene in 2011 (created during his residency at White Mountain National Forest in collaboration with hydrologist Sheela Johnson and participants, Tunnel Brook Road, NH).
- “Flower Force (Tiled Drawings)” – Transforming a work of art into 104 living gardens dedicated to someone who has inspired project participants in Pennsylvania (exhibited at RE:Green at the Martha Gault Art Gallery at Slippery Rock University, PA).
- “Wind Words” – Communicating the work of scientists at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest to the broader community via the four winds (created during his residency at White Mountain National Forest in collaboration with Hubbard Brook Principal Investigator, Lindsay Rustad, Ph.D. and other Hubbard Brook Scientists, White Mountain National Forest, NH).
Public Art Commissions
“Splash!,” City of Miami Gardens Aquatic Center, Miami-Dade Art in Public Places, Miami Gardens, FL
Residencies
Arts Alliance of Northern New Hampshire Artist-in Residence, White Mountains National Forest, Center Sandwich, NH
Group Exhibitions
- 2012 Artistic Representations of Florida Throughout 500 Years, “Conquistadores,” “Raices,” and “Five Flags | Florida,” Florida Capitol 22nd Floor Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
- 2012 MLK @ The Frost (featuring: “Dream, Weave” and “Dream | Sheet”), Patricia and Philip Frost Museum, Miami, FL
- 2012 CINTAS Foundation Finalists exhibit (featuring: “Endangered World”, Freedom Tower, Miami Dade College Art and Design Museum, Miami, FL
- 2012 Turn Here: Artist Promoting Environmental Awareness (featuring: “Longitudinal Installation”), The Borowsky Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- 2012 RE: Green (featuring: “Flower Force”), Martha Gault Art Gallery, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA
- 2012 Nurturing Nature (featuring: “Endangered World Drawings” and “Endangered World: Life Wall”), Freedman Gallery, Reading, PA
- 2012 Take Me Home (featuring: “Bicknell’s Thrush” and “White Mountain Fritillary”), Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL
Solo Exhibitions
- 2012 Arte Americas (featuring: “Antarctic Ice Paintings,” “FLOR500” and “The Four Elements”), Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach, FL
- 2012 Habana in the Park: Avion Cubano Art Project and Exhibit (featuring: “Painted Cuban Plane” and “Freedom Luggage Installation”), Walker E. Library, Hialeah, FL
- 2012 Native Flags (featuring: “Native Flags”), Florida International University Graham Center Art Gallery, Miami, FL
Writings
- 500 Artists, Gardens Celebrate Florida’ 500th Birthday By Xavier Cortada. Posted in ARTSblog on December 17, 2012.
- Creating, Collaborating, Connecting with Art, Activism and the Internet By Xavier Cortada. Posted in ARTSblog on December 5, 2012.
Awards
- 2012-2013 Cintas Fellowship in Art, Finalist
Events, Lectures, Installations and Presentations
- MLK Dream Works at the Frost
January 10, 2012 - Habana in the Park: Avion Cubano art project and exhibit
January 20, 2012 - FIU students create Flor500 installation
March 01, 2012 - Flor500 and “Four Elements” at Arte Americas
March 03, 2012 - Nurturing Nature at Freedman Gallery
March 20, 2012 - Secretary Detzner hosts Flor500 Wildflower planting
March 22, 2012 - Flower Force at Green exhibit in Slippery Rock
April 02, 2012 - Native Flags exhibit at FIU Graham Center
April 09, 2012 - Flor500 at Florida Library Association Conference
April 18, 2012 - MDCPS Art Teacher Workshop at the Frost Art Museum
April 28, 2012 - Native Flags presentation at South Florida Tree Summit
May 10, 2012 - Turn Here: Artist Promoting Environmental Awareness
May 17, 2012 - Cortada participates in “Arts for Life” Artist Symposium
June 22, 2012 - White Mountain National Forest Artist Residency
July 01, 2012 - Artists-in-Residence Talk at WMNF
July 12, 2012 - WMNF Artist-in-Residence: Surrender at Tunnel Brook
July 22, 2012 - WMNF Artist-in-Residence: Hill Farm Dinner Party
July 26, 2012 - WMNF Artist-in-Residence: Wind Words
July 26, 2012 - WMNF Artist-in-Residence: Talks, exhibit and performance at Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery
July 28, 2012 - World Future Conference in Toronto
July 29, 2012 - Presentation to MDCPS Visual Art Teachers
August 16, 2012 - Artistic Represenatation of Florida throughout 500 Years
September 17, 2012 - Flor500 presentation at FIU Honors College
September 19, 2012 - Reclamation Project presentation at MDC Wolfson
September 19, 2012 - “Participatory Art Projects” presentation at Deering Estate
September 26, 2012 - Art Science lecture: University of Miami Department of Biology
September 27, 2012 - Reclamation Project presentation at the Dade County Science Teacher Association
September 27, 2012 - Endangered World exhibit as Finalist for CINTAS Foundation
October 10, 2012 - Cortada to present at Grantmakers in the Arts’ community engagement panel
October 16, 2012 - Cortada to present at Grantmakers in the Arts Conference’s Climate Change panel
October 17, 2012 - Good Morning Coral Gables: Invitation to the Arts
October 18, 2012 - Flor500 presentation at ADMMF Montessori Parent and Teacher Education Days
October 20, 2012 - Collaborative Mural for the American Cancer Society
October 26, 2012 - Cortada’s NH Artist Residency art in Sweat Broadsheet Collaboration
November 1, 2012 – December 21, 2012 - “All About Art” fundraiser at the Frost Art Museum
November 03, 2012 - Coconut Grove Art Festival “50th Anniversary” featuring Cortada’s Work
November 03, 2012 - Guest Speaker for Honors College course at FIU
November 5, 2012 - Artistic Movement lecture at the University of Miami
November 07, 2012 - Cortada judges Disney’s 37th annual Festival of the Masters
November 08, 2012 - Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner hosts Flor500 garden at Vizcaya
November 27, 2012 - Cortada Participates in FOREVERGLADES
November 30, 2012 - White Mountains art residency paintings on display at “Take Me Home”
November 30, 2012 – January 18, 2013
Press
- Eco-Art for and Endangered World: An Interview with Xavier Cortada
By Daniel Hudon
Eco-Now
August 10, 2012 - Endangered Species at the South and North Poles: The Eco-Art of Xavier Cortada
Eco-Now
August 8, 2012 - Artists-in-residence spend summer in N.H. forest
By Holly Ramer (Associated Press)
The Boston Globe
July 11, 2012 - Sayler & Morris / Open Lens Gallery
By Becky Huff Hunter
June 28, 2012 - Art Creates a Splash at Miami Gardens Rec Complex
Miami.cbslocal.com
May 3, 2012 - MAM acquire Xavier Cortada’s work about urban change in Miami to its Collection
Arte Aldia
March 2012