Awards

2024 Xavier Cortada Day, Miami-Dade County
2024 Florida Artists Hall of Fame, Florida Department of State
2024 ‘Arts & Environment’ Award, Miami-Dade County
2024 Most Treasured Citizen, WPLG Local 10 Don’t Trash Our Treasure
2024 Hall of Fame, Miami-Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS)
2024 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Excellence in Science Communication Award
2023 #100Latinos2023 — the 100 Latinos Most Committed to Climate Action by Sachamama and EFE
2023 The Ellies|Creator Award, Oolite Arts
2022 Creative Capital Award
2022 Grist 50
2022 University of Miami Fellowship in Art and Humanities
2021 Environmental Law Institute National Wetlands Award
2021 University of Miami Excellence in Civic Engagement Faculty Award
2020 Doris Leeper Leadership Award, Florida Alliance for Arts Education
2020-2021 Engaged Faculty Fellow, University of Miami Office of Civic and Community Engagement.
2019 New York Foundation for the Arts, NYFA sponsored artist: Plan(T)
2008 Coconut Grove Arts Festival Poster Artist
2008 New York Foundation for the Arts, NYFA sponsored artist: 90N (North Pole Installations)
2008 Human Services Coalition Community Leader Award
2007 Creative Capital Professional Development Program
2006 National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program
2006 Child Welfare League of America Champions for Children Award
2005 Hands-On Miami, The Chair’s Award
2000 Millennium International Volunteer Award, a United States Department of State/USA Today national award recognizing the artists collaborative mural work at the international level
2000 Jubilee Artist, Jubilee Day dedicated to Artists, The Vatican, Vatican City
1999 Florida Association of Volunteer Agencies for Caribbean Action (FAVA/CA) Florida International Volunteer Corps, Outstanding Achievement Award
1998 Awarded Grand Prize “Best of Show” Award at the Florida Museum of Hispanic and Latin American Art Arte + Arte group show, Coral Gables, Florida
1992 Price Waterhouse/South Florida Magazine UP & Comers Award
1985 University of Miami Iron Arrow
1982 Miami Herald Silver Knight Award

Congressional Record

Entered into the Congressional Record of the 108th Congress, Second Session, (“Honoring Xavier Cortada”), Washington, Wednesday, September 15th, 2004
Entered into the Congressional Record of the 105th Congress, First Session, (“Cuban American Artist Xavier Cortada”), Washington, Wednesday, April 22nd, 1998
Entered into the Congressional Record of the 102nd Congress, Second Session, (Vol. 138, No. 19), Washington, Wednesday, February 19th, 1992

PROCLAMATIONS

City of Miami proclaims Xavier Cortada Day, September 17, 2004
Miami-Dade County proclaims Xavier Cortada Day, September 17, 2004
Presented “Key to the City”, the City of South Miami, May 18th, 1999
“Xavier Cortada Day” Proclamation on January 6, 1999 by the City of South Miami, Florida
“Xavier Cortada Day” Proclamation by the City of Miami, April 4th, 1998
“Xavier Cortada Day” Proclamation by the City of Miami Beach, Florida on April 4, 1998
“Xavier Cortada Day” Proclamation by Miami-Dade County, Florida on April 4, 1998
Presented with the “Key to the Miami-Dade Housing Agency” for facilitating the Naranja Public Housing Mural Project, Miami-Dade County, September 8, 1997

GRANT AWARDS (SELECTED GRANTS, RESIDENCIES AND CONFERENCES)

Miami-Dade County Inaugural Artist-in-Residence (Miami, FL), 2022-present
Home & Away Residency, Anderson Ranch, (Aspen, CO), 2022
Pinecrest Gardens Artist-in-Residence (Pinecrest, FL), 2017-2024
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 | 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 Tracés, Fondation Derouin – Symposium 2009, Les Jardins du Précambrien, 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