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November 2021
Climate Change: Artists Respond with Baruch College
This panel brings together contemporary artists whose artwork contributes to a broader public understanding of the consequences of climate change for human and non-human existence, and the urgent need for action and mitigation. The seemingly overwhelming scale of the climate crisis is a recognized barrier to public participation in tackling it. Art can overcome this resistance through a myriad of methods, from educating and raising awareness to modeling problem solving or giving voice and form to intangible forces. Xavier Cortada,…
Find out more »Xavier Cortada Award at the State of the Village Address
On Thursday, November 18th, the Village of Palmetto Bay celebrated the 19th Annual State of the Village Address! For the first time in more than a year, residents had the opportunity to attend both in-person and virtually. The evening marked the official launch of the Village's 20th Anniversary Celebration! Mayor Karyn Cunningham delivered an inspiring address from the Student Activity Center at Westminster Christian School to nearly 200 residents who attended in person and more than 100 who watched on…
Find out more »Guest Artist at Miami New Media Festival 2021
New Media Art and the Pandemic Art expressions are an answer to our present. The 2020-2021 long social hiatus triggered creativity and art products about what we lived this year. People lost family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers. Many people are struggling to recover facing financial or physical troubles, and trying to adjust themselves again to their lives. Communities are beginning to gather together again, with fear and caution. Life won’t be the same again. ACF wants to gather and share…
Find out more »HELLO at Art Miami
Main | About | Participate | COP26 | Art Miami | Press Art Miami's elevation stands at just 3.27 feet above sea level. Cortada is bringing HELLO to its doors to have conversations about how climate change will impact Miami through the power of art. Earlier this month in Glasgow, artist Xavier Cortada launched the HELLO project, which aimed to reframe the way delegates of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) saw one another and their collective vulnerability,…
Find out more »December 2021
Flower Force Opening Reception
OPENING RECEPTION Sunday, December 5, 2021 at 1 p.m. at the Hibiscus Gallery at Pinecrest Gardens 11000 SW 57th Ave, Pinecrest, FL 33156 You are invited to join local artist Xavier Cortada in welcoming Miami Art Week! On December 3rd, 2021, the opening reception for his solo exhibition "Flower Force" is the first since its closing in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, and is a decade-long exploration of his evolving body of work exploring the importance of wildflowers.…
Find out more »Dedication of Eco-art Colonnade
PINECREST GARDENS LAUNCHES CORTADA’S ECO-ART COLONNADE On Dec. 5 at 2 p.m., the Village of Pinecrest will dedicate Xavier Cortada’s Eco-art Colonnade, an interactive 200-foot long eco-art exhibition that will be on display at Pinecrest Gardens. The Eco-art Colonnade showcases a collection of Cortada’s most important projects so visitors can learn about critical environmental issues impacting South Florida, participate in a range of ongoing eco-art initiatives, and ultimately discover how they can help to protect people and the planet. …
Find out more »January 2022
Florida is… Nature exhibition at Hibiscus Gallery
JOIN US FOR Florida is... Nature also featuring Seahorse Society on exhibition from January 13, 2022 through January 8, 2023 at Hibiscus Gallery at Pinecrest Gardens By appointment only. Please contact info@hibiscusgallery.com for details. Learn more about Florida is... Nature here. Due to COVID-19, the listing above has been modified. Please visit hibiscusgallery.com/current-exhibitions for updated calendar.
Find out more »Ecologies of Meaning in Art, Science & Technology Collaborations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AoDY86uTjc For this live-streamed event, transdisciplinary artist Erika Blumenfeld (2000 Creative Capital Awardee) will moderate a conversation with transmedia artist Stephanie Dinkins (2019 Creative Capital Awardee), environmental artist Xavier Cortada (2022 Creative Capital Awardee), and Mónica Bello, head curator at Arts at CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics). Each will share brief presentations about their respective work across art, science and technology, and discuss the perceived boundaries, entanglements, and kinships of these fields. Together they will consider the contributions artists can make in collaborations with the sciences,…
Find out more »February 2022
Oolite Arts’ Home + Away 2022
Cortada has been selected for Oolite Arts’ Home + Away program that offers Miami-Dade based artists opportunities to participate in some of the most important artist residencies in the country. Along with dedicated hours to work on individual studio practices, Oolite Arts recognizes that time well spent in community with fellow artists is crucial in furthering artistic lives. Miami artists and filmmakers will receive access to communal workspace and to international curators and master artists, an unrestricted $2,500 stipend in…
Find out more »April 2022
ArtCARE 22 exhibition
Xavier Cortada, convictim, 60″ x 144″, mixed media on canvas, 2001. Office of the Public Defender, 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida, Miami, FL ArtCare on exhibition April 1, 2022 (tentative) Click here to download 2001 ArtCARE PDF Click here to learn more about ArtCARE (2001)
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