Xavier Cortada: Commissions and Collections

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SELECTED AWARDS

2008        New York Foundation for the Arts, NYFA sponsored artist

2007        Creative Capital Professional Development Program

2006-07   National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program

SELECTED COMMISSIONS & ART PROJECTS

2008   Art in State Buildings, Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL

2008 Monroe County Art in Public Places, Upper Keys Government Center, Key Largo, FL

2008 Pinellas County Art in Public Places, Florida Botanical Gardens, Largo, FL

2008   Coconut Grove Arts Festival Poster Artist, Miami, FL

2007   Monroe County Art in Public Places North Key Largo Fire Station, Key Largo, FL

2007   Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, Hispanic Heritage Month poster, Tallahassee, FL

2006   House of Cards, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami, FL

2006   Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, Florida Heritage Month poster, Tallahassee, FL

2005   City Hall Murals, City of Miami, FL

2004   Our Community, Miami-Dade County Hall, Foyer to Commission Chambers, Miami, FL

2004   Miami Mangrove Forest, underpasses of I-95 throughout City of Miami

2003   Dreaming of a World Free of Poverty, The World Bank, Washington, D.C.

2002 Stepping into the American Dream – the official mural of the White House Conference on Minority Homeownership, Washington, D.C.

2001 I do hereby promise mural, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL.

2000 Listen to the Children of the Green Island mural for the US Embassy, Nicosia, Cyprus.

2000 Northern Ireland Peace mural sponsored by the U.S. State Department, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

2000 Breaking the Silence mural during the 13th International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa.

1999   Centennial Commemorative mural (glass mosaic) on façade of Miami-Dade County Juvenile Courthouse, Miami, FL.

1998 Bridging the Gap mural during the 12th International AIDS Conference in Geneva, Switzerland.

Xavier Cortada's work has been shown across the Americas, Europe, Africa and Antarctica and locally in the Miami Art Museum, the Miami Museum of Science & Planetarium and the Bass Museum of Art. The Miami artist has been commissioned to create art for the White House, the Florida Supreme Court, Miami City Hall, the Museum of Florida History and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Cortada's work is also in the permanent collection of The World Bank.

For more information, please visit http://www.cortada.com.

Email:
xavier@cortada.com