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1. BIO

   12.Apr.07, 14:02 EDT
   
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   Miami artist Xavier Cortada has exhibited his work in museums, galleries and cultural venues across the Americas, Europe, Africa and Antarctica—and locally at the Miami Art Museum, the Bass Museum of Art, the Miami Museum of Science and Planetarium and the Historical Museum of Southern Florida. Upcoming group shows include the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (Colorado), the Nobel Peace Center (Oslo) and the Royal Museums of Fine Art (Brussels). Cortada has created art for the White House, the World Bank, the Florida Supreme Court, and the Museum of Florida History. In his hometown, Cortada’s commissioned work hangs in City Hall, County Hall, the Miami Children’s Museum, and the facade of the Juvenile Courthouse. Cortada has worked with groups across the world to produce numerous large-scale murals and community art projects, including: eco-art installations on Miami Beach, International AIDS Conference murals in Switzerland and South Africa, peace murals in Northern Ireland and Cyprus, and child welfare murals in Panama and Bolivia. In 2007, as a recipient of the National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, he created site-specific installations at the South Pole. Cortada holds three degrees from the University of Miami – a Bachelor of Arts, Master of Public Administration and Juris Doctor. The Cuban-American artist’s work and writings are preserved in the Xavier Cortada Collection of the University of Miami Libraries Cuban Heritage Collection. He has been honored in the Congressional Record and with Xavier Cortada Day Proclamations by the City of Miami, Miami Beach, and Miami-Dade County. Cortada has received numerous awards for his volunteer work, including the prestigious Millennium International Volunteer Award from the U.S. Department of State/USA Today (for his work in Spain, Portugal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Mauritius, Kenya Tanzania, Colombia, Bolivia, Honduras and Guatemala) and the Florida International Volunteer Corps 1999 Outstanding Achievement Award (for his work in Costa Rica and Panama). In February 2000, Cortada was invited by the Holy See to participate in the Vatican’s Jubilee Day for Artists and met Pope John Paul II. In 2006, the artist received the National Champion for Children Award from the Child Welfare League of America.

2. COMMISSIONS

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   SELECTED COMMISSIONS & ART PROJECTS 2007 Monroe County Art in Public Places North Key Largo Fire Station, Key Largo, 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.

3. EXHIBITS

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   SELECTED SOLO ART EXHIBITS:
   
   2007    Native Flags and The Reclamation Project, Miami Science Museum, Miami, FL
   2007    Ice Paintings, Capitol Complex Exhibitions: Governor’s Office, Tallahassee, FL
   2007    Endangered World, Capitol Complex Exhibitions: Capitol Rotunda, Tallahassee, FL
   2007     Antarctica, Kunsthaus Miami Contemporary Art Space, Wynwood Arts District, Miami, FL
   2006     The Markers, Miami Museum of Science and Planetarium, Miami, FL
   2006    The Reclamation Project, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
   2006     Mangroves, solo exhibit at Artel Gallery, Pensacola, FL
   2005     Mangroves, solo exhibit at Miami-Dade College North Campus Gallery, Miami, FL.
   2005     Mangroves, Capitol Complex Exhibitions: Capitol Gallery (22nd Floor), Tallahassee, FL.
   2004     May It Please the Court, a solo exhibit in the rotunda of the Florida Supreme Court, Tallahassee, FL
   2004    !Celebra Libertad! Exhibit of the Painted Cuban Plane and Freedom Luggage Installation, Miami, FL
   2003    The Art of Xavier Cortada, Capitol Complex Exhibitions: Capitol Rotunda, Tallahassee, FL
   2001    No Tengan Miedo, solo exhibit at Latin American Art Museum, Miami, FL
   2000    Master-Peace 2000 exhibit, Historical Museum of Southern Florida, Miami, FL
   2000    "imago, imaginis",  St. Thomas University Atrium Art Gallery, Miami, FL.
   2000    "In the Capitol,"  Capitol Complex Exhibitions: Cabinet Meeting Room, Tallahassee, FL
   1999    Compartiendo con Panamá, University of Panama, Panama City, Panama.
   1998    "CUBABA," ArtCenter / South Florida, Miami Beach, Florida
   1997    "Compartiendo con Bolivia: Museo Tambo Quirquincho (La Paz), and Museo Historico Regional (Santa Cruz), Bolivia.  
   1997    "inter/cambios", solo exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cusco, Peru
   
   
   SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS:
   
   2007    Weather Report, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO (September - December)
                Curated by Lucy Lippard
   2007     Envisioning Change, presented by the Natural World Museum and the United Nations Environmental Programme at the Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Norway (June-August), and the BOZAR Center for  Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium (October- December), and the Ministry of Culture in Monaco (in February 2008)
   2006     Miami in Transition, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
   2006     El Corazon, Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX
   2005    OMNIART MIAMI III (Absence of Place), Miami, FL
   2005     Plural Miami, curated by Antonio Zaya in the World Arts Bldg, Wynwood Arts District, Miami, FL
   2005    La Caravela, Ice House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX
   2004    OMNIART MIAMI  I and II (honoring Art Basel Miami Beach and Art Miami 2005), Miami, FL
   2003     Turning Pages:  Celebrating South Florida Artist-Made Books, Centre Gallery Miami-Dade College Wolfson Campus (Miami, FL), FAU Arthur and Mata Jaffe Collection (West Palm Beach, FL)  and Bienes Center for the Literary Arts (Ft. Lauderdale, FL)
   1999    ONANI: The African presence in Latin American and Caribbean Visual Arts, El Taller Puertorriqueño, Philadelphia, PA
   1997    The Condition of Pandemics: Towards the Millennium, Longwood Arts Gallery (Bronx Council of                  the Arts), Bronx, NY
   1995    Berkeley Art Center Association 11th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Berkeley, CA
   
   

   SELECTED ART FAIRS:

   
   

   2007     Kunsthaus Booth, Art DC (Art Fair), Washington D.C. (April)

   2007     Trends, Arte Americas (Art Fair), Miami Beach, FL (March)

   2005      OMNIART MIAMI III (Absence of Place), Miami, FL
   2005      Plural Miami, curated by Antonio Zaya in the World Arts (during Art Basel 2005), Miami, FL

   2004     OMNIART MIAMI  I and II (honoring Art Basel Miami Beach and Art Miami 2005), Miami, FL