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Xavier Cortada
924 Lincoln Road, Studio 201, Miami Beach, FL 33139
phone: 305 - 858 - 1323 email: xavier ..cortada.com website: http: //www.cortada.com
"Xavier Cortada created a series of extensive installations on his Antarctic visit, focusing on the
crucial element of time. The Florida native cast an ice replica of a Mangrove seedling that is very
slowly making its way over 150,000 years to the coastline. In contrast, he marked the mere 50-
year history of human presence at the South Pole with chronological flags stretching across the
frozen land."
Lucy R. Lippard
Weather Report exhibition catalog, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007.
BIOGRAPHY
Xavier Cortada has created art installations in the Earth's poles to generate awareness about global climate change: In 2007,
the artist used the moving ice sheet beneath the South Pole as an instrument to mark time; the art piece will be completed
in 150,000 years. In 2008, he planted a green flag at North Pole to reclaim it for nature and in so doing launch a global
reforestation eco -art effort.
Cortada has also developed participatory art projects to engage communities in local action at points in between. In
Florida, he has worked with scientists, arborists and environmental managers to develop eco -art projects that engage
community residents in bioremediation: coastal reforestation initiatives in Miami (Miami Science Museum, 2007), an
urban reforestation campaign in St. Petersburg (Florida Botanical Gardens, 2009), and coral reef preservation efforts in
Hawaii (Bishop Museum, 2010).
Cortada has also worked with groups internationally to produce numerous art projects and installations, including
environmental works in Holland (2009), Quebec (2009) and Latvia (2008), peace murals in Cyprus (2000) and Northern
Ireland (2000), child welfare murals in Bolivia (1997) and Panama (1999), and the official International AIDS
Conference murals in Geneva (1998) and South Africa (2000).
The Miami artist has also been commissioned to create art for the White House (2002), the World Bank (2003), Miami
City Hall (2005), Miami -Dade County Hall (2004), Miami Art Museum (2001), the Museum of Florida History
(2003) and the Frost Art Museum (2008).
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Corporations such as General Mills, Nike, Heineken and Hershey's have commissioned Cortada's art. Publishers like
McDougal and Random House have featured it in school textbooks and publications. His work has also been featured in
National Geographic TV and the Discovery Channel. Cortada, who 'was born in Albany, New York and grew up in
Miami, holds degrees from the University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences, Graduate School of Business and
School of Law.
For more information visit www.xaviercortada.com
SELECTED SOLO ART EXHIBITS:
2010 Sequentia, Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL.
2010 North Pole /South Pole (90n /90s) Installations, Miami Science Museum, Miami, FL.
2010 Endangered World: 80.15 / Installation, Biscayne National Park, Homestead, FL.
2009 Native Flags: North Pole, ecoartspace, Verge Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL.
2009 The Reclamation Project, Martin County Courthouse Cultural Center, Stuart, FL.
2008 Ancestral Dinner Party (The Genographic Project), Miami Science Museum, Miami, FL.
2007 South Pole Installations, Centre Gallery, Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus, Miami, FL.
2007 Native Flags and The Reclamation Project, Miami Science Museum, Miami, FL.
2007 Antarctica, Kunsthaus Miami Contemporary Art Space, Wynwood Arts District, Miami, FL.
2006 The Reclamation Project, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL.
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Xavier Cortada
924 Lincoln Road, Studio 201, Miami Beach, FL 33139
phone: 305 - 858 - 1323 email: xaviea..cortada.com website: httD: / /www.cortada.com
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS:
2010 The Liberators Project/Liberadores (Denver Biennale of the Ar iericas), Museo de las Americas,
Denver, CO.
2010 Adaptation, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL.
2009 Water: Three States, Auburn University Art Gallery, Auburn, AL.
2009 Polar Identity, Works Gallery, San Jose, CA.
2009 Antarctica: Collection from the Bottom of the World, Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, MD.
2009 Sustainable ?, Central Connecticut State University Gallery, New Britain, CT.
2008 The Green Project presented by the Claire Oliver Gallery, Miami, FL.
2008 Polar Attractions, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA.
2008 EPA (Environmental Performance Actions), EXIT ART, New York, NY.
2007 Weather Report, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO -- curated by Lucy Lippard.
2007 Envisioning Change, presented by the Natural World Museum and the United Nations Environment
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.
SELECTED MEDIA:
• Green Museum, by Allison Compton, Public Art Review, Issue 40, pp 52 -55 (Spring /Summer 2009).
• Global Warnings, by Suzaan Boettger, Art in America, Issue No. 6, pp. 154 -161, 206 -207, June /July 2008.
• The Arts: "The Longitudinal Installation: Representing those affected by climate change," Resurgence,
edition 243, page 32 -33 (July /August 2007).
• Kunsthaus Miami exhibit. Review by Milagros Bello. Published in arte al dia (International Magazine of
Contemporary Latin American Art), edition 119, (July 2007).
SELECTED GRANTS/Residencies:
• Paths and Traces /Chemins et Traces, Fondation Derouin — Symposium 2009, Les,Jardins du Precambrien, 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 include: U.S. State Department, USAID, State of Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, Miami -Dade
Cultural Affairs Council, Miami -Dade Art in Public Places.
SELECTED PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
2008 Art in State Buildings, Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL.
2008 Monroe County Art in Public Places, Upper Keys Government Center, FL.
2008 Pinellas County Art in Public Places, Florida Botanical Gardens, Largo, FL.
2007 Monroe County Art in Public Places North Key Largo Fire Station, Key Largo, FL.
EDUCATION:
December 1991 Juris Doctor University of Miami School of Law Coral Gables, Florida.
December 1991 Master of Public Administration University of Miami Graduate School.
December 1986 Bachelor of Arts in Psychology University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences.
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Xavier Cortada
924 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, FL 33139
305 -858 -1323
xavier @cortada.com 1 www.cortada.com
January 3, 2011
Hon. Matti H. Bower, Mayor
Hon. Jorge Exposito, Commissioner
Hon. Michael Gongora, Commissioner
Hon. Jerry Libbin, Commissioner
Hon. Ed Tobin, Commissioner
Hon. Deede Weithom, Commissioner
Hon. Jonah Wolfson, Commissioner
City of Miami Beach
1700 Convention Center Drive
Miami Beach, Florida 33139
Dear Mayor Bower and City Commissioners,
Through this letter I would like to respectfully request appointment to the Art in Public Places Committee of
the City of Miami Beach. Attached please find my application and resume for your review. You can also
learn more about me by visiting www.cortada.com.
As you can see, since 2005 I have served on the Miami -Dade County Cultural Affairs Council and
chaired several of its grant committees. I am also serving my second term on the state's Florida Council
on Arts and Culture. I am a working artist (based at Art Center South Florida) and have won various public
art commissions through the years (e.g., Frost Art Museum, Florida Botanical Gardens). These experiences
will help me if I were to be appointed to serve on this board and assist the City with its Art in Public Places
program.
I will happy to meet with you to answer and questions regarding the possibility of serving my community
through the Art in Public Places Committee. I can be reached either by phone at 305 - 858 -1323 or email at
xavier @cortada.com.
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; Xavier Cortada
Artist
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