Beatriz Cortez

Beatriz Cortez is a multidisciplinary artist born in El Salvador and based in Los Angeles and Davis. Her work explores simultaneity, multiple temporalities, and speculative imaginaries. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including recent solo exhibitions at Storm King Art Center (2023); Williams College Museum of Art (2023); Commonwealth and Council (2022); and Pitzer College Art Galleries (2022). Cortez is the recipient of the Latinx Artist Fellowship (2023), Borderlands Fellowship (2022–24), and Artadia Los Angeles Award (2020) among others. Her work is represented in several collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Michigan State University Broad Art Museum, East Lansing; El Paso Museum of Art; Ford Foundation, New York. Cortez received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and a PhD in Latin American Literature from Arizona State University. She is faculty at the University of California, Davis.