I am a visual
artist living in Chicago and born in Guanajuato, Mexico, and have exhibited
my work extensively throughout Chicago and Mexico over the past 12 years.
I studied painting at the School of the Art Institute and filmaking at Columbia
college.
My style of painting
has evolved and changed over the years. It began as a sort of figurative surrealist
frottage with a dark use of colors. It changed to a more abstract and slowly
turned more colorful yet with a very organic aged look to it. On some of the
new abstract paintings you can imagine the
forms being either a close up of something microscopic or an areal view of
imaginary lands.
Education
- 1992 School
of the Art Institute of Chicago major studies in fine art
- 1989-91 Daley
College, Chicago general studies
- 1988 Columbia
College, Chicago major studies in film and video
Art
Exhibitions / Solo shows
- 2002 - Galeria
El Puente, Juchitán, Oaxaca
- 2001 - Café
Jumping Bean, Chicago
- 2000 - Teocalli
Cafe Gallery, Chicago
- 1998 - "Cuando
estaba joven..." Ñandu, Chicago
- 1998 - "Vesica
Piscis" Prospectus Art Gallery, Chicago
- 1997 - 500
Nations Cultural Café, Chicago
- 1997 - Casa
de Arte y Cultura, Chicago
Art
Exhibitions / Solo shows
- 2002 - "Arte
Mexicano en Chicago", Arte de Mexico Gallery, Chicago
- 2001 - IX
Art Solidari(Arte contra el SIDA), Casa Elizalde, Barcelona, Spain
- 2001 - "Day
of the Dead", Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago
- 2001 - "Day
of the Dead", Collage Art Gallery, Chicago
- 2001 - "Day
of the Dead", Cafe Jumping Bean, Chicago
- 2001 - "group
show", Chicago Atheneaum Museum
- 2001 - "Latino
Horizons", Museum of Science and Industry , honorable mention award
- 2001 - "fragments",
Café Sol
- 2000 - "group
show", Casa de la Cultura, Juchitán, Oaxaca
- 2000 - "Un
origen...diversos caminos", Galeria Arte de Mexico
- 2000 - "caras
de la vida y la muerte", Chicago Atheneaum Museum
- 1999 - "arte
de Chicago", Chicago State University
- 1999 - "art
of memory", Aldo Castillo Gallery
- 1999 - "Cristos"
Galeria Arte Mexicano
- 1999 - "art
for the next millennium", Polvo Multimedia Art Space
- 1999 - "mariposa
oscura", Columbia College
ADDITIONAL
WORKS:
http://www.espectro.com
http://www.mundoarte.com/miguelcortez
