Claudia Cortinez
Claudia Cortinez Visual Artist & Educator
Claudia Kaatziza Cortínez is a visual artist and educator, born in the US to parents from Argentina and Chile and currently living in NYC. She received her BFA from RISD and her MFA from Yale University.
She is the recipient of the Yale Norfolk Teaching Fellowship, the Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant in NYC, Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship from Yale, the Blair Dickinson Memorial Grant from Yale, among others.
She has exhibited her work in solo and group shows in the US, Latin America, and Europe, and has curated exhibitions at the Shirley Fiterman Art Center in NYC and the Eduardo Sívori Museum in Buenos Aires, bringing together artists from both cities.
Avenida de los Incas cyanotype photograms and wax on Japanese paper, 2016
Valentin Claudia Cortinez
She has participated in residencies such as LMCC Swing Space, Mass MoCA, Real Time and Space, the NARS Foundation, the Loisaida Center, Tou Trykk Grafisk Verksted, among others.
Wick Arch Claudia Cortinez
Air Claudia Cortinez
She is co-founder of LAZO, a platform for contemporary artists of Latin American descent.
Claudia is currently a Keyholder at the Lower East Side Printshop and an artist in residence at the Center for Book Arts in NYC.
