Join us at New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) on Saturday, October 2nd at 2pm
Changing Landscapes Artist in Residence William Cordova speaks about his work
Learn about Cordova’s past work as he begins his local project documenting and preserving traces of displaced and erased histories within the rich New Orleans landscape and creating ephemeral monuments through 16MM films of secular sacred spaces within Louisiana history and folklore. His project exploring social landscapes proposes an alternative to State or City approved monuments of Civil War Generals by using cinematic monument of Black and First Nation’s contributions in Louisiana.
Saturday, October 2nd, 2010 at 2pm
New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park
Stern Auditorium
NOMA Admission is free for University faculty and students from Tulane, Loyola, Nunez Community College, University of Lafayette, Our Lady of Holy Cross, University of New Orleans and Delgado with valid ID. Louisiana Residents $8, out-of-state visitors $10.
William Cordova has been awarded a 6-week Changing Landscapes residency based on the premise that Southern Louisiana can be seen as a microcosm of the global environment, manifesting both the challenges and possibilities inherent in human interaction with the natural world. We ask artists to describe in detail how the region will affect their work, to propose a public component to their residency and to suggest ways in which they will engage with the local community. Changing Landscapes Residencies are sponsored in part thanks to generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Bio: William Cordova was born and raised in Lima, Peru and currently divides his time between Miami, Lima and New York. He earned his MFA from Yale University in 2004 and his BFA from The Art Institute of Chicago in 1996.
William has participated in Artist residencies including Artpace, San Antonio, TX; The Core program, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Woodstock Center for Photography, NY, The Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA; The Studio Museum in Harlem; NY and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME.
Cordova’s solo exhibitions include laberintos, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, more than bilingual, Fleming Museum, Burlington, VA (2009); moby dick, Artpace, San Antonio, TX (2008); p’alante, Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany (2006); drylongso (pichqa suyo), P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2006); Project Row House, Houston, TX (2005).
Cordova’s work has participated in many group exhibitions including; Greater New York, Ps1/MOMA, NY (2010); San Juan Triennial, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2009); Neo-HooDoo, Menil Collection, Houston, TX; Whitney Biennial, NY: Prague Triennial, Czech Republic (2008); Street Level, Duke University, Durham, NC (2007): Scratch, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2005) and Utopia Station, 50th Venice Biennale (2003).
Upcoming individual exhibition includes yawar malku at La Conservera, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Murcia, Spain.
Images above: (left) portales (tiwanaku, bolivia y deseo, nuevo orleans), 2008, film stills and (right) photo of the artist.
