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Cortada, Xavier (Bridgeman Studio)

Creator details

Name
Cortada, Xavier
Nationality
American
Biography
b.1964 Xavier Cortada was born in New York, but was raised and still lives in Miami. He has degrees from the University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences (1986), Graduate School of Business (1991), and School of Law (1991). Cortada has created art installations at the North Pole and South Pole to address environmental concerns at every point in between. He’s been commissioned to create art for the White House, the World Bank, Miami City Hall, Miami-Dade County Hall, Florida Botanical Gardens, the Miami Art Museum, Museum of Florida History, Miami Science Museum and the Frost Art Museum. The Cuban-American artist has also developed numerous collaborative art projects globally, including peace murals in Cyprus and Northern Ireland, child welfare murals in Bolivia and Panama, AIDS murals in Switzerland and South Africa, and eco-art projects in Holland, Hawaii and Latvia and Taiwan. In Miami, Cortada serves as artist-in-residence at the FIU College of Architecture + The Arts and the FIU College of Arts & Sciences School of Environment, Arts and Society.
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Assets (332 in total)

Stepping into the American Dream (acrylic on canvas)
Job, 2003 (oil on canvas)
No Tengan Miedo, 1999 (acrylic on canvas)
The Coexistence Mural, 2004 (acrylic and mixed media on canvas)
Salud, 2003 (acrylic on canvas)
Music (acrylic on canvas)
Communion in the Square, 1998 (acrylic on canvas)
Solar
First Encounters: 1566, 2005 (acrylic on canvas)
In search of the Higgs boson, 2013, (digital art)
Mangroves (B) 2005 (acrylic on canvas)
Protecting America's Children: A National Message Mural, 2005 (acrylic on canvas) (see also 251830 & 251832)
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