William Cordova was born in Lima, Peru, in 1971, raised in Miami, and currently lives and works in New York and Miami. He earned his B.F.A. from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996 and his M.F.A. from Yale University in 2004.
Cordova's solo exhibitions include untitled (chicanas)>, LAXART, Los Angeles (2010); Laberintos, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York (2009); More than Bilingual, Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington (2009); Moby Dick, Artspace, San Antonio (2008); Pachacuti (stand up next to a mountain), Arndt & Partner, Zürich (2007); P'alante, Arndt & Partner, Berlin (2006); Drylongso (Pichqa Suyo), P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2006); I Wish It Were True, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, New York (2006); and No More Lonely Nights, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (2003).
Group exhibitions include Neo-HooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith, Menil Collection, Houston (2008); Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2008); Prague Triennale, National Gallery (2008); Street Level: Mark Bradford, William Cordova, and Robin Rhode, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, N.C. (2007); The Beautiful Game: Contemporary Art and Fútbol, BICA and Roebling Hall, New York (2006); Scratch, Studio Museum in Harlem (2005); and Utopia Station, 50th Venice Biennale (2003).
Photo of William Cordova by Teka Selman
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2008 Whitney Biennial Studio Visit with P.S.1.
William Cordova, "Greatest Hits (para Micaela Bastidas, Tom Wilson y Anna Mae Aquash)," 2008. Column of 3,000 reclaimed vinyl records, Peruvian gourds, VHS tape, cigar, pennies, candle, record covers, wooden base, 156 x 72 inches. Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Gift of Marjorie and Michael Levine (T '84). Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion.
William Cordova, "Greatest Hits (para Micaela Bastidas, Tom Wilson y Anna Mae Aquash)," (detail) 2008. Column of 3,000 reclaimed vinyl records, Peruvian gourds, VHS tape, cigar, pennies, candle, record covers, wooden base, 156 x 72 inches. Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Gift of Marjorie and Michael Levine (T '84). Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion.
William Cordova, "Greatest Hits (para Micaela Bastidas, Tom Wilson y Anna Mae Aquash)," (detail) 2008. Column of 3,000 reclaimed vinyl records, Peruvian gourds, VHS tape, cigar, pennies, candle, record covers, wooden base, 156 x 72 inches. Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Gift of Marjorie and Michael Levine (T '84). Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion.
William Cordova, "now's the time (amauta)," (detail) 2009. Graphite, gold leaf, oil stick, dust, hair, watercolor, metallic pen on paper with cutout magazine and inkjet print collage, 51.75 x 32 inches. Collection of Marjorie and Michael Levine, New York. Photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion.
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