JOSE L. CORTES

 

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2003 Art & Leisure, Gallery M, NYC

1997 New York Years, Wall Gallery, NYC (curated by Mauricio Laffite)

1993 Help Wanted, Manny Maldonado, NYC

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2005 In Art We Trust, OP Art, Clemente Soto Vélez, NYC

2004 Don't Call It Performance, El Museo del Barrio, NYC 

     (curated by Paco Barragan & Deborah Callen)

     Woman Living in the Grid, Atelier, NYC

     (collaboration w/Fashion Illustrator Blas Castro)

     Hard Core The Basement, NYC

2002 Bomb, Front Gallery, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NYC (curated by Janine Gordon)

2001 Skank, Plus Ultra Gallery, NYC (curated by Ed Winkleman)

2000 Blondies and Brownies, Torch Gallery, Amsterdan (curated by Raphael Von Uslir)

1999 The S Files, El Museo del Barrio, NYC (curated by Deborah Cullen & Carolina de León)

     Story Teller, Intar, NYC (curated by Eduardo Casares)

1997 Edifying Saphos & Socrates (traveling exhibition) Sidney and Amsterdam (curated by

     Raphael Von Uslir)

     The Puerto Rican Equation, The Bertha Leubsdorf Art Gallery

     Hunter Collage, NYC (curated y Juan Sánchez)catalog

     Colaborative Self Portrait (with Boys & Girls Club) Jersey City Museum, New Jersey

     Summer Invitational, Steffany Martz Gallery, NYC

     A Living Testament of The Blood Fairies - Part 2, Printed Matters, NYC 

     (curated by Geoffrey Hendriks, Frank Moore & Sur Rodney {Sur})

     Queer 2000, Parson School of Design, NYC (curated by Ann Meredith & Salle McCorkie)

     Afro-Homo, Parson School of Design, NYC

1996 A Night of a Thousand Drawing, Artist Space (Benefit), NYC

     Me, Myself and I, La Mama Gallery, NYC

     Domestic Violence The Facts Are In, P.S 122, NYC (curated by Susan Scriber)

     Art Communities, AIDS Communities, Cyclorama Center For The Arts, Boston, MA

     Visual AIDS-The Archive Project (curated by David Hirsh & Geoffrey Hendricks) Catalog

     Dairy, Metaphor, Mourning and Rage, Delta Axis Contemporary Arts Center, Memphis, TN

     (curated by Allen Frame)

1995 Expresión es un Grito Visual, Museo del Arsenal de la Puntilla, OP Art, San Juan, PR

     The First Ten, P.S. 122, The Archive Project, NYC 

     (curated by Ernesto Pujol & Susan Scriber) Catalog

1994 Nuevas Caras del Arte Puertorriqueño, OP Art, Peter Madero Gallery, NY 

     & El Ateneo Puertorriqueño, San Juan, PR, Catalog

 

HONORS AND GRANTS

 

1996 Materials for The Art Grant

     John Giorno Foundation, NY

     Day Without Art, Public Announcement-MTV

1995 Day Without Art - Poster Subject

1992 Liga de Arte, San Juan, PR

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

  • Larry Tea, "London Art Storm" , Modas, Italy, January 2005

  • Lester Strong, "A Global Gallery", Out Magazine, December 2003, p.40

  • Holland Cotter, "Skank", Art in Review, New York Times, June 1, 2001, p. b-34

  • Andreas Smith, JLC/PRP, Mia Magazine, 1st Issue, June 2001

  • Rudy C. Bleus, "Imágenes of Ambiente", Continuum-Wellington House London-2000, T  ext; p.188-189, Illustration; p.190  

  • Publisher "Illustration", Style Magazine, Berlin, June/July 2000, p.51

  • Roberta Smith, "Art Rediscover a Home on the Upper East Side", The New York Times,     April 30, 1999, p.31-35

  • Publisher, "Around Town", Time Out, April 8, 1999, p.47

  • Jack Anderson, "A Little Show with The Food and Wine", The New York Times,              April 3, 1999 

  • Mauricio Laffitte Soler, "José Luis Cortés-Un Bosquejo de su Obra", POZ Magazine,        Spring 1998, p.48-49                     

  • Holland Cotter, "The Stuff Life is Made of" Art in America, April 1997, p.6

  • Davis McArthy, "Review", Art Papers, Memphis, March/April 1996

PERFORMANCES

 

2003    Private Show, Eva Muler Studio, NYC

        Living In The Grid, A Live Video Performance, Gallery M, NYC

2002    Dicks and Lips Between My Legs, @ Pork The Lure, NYC

2001    Slice, Lenox Lounge, Harlem, NYC

        Dry Performance, New York Subway, Nurture Art, NYC

1999    The Salon Project P.S. 122, NYC (curated by Andreas Smith)

1997-98 Living In The Grid, 1 & 2, A Performance Installation, The House of Sibyl-Salon,

        The Lure, NYC

 

COMMISSIONED WORKS

 

1996 Design and Execution of a 200 Feet Mural for The Black Party at Roseland, NYC,          Permanent Collection at The Lure, NYC

     

     

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