Beatriz Cortez

Beatriz Cortez (born 1970) is a Los Angeles-based artist and scholar born in San Salvador, El Salvador. Cortez draws her inspiration for many of her sculptures from literature, archives, philosophies, ancient art, and Indigenous cultures. According to Cortez, her work explores "simultaneity, life in different temporalities, and different versions of modernity, particularly in relation to memory and loss in the aftermath of war and the experience of migration." Cortez holds a Ph.D. in Latin American literature from Arizona State University and an Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts. She currently teaches in the Central American Studies Department at California State University, Northridge. She is currently represented by Commonwealth and Council in Los Angeles.

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