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Beatriz Cortez
Born in 1970, San Salvador, El Salvador
Lives and works in Los Angeles, United States
Overview
Beatriz Cortez is an artist who creates sculptures and large-scale public installations that focus on themes of migration, movement, and cultural exchange. Drawing inspiration from her own experience of immigrating to the United States from El Salvador, she incorporates indigenous elements such as plants and stones from the Americas into her sculptures to highlight the parallels between the migration of people and plants. In her public installations, she includes weather and other atmospheric co...Read more
Selected artworks
Beatriz Cortez
The Argonaut: after Pakal, 2018
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Beatriz Cortez
Nine Point Custom Made Shield, 2016
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Beatriz Cortez
Fifteen Point Shield 1, 2019
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Beatriz Cortez
Five Point Hood Shield (light blue), 2019
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Beatriz Cortez
Tombstone/Lápida, 2020
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Beatriz Cortez
Roots 2, 2020
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Beatriz Cortez
Roots 1, 2020
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Beatriz Cortez
I expected something (dedicated to A.C.), 2017
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Beatriz Cortez
Hidden, 2017
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Beatriz Cortez
UNTITLED (from .bury.me.fiercely.), 2021
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Beatriz Cortez
2 x 2, 2019
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Beatriz Cortez
FOREVER YOUNG, 2021
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Beatriz Cortez
Roots 8, 2021
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Beatriz Cortez
Roots 7, 2021
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Beatriz Cortez
Roots 6, 2021
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Beatriz Cortez
Roots 5, 2020
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Beatriz Cortez
Roots 4, 2020
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Beatriz Cortez
The Underworld, 2021
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Beatriz Cortez
The Breathing Stone, 2021
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Beatriz Cortez
Who do you believe more, the subversives or the embassy? (W. Washington blvd and Hoover St., LA, CA, USA), 2021
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