William Cordova

William Cordova is an interdisciplinary cultural practitioner born in Lima, Peru. He lives and works between Lima, Miami, and New York City. Cordova’s work addresses the metaphysics of space and time and how objects change and perception changes when we move around in space. He received his BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996 and his MFA from Yale University in 2004. He has been an A-I-R at The Studio Museum in Harlem, American Academy in Berlin, Germany, Museum of Fine Art in Houston’s CORE program, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. His work is included in public collections at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY among others. Cordova was included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial and the 13th Havana Biennial, Cuba in 2019. He is co-organizer of the 2021 Greenwood Centennial, Tulsa, Oklahoma; co-curator of the 2020 Prizm Art Fair, a non-profit project focused on African Diaspora artists; and founder of the Miami AIM Biennial (2020).