Beatriz Cortez (b. 1970, San Salvador, El Salvador; lives and works in Los Angeles and Davis, CA) received an MFA in Art from the California Institute of the Arts and a Ph.D. in Literature and Cultural Studies from Arizona State University. Cortez’s work explores simultaneity, life in different temporalities, and imaginaries of the future. She has had solo exhibitions at Storm King Art Center, New Windsor (2023); Williams College Museum of Art (2023); Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2022); Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont (2022); Craft Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles (2019); Clockshop, Los Angeles (2018); Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park (2016); Centro Cultural de España de El Salvador (2014); and Museo Municipal Tecleño (MUTE), El Salvador (2012), among others. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including at the 60th La Biennale Art di Venezia (2024); Power Station of Art, Shanghai (2023); Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at RPI, Troy (2023); Smithsonian Arts and Industries (2021); Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center, New York (2020); Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2019); Ballroom Marfa (2019; 2017); Tina Kim Gallery, New York (2018); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2018); BANK/MABSOCIETY, Shanghai (2017); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2017); Centro Cultural Metropolitano, Quito (2016); and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (2016). Cortez is the recipient of the Borderlands Fellowship at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics in New York (2022-2024); Atelier Calder artist residency in Saché, France (2022); The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residency at UC Davis (2022); Longenecker-Roth artist residency at UC San Diego (2021); Artadia Los Angeles Award (2020), the inaugural Frieze LIFEWTR Sculpture Prize (2019), the Emergency Grant from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts (2019), the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant (2018), the Artist Community Engagement Grant (2017), and the California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists (2016), among others. She is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of California, Davis. Beatriz Cortez is represented by Commonwealth and Council.