Beatriz Cortez, a multidisciplinary artist and professor of Chicana/o/x studies at UC Davis, has been named a 2026 Joan Mitchell Fellow, which includes $60,000 in direct, unrestricted funding distributed over five years alongside learning, peer engagement and network-building opportunities.
Beatriz Cortez, a multidisciplinary artist and professor of Chicana/o/x studies at UC Davis, recently spoke with UC Berkeley Professor Ronald Rael at Aspen Ideas Festival 2026. Their panel, Ancient Futures: from Mud to Machine, was moderated by Nora Lawrence, executive director of Storm King Art Center in New York.
Artist Beatriz Cortez, professor of Chicana/o/x Studies, has work featured in "Aztlán: Tunel del Tiempo," an exhibition at the national galleries of the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes. The exhibition brings together a comprehensive installation of Latinx contemporary art from Los Angeles to Mexico City.
Beatriz Cortez was recognized "as as an artist whose work and vision shape the cultural and creative landscape in meaningful ways," as she was awarded the Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego's ICA Star Award during the museum's Future Forward Gala this past spring.
Beatriz Cortez’s The Fortune Teller (Nomad Edition) is on display at the New Museum in New York City as part of “New Humans: Memories of the Future”, now through Aug. 30. The show aims to highlight the recurrence of collective fears of and aspirations for new technologies as they arrive with the immense potential to shape, or even dominate, human life.
A new exhibition at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art marks the first time the museum has commissioned all new work. Titled Phillip Byrne, Beatriz Cortez, Kang Seung Lee, Candice Lin: Entangled Writing, the exhibit is on view at the University of California, Davis museum through December.
Exhibitions featuring new sculpture and installation commissions, paintings from world-renowned artists, and large-scale ceramics debut this fall at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California, Davis. The museum also has new hours beginning with its reopening Aug. 8, 2024.
Associate Professor of Art Beatriz Cortez's piece, "Stella XX (Absence)," is a steel sculpture representative of a stela, or ancient monolith. It serves as a monument to stelas taken from Mesoamerica while also exploring absence and what it evokes. The sculpture recently debuted at the Venice Biennale’s 60th International Art Exhibition "Foreigners Everywhere.”
UC Davis art professor Beatriz Cortez, a multidisciplinary artist and sculptor, has been invited to participate in the prestigious Venice Biennale arts and culture showcase, marking the first time in 40 years a current faculty member has been tapped for the honor.
