- City
- Bogotá, Colombia
- Artistic Residency
- Collide
- Year
- 2018
Cortés is interested in investigative and interdisciplinary processes and the connections between art, science and pedagogical processes
Juan Cortés is a Colombian artist who lives and works in Bogotá. His works take multiple forms, such as installation, recordings, and concert pieces. Cortés is interested in investigative and interdisciplinary processes and the connections between art, science, and pedagogical processes.
His projects, inspired by sound and the forces of nature, have been exhibited in galleries and institutions like the Museum of Modern Art of New York (MoMA), the Bilbao Exhibition Centre, and Creative Tech Week in New York. Cortés has also been awarded the VII award to the arts of the Alternate Space Gallery in Bogotá and the PRAC Grand of the Ministry of Culture of Colombia. He is co-founder and curator of the RADAR Video Art Festival and the SATELLITE Festival of Sound Art and regularly works with the Hyphen-Hub space for artistic and community creation.
In 2016, he received an Honorary Mention of the Collide Award, Arts at CERN’s residency programme in partnership with FACT Liverpool (2016-2018).
