ADRIANA CORRAL
b.1983
Corral is currently based in Los Angeles, California and Houston, Texas.
EDUCATION
2013 Master of Fine Arts, The University of Texas at Austin
2008 Bachelor of Fine Arts, The University of Texas at El Paso
EDUCATION
2013 M.F.A. The University of Texas at Austin
2008 B.F.A. The University of Texas at El Paso
HONORS-DISTINCTIONS
2020 Harpo Foundation Grant Award
2019 Artadia Award
2015 Visiting artist at the 106th Session of United Nations Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances in Geneva, Switzerland
The Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Award
2013 The University of Texas at Austin, The Roy Crane Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in the Visual Arts
2012 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture at the International Sculpture Center
GRANTS-FELLOWSHIPS
2023 Civitella Ranieri Visual Art Fellowship
2021 Latinx Artist Fellowship funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation & Ford Foundation
2018 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow, Archives of American Art and History, Washington, D. C.
2017–18 Black Cube Fellow, A Nomadic Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
2014 The MacDowell Colony Grant
The National Association of Latino Arts and Culture Grant
Mellon Undergraduate Research Fellow Mentor, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut
2012 The University of Texas at Austin, The Junco Research Grant
The University of Texas at Austin, The Alcocer Research Grant
The University of Texas at Austin Tuscany, Italy Program
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 LINE AS HUMAN / LÍNEA COMO CONCEPTO HUMANO: Betty Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
2019 UNEARTHED: DESENTERRADO: Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia
UNEARTHED: DESENTERRADO: Boulder Museum of Art, Boulder, Colorado
2018 UNEARTHED: DESENTERRADO, Rio Vista Farm site-specific Installation, El Paso, Texas
2016 SOUS RATURE, ‘UNDER ERASURE’ : ARTIST IN RESIDENCE EXHIBITION curated by Juan De Nieves, Artpace San Antonio, Texas
2011 VOCES DE LAS PERDIDAS (Voices of The Lost), Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, Texas
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022–2023 IN A DREAM YOU SAW A WAY TO SURVIVE AND YOU WERE FULL OF JOY, The Contemporary Austin, Austin, Texas
2022 EYES OF THE SKIN, Curated by Artst Teresita Fernández, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, New York
2020–2022 YESTERDAY WE SAID TOMORROW, PROSPECT 5, New Orleans, Louisiana
2020 STATES OF MIND: ART AND AMERICAN DEOMOCRACY, Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, Texas
2019 SUFFERING FROM REALNESS, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts
BODIES OF KNOWLEDGE, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
CONTEXTUAL PROPORTIONS, Jenkins & Johnson Projects, New York, New York
2018 MY SILENCES HAD NOT PROTECTED ME, Fort Gansevoort Gallery, New York, New York
NAMES PRINTED IN BLACK, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California
2017 THE TRACE OF A LIVING DOCUMENT, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas
NORTHERN TRIANGLE, Krannert Art Museum, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, Three Walls Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, University of Arizona Museum, Tucson, Arizona, Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, Texas
2015 MACDOWELL RADIO, Untitled Art Fair, Art Basel, Miami Beach, Florida
COUNTER-ARCHIVES TO THE NARCO-CITY, The Snite Museum of Art at Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana
2014 INVASIVE SPECIES: LANDSCAPES BY ADRIANA CORRAL, JOEY FAUERSO AND JUSTIN BOYD, Artpace, Hudson Showroom, San Antonio, Texas
CROSS SECTION, Houston Museum of African American Culture, Houston, Texas
SOMETHING LOST, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, N Space Gallery, Austin, Texas
UNDER THE MOON TOWER, David Shelton Gallery, Houston, Texas
INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE CENTER: OUTSTANDING ACHIEVMENT, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington, International Sculpture Center, Hamilton, New Jersey
2013 AMERICA’S FINEST, McNay Museum, San Antonio, Texas
2012 A NATION OF FEAR, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
PUBLICATIONS
2019 SUFFERING FROM REALNESS, Essays by Denise Markonish, Andy Campbell, Rebecca Rickman, Jesse Ball, Saul Williams, and Solmaz Shariff, Catalogue Publication
UNEARTHED: DESENTERRADO, Essays by Denise Markonish, David Dorado Romo Ph. D., Yolanda Chavez Leyva Ph. D., Andrea Lepage Ph. D. and Cortney Lane Stell, Catalogue Publication
2015 COUNTER-ARCHIVES TO THE NARCO CITY, Essays by Luis Vargas-Santiago and Ariel Dulitzky, Catalogue Publication
RESIDENCIES
2018 The Joan Mitchell Foundation Artist in Residence Program, New Orleans, Louisiana
2016 Artpace International Artist in Residence, San Antonio, Texas
2015 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Blue Star Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2014 The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire
2011 The Serie Print Project Residency, Austin, Texas
LECTURES
2022 Prospect 5 Artist Talk: Resilient Matter: Adriana Corral in Conversation (Diana Nawi, Andrea Andersson, Patty Ferguson-Bohnee, Laura Kelley Ph.D. and Tori Bush), Ogden Museum of Art , New Orleans, Louisiana
2021 Keynote Address: Adriana Corral, Liminalities Transition, Borders, In-Between, University of Texas at Austin, 17th Graduate Conference in Comparative Literature, Austin, Texas
Artist Guest Lecture, Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, Texas
2020 Artist Guest Lecture, Rhode Island School of Design, Glass Department, Providence, Rhode Island
Artist Talk: Adriana Corral, University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture, Austin, Texas
Artist Talk: Adriana Corral, Rice University, Houston, Texas
Artist Talk: Adriana Corral, University of Texas at Austin, Spanish & Portuguese Department, Austin, Texas
Artist Talk: Denise Markonish, Adriana Corral and Vincent Valdez, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, Massachusetts
Live: Conversation with Adriana Corral and Vincent Valdez, Public Art University of Texas at Houston, Houston, Texas
2019 Suffering from Realness: Adriana Corral and Vincent Valdez Artist Talk, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts
Artist Talk: Adriana Corral, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
Artist Talk: Adriana Corral and National Museum of American History, Historian and Curator Steve Velasquez, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia
Artist Talk: Adriana Corral and Curator Courtney Lane Stell, Boulder Museum of Art, Boulder, Colorado
2018 Women’s Archivist Section of the Society of American Archivists Symposium, Washington, D.C.
Names Printed in Black Panel Discussion, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California
2017 Artist Talk: Adriana Corral, University of Houston, Art and Art History Department, Houston, Texas
Artist Talk: Adriana Corral, University of Texas at Arlington, Dallas, Texas
2016 U.S. Latinx Arts Futures Symposium, Ford Foundation, New York, New York
Artist Talk: Adriana Corral, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Art and Art History, Austin, Texas
Artist Talk: Adriana Corral, Texas State University, Department of Art and Art History, San Marcos, Texas
Artist Talk: Adriana Corral, Krannert Art Museum, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
Artist Talk: Adriana Corral, International School of the Americas, Borderland Collective, San Antonio, Texas
2015 Artist Talk: Adriana Corral, Notre Dame University, Law School: Human Rights, Notre Dame, Indiana
2014 Artist Talk: Adriana Corral, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Artist Talk: Adriana Corral, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire
Artist Talk: Adriana Corral, Gender Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
2013 Artist Guest Lecture: Adriana Corral, Violence in Contemporary Mexican Culture, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Artist Talk: Adriana Corral, Human Rights Activism and Feminicidos, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Artist Talk: Adriana Corral, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Arts Working Group, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022 Associate Instructor, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
2020 Associate Instructor, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Associate Instructor, Independent Study, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
2016 Associate Instructor, 3-D Design, Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, Texas
Associate Instructor, Beginning Sculpture, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, Texas
2015 Associate Instructor, 3-D Design, Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, Texas
Assistant Instructor, Beginning Sculpture, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, Texas
2013 Associate Instructor, Fall/Spring 3-D Design, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Associate Instructor, Installation/Sculpture I, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
2012 Associate Instructor, Spring 3-D Design, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Associate Instructor, Learning Tuscany Program, Painting and Sculpture, Rome and Florence, Italy
Associate Instructor, 3-D Design, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Teaching Assistant, Installation/Sculpture, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Teaching Assistant, Metals, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
2011 Teaching Assistant, Metals, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Teaching Assistant, Advanced Sculpture, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Teaching Assistant, Installation/Sculpture, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Teaching Assistant, Sculpture I/II, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
2010 Teaching Assistant, Sculpture I, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
VISITING ARTIST — WORKSHOPS & STUDIO VISITS
2020 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, Glass Department, Studio Visits
Rice University, Houston, Texas, Undergraduate Painting, Studio Visits
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, Massachusetts, Undergraduate Art and Art History Department, Writing Workshop
2019 New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, Writing and Installation Workshop, High School Students
Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, Drawing/Writing/Discussion Workshops, Undergraduate Art and Art History Department
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado, Installation Workshop-Unearthed: Desenterrado, High School Students
2018 University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, Graduate Art Department, Studio Visits
Rio Vista Community Center, Socorro, Texas, Workshop-Unearthed: Desenterrado
2016 University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, Undergraduate Art Department Sculpture, Studio Visits
University of Illinois at Urbana, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, Graduate Art Department, Sculpture/Painting Studio Visits
2017 International School of the Americans, San Antonio, Texas Workshop/Fieldwork/Research visit to McAllen, Texas: Borderland Collective, High School students
2014 McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas 2-D/3-D Workshop
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, Sculpture Workshop