Adriana Corral was born on 1983 and is an American artist born in El Paso, Texas, who focuses on installation, performance, and sculpture.
12 Facts About Adriana Corral
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Adriana Corral's work has been exhibited at the Betty Moody Gallery, Houston, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, Texas, Blue Star Contemporary in San Antonio, Texas, the McNay Art Museum, and Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Adriana Corral has received a series of awards recognizing her work including The Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant, The MacDowell Colony Grant, and The National Association of Latino Arts and Culture Grant.
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Adriana Corral concluded that the arts, too, could help people and established a path toward a career in the arts.
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Adriana Corral earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The University of Texas at El Paso in 2008 and her Master of Fine Arts from University of Texas at Austin in 2013.
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Adriana Corral identifies artist Teresita Fernandez as a key influence on her work.
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Adriana Corral received the Roy Crane Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in the Visual Arts in 2013, the MacDowell Colony Grant, the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture Grant in 2014, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant in 2015 and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Artist-in-Residence in 2018, the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Residency in Berlin in 2016, International Artist-in-Residence at Artpace in 2016, and the Artadia Award in 2019.
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Adriana Corral was invited to speak at the Ford Foundation's 2016 US Latinx Arts Futures Symposium.
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Adriana Corral was a 2017 fellow at Black Cube, a Nomadic Art Museum, during which time she produced and installed Unearthed: Desenterrado.
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Adriana Corral's Unearthed: Desenterrado was exhibited at the Staniar Gallery at Washington and Lee University and the Boulder Museum of Art, Boulder, Colorado.
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Adriana Corral's work has been exhibited in a variety of group exhibitions including the Perez Art Museum Miami, New Orleans Museum of Art, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Krannert Art Museum, Three Walls Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Blue Star Contemporary, and the McNay Art Museum.
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In Voces de las Perdidas, Adriana Corral produced a site-specific installation in which she hung hundreds of ceramic body bag tags that she created from soil collected at the crime site of Campo Algodonero in Cd.