Visiting Artist, Adriana Corral will give an Artist Talk at Vermont Studio Center in the Red Mill Building on October 22, 2024, at 8:00 pm ET. This event is free and open to the public.

Adriana Corral's artwork seeks to understand the dynamics of a social structure dominated by power, corruption, and class bias. Corral's research-based practice compels her to mine state and national archives for primary documents, to engage with historians, journalists, gender scholars, human rights attorneys, victims' families, and to amass information that materializes into sculptures, installations, and drawings. Human rights abuses and historical narratives of absence, erasure, and memory provide the critical and conceptual framework for her subjects. These refined, contemplative works aim to facilitate the restitution of memory and to stand witness to the past in order to empower humane acts in the present and future.

Corral received her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin and completed her BFA at the University of Texas at El Paso. She was invited to attend the 106th session of the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary disappearances at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland (2015) and awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant (2016). Corral attended the McDowell Residency (2014), Künstlerhaus Bethanien Residency in Berlin, Germany (2016), the International Artist-in-Residence at Artpace (2016) in San Antonio, Texas, and an Artist-in-Residence at the Joan Mitchell Center (2018), New Orleans, Louisiana. Corral was an Artist Fellow at Black Cube, A Nomadic Art Museum (2017), an Artist Research Fellow at Archives of American Art and History at the Smithsonian Institution (2018), selected for the Latinx Artist Fellowship funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Ford Foundation (2021) and is currently a Planet Texas 2050 Artist Fellow at The University of Texas at Austin 2022-2023). Corral is the recipient of the Houston's Artadia Award (2019), Harpo Foundation (2020) and exhibitions include, Suffering from Realness, MASS MoCA (2019-2020), Bodies of Knowledge, New Orleans Museum of Art (2019), Prospect 5, Yesterday we said tomorrow (2020-2022), and Eyes of the Skin, Lehmann Maupin Gallery (2022).

Event Info

Dec 22, 2024, 3:30 to 4:30 PM

Dec 22, 2024, 6 to 7 PM

Dec 24, 2024, 6 PM