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Cesar Cornejo is an interdisciplinary artist and activist, whose work deals with the relationship between art, architecture and society. He has been influenced by the experience of living and working in Peru, Japan, England and the U.S. He is the founder of Puno MoCA and is represented by gallery Ed Cross Fine Art, London.
Excited to have been awarded the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Grant to carry out research in Japan in April 2025.
I have been invited to be the juror for Domestic Affairs, the Susquehanna Art Museum 9th Annual Exhibition. The exhibition will be open from October 9, 2024 to January 5, 2025, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA.
I will be giving lectures at the Tokyo University of the Arts, Sculpture and Metal Casting Departments on 11 and 12 July respectively. Made possible by generous support of University of Leeds
REinsTate Project - 10 - 29 August, Curated by Elena Juzulenaite, London
Reality Check, Royal Society of Sculptures, Summer Show selected by curator David McAlmont,
Dora House, 108 Old Brompton Road,
London SW7 3RA , from 22 July to 21 September 2024.
Honoured to participate in the 15 year anniversary exhibition of gallery Ed Cross Fine Art, from March 14 to April 20, 2024
Honoured to be included in the 101 Contemporary Artists and More…/Book Edition VOL 5, 2024 , Georgia.
Under the support of the Bronx Hispanic Festival, the New York Triennial of Latin American Art will take place from September to December 2022 in museums, galleries and cultural institutions
I am honored to announce that I have been awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. This award will support the production of new bodies of work, which I will soon be sharing news about.
I am honored to announce that I have been awarded a Puffin Foundation Grant for a Music Publishing Project. More news coming soon.
I am honoured to announce that I have been awarded a Henry Moore Foundation Travel and Research Grant, for the project: "Anti-Architecture, when the relationship between art and architecture goes wrong"
I have been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to teach and undertake research in Puno - Peru, for two months in 2021 and two more months in 2022. During that time I will continue in my position as Senior Lecturer at the Manchester School of Art.
The Project for the Puno Museum of Contemporary Art is a project by Peruvian artist Cesar Cornejo that redefines the traditional conception of Museum, to transform it into an institution based in the community both administratively and resource wise.
Works that are inspired on the trepanations carried out the old Peruvian culture Paracas, which was also known for elongating the skulls of their elite classes. It raises awareness about social issues in Latin America, where large migration overpopulate the capital cities, enlarging the administrative heads of their countries.
Works that raise awareness about the decision by Florida State Universities to build on campus branches of a company that ignore the rights of the tomato farmers in that state. It raises questions about the example that we are giving students who are taught at those institutions.
Interactive installation included in the Florida Prize in Contemporary Art Exhibition, at the Orlando Museum of Art. It portrayed the Puno Museum of Contemporary Art and it also included mixed media works.
Interactive installation featuring the project Puno MoCA, replicas of a room from a house in Puno were recreated, one in raw state and the other conditioned as a gallery space. It featured sculptures, paintings and photos. Galeria Lucia de la Puente, Lima 2010.
Work that explores the relationship between museums and underserved urban areas, the work represented a shanty town and on top of the roofs lays the photo of the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, which is only visible as a reflection on a mirror suspended on top of the installation. Contemporary Art Museum of the University of South Florida.
Interactive installation based on concepts of Zen architecture and the book in Praise of the Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki. People are able to walk through the piece interacting with each other. It was made while attending the PhD in Fine Arts program at the Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, 2003.
Puno MoCA installation at a private home in Casa Blanca, Havana, Cuba, made for the XII Havana Biennial. The piece acknowledged the history of the family who used to own four ferryboats that were used to carry people across the bay, until the revolution nationalized them. Havana, Cuba, 2015.
Homage to nine students and one professor from the National University of Education, “La Cantuta, in Lima, Peru, who were kidnapped and killed by a death squad of the Peruvian Army in 1992. It is also a memorial to all the victims violence during the years of terrorist war in Peru. Gallery Artco, Lima, 2005.
Work that addressed the state of education in Latin America, where the state policies don't seem to match the population needs. It was made with school chairs from schools in Maracaibo, Venezuela and was presented at the V Bienal del Barro, curated by Martin Sanchez. Museo Lia Bermudez, 2004.
Interactive installation featuring the the Puno MoCA project and making reference to iconic contemporary art museum architecture. It was presented as a solo project with Galeria Lucia de la Puente at Art Positions of Art Basel Miami, 2011.
Solo exhibition that addressed issues related to lack of communication in the family. I used furniture from my family house in Lima. The piece also explored the concept of Anti-Architecture. Presented at the Peruvian-North American Cultural Institute Art Gallery in Miraflores, Lima, 2005.
These acrylic on canvas paintings are based on photos of unfinished sheetrock panels taken in different locations internationally. The works raise awareness about the contributions of constructions workers to society, making parallels to Leonardo’s lost mural the Battle of Anghiari, portraying them as artists whose work gets lays hidden under coats of paint.
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