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AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2024 Sasakawa Foundation Grant.

2022 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.

2022 The Puffin Foundation Grant.

2022 Henry Moore Foundation, Research and Travel Grant.

2021 Arts Council England, Developing Your Practice Grant, Music.
2020 Fulbright Scholar Program, Fulbright Commission, for teaching and research in Puno - Peru. 

2019 The Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Brown Foundation Fellows Program at the Dora Maar House, France.
2019 The Bellagio Center Residency Program – The Rockefeller Foundation, (2019).

2018 - 2019 ZK/U - Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik Residency, Berlin.
2018 The George A and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship - Sculpture. 

            Hambidge Center’s Residency, GA.
2017 Yaddo Artists in Residency Program, New York.
2015 Sharpe Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn, New York, 2010.
2009 Creative Capital Foundation, Grant for Emerging Fields - Architecture 2009.
2008 New York Foundation for the Arts, Fiscal Sponsorship for The Puno Museum of Contemporary Art Project, NY.
2008 Finalist, First London International Creative Competition, UK.
2008 Workspace Residency, Center for Book Arts, NY.
2007 Sculpture Space Residency, Aug-Sep 2007,Utica, NY.
2006 New York University, visiting artist, October 2006 – May 2007.
2006 Workspace Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Sep. 2006-May 2007, NY.
2006 Full Fellowship Award, Vermont Studio Center, USA.
2005 Grant for Artists, British Council.
2004 Research visitor, The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK.
2004 Public Art Commission, The Art House and Creative Partnerships, Doncaster, UK.
2003 Toride Shou, Public Sculpture Prize, Japan.
2002 Full Fellowship Award, Vermont Studio Center, USA.
2001 Ceramics in Architecture, “Habitar" International Symposium, Oficinas do Convento, Portugal.
1999 International Contemporary Ceramics Symposium, Toki, Japan
1999 “Kayage” Prize, Tokyo National University Museum of Art acquisition award, Tokyo, Japan.
1996-2003 Monbukagakusho Fellowship, Japanese Ministry of Education, Japan. 

SELECTED SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2020 Ed Cross Fine Arts, London Art Fair, Solo Project. 

2013 Puno Museum of Contemporary Art, A project by Cesar Cornejo, Florida Gulf Coast University Main Gallery, Curated by Jade Dellinger, Fort Myers, Florida.
2011 Puno Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Positions, Art Basel Miami 2011, Galeria Lucia de la Puente, Miami USA 

2010 Puno Museum of Contemporary Art, Galeria Lucia de la Puente, Lima.
2009 Works by Cesar Cornejo, Jun Garou, Ginza, Tokyo
2006 "Sculpting the Canvas” Gallery Light Contemporary, April 06, London.
2005 "La Cantuta" Gallery ARTCO, June 2005, Lima.
2005 "A Private Matter" Peruvian-North American Cultural Institute Gallery, May 2005, Lima.
2003 "Enter the Labyrinth", Gallery Kobo Chika, Tokyo
2002 "Monuments and Amulets ", Gyokuei Gallery, Tokyo
1999 "Something in the Air", Gallery Kobo Chika, Tokyo
1999 "400m2 of Sculpture", Yokohama Galleria Bellini, Nomura Foundation, Yokohama, Japan.
1993 "Habitaciones", Peruvian- North American Cultural Institute Gallery of Art, Lima.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND ART FAIRS

2024

Ed Cross Fine Art, 15 Year Anniversary Exhibition, London.

Reins-Tate Project, curated by  Elena Juzulenaite. 

Reality Check, Royal Society of Sculptors, Summer Show selected by curator David McAlmont, London.

Encuentro de Arquitectura y Arte Richi, Centro Cultural Cori Wasi, Lima.

Mural Galeria Vertice, Lima

2023  

Lima Museum of Contemporary Art, Works from the Permanent Collection, curated by Giuliana Vidarte, Iosu Aramburu, Patricia Pajuelo and Nicolas Gomez, Lima – Peru.
Al Colegio No Voy Mas, Museo del Grabado ICPNA, Curated by Canal Museal, Lima - Peru

The Shape of Life, Royal Society of Sculptors’ Summer Show, Curated by Edward Bulmer, London. 

2022
NY Latin American Art Triennial, Queens, NY.

2021

Love Thy Neighbor, The Asia Triennial Manchester, curated by Alnoor Mitha, UK.

Sculptures and Drawings by Masayuki Sakamoto and Cesar Cornejo, Jun Gallery, Tokyo.

In The Begining, curated by Emily Watkins, Ed Cross Fine Art, (online exhibition).
2019
The Body Says: I am a Fiesta, at the Norton Museum of Art, curated by Rachel Gustafson.

Openhaus Plus, Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, curated by Ece Parzabasi, Berlin.
2018

Paisajes Naturales, curated by Livia Benavides, Galeria 80m2, Lima.

Openhaus, Zentrum fur Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin.
Creative Practices for Visual Artists, Time, Space, Process, Exhibition, Olson Gallery, Bethel University.
Finalists of the MAPFRE painting competition, Museo de Arte de Lima. 

2017
California-Pacific Triennial 2017, curated by Cassandra Conblentz, Orange County Museum of Art, CA.
In the Eyes of the Hungry, curated by Keri Watson, University of Central Florida, Art Gallery, Orlando, FL.
Sinopsis, group exhibition, Galeria Lucia de la Puente, Lima.
2016
Vacio Museal: medio siglo de museotopías peruanas (1966 - 2016)" ("Museum Void: Half a Century of Peruvian Museotopias (1966 - 2016)", Curated by Gustavo Buntinx, MAC Lima, (Lima Museum of Contemporary Art)

Utopia Neighbourhood Club, curated by Scott Lawrimore, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington.
Open Studios, Sharpe Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY.
2015
XII Havana Biennial, Cuba
Florida Prize in Contemporary Art Exhibition, curated by Hansend Mulford and Azela Santana, Orlando Museum of Art.
Then and Now, curated by Alexander Campos, Center for Book Arts, NY
Polivalencias, curated by Jorge Villacorta, Galeria Lucia de la Puente, Lima, Peru.
Arquitectura - Diseño - Arte, Expodeco, Lima, Peru.
2014
Apocryphal Times, curated by Tamara Kostianovsky and Thorsten Albertz, Friedman Benda Gallery, NY.
“Mi Vecino El Otro”, Parque Cultural Huanchaca, Curated by Gustavo Buntinx, organized by Colectivo Se Vende, Antofagasta, Chile.
Beyond Limits, Postglobal Mediations, San Diego Art Institute, curated by Denise Carvalho and Ginger Shullick, in Partnership with the Post Global Bienniale, San Diego, CA.
PARC, Art Fair, Gallery Lucia de la Puente, Lima, Peru.
2013
Pangaea 2, Japanese Consulate in Melbourne Australia, Curated By Merric Brettle.
Contemporaneidad del Diseño Ancestral, Centro Ccori Wasi, University Ricardo Palma, curated by Elio Martucelli and Jesus Peña, Lima, Peru.
Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, Benefit Auction, San Jose, CA.
SIART, Bienal Internacional de Arte, Puno Cuarto Mundo, curated by Aymar Ccopacatty, La Paz, Bolivia.
Paradero, Galeria Lucia de la Puente, curated by Carlo Trivelli, Lima Peru.
Segundo Salon de Arte de Puno, Puno Peru.  
2012
Bestiario 1984-1987 A Documenta, Centro Ccori Wasi, University Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru.
Vista: Unfolding the Mapping Process, University of Maryland University College Gallery, MD, USA.
Pinta Art Fair, Galeria Lucia de la Puente, NY. 

2011
The Armory Show, New York
Benefit Auction, Center for Book Arts Annual, New York.
Annual Benefit Auction, Exit Art, New York. 

2010
GLAAD OUTAuction
Annual Benefit Auction Exhibition, Museum of Art of Lima, Lima-Peru
Utopia at Utica’s Sculpture Space Residency, Islip Museum, Long Island, curated by Sydney Waller, New York.
15th Anniversary exhibition, Galeria Lucia de la Puente, Lima-Peru, April.
Latin American Art exhibition, Noyes Museum, curated by Henry Bermudez, September 2010, New Jersey, USA. 

2009
In/Out: An Exhibition and Auction Featuring GLAAD's top 100 Artists “Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York.
Art in Odd Places, 14th Street, New York, curated by Erin Donnelly and Radhika Subramanian, NY.
Annual Benefit Auction Exhibition, Museum of Art of Lima, Lima-Peru.
Preemptive Resistances: Reversed Strategies at the Westport Arts Center, curated by Denise Bergstrom, Connecticut, USA.
Faculty Focus Show,University of South Florida Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by David Norr, Tampa, Florida.
Center for Book Arts, Artists in residency show, NY. 

2008
Busan Biennial 2008, “Expenditure”, Sculpture Project, South Korea.
The LAB, San Francisco, curated by Heather Mikolav. 

2007
The Red Badge of Courage , Newark Council of the Arts, Curated by Omar Lopez Chahoud.
On the Third Day, curated by 3B group, Tribeca, NY.
Workspace 2007, Queens Library Gallery, curated by Juliana Driever.
S Files Biennial, V Biennial Museo del Barrio, NY,curated by Elvis Fuentes and Carmen Ramos
“Freaks of Nature”, Bronx River Arts Centre, NY, curated by Jose Ruiz. LMCC Open Studios, NY. 

2005
New Art Birmingham, UK
The London Connection, Gallery Lisi Hammerle, Austria Peter Harvey Gallery, London
Jovenes con Fia, Caracas, Venezuela. 

2004
V Bienal Barro de America, Maracaibo, Venezuela. 

2001
Sculpture Biennale Rincon De Ademuz, Spain.

PUBLIC ART

Temporary Mural, Gallery Tessor/Vertice, Lima 2024.

 Menhir II, permanent public sculpture, APEC Park, Busan, South-Korea 2008.
Circular Temples, The Art House and Creative Partnerships Commission, Arts Council of England. 2004 Public Art Commission, The Art House and Creative Partnerships, Doncaster, UK.Brodsworth Hall, Doncaster, UK, 2004 (Temporary)
Despertar, Yasuda Skygate Building, Tokyo, Japan 2003.
Dawn, Toride City Public Park, Japan, 2003.
Menhir, Montemor o Novo Sculpture Park, Portugal, 2001.
The Next Age, Toki City, Japan, 1999.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS 

Dora Maar House, Menerbes, France

Contemporary Art Museum, Lima,(MAC Lima),  Peru
Fondazione Benetton Studi e Ricerche, Italy

Hochschild Collection, Lima.
Museo del Barrio, NY

Tokyo National University Fine Arts Museum, Permanent Collection
Toki Collection of Ceramics, Japan
Jun Garou, Tokyo
Peruvian – North American Cultural Institute, Permanent Collection, Lima Peru. University Ricardo Palma Permanent Collection, Lima Peru.
Various private collectors in Peru, Japan, USA, United Kingdom and South America. 

PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS

101 Contemporary Artists and More…/Book Edition, edited by Collect Art, Georgia.

Musealidad Alterada. Experiencias museales en Latinoamérica desde el 2000 , Doctoral Thesis, Dr. Juan Jose Santos, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. 

Studio Visit Magazine, 2020, vol 45
New American Paintings -  South Edition, 2018.

Creative Practices for Visual Artists, Time, Space, Process, by Kenneth Steinbach, A Focal Press Book - Interview.
Artillery Magazine, Conceptual Museum: Cesar Cornejo, Constructing Spaces for Art in the Peruvian Andes, by Chris Michno, July 2017.
Art Nexus 99, The Architectonics of Aesthetics Resistance, by Denise Carvalho.

Elements and Principles of 4D Art and Design, by Ellen Mueller, Oxford University Press.
The Next Thing: Art in the 21 Century, Edited by Pablo Baler and published under the Fairleigh University Press Imprint by the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. 

Arquitecturas alternativas en las prácticas museotópicas [Recurs electrònic] = Alternative architectures in museum practices / Agustín R. Díez Fischer
Museotopia, Ciudad, Ciudadanía, El Caso del Puno MoCA, por Gustavo Buntinx, Memorias MDE 11, Museo de Antioquía, Colombia, 2011.
Revista Cosas, Cesar Cornejo y el Puno MoCA, by Sandro Mairata.
Revista Caretas, Abundancia, by Luis E. Lamas
Art Nexus 79, Cesar Cornejo, Gallery Lucia de la Puente, by Augusto Chimpen.
Somos Magazine, All Houses are Museums, by Lucia Pardo
Casas Magazine, Museum of Art in Puno, by Cecilia Ly
A Roof for Art, Dominical Newspaper, Lima-Perú.
Artistas plásticos en el Perú : siglos XVI - XVII - XVIII - XIX - XX / Gabriela Lavarello Vargas de Velaochaga. Lima 2009.
Art Nexus, Preemptive Resistances, Pointers in Latinamerican Art, by Tatiana Flores, 2009.
KUNSTFORUM-International", Busan Bienial 2008 Review, Band 195 Januar-März 2009‏.
Flash Art Magazine, The S Files, Nov-Dec 2007, by Denise Bergstrom
Museums Magazine, Found in Translation, By Magdalene Perez, Sep 2007.
Harvard Advocate Magazine, Harvard College, January 2008, Boston, USA.
NY1, Channel , El Museo del Barrio Celebrates Last Two Years in Latino Art July 2007 , NY.
Artdaily.org, Workspace 07 Exhibit at the Queens Library Gallery, 8/17/2007.
Times Newsweekly/ Arts and Leisure, Artwork on Display at Library Showing, New works featured at Workspace07, August 30, 2007.
Timesledger, Library gallery charts path from artist’s idea to exhibit, by Danielle Winterton, July 26, 2007.
The Flowers of Evil, By Doris Bayly, Somos Magazine, El Comercio Newspaper, 23 June 2005, Lima, Peru.
Two Proposals of Interest in Artco, By Elida Roman, El Comercio Newspaper, Sunday June 19th 2005
The Garden of Memories, By Alberto Villa, El Comercio Newspaper, June 12 2005, Lima Peru.
Empty House, By Alberto Villar Campos, El Comercio Newspaper, Lima May 29th 2005.
Taken House, Magazine Presencia of the CONFIEP, July 2005, Lima Peru.
The Best of 2005, La Primera Newspaper, December 28th, Lima Peru.
The Best of 2005, Newspaper El Comercio, EL Dominical, December 25th 2005, Lima Peru, By Diego Otero
Top Artist Cesar Cornejo draws on children’s talent, Barnsley Chronicle, April 29th, 2005, UK.
Five Commissions for Public Spaces, Arts Council of England, News from the Arts Council of England, Issue No. 08 / 01.05
Henry Moore Institute, Newsletter Oct Nov 2004, issue No 56.
Drawing on the Past, Start Magazine, issue #10, UK.
Wood you Believe it? Specially Commissioned Work Challenges Viewers, The Star Newspaper, May 17, 2004.
Lesson in Art, Peruvian Sculptor at Thurnscoe School, Barnsley Chronicle, June 2004, UK.
Escultura Em Terra(cota) Palco Sul, (cover), 24 to 30 of August, 2001, Evora, Portugal.
The Artist in his Labyrinth, Newspaper El Comercio, March 2003, Lima Peru.
Spirits from East, El Comercio, Newspaper, July 26th 2000, Lima Peru.
Ceramics in Architecture, World Ceramics Congress, Florence, 2004.
A Preface for a Catalog, Arch. Hugo Iberico,1993, Lima Peru.
La Habitacion de Cornejo, El Comercio Newspaper, Sunday Suplement, 1993, M2(1993)81016  AR

WRITINGS

2022 Guest Editor, MDPI Special Edition: Art, Architecture and Society.
2017 On Kawara - Silence, caareviews.org
2010 AUT Magazine,  revista de arquitectura, urbanismo y territorio del CAP  Regional Lima  School of Architects of Peru, Puno Museum of Contemporary Art.
2009 Text for Catalog, Preemptive Resistances: Reversed Strategies at the
Westport Arts Center, curated by Denise Bergstrom.
2007 Architecture as Installation: from the Organic to the Anti-Architectural Expression – Use of Narrative Within Installation Art, NY Arts Magazine, May/June 2007.
1994 Sculpture – Architecture,1994, World Ceramics Congress, Florence, Italy. 

CONFERENCES PANELS AND LECTURES

2023 Social Art International, guest presenter, Meetup 2, online. 

2022  Seattle Metamodernism Summit 2022: Conversations on the Arts in an Age of Ironesty!  

2022 Lecture at the Co-Creative Centre, New Bedford Massachusetts, organized by DATMA.
2022 Lecture at Universidad del Altiplano, Escuela Profesional de Arte, Puno - Peru.

2021 University of Massachusetts, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Dr. Pamela Karimi's Class. (online)

2021 Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas, Departamento de Arquitectura, Lima - Peru (online)

2021 Anderson Ranch, Fluid Sculpture Series (online)
2021 Vermont Studio Center, Visiting Artist Program. (online)
2019 University of Arizona, NEA Funded Visiting Artists Series: Stop | Look | Listen: Art and Social Justice.
2018 Creative Time Summit on Archipelagos and other Imaginaries: Collective Strategies to Inhabit the World, Workshops section: “Reciprocidad Andina”, towards an exchange based social practice, Miami-FLorida.
2018 Charla sobre Practica Profesional, Universidad del Altiplano, Escuela de Arte, Puno - Peru.
2017 Orange County Museum of Art, Building as Ever Exhibition Panel.

2017 Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art, lecture for the MFA in Curatorial Practice Class.

2016 Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima, panel presentation about Puno MoCA in the context of the exhibition, Vacio Museal, 50 Años de Museotopias Peruanas, curated by Gustavo Buntinx.
  
2015 Beyond the Magiciens Effect, organized by Le Peuple qui Manque, Curatorial Platform, Paris.
2015 ASAP/Journal del Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, Panel Social Practice in and around Latin America, organized by Tatiana Flores PhD. Clemson University, Greenville, South Carolina.
2012 Creative Capital Retreat, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
2012 City University of New York, Students Club, Staten Island, New York.
2012 College Art Association Annual Conference, Creative Capital Foundation panel presentation.
2012 Rochester Institute of Technology, Artist Presentation, NY.
2012 College University of New York, Staten Island, artist presentation, students club.
2011 College Art Association Annual Conference, Latin American Art in the Now, panel presentation, organized by Claudia Calirman and Tatiana Flores, NY.
2010 Panel about Gordon Matta-Clark, organized by curator Tatiana Cuevas, Museo de Arte de Lima-Peru. 2008-2009,
New York University, Visiting Artist November 06 - June 07.
Syracuse University, guest speaker, Nov 2006, NY
2007 Henry Moore Institute, Situation Leeds Arts Festival, guest speaker, Leeds, U K.
2007 Mowhawk Community College, lecture, NY.
1999-2009 Visiting Lecturer at Catholic University, Corriente Alterna Art School, University San Martin de Porres, Ricardo Palma University, and other institutions, Lima Peru.
2005 The Art House, Guest Speaker, Jul 2005, London UK.
1993-1995 University Ricardo Palma, Lecturer in Sculpture, Lima Peru
1990-1992 University Ricardo Palma, Assistant Professor in Sculpture, Lima Peru. 

JURY PANELS 

Rockefeller Foundation – Bellagio Center

Susquehanna Art Museum 's 9th annual juried exhibition, Harrisburg, PA, US.

Florida Arts Council

New Jersey Arts Council 

Royal Society of Sculptors

Sculpture Space Residency Program 

Kresge Arts Foundation, Detroit 

COMMUNITY AND EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS

2008, Museo del Barrio, Museum Mile, Fifth Avenue Museum Mile, NY.
2007, Emotions Cluster, How can space affect emotions?, Bruce Grove Primary School, London.
2006, Freedom Cycle and Skate Project, Land Securities Community Fund,
2006 Video, Meditation Techniques applied to Art, Southwark Schools, London. 2006, Creative Partnerships London North, Mayville Primary School, Can we be a happy school that get's along together?
2006, The Generator, Millfield House, Creative Partnerships London North. 2006, 2006 The Facility Architects, Freedom Cycle and Skate Project, Burgess Park Southwark, London, sponsored by Arts Council of England.
2006 Creative Partnerships London North, Bowes Primary School, "How can the outside space inspire learning through play?".
2006 Creative Partnerships London East, Islington Arts and Media School,
2006 Religion and Art, "Finding the Shape of the Spirit".
2005 Creative Partnerships London North, Guest Speaker at Space Outside Event.
2005 British Council, Exhibition and Workshops at schools in Lima Peru.
2005 Creative Parnerships Barnsley, Doncaster & Rotherham, Interactive Sculpture Project at The Hill Primary School, Workshops and Installation of works designed by the students.
2004 Creative Parnerships Barnsley, Doncaster & Rotherham, sculpture workshops at primary schools in Rotherham area.
2004 Creative Parnerships Barnsley, Doncaster & Rotherham, sculpture commission installed at the Brodsworth Hall in Doncaster. 

TEACHING AND LECTURING

School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds
2022 - Current, Associate Professor 

Universidad del Altiplano, Puno, Peru

2022  - Visiting Professor, Fulbright Fellow

Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University

2019 - 2022, Senior Lecturer. 

University of South Florida, School of Art and Art History
2008 - 2019, Associate Professor.
College University New York, Staten Island
2008, 2009 & 2010 Summer Drawing Courses.
University Ricardo Palma
1991 - 1993, Architecture Department, Teaching Assistant in Sculpture. 1993 -1996, Architecture Department, Lecturer in Sculpture.
Creative Capital Foundation, Professional Development Program
2011 - 2019, workshop Co-leader. Pensacola, Miami, New York, Gainesville, Oklahoma, 

Mass Arts
2013 Mentoring Program, Spring Semester. 

(H)our Art School: 60 artists, 60 art lessons, 60 minutes...

 Chip Lord (Ant Farm), Jack Massing (Art Guys), and Sean Miller (JEMA) 

EDUCATION

2000 - 2003, PhD in Fine Art,(sculpture), Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Awarded 2003.
1998 - 2000, MA in Fine Art (sculpture), Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Awarded 2000.
1996-1998, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Ministry of Education of Japan, Monbusho Scholarship, Research Student.
1983-1989, Ricardo Palma University, Bachelors degree in Architecture.
1993 Professional License in Architecture.  Lima-Peru

2022, PGCert, Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, Manchester Metropolitan University.