Claudia Kaatziza Cortínez

Claudia Kaatziza Cortínez is an Argentine/Chilean/American artist and educator. She has exhibited her work, curated exhibitions, and organized educational projects in the US and Latin America for over a decade. Her studio practice combines printmaking, sculptural and photographic techniques that depict urban and domestic architecture as sites of reflection and transformation. Central to her work is experimenting with materials to capture imprints of spaces and objects, and how the residue of these imprints can communicate a larger socio-political narrative. Claudia is co-founder/director of LAZO, an art collective that brings together Latinx artists to create participatory projects and exhibitions. Claudia received her BFA from RISD and MFA from Yale. Recent awards and residencies include: Yale Norfolk Teaching Fellowship, Silver Art Projects Residency, Rema Hort Mann Grant, Center for Book Arts Residency, LES Printshop Residency, LMCC Community Engagement Grant, among others. She is currently an artist in residence with her collective LAZO at The Clemente in NYC.