WILLIAM CORDOVA

In “Bird in Space (for Bobby Rush)” (2007/08), for example, Cordova constructs a monument to revolutionary political ideology. Combining reclaimed wood from the streets of Chicago, a Peruvian Hyacinth bird feather, and the arm of a pair of eyeglasses Cordova stages Charlie Parker, Brâncuşi and Bobby Rush among many others within a pantheon of transnational figures.

In addition to staging solo exhibitions e.g. at the Fleming Museum, University of Vermont (2009), the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2005/06), and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (2003), he has recently taken part in groundbreaking group exhibitions, such as „NeoHooDoo“, Menil Collection, Houston, Texas (2008), and „Street Level“, Nasher Museum at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (2007). His works were presented in the San Juan Triennial, San Juan (2009), the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2008), and the Biennale di Venezia (2003). In 2008 he was artist-in-residence at Artpace, San Antonio, Texas. In 2006 Arndt & Partner Berlin presented the first solo show of William Cordova in Germany.