Alumna Adriana Corral (MFA in Studio Art, 2013) has been selected for the 2019 Houston Artadia grant alongside fellow Texan Vincent Valdez. A nation nonprofit based in New York with six award cities, including Houston, Artadia will award Corral and Valdez $10,000 in unrestricted funds.
Corral's recent exhibition history includes a collaboration with fellow Artadia recipient Valdez at MASS MoCA titled Requiem. "A requiem is a mass for the souls of the dead," described MASS MoCA curator Denise Markonish about the work. "...here Corral and Valdez have used it to take stock of American History, beginning by asking 243 Americans (a number marking the age of the American Republic in 2019) to each submit a date of personal or historical significance. These dates were burned by Corral, and the ash was used by Valdez to patina a bronze sculpture of an American bald eagle in distress. Each of the collected dates was then laboriously cut and carved directly into the sheetrock wall by Corral, literally scarring the museum with American history, creating both an urn and a time capsule."
Houston's Moody Gallery is currently presenting a solo exhibition of Corral's work in Line as human / La línea como concepto humano on view from January 18 – February 15, 2020.
Artadia also announced recipients of its second annual Houston Artadia Fellowship, launched in 2018 as an extension of its award program, which included recent Studio Art MFA alumna Ling-lin Ku (2019).