Miami artist Xavier Cortada has exhibited his work in museums, galleries and cultural venues across the Americas, Europe, Africa an Antarctica — and locally at the Miami Art Museum, the Bass Museum of Art, the Miami Science Museum and the Historical Museum of Southern Florida.

Recent group shows include the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Colorado (2007), the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway (2007), the BOZAR Center for Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium(2007), the Ministry of Culture in Monaco (2008) and EXFT ART gallery in New York (2008).

Xavier Cortada, "Mangroves" 48" x 36", 2007

Cortada has created art for the White House and the World Bank, the Florida Supreme Court, and the Museum of Florida History. In his hometown, Cortada's commissioned work hangs in City Hall, County Hall, and the facade of the Juvenile Courthouse.

Cortada has worked with groups across the world to produce numerous large-scale murals and community art projects, including: environmental installations on Miami Beach and the South Pole. International AIDS Conference murals in Switzerland and South Africa, perace murals in Northern Ireland and Cyprus, and child welfare murals in Panama and Bolivia.

Cortada holds three degrees from the University of Miami — a Bachelor of Arts, Master of Public Administration and Juris Doctor. The Cuban-American artist's work and writings are preserved in the Xavier Cortada Collection of the University of Miami Libraries Cuban Heritage Collection.

In 2007, as a recipient of the National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, he created site-specific installations at the South Pole. In June 2008, as a New York Foundation for the Arts sponsored artist, Cortada will travel to the North Pole to install some these pieces there. Cortada is creating art at the extreme ends of the planet to address issues of global climate change at every point in between.

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