José Luis Cortés Santander

José Luis Cortés Santander

Mexico

Artist, manager and professor. He was a visual-arts student at UDLAP (Mexico), University of Leeds (United Kingdom) and the Pratt Institute (EEUU). He has taught art courses at ENPEG La Esmeralda, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, and at Universidad de Guadalajara, among several other institutions. He has coordinated collective self-managed art projects such as “LAALvaca” in the city of Puebla, and “La galería de comercio” in Mexico City. As an artist he’s been distinguished by grants from the Fulbright and Jumex Foundations, and FONCA. He has shown his work at independent spaces, galleries and museums in various countries in Latin America and Europe. He has done more than twenty publications in Mexico and abroad that include interviews, reviews, essays and his own works. Currently, he is coordinator of the Visual Arts Degree curriculum at University of the Americas, Puebla.