HOESY CORONA

ARtist-in-residence / SEPTEMBER 1 - November 23, 2021

Hoesy Corona is an uncategorized queer Latinx artist of Mexican descent living and working in the United States. Using a variety of media spanning installation, performance, and video, Hoesy develops otherworldly narratives centering marginalized individuals in society that investigates what it means to be a queer Latinx immigrant in a place where there are few. He choreographs large-scale performances and installations that oftentimes silently confront and delight viewers with some of the most pressing issues of our time. Reoccurring themes of queerness, race/class/gender, nature, isolation, celebration, and the climate crisis are present throughout his work. Hoesy has exhibited widely in galleries, museums, and public spaces in the United States and abroad including recent solo exhibitions Weathering (2021) at The Kreeger Museum in Washington, DC, Earthly Mirage (2021) at the Hardesty Arts Center in Tulsa, OK, Sunset Moonlight (2021) at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, MD, and Alien Nation (2017), a large scale performance at The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC. He lived in Mexico, Utah, and Wisconsin, before moving to Baltimore, MD in 2005 to establish a professional practice in the arts. Hoesy is a recent artist in residence at The Nicholson Project 2021 in Washington, DC, and is a former GKFF Artist Fellow 2019 & 2020 in Tulsa, OK, and a Halcyon Arts Lab Fellow 2017-2018 in Washington, DC. He has been awarded numerous recognitions among them a Municipal Art Society of Baltimore Artist Travel Prize, a Ruby’s Artist Grant, and a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award. In 2021 he was the recipient of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s MAP Fund Grant 2021-2023. He is a current resident artist at The Creative Alliance in Baltimore, MD.

Learn more about Hoesy’s work at hoesycorona.com

RESIDENT PROJECT: WAYFARING + WEATHERING Exhibitions

During his time at Nicholson, Hoesy worked with Smithsonian curator, Adriel Luis, and used his residency as a research lab to develop the framework for a new multimedia installation and performance that draws from his personal experiences as a queer Mexican immigrant to poetically consider how immigrants thrive in a new place despite their unique circumstances.

Weathering: As part of an ongoing partnership between The Nicholson Project and The Kreeger Museum, Hoesy was a guest artist and presented his exhibition Weathering on view from December 2021-February 2022 at The Kreeger Museum.

WAYFARING: As a companion exhibition to Weathering, WAYFARING is a solo exhibition presented at The Nicholson Project from January 20 - March 12, 2022. This exhibition debuts new large-scale prints on fabric and a series of mixed-media sculptures created during the artist’s residency at The Nicholson Project in 2021.

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