HOESY CORONA

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BIO:

Short Bio:
Hoesy Corona (Baltimore, MD) is a Latinx Queer artist of Mexican descent creating uncategorized and multidisciplinary art spanning installation, performance, and sculpture. In the studio, Hoesy’s work highlights the complex relationship between humans and the environment by focusing on our changing climate and its impact on habitation and migration patterns. Corona has exhibited widely in galleries, museums, and public spaces in the United States and internationally, including recent solo exhibitions Climatic Shocks (2023) at Praxis NY Gallery, in Manhattan, NY; Weathering (2022) at The Kreeger Museum presented by The Nicholson Project in Washington, DC; Sunset Moonlight (2021) at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, MD; and Alien Nation (2017), at The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden presented by Transformer in Washington, DC. Hoesy has held national fellowships including at the Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center Public Humanities Fellowship 2022-2023 at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD; the Halcyon Arts Lab Fellowship 2017-18 in Washington, DC; and the George Kaiser Family Foundation's Tulsa Artist Fellowship 2019 & 2020 in Tulsa, OK. He is the recipient of many honors and awards including the Mellon Foundation’s MAP Fund Grant; the NALAC Fund For the Arts Artist Grant; the Andy Warhol Foundation’s Grit Fund Grant; and a Ruby’s Artist Grant. He has attended residencies at Ox-Bow Artist Residency, Wabash College AIR, The Nicholson Project, and a Transformer Siren Arts Residency. His work has been reviewed by The Washington Post, Bmore Art Magazine, The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Magazine, Washington City Paper, and The American Scholar among others. In 2024 Hoesy was awarded the Pratt Artist in Residence at Enoch Pratt Free Central Library in Baltimore, MD.


Long Bio:
Hoesy Corona (based in the U.S.) is a Latinx Queer artist and independent curator creating uncategorized and multidisciplinary art spanning installation, performance, and sculpture. Corona lived in Mexico, Utah, and Wisconsin before moving to Baltimore in 2005 to establish a professional practice in the arts. In Baltimore, Hoesy was a core member of the subversive performance art troupe The Copycat Theatre (2009-2012), an artist led quasi-arts-organization mobilizing and bridging together the various live performance art scenes through monthly immersive performance based programming at the Copycat Building. Hoesy was also the founding Co-Director of Labbodies (2014-2020), an award winning nomadic performance art laboratory focused on creating opportunities for under recognized queer and women artists of color to exhibit their work. He is the founding co-host of La Valentina Podcast, a podcast and exhibition platform that celebrates queer Latinx artists and their accomplices in the art worlds. And most recently, Corona established the The Latinx Art, Culture, and Memory Archive within Special Collections at Johns Hopkins University as a container and public Latinx repository that holds shelf space for the discoverability, preservation, and study of Latinx Histories in the United States.

Hoesy has held several national fellowships including the Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center Public Humanities Fellowship 2022-2023 at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, the George Kaiser Family Foundation's Tulsa Artist Fellowship 2019, 2020 in Tulsa, OK, the Halcyon Arts Lab Fellowship 2017-2018 in Washington, DC, and the Coldstream Homestead Montebello Sculpture Park Fellowship 2016-2017 in Baltimore, MD.

In the studio Corona develops fabulated narratives centering marginalized individuals in society that investigate what it means to be a queer Latinx immigrant in a place where there are few. He organizes and choreographs large-scale performances and installations that oftentimes quietly 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 internationally including recent solo exhibitions Climatic Shocks (2023) at Praxis NY Gallery, in Manhattan, NY; Weathering (2022) at The Kreeger Museum presented by The Nicholson Project in Washington, DC; Terrestrial Caravan (2022) at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD; Sunset Moonlight (2021) at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, MD; and Alien Nation (2017), at The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden presented by Transformer in Washington, DC.

He has attended many residencies including the Ox-Bow Artist Residency, the Nicholson Project, Transformer's Siren Arts, the Restoring Hope, Restoring Trust Artist in Residence 2023 at Wabash College, Merriweather District Artist in Residence, and the MoCA-Arlington Innovation Studio Artist in Residence. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the NALAC Fund For the Arts Artist Grant, The Mellon Foundation’s MAP Fund Grant, the Andy Warhol Foundation’s Grit Fund Grant, the Ruby's Artist Grant, and a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award. His work has been reviewed in The Washington Post, The American Scholar, Bmore Art Magazine, The Baltimore Sun, and Baltimore Magazine among others.

Hoesy is the 2024 Pratt Artist in Residence at Enoch Pratt Free Central Library in Baltimore, MD.

STATEMENT

“My arts based research is keen on subverting and revealing popular social constructs that harm U.S. communities from the Global Majority. In the studio, I develop fabulated narratives centering overlooked individuals in society to investigate what it means to be a Latinx Queer immigrant in a place where there are few. I utilize the reoccurring themes of queerness, race/class/gender, isolation, and the archive to examine the physical and psychological consequences of never seeing yourself reflected anywhere. 

Through the ongoing creation of six distinct bodies of interdisciplinary and performance art I magnify and make visible: the circumstance of the U.S. Latino as a perpetual foreigner, the suppression of queerness in society, the invisibility of white supremacy in plain sight, our paradoxical fear of death,  our persistent contribution to and inaction towards the climate emergency, the blame and shame associated with otherness, and the archival silences that perpetuate the purposeful erasure of diverse groups in the U.S..

In my most recent work, I highlight the complex relationship between humans and the environment by focusing on our changing climate and its impact on habitation and migration patterns, while bringing attention to the lush flora and multitudinous powers of nature. For my Climate Immigrants installations, I combine performances for the camera and digital collage printed on some of the most harmful materials currently in heavy circulation across the globe—in the form of fossil fuel derived plastics— to construct multimedia sites that protest our waged war on nature."

-Hoesy Corona