Featured Artist Xavier Cortada

Our website features the paintings of Xavier Cortada, a Miami artist whose wide-ranging work addresses Florida mystique, social concerns, and international issues. The featured paintings include his depictions of Florida mangroves and reflections on cultural diversity.

Xavier Cortada’s art, exhibited widely in Florida, has been shown across four continents. He has worked with international groups to produce peace murals in Cyprus and Northern Ireland; child welfare murals in Bolivia and Panama; AIDS murals in Geneva and South Africa; and eco-art projects in Hawaii, Holland, and Latvia. In one of his more dramatic projects, Cortada created environmental art at the poles of the Earth. In 2007, he used the moving ice sheet beneath the South Pole as an instrument to mark time, a piece expected to evolve over 150,000 years. (For more information, visit www.cortada.com/antarctica/journey.) In 2008, he planted a green flag at the North Pole to help launch a global reforestation effort.

Born in Albany, N.Y., Cortada grew up in Miami and attended the University of Miami where he earned a bachelor’s degree in
psychology, a master’s in public administration, and a juris doctorate.

For more on Xavier Cortada visit his website at www.xaviercortada.com.

Featured Xavier Cortada art:

"The Coexistence Mural" , 48" x 192", acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 2004.

"Diversity Mural", 36" x 96", mixed media on canvas, 1999.

"We're in the Same boat", 60" x 192", mixed media on canvas, 2001.

Mangrove Paintings

"West Grove Positive Partnership Mural", Xavier Cortada, Robin Diaz, mentors and participants of Postive Partnership, "West Grove Positive Partnerships Mural", 48" x 144", mixed media on canvas, 2003.

Mangrove Paintings