Cesar Cornejo

Awards, Residencies and Fellowships

2019 The Bellagio Center Residency Program – The Rockefeller Foundation.

2018 ZK/U - Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik Residency, Berlin.

2018 The George A and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship - Sculpture. 2018 Hambidge Center Residency, GA.
2017 Yaddo Artist in Residency Program, NY.
2015 Sharpe Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn, New York.

2010 Art Omi, International Artists Residency, New York, 2010.
2009 Creative Capital Foundation, Grant for Emerging Fields - Architecture 2009.2008 New York Foundation for the Arts, Fiscal Sponsorship for The Puno Museum of Contemporary Art Project, NY.
2008 Finalist, First London International Creative Competition, UK.
2008 Workspace Residency, Center for Book Arts, NY.
2007 Sculpture Space Residency, Aug-Sep 2007,Utica, NY.
2006 New York University, visiting artist, October 2006 – May 2007.
2006 Workspace Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY.
2006 Full Fellowship Award, Vermont Studio Center, USA.
2005 Grant for Artists, British Council.
2004 Research visitor, The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK.
2004 Public Art Commission, The Art House and Creative Partnerships, Doncaster, UK. 2003 Toride Shou, Public Sculpture Prize, Toride, Japan.
2002 Full Fellowship Award, Vermont Studio Center, USA.
2002 Foreign Art Students Prize, Asahi Art Foundation.
2001 Ceramics in Architecture, “Habitar" International Symposium, Oficinas do Convento, Portugal.
2000 “Kayage” Prize, Tokyo National University Museum of Art acquisition award, Tokyo, Japan
1999 International Contemporary Ceramics Symposium, Toki, Japan.

1996-2003 Monbukagakusho Fellowship, Japanese Ministry of Education, Japan.

Grants at University of South Florida

2019 College of the Arts Summer Grant.
2018 College of the Arts Research Grant.
2017 College of the Arts Research Grant.
2017 Nominated by the president of the university for the Carnegie Fellows Program, (only two faculty members from humanities were nominated from the whole university). 2015 Summer Research Grant, University of South Florida

2015 Creative Scholarship Grant, University of South Florida
2013 Summer Research Grant, University of South Florida.
2012 College of The Arts Research Grant University of South Florida.2011 College of The Arts Research Grant University of South Florida.

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2019 The Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Brown Foundation Fellows Program at the

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Dora Maar House, France.

2010 New Researcher Grant, University of South Florida.2010 Summer Provost Grant, University of South Florida.
Selected Solo Exhibitions

2013 Puno Museum of Contemporary Art, A project by Cesar Cornejo, Florida Gulf Coast University Main Gallery, Curated by Jade Dellinger, Fort Myers, Florida.
2011 Puno Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Positions, Art Basel Miami 2011, Galeria Lucia de la Puente, Miami USA

2010 Puno Museum of Contemporary Art, Galeria Lucia de la Puente, Lima.
2009 Works by Cesar Cornejo, Jun Garou, Ginza, Tokyo
2006 "Sculpting the Canvas” Gallery Light Contemporary, April 06, London.
2005 "La Cantuta" Gallery ARTCO, June 2005, Lima.
2005 "A Private Matter" Peruvian-North American Cultural Institute Gallery, May 2005, Lima.
2003 "Enter the Labyrinth", Gallery Kobo Chika, Tokyo, Japan.
2002 "Monuments and Amulets ", Gyokuei Gallery, Tokyo

1999 "Something in the Air", Gallery Kobo Chika, Tokyo
1999 "400m2 of Sculpture", Yokohama Galleria Bellini, Nomura Foundation, Yokohama, Japan.
1993 "Habitaciones", Peruvian- North American Cultural Institute Gallery of Art, Lima.

Selected Group Exhibitions and Art Fairs

2019

The Body Says: I am a Fiesta, at the Norton Museum of Art, curated by Lesley Wolff.

2018

2017
Pacific California Triennial, curated by Cassandra Coblentz, Orange County Museum of Art, CA.
Próxima Parada, Artistas Peruanos en la Colección Hochschild, Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid, Spain.

In the Eyes of the Hungry, University of Central Florida Gallery, curated by Keri Watson, Orlando, FL.
Sinopsis, group exhibition, Galeria Lucia de la Puente, Lima.
2016
50 Años de Museotopias, Curated by Gustavo Buntinx, MAC Lima
Sharpe Walentas Open Studios, NY

2015
XII Havana Biennial, CubaFlorida Prize in Contemporary Art Exhibition, curated by Hansen Mulford and Azela Santana, Orlando Museum of Art.
Then and Now, curated by Alexander Campos, Center for Book Arts, NY Polivalencias,

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Creative Practices for Visual Artists, Time, Space, Process, Exhibition, Olson Gallery,

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Bethel University.

Exhibition about Nature, Galería 80m2, curated by Livia Benavides, Lima.

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Finalists Exhibition, Concurso Nacional de Pintura, Banco Central de Reserva del Perú,

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Lima.

curated by Jorge Villacorta, Galeria Lucia de la Puente, Lima, Peru. Arquitectura - Diseño - Arte, EXPODECO, Lima, Peru.

2014
Apocryphal Times, curated by Tamara Kostianovsky and Thorsten Albertz, Friedman Benda Gallery, NY.
“El Otro”, Parque Cultural Huanchaca, Curated by Gustavo Buntinx, organized by Colectivo Se Vende, Antofagasta, Chile.
Beyond Limits, Postglobal Mediations, San Diego Art Institute, curated by Denise Carvalho and Ginger Shullick, in Partnership with the Post Global Bienniale, San Diego, CA.
PARC, Art Fair, Gallery Lucia de la Puente, Lima, Peru.

2013
Pangaea 2, Japanese Consulate in Melbourne Australia, Curated By Merric Brettle. Contemporaneidad del Diseño Ancestral, Centro Ccori Wasi, University Ricardo Palma, curated by Elio Martucelli and Jesus Peña, Lima, Peru.
Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, Benefit Auction, San Jose, CA.SIART, Bienal Internacional de Arte, Puno Cuarto Mundo, curated by Aymar Ccopacatty, La Paz, Bolivia.
Paradero, Galeria Lucia de la Puente, curated by Carlo Trivelli, Lima Peru.Segundo Salon de Arte de Puno, Puno Peru.

2012
Bestiario 1984-1987 A Documenta, Centro Ccori Wasi, University Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru.
Vista: Unfolding the Mapping Process, University of Maryland University College Gallery, MD, USA.
Pinta Art Fair, Galeria Lucia de la Puente, NY.

2011
The Armory Show, New YorkBenefit Auction, Center for Book Arts Annual, New York. Annual Benefit Auction, Exit Art, New York.

2010
GLAAD OUT AuctionAnnual Benefit Auction Exhibition, Museum of Art of Lima, Lima- Peru
Utopia at Utica’s Sculpture Space Residency, Islip Museum, Long Island, curated by Sydney Waller, New York.
15th Anniversary exhibition, Galeria Lucia de la Puente, Lima-Peru, April.
Latin American Art exhibition, Noyes Museum, curated by Henry Bermudez, September 2010, New Jersey, USA.

2009
In/Out: An Exhibition and Auction Featuring GLAAD's top 100 Artists “Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York.
Art in Odd Places, 14th Street, New York, curated by Erin Donnelly and Radhika Subramanian, NY.

Annual Benefit Auction Exhibition, Museum of Art of Lima, Lima-Peru.
Preemptive Resistances: Reversed Strategies at the Westport Arts Center, curated by Denise Bergstrom, Connecticut, USA.
Faculty Focus Show,University of South Florida Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by David Norr, Tampa, Florida.
Center for Book Arts, Artists in residency show, NY.

2008
Busan Biennial 2008, “Expenditure”, Sculpture Project, South Korea. The LAB, San Francisco, curated by Heather Mikolav.

2007
The Red Badge of Courage, Newark Council of the Arts, Curated by Omar Lopez Chahoud.
Workspace 2007, Queens Library Gallery, curated by Juliana Driever.
S Files Biennial, V Biennial Museo del Barrio, NY,curated by Elvis Fuentes and Carmen Ramos

2005
New Art Birmingham, UKThe London Connection, Gallery Lisi Hammerle, Austria

Peter Harvey Gallery, London Jovenes con Fia, Caracas, Venezuela.

2004
V Bienal Barro de America, Maracaibo, Venezuela. 2001Sculpture Biennale Rincon De Ademuz, Spain.

2000
Works made for the Toki Contemporary Ceramics Symposium, Gallery Tanaka, Ginza - Tokyo.

Selected Collections

Luciano Benetton Collection
Museo del Barrio, NY

Tokyo National University Fine Arts Museum, Permanent Collection
Toki Collection of Ceramics, Japan,
Gallery Jun, Tokyo
Gallery Gyokuei, Tokyo

Peruvian – North American Cultural Institute, Permanent Collection, Lima Peru. University Ricardo Palma Permanent Collection, Lima Peru.
Varios private collectors in Peru, Japan, USA, United Kingdom, Brazil and Venezuela.