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Adriana Corral

Adriana Corral’s installations, sculptures, drawings, and films confront histories threatened by erasure. Her interdisciplinary, research-based practice explores themes of memory, loss, human rights abuses, natural disasters, and the unacknowledged histories hidden in plain sight.

Corral’s approach is deeply immersive, engaging state and national archives alongside the places and communities connected to her research. She uncovers primary documents while investigating the physical and cultural landscapes of each site—examining the soil, the built environment, and the community’s collective memory.

The materials in her art–ash, soil, and text—stand in for the remnants of destruction, both natural and manmade. Through them, she examines immigration, citizenship, economic trade, labor, public health, and the policies that shape them both nationally and internationally. These contemplative works aim to restore memory and bear witness to the past in order to empower humane acts in the present and future.

Corral received her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin and completed her BFA at the University of Texas at El Paso.

She was invited to attend the 106th session of the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary disappearances at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland (2015) and awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant (2016). Corral attended the McDowell Residency (2014), Künstlerhaus Bethanien Residency in Berlin, Germany (2016), the International Artist-in-Residence at Artpace (2016) in San Antonio, Texas, Artist-in-Residence at the Joan Mitchell Center (2018), New Orleans, Louisiana, and an Artist-in-Residence at Ballroom, Marfa (2024). Corral was an Artist Fellow at Black Cube, A Nomadic Art Museum (2017), an Artist Research Fellow at Archives of American Art and History at the Smithsonian Institution (2018), selected for the Latinx Artist Fellowship funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Ford Foundation (2021) and a Planet Texas 2050 Artist Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin (2023-24). Corral is the recipient of the Houston’s Artadia Award (2019), Harpo Foundation (2020) and exhibitions include, Suffering from Realness, MASS MoCA (2019-2020), Bodies of Knowledge, New Orleans Museum of Art (2019), Prospect 5, Yesterday we said tomorrow (2020-2022), Eyes of the Skin, Lehmann Maupin Gallery (2023), Tongues of Fire, Ballroom Marfa (2023), Unflagging: Futures, Ballroom Marfa (2024), Hidden Histories, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2023-26), Just a Dream; THE HOLE/IN MEMORY (FOR JOE CAMPOS TORRES), MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, As Long as Life Endures, Blaffer Art Museum and Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College (2026/27).