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Tejano in Chicago. Time traveler working between the Texas borderlands and Mars.
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Maximiliano Cervantes (b.1999, Borderlands, Texas) lives and works in Chicago. Cervantes received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2021 and is a current MFA candidate at Northwestern University in Art, Theory, and Practice. The narratives of La Frontera, the frontier, or the Mexican-American Borderlands in The Rio Grande Valley, Texas, guide his practice. Performing for the camera he collaborates with his father to show the relationship between a father and son amid aerospace manufacturing and the past, present, and future of the brown body on Mars.
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Education
Now Master of Fine Arts - Art, Theory, Practice, Northwestern University
2021 Bachelors of Fine Arts, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2021 Festival University, ARS Electronica and Johannes Kepler University Linz
Awards
2020 Fred Endsley Memorial Fellowship (SAIC)
2019 Deans Grant (SAIC)
2019 Merit Scholarship (SAIC)
Group Exhibitions
2023 The Buried Line, Murmuration, Chicago, IL
2023 El Otro Lado, Filter Photo, Chicago, IL
2022
El Otro Lado, Visual Arts Center, The University of Texas Austin, TX
2021 Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019 Departures, EOB Projects, McAllen, Texas
2018 Portrait 2019, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gimpo, South Korea
2018 Two Person Show, Galeria 409, Brownsville, Texas
2018 Brownsville Museum of Fine Arts, Brownsville, Texas
2018 Two Person Show, Platform 204, Harlingen, Texas
Publication
2020 “Untitled 2019” ISBN 978-0-578-66231-2
Public Collection
2019 “Two Clocks Tell Different Times” 2019 at Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Joan M. Flaxman Library, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Press
2020 The 2020 LENSCRATCH TOP 25 TO WATCH
