Kimberlee Córdova

Kimberlee Córdova lives and works in Mexico City, DF. She received her BA in painting from the University of California at Santa Barbara (2007), and is a graduate of Soma’s postgraduate art program in Mexico City (2014). Solo exhibitions include The Dodo’s Verdict, Casa Mauuad (Mexico City, DF), and Brief Encounters with Tezcatlipoca at Bikini Wax (Mexico City, DF). Group exhibitions include exhibitions in Guadelajara, Mexico; Bogotá, Columbia; Los Angeles; and the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art in San Francisco.

Features• October 28, 2019

Marfa’s Two-Step: The Uneasy Landscape of Minimalist Heaven

By Kimberlee Córdova

I was lured by the promise of a sepia-tinged ideal: west Texas golden hours and wide-open spaces. A visit to Marfa had long been…

Features• January 24, 2017

Jill Magid’s Post-Truth Diamond Proposal

By Kimberlee Córdova

As the spectacle of the 2016 United States presidential elections played out over the summer, Mexico hosted a surreal visit by a well-known, polarizing…

Reviews• March 30, 2016

Misogyny and the Myth of the ’90s at Mexico City’s Kurimanzutto

By Kimberlee Córdova

Kurimanzutto is a pristine, vaulted gallery in the San Miguel de Chapultepec neighborhood of Mexico City. As part of the recent exhibition XYLAÑYNU. Taller…

Features• December 1, 2015

The Function of Gossip as Criticism in Mexico’s Artworld

By Kimberlee Córdova

Gossip is undoubtedly universal but in Mexico gossip – chisme – seems to exert an influence that distinguishes it from other international art centers. Mexican artist…

Features• September 23, 2015

Contemporary Art Writing in Mexico: The Intractable and Necessary Issue of Corruption

By Kimberlee Córdova

“Hablar de corrupcion es tocar a Mexico en el corazón,” my mentor said. “Be careful.” Tocar. Transitive verb meaning: to touch, to feel, to…