william córdova Lima, Peru, born 1969

william córdova graduated with a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996 and went on to earn an MFA from Yale University in 2004. He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including the Trellis Art Fund 2025 Milestone Grant (2025), a Creative Capital Grant (2024), John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Grant (2021), and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (2011). córdova has participated in numerous artist residencies including Artpace, San Antonio, Texas; The Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine; and American Academy in Berlin, Germany.

Notable solo exhibitions include 2 tienes santo pero no eres babalao (esculpiendo en el tiempo), MALI Lima, Peru (2025); can’t stop, won’t stop: tenets of southern alchemy, Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, Virginia (2023); on the lower frequencies I speak 4 U, Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland (2022); and his first major survey show, now’s the time: narratives of southern alchemy, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, Florida (2018). córdova has organized and presented curatorial projects at Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas (2024) and The LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University, New York (2022).

córdova's work is included in the collections of the Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal; Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; La Casa de las Americas, Havana, Cuba; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota; Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru; NSU Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Pérez Art Museum, Miami, Florida; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, among others.