Chris Cortez (b. 2000) is an artist based in New York City. Chris' upbringing between New Jersey and Morelos inspires glamorous oil paintings that embrace Mexican heritage and Queer identity through reclamation and transformation.
Chris received a BFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in 2022. Recent group exhibitions include Aqux, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, CA (2022), I Threw Myself in a Concrete Mixer, NYU Gallatin Galleries, New York, NY (2023), Hecho en México, C’mon Everybody, Brooklyn, NY (2024), for love, for art and for being, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA (2024) Junto, LMCC Art Center on Governors Island, New York, NY (2024), and La Gente de Santa Monica, Dorado 806, Santa Monica, CA (2024).