Chris Cortez (b. 2000) is a Queer Mexican Artist based in New York. Born to immigrant parents in New Jersey, Chris annually spent summers and winters visiting family within Morelos and Puebla. This upbringing inspires glamorous painting, drawing, dressmaking and performance that embrace both Mexican heritage and Queer identity through reclamation and transformation.
Chris received a BFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in 2022. Chris had work included in group shows such as 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).