Hoesy Corona
Hoesy Corona is a Latinx Queer artist of Mexican descent creating uncategorized and multidisciplinary art spanning installation, performance, and sculpture. In the studio, Hoesy’s work highlights the complex relationship between humans and the environment by focusing on our changing climate and its impact on habitation and migration patterns. Corona has exhibited widely in galleries, museums, and public spaces in the United States and internationally, including recent solo exhibitions Climatic Shocks (2023) at Praxis NY Gallery, in Manhattan, NY; Weathering (2022) at The Kreeger Museum presented by The Nicholson Project in Washington, DC; Sunset Moonlight (2021) at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, MD; and Alien Nation (2017), at The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden presented by Transformer in Washington, DC. Hoesy has held national fellowships including at the Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center Public Humanities Fellowship 2022-2023 at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD; the Halcyon Arts Lab Fellowship 2017-18 in Washington, DC; and the George Kaiser Family Foundation's Tulsa Artist Fellowship 2019 & 2020 in Tulsa, OK. He is the recipient of many honors and awards including the Mellon Foundation’s MAP Fund Grant; the NALAC Fund For the Arts Artist Grant; the Andy Warhol Foundation’s Grit Fund Grant; and a Ruby’s Artist Grant. He has attended residencies at Ox-Bow Artist Residency, Wabash College AIR, The Nicholson Project, and a Transformer Siren Arts Residency. His work has been reviewed by The Washington Post, Bmore Art Magazine, The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Magazine, Washington City Paper, and The American Scholar among others. In 2024 Hoesy was awarded the Pratt Artist in Residence at Enoch Pratt Free Central Library in Baltimore, MD.
