Claudia Kaatziza Cortínez

Claudia Kaatziza Cortínez is an Argentine/American visual artist based in New York. She holds a BFA from RISD and an MFA from Yale. Her work often begins with the camera as a drawing tool, exploring cities and landscapes for surfaces, patterns, and textures that she transforms in the studio. Central to her practice is experimentation with materials like paper pulp and light-sensitive chemistry to create photograms, rubbings, and architectural casts that evoke past or imagined landscapes. These processes merge photography, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture, often incorporating text from her father’s poetry and collaborations with her niece, also a poet. She also creates large-scale installations replicating the scale of a site, weaving personal, familial, and location-specific narratives to explore how objects and textures communicate identity and memory.

Recent awards and residencies include the Yale Norfolk Teaching Fellowship, Silver Art Projects Residency, Rema Hort Mann Grant, Center for Book Arts Residency, LES Printshop Residency, and LMCC Community Engagement Grant. She is currently a printmaking fellow at The Manhattan Graphic Center at Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn.