My work seeks to understand the dynamics of a social structure dominated by power, corruption, and class bias. I present this work to facilitate the restitution of memory and to stand witness to the past.

Adriana Corral’s subjects are framed by her research on human rights abuses and historical narratives focused on themes of memory and erasure. Corral’s work is rooted in her own memories and experiences of growing up in El Paso, Texas, which have compelled her to examine the nuances of immigration, citizenship, economic trade, labor, and public health in national and international contexts.

Corral received her BFA from the University of Texas at El Paso and completed her MFA at the University of Texas at Austin. She was awarded a Harpo Foundation Award (2020) and Artadia Award (2019), was invited to attend the 106th session of the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland (2015), and was selected for the Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant (2016). Corral attended the MacDowell residency (2014), Künstlerhaus Bethanien Residency in Berlin, Germany (2016), the International Artist-in-Residence at Artpace (2016), was a fellow at Black Cube, a Nomadic Art Museum (2017), an artist research fellow at the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution (2018), an artist-in-residence at the Joan Mitchell Center (2018), and will be participating in Prospect New Orleans’s P.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow (2021).

Adriana Corral was also a Charla Fund recipient in 2020. The Charla Fund offers a flexible and open-ended format that enables artist-recipients to have creative, challenging, supportive, and unconventional conversations with fellow artists and other artworkers and between the field of visual art and other disciplines. Learn about Charla: Requiem here.

To learn more about this fellow’s work, check out “Adriana Corral’s Sous Rature, “Under Erasure” (2016) and Unearthed: Desenterrado (2018)” by Raquel Gutiérrez.