Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York is pleased to announce Armando Guadalupe Cortés as our 2022 TSA STAR Artist-In-Residence. Cortés will be working within our gallery space in Bushwick from November 19th - December 18th.

Armando Guadalupe Cortés is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Raised in the industrial town of Wilmington, CA but originally from Urequío, a small farming community in Michoacán, México, Cortés draws inspiration from every aspect of his vastly different worlds.⁠ Cortés’ practice builds on storytelling, object making, and performance traditions. He merges traditional forms and methods from his native México with broader Latin American literary traditions, and contrasts and hybridizes them with elements of his life in the United States. ⁠

⁠In his work - ranging from small-scale sculpture to sculpture-based endurance performance - Cortés interweaves influences from his life in a metropolis and a rural farming society. Endurance and repetitive labor are central in his work. They reflect an affinity for the traditional work of his family and the labor of immigrants in this country. These modes of labor parallel and intersect with his own work as an artist. Cortés’ sculptures are inspired by oral history, observation, and personal experience. His performances are often a literal walk in another’s shoes, a relating of the everyday struggle in his various worlds.⁠

Through his practice, Cortés constructs and propels narratives that are often overlooked. This propagation of story takes the form of myth building. His myth-making challenges notions of spectacle and viewership while raising the question of myth as antonym to history. In troubling  this dichotomy, Cortés seeks to upend the idea of myth and lore as fiction.

As part of the STAR residency,  Cortes will be hosting two performances at Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York on Saturday, November 26th at 5pm and Saturday December 17th at 5pm, open to the public. Cortes’ performances will be part storytelling, part encounter, chronicling an early childhood brush with the devil. Cortés’ experience is echoed by other instances of contact laid out by the artist through dialogue: a soft confrontation between the present day self and the devil of childhood memories, now inseparable from one another. The objects employed within the performance transcend the artist’s personal narrative and align with historical points of contact, reminding us that, in the present, as in the past, Satan Loves Too.

Armando studied art at UCLA (BA 2012) and more recently at the Yale School of Art (MFA 2021). He is active in New York as well as Los Angeles. He has exhibited at Jenkins Johnson Projects (Brooklyn, NY), MassMOCA (North Adams, MA), Space One (Seoul, Korea), ASU Art Museum (Tempe, AZ), Visitor Welcome Center (Los Angeles, CA),  and Craft Contemporary (Los Angeles, CA) amongst others. He is a Franklin Furnace Fellow (2021-2022) and was the Saint Elmo Artist in Residence and Fellow at UT Austin 2021-2022.