Miguel Cortez is an artist living in Chicago and born in Guanajuato, Mexico. He has studied filmmaking at Columbia College and has a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent exhibitions include a show in Champaign, IL at the Krannert Museum and at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, as well as, Bridge Art Fair in Miami. Past shows include an exhibit in Dallas at Mighty Fine Arts Gallery, "Lo Romantico" at Glass Curtain Gallery and "Lies that Bill Gates told me: Exploring the Digital Divide" at VU Space in Melbourne, Australia.

Miguel is also a curator and currently runs an alternative contemporary art space called *Antena* in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. He is also a founding member of Polvo, an art collective since 1996, and has organized various shows for years at the Polvo space as well as other cultural spaces. The most recent one being '"Echelon: who's watching you?" at Polvo and in September 2006 at UnitB Gallery in San Antonio. Before this he organized a show during Contemporary Art Month July 2006 in San Antonio and February 2006 at Commerce Street Artists' Warehouse in Houston, Texas.

For more information: www.mcortez.com