Oscar Rene Cornejo

Oscar Rene Cornejo is an artist who was born in Houston, Texas. With a background in pedagogy and activism, Cornejo draws together histories of abstraction in the U.S. and Latin America with personal experiences of the construction site, family memory, and historical archives. He earned an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Art, a B.F.A. from The Cooper Union, and was a recipient of the J. William Fulbright Scholarship for research in El Salvador. In 2004, he cofounded the Latin American Community Art Project (LA CAPacidad), where, for seven years, he directed artist residencies to promote intercultural awareness through community art education. He is a founding member of Junte Adjuntas, an artist project based in Adjuntas, a town in the mountains of southern Puerto Rico. He has attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace Residency, and Yvonne Residency in Guatemala. Cornejo has taught at The Cooper Union, Hunter College, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and Yale School of Art’s Painting and Printmaking Department.