CURATORIAL
Courtney Cintrón’s curatorial practice engages with complex social and polemical issues, that embrace a transformative lens and reimagine alternative narratives. In exploring her own cultural heritage and identity, she has become particularly interested in experiences related to both the Puerto Rican diaspora and the African diaspora. Drawing from principles of Afrofuturism, her research centers around art that exposes and dismantles hegemonic ideology, transcends the status quo, and elucidates pathways to liberation. Additionally, Ms. Cintrón employs her background in music in her curatorial approach. She often considers the rhythm, harmony, and instrumentation of an exhibition. She is also fond of inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary presentations.
Root & Rise
A pop-up Exhibition
5.4.19
4 —6pm
Root & Rise creates space for healing and celebration as we move into the new moon in Taurus. The moon in the fixed earth sign of Taurus will help us get rooted, harness the energy of the spring equinox, and transform it into new artistic, spiritual, and creative pursuits. Drawing on spiritual and ancestral narratives, artist Zuri Washington will transform Roman Susan into an ephemeral sanctuary in which our physical, emotional, and spiritual bodies can coalesce. Jamila Kinney, of Moving Soul Wellness, will guide us on a new moon meditation, and the program will culminate in a euphoric dance party.
chicago artist coalition's Hatch curatorial residency 2018
Spontaneous Remarks
3.01.19 — 3.21.19
Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Spontaneous Remarks, a HATCH exhibition with work by Marie Baldwin, Kate Conlon, Bobby Gonzales, Olivia Petrides, Erin Smego, and Matthew Wead.
Spontaneous Remarks embraces chance-based and sequential programming processes as a strategy in opening up dialogue around what a curatorial framework could look like. Revealing a snapshot of the group’s unconscious reality, the show draws on elements from the Surrealist parlor game, Exquisite Corpse. The game requires participants to write/draw on a sheet of paper, fold to conceal their contribution, and then pass to the next person. In continuing with the elements of objective chance, play, and spontaneity, the artists have been paired up at random to cumulatively present their works over the course of three consecutive openings. Challenging the static notion of exhibition-making, this process aims to highlight the ways in which relationships between artworks evolve and become increasingly complex over a continuum of time and space.
S-W-O-O-$-H
11.02.19 — 11.20.19
Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present S-W-O-O-$-H, a HATCH Projects exhibition featuring new works by Óscar González-Díaz and Matthew Wead, curated by Courtney Cintron.
S-W-O-O-$-H looks at the rise in the global popularity of soccer and sportswear as a prism through which to understand, probe, and critique the broad social and economic impact of globalization.
Orwellian Offspring
6.29.18 — 7.19.18
The Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present ORWELLIAN OFFSPRING, a group exhibition featuring works by Marie Baldwin, Mitsu Salmon, and Jacqueline Surdell. This is the first public reception in CAC's new location, 2130 W Fulton St.
While oppressive systems in the U.S. continue to be exposed, people en masse are turning to dystopian narratives for answers and the ability to play out mounting fears. As a means of unpacking their own inheritance of oppressive systems, the artists in this show mine their personal histories, dealing with labor, body, memory, and ancestral ties across time and place. Together, the artworks create an avenue where reality and fiction converge--illuminating an opportunity for critical reflection on the current socio-political moment and perhaps even action.
Blackbox: An Afrofuturist Opus
4.28.17 — 5.17.17
Site Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
A discursive platform and group exhibition in three acts, that explored and made visible the multidimensional ways that contemporary artists are engaging with strategies of Afrofuturism. Co-curated by Courtney Cintron and Sabrina Greig
MFA Show 2017
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Curatorial team led by Daniel Fuller