Esperanza Cortés is a Colombian born contemporary New York multidisciplinary artist who creates installations, sculptures, drawings and paintings. Cortés has been exhibited in the United States in solo and group exhibitions in venues including Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, The Bronx Museum of Art, NY, The Queens Museum of Art, NY, El Museo del Barrio, NY and MoMA PS1, NY. She has also exhibited at Socrates Sculpture Park, NY, Artist Space, NY, The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, NY and Lehman College Art Gallery, NY. Nationally Cortes has exhibited at The Cleveland Art Museum, OH, The Mexi- Arte Museum, TX, The Hollywood Arts and Cultural Center, FL, Helen Day Art Center, VT and The Lorenzo Homar Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. Internationally she has exhibited in Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Mexico, Japan, Colombia, Dominican Republic and Spain.

Esperanza’s work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Art Examiner, Art in America, Art Nexus, and The Village Voice, She has also been reviewed in Spanish language publications such as El Diario La Prensa and Imagen Magazine. Esperanza has been the subject of interviews and programs on public television. Articles about her work have appeared in international newspapers and art blogs in Europe, South America and the Caribbean. Her work has appeared in many museum catalogues and publications.

Esperanza has designed workshops and taught extensively as an museum educator, artist in residence and community artist, creating mural, sculpture, and visual arts projects for, Brooklyn Arts Council, NY, Museum of the City of New York, NY, Brooklyn’s Children's Museum, NY, Museum of African Arts, NY, Columbia University, NY, Socrates Sculpture Park, NY, Elders Share the arts, NY, Young Audiences of New York, NY, El Museo, NY, City Lore, NY, Bielska BWA Gallery, Bielsko - Bia?a, Poland, And Taller Puertoriqueño, Philadelphia, PA. She has also worked as a museum educator for the Americas Society, NY and The Museum of Modern Art, NY. Through Collaboration with Young Audiences of New York, NY, she has also created residency with community exhibitions with the Whitney Museum of Art, NY and the Museum of Art and design, NY.

Cortés has received fellowships and grants for her work from institutions such as The Puffin Foundation, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York State Biennial, Robert Rauchenberg Foundation, and New York Foundation for the Arts.. She has been awarded residencies at MoMA PS1, Socrates Sculpture Park , The Henry Street Abrons Art Center, The Longwood Art Project, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, and The Fountainhead Residency. Esperanza has also received international residencies at Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic, Poli Talu Arts Center, Estonia, Can Serrat, Spain, Bielska BWA Gallery, Poland, Pokhara, Nepal and Medellín, Colombia. Esperanza's work is in private and public collections with a recent acquisition of three sculptures by the Art in Embassies Program for the New American Embassy in Monterey, Mexico.