Mauricio Cortes Ortega is a New York–based artist whose work explores art education, history, and storytelling. Through printmaking, painting and collage, he reimagines the still life genre by He received his BFA from The Cooper Union (2012) and MFA from Yale (2016). He participated in the Bronx Museum’s AIM program and received Yale Law School’s Schell Center fellowship. Exhibitions include SOMOS/WE ARE (Long Island Museum) and Letters of a Compass (The Clemente). He is currently Faculty Chair of Visual Arts at Berkeley Carroll School.