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Cory John Scozzari (b. 1988, Florida) is a curator, artist and writer. He is the founding director of Cordova, a curatorial project initiated in 2016 in Vienna, currently located in Barcelona and in residence at Fundacio Antoni Tapies. He was Managing Director and Curator at Veronika Gyòcsi Collection, a collection of Soviet and Post-Soviet Art formed from the late 70’s through the late 90’s. From 2015-2019 he worked as curator at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21) in Vienna, Prague and Madrid. He was a founding member and co-director of Jupiter Woods, London/Vienna from 2014–16. He has edited / co-edited three publications: Tyler Coburn: Richard Roe, Allan Sekula: OKEANOS and Mario García Torres: An Arrival Tale, all published by TBA21 and Sternberg Press. He received his MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths in 2015, and BFA in Photography and Art History from SCAD in 2010. Recent curatorial residencies include HIAP in Helsinki in 2018 and SOMA in Mexico City in 2019. His writing and criticism has appeared in online and print publications such as Rhizome, Mousse, Spike and Texte Zur Kunst.
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PROJECTS
2021
Curator, Aria Dean: Studio Parasite, Cordova, Barcelona
2020
Curator, Calabash Kids: PANHUMANO, Cordova, Barcelona
Curator, Mere Skyn, CAPC, Bordeaux
Curator, Jaakko Pallasvuo: Tiny furniture 2, Cordova, Barcelona
2019
Curator, Dovetail II, Cordova, Barcelona
Curator, Tau Lewis and Patty Kelly:I heard a heartbeat down in the blackhole, Cordova, Barcelona
Curator, Joel Dean and Toni Hervas, SWAB, Barcelona
Curator, Pin Hui Chen: low fresh water flow, Cordova, Barcelona
Curator, Pepo Salazar: Trace or Save 20% (Igual y Rival), Cordova, Barcelona
Curator, Joel Dean: Perfectamundo, Cordova, Barcelona
Curator, Claudia Pages: Gleaners > Extraccion, Paris Internationale, Paris
Curator, Tyler Coburn: Richard Roe, TBA21, Prague & Madrid
2018
Curator, Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho in collaboration with Harry Burke: Hopes and dreams for the future, Cordova, Barcelona
Curator, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Anni Puolakka, Tarwuk and Viktor Timofeev: HAPPINESS, ART-O-RAMA, Marseille
Curator, Sgaire Wood: Puppy Love, Cordova, Barcelona
Curator, Return to The Sea Symposium MOMAD, Dubrovnik
Curator, Lonely Boys and Battle Ax: Vilgefortis, Cordova, Barcelona
Curator, Raul Paez: Enemy, Cordova, Barcelona
Curator, Siera Hyte: Honey Week, Cordova, Barcelona
Curator, Lewis Teague Wright, TOYOTA00, Cordova, Barcelona
2017
Curator, Crater, Lydia Ourhamane and Miguel Fernandez de Castro, Veda, Florence
Curator, Holly White, ORANGE WORLD, Cordova, Barcelona
Curator, Mohammed Abd Alwasi: The Memory of Hunger, Cordova, Barcelona
Curator, Mathis Gasser: WORLD GUARDS, Cordova, Barcelona
Curator, Sanna Helena Berger: Vienna, Cordova, Vienna
Curator, Felix Melia: Public Displays of Affection, Cordova, Vienna
Co-Curator, Allan Sekula: OKEANOS TBA21, Vienna
Curator, Allan Sekula: From the panorama to the detail, Symposium, TBA21, Vienna
Curator w/ Filipa Ramos, Sekula beyond Sekula Film Program TBA21, Vienna
Curator, Megan Rooney: Hullabaloo Cordova, Vienna
Curator, Arguments: Onyeke Igwe, Ed Lehan and Georgie Nettell, Cordova, Vienna
2016
Curator, Emily Jones: News From Nowhere, Cordova, Vienna
Curator, Carlos Reyes: Fashion Cafe, Cordova, Vienna
Curator, Rob Chavasse: Braids, JupiterWoods, Vienna
Assistant Curator, The Forgotten Space Seminar TBA21, Lopud
Co-Curator, that a body knows regardless, Interstate Projects, New York
Assistant Curator, Ephemeroptera, TBA21, Vienna
Curator, Jala Wahid: Promise Me, JupiterWoods, Vienna
Assistant Curator, Mario Garcia Torres: An Arrival Tale TBA21, Vienna
Curator, Georgie Nettell & Morag Keil : The Fascism Of Everyday Life, JupiterWoods, Vienna
Curator, Viktor Timofeev: SAZARUS I, JupiterWoods, Vienna
Co-Curator, Resident/ Longshore Drift, Sorbus, Helsinki
Curator, Josip Novosel: Opportunism, JupiterWoods, Vienna
2015
Curator, Jaakko Pallasvuo: Watercolour Hair Quest, JupiterWoods, Vienna
Curator, Sanna Helena Berger: a range, JupiterWoods, London
Co-Curator, Jaakko Pallasvuo: Song, JupiterWoods, London
Curator, Chris Lux: Postcards…from the Museum of Gas, Interstate Projects, New York
Curator, DISTANCES, JupiterWoods, London
Curator, Leslie Kulesh & Sæmundur Þór Helgason: Vanity Fair/ Demo Mode, Project Native Informant, London
Co-Curator, Viktor Timofeev: Proxyah, JupiterWoods, London
2014
Curator, Chris Lux: Sometimes I say hey, hey Mark, JupiterWoods London
Co-Curator, Emily Jones: First Water To Tripoli, JupiterWoods, London
Co-Curator, Mycological Twist, JupiterWoods, London
Curator, Mild Translations, JupiterWoods, London
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