2026 Better World Award Winner
william cordova
2026 Better World Award Winner
william cordova is an interdisciplinary cultural practitioner working with site-specific installations. His work is based on a creative engagement with architecture, geometry, and history. These are essential components that have continuously shaped his worldview. cordova is interested in the fundamental origins of abstraction, including cultural encoding and non-linear narratives, from the African, Andean, and Asian diaspora point of view, originating in Peru, where he was born and raised. cordova’s work continues to invest in this cultural, ethnic, and Racial synthesis, as a method of disrupting, challenging, and reassessing these influences on the history and practice of Western secular architecture, modernism, and theory. It has been a continuous process of illuminating and connecting historical evidence of ritual labor and its theory to contemporary examples. It is an attempt to reconsider how the abstracted evidence of cultural matter plays a large role in the modern world.
2021 Ellies Award
william cordova ($18,000) M.I.A. (Mobile in Arts) Motorhome – A motorhome transformed into a traveling artist studio that provides temporary space for visual artists, musicians and writers in South Florida who are experiencing economic hardship or need extra space to develop their projects.
2020 Ellies Award
For “Prodigal Son: The Odyssey of Byron Booth,” a publication and research exhibit on the life of the man who escaped a California prison in 1969, fled to Cuba and ultimately traveled the world as an activist with the Black Panther Party.
Ellies Award
2026 Better World Award Winner
$25,000
2021 Creator Award Winner
$18,000
2020 Creator Award Winner
$15,000









