Carlos Motta, Artist

Resumè/Bio

BIO

Carlos Motta is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work draws upon political history in an attempt to create counter narratives that recognize the inclusion of suppressed histories, communities, and identities.

Motta’s work has been presented internationally in venues such as Tate Modern, London; The New Museum, The Guggenheim Museum and MoMA/PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá; Serralves Museum, Porto; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens; CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson; San Francisco Art Institute; Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin; and many other independent spaces throughout the world.

Motta recently guest-edited the e-flux journal April issue, will speak at the IDEAS CITY Conference in New York City, and is currently preparing a solo exhibition at Galeria Filomena Soares in Lisbon in June 2013.

Motta is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program, he was named a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow in 2008 and received grants from Art Matters in 2008, NYSCA in 2010 and the Creative Capital Foundation in 2012. He is part of the faculty at Parsons The New School of Design, The School of Visual Arts, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, the International Center of Photography and The Vermont College of Fine Arts.

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RESUMÈ

[show] Education

Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, USA, 2006

Master of Fine Arts, 2003
Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, New York, USA

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Photography, 2001
The School of Visual Arts, New York, USA

[show] Grants, Residencies & Awards

Artist Residency, 2013
The Institute for Art, Religion and Social Justice—Union Theological Seminary, New York, USA

Makers Muse Award, 2012
Kindle Project, Santa Fé, New Mexico, USA

Visual Arts Grant, 2012
Creative Capital, New York, USA 

Individual Artist Grant, 2010
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), New York,USA

Jury Prize, 2010
Map Digital Space, Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF),   Ithaca, NY

Artist Residency, 2009
Flaggfabrikken, Bergen, Norway

Guggenheim Fellowship, 2008
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York,USA

New Commission, 2008
Art in General, New York,USA

Studio Residency, 2008
Smack Mellon, New York,USA

Special Editions Residency, 2008
Lower East Side Printshop, New York,USA

Finishing Funds, 2008
Experimental Television Center, New York,USA

Art Matters Grant, 2007
Art Matters Foundation, New York,USA

Artist Residency, 2007
International Artists Studio Program in Sweden (IASPIS), Stockholm, Sweden

Swing Space Program, 2007
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York,USA

DaNY Arts Grant (with HOMEWORK), 2007
Danish Arts Council, Aarhus, Denmark

Subvention Grant, 2006
Cisneros Fontanals Foundation (cifo), Miami, FL, USA

Next Exhibition Award, 2006
Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, USA

Fellowship, 2005/06
Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, USA, 2005/06

Workspace Grant for Emerging Artists, 2005
Center for Book Arts, New York

Workspace Program Residency, 2004
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, USA

Fellowship, 2001/02/03
Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, New York, USA

Rhodes Family Award for Exceptional Achievement in Photography, 2001
The School of Visual Arts, New York

[show] Solo Exhibitions/Projects

2013
Gender Talents (in the context of Charming for the Revolution: A Congress for Gender Talens and Wildness)
The Tanks, Tate Modern, London (co-presented with Electra)

The Movers (with Matthias Sperling)
The Tanks, Tate Modern, London 

Godfull: Shape Shifting God as Queer— A Performative Symposium
The Institute for Art, Religion and Social Justice, Union Theological Seminary, New York (with Jared Gilbert) 

Carlos Motta
Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros (Proyecto fachada), Mexico City 

Carlos Motta
Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon

Carlos Motta
Galeria La Central, Bogotá

2012
Museum as Hub: Carlos Motta: We Who Feel Differently
New Museum, New York

Carlos Motta
Y-Gallery at PINTA, New York

2011
Deus Pobre: Modern Sermons of Communal Lament

Y Gallery, New York

The Future Lasts Forever (with Runo Lagomarsino)
Gävle Konstcentrum, Gävle, Sweden 

Broken English (with Julieta Aranda)
Performa 11 Project, New York

A New Discovery: Queer Immigration in Perspective (with Queerocracy)
Risk + Reward Series, Museum of Art and Design, New York

Petite Mort: Recollections of a Queer Public (with Joshua Lubin-Levy)
Forever & Today, New York

Normativo (Two-person show with LTTR)
Espacio de Arte Contemporaneo, Museo de La Tertulia, Cali. Curated by Veronica Wiman

We Who Feel Differently
Visningsrommet USF, Bergen, Norway

The Good Life and Six Acts: An Experiment in Narrative Justice
Wiener FestWochen, Vienna

2010
Six Acts: An Experiment in Narrative Justice
Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, El Parqueadero, Bogotá

The Good Life and Six Acts: An Experiment in Narrative Justice
Hebbel am Ufer (HAU), Berlin, Germany

We Who Feel Differently
Other Gallery, Shanghai, China

2009
Brief History
MoMA/PS1, Long Island City, Queens, NY

La Buena Vida/The Good Life
Fundación Alzate Avendaño, Bogotá, Colombia
Smack Mellon, New York, USA
Festival Fabbrica Europa, Firenze, Italia

The Immigrant Files: Democracy Is Not Dead, It Just Smells Funny
Konsthall C, Stockholm, Sweden
Baltic Art Center (BAC), Visby, Sweden

2008
La Buena Vida/The Good Life
ICA: Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA
Art in General, New York, USA

The People…
Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa
KZNSA Gallery, Durban, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa

2007
Leningrad Trilogy
Winkleman Gallery, New York, USA

The Good Life (Installation Sketch # 3) and Other Works in Progress
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, USA

2006
The Good Life (Installation Sketch # 1)
rum46, Aarhus, Denmark

SOA: Black & White Tales
Kevin Bruk Gallery at bâleLatina, Basel, Switzerland
Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, Fl, USA
Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT

2004-2002
Bury Them And Keep Quiet
Alliance Française, Bogotá, Colombia (Catalog)(2004)

Ese Algo que Somos
Alonso Garcés Galería, Bogotá, Colombia (2004)

The Missing Series
Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, Fl, USA (2004)

Pesca Milagrosa
La Corte Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy (2002)

[show] Group Exhibitions

2013
Fractured Spaces
Flaherty NYC Film Festival, New York. Curated by Jerónimo Rodriguez

Ideas y Presupuestos
jugada a 3 bandas, Galeria Liebre, Madrid. Curated by Marti Manen

Intersections
Museum of Latin American Art (Molaa), Long Beach. Curated by Idurre Alonso

Without Reality There is No Utopia
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco

2012
Battleground States
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City. Curated by Aaron Moulton

From Below, As A Neighbor
Drugo More, Rijeka, Croatia. Curated by Fatima Hellberg

Ciclo rosa 2012, Cinemateca Distrital y Galería Santa Fé, Bogotá 

Required Reading: Printed Material As Agent of Intervention
Center for Book Arts, New York. Curated by Yaelle Amir (Brochure)

Contested Territories
Dorsky Gallery—Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, Queens. Curated by Miguel Amado (Brochure)

Salvajes
Traneudstillingen Exhibition Space, Hellerup, Denmark

Latin America: Between Identity and Mask 
Art Stays International Festival of Contemporary Art, Ptuj, Sovenia. Curated by Antonio Arévalo

III Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Curated by Deborah Cullen, Sergio Bessa, Ursula Dávila and Rebeca Noriega.

Ñew York: Latin American and Spanish Artists in New York 
Art Museum of the Americas, Washington D.C. Curated by Paco Cano, Eva Mendoza and Jodie Dinapoli. 

2011
Found in Translation
Guggenheim Museum, New York. Curated by Nat Trotman

The Air We Breathe
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Curated by Apsara di Quinzio (Book)

The Walls That Divide US
apexart, New York. Curated by Miguel Amado (Brochure)

Modo de empleo 3: Desobedecer a toda costa, video y manifestaciones
Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City. Curated by Miguel López (Brochure)

The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection
George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rocherster, New York. (Book)

Sin realidad no hay utopía
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain
Curated by Alicia Murría, Mariano Navarro and Juan Antonio Álvarez. (Catalogue)

InSite: Art + Commemoration
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (Online), New York

Patria o Libertad!
Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada. Curated by Paco Barragán

Multiple, Limited, Unique
Center for Book Arts, New York— Traveling from until 2013 to Savannah College of Arts and Design; Minnesota Center for Book Arts; Museum of Printing History, Houston, TX; Lafayette College, Easton, PA; The Book Club of California, San Francisco.

Drawn to Disaster
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine

Motion of a Nation
VM21 Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy. Curated by Antonio Arévalo

Aesthetic Justice
The Lambent Foundation, New York. Curated by Niels van Tomme. (Catalogue)

Boundaries: Selections from the Molaa Permanent Collection
Molaa, Long Beach, CA.

Stuttgart Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany (Catalogue)

2010
To the Arts Citizens!
Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal. Curated by Oscar Faria and João Fernandes (Book)

Notes on Memories
IG Bildende kunst, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Sophie Goltz

smART
Miami Dade College at The Freedom Tower. Curated by Sonia Becce. (Catalogue)

Second World Congress of Free Artists
Aarhus Kunstbygning. Organized by CAMEL

Monitoring Exhibition
27th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany. (Catalogue)

How To Do Things With Words
Parsons School of Design, New York. Curated by Melanie Crean

The Politics of Art
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece, Athens. (Book)

The Creative Act
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway. Curated by Tone Hansen (Catalogue)

Dwelling-in-Travel
Art Today Association – Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Curated by Katia Anguelova and Andrea Wiarda

Kabul, Jenin, Tehran…
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge. Curated by João Ribas

2nd “Qui Vive?” Moscow International Biennale for Young Art
Moskow Museum of Modern Art, Moskow, Russia. Curated by Martin Schibli. (Catalogue)

The Mobile Archive
Stacion-Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina, Kosova

The Art of War
CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA (Catalogue)

Avenue of the Americas
LMCC Lent Space, New York. Curated by Adam Kleinman. (Brochure)

39th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), The Netherlands (Catalogue)

Geography of Trans-territories
Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco. Curated by Hou Hanru. (Brochure)

Biennale Cuvee 10
OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz. (Catalogue)

2009
Le spectacle du quotidien
X Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France. Curated by Hou Hanru. (Catalogue)

Matrix: The Unstable Reality
28 Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubijana, Slovenia. (Catalogue)

Conversation Pieces
CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA. Curated by Sean Donaher and Mariam Ghani. (Catalogue)

5x5Castelló
Espai d’art contemporani de Castelló (EACC), Castellón, Spain. (Catalogue)

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out
Beijing 798 Biennale 2009, China. Curated by nicoykatiushka

Feedforward- The Angel of History
LABoral Art Center, Gijón, Spain. Curated by Christiane Paul and Steve Dietz. (Catalogue)

The 21st Century, The Feminine Century, and the Century of Diversity and Hope
International Incheon  Women Artists’ Biennale, Incheon, Korea. (Catalogue)

NO SOUL FOR SALE – A Festival of Independents (with Miguel Amado + Filipa Oliveira and with Migrating Forms)
X Initiative, New York

Special Editions
Lower East Side Printshop, New York.

Turn On
Slag Gallery, New York

Biennale Democrazia, Torino, Italy

t.error
Hungarian Cultural Institute, New York. Curated by Aniko Erdosi

Things Fall Apart
Winkleman Gallery, New York. Curated by Joy Garnett

2008
Soft Manipulation, or Who is Afraid of The New Now?
Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Stiftelsen 314, Bergen, Norway. Curated by Zoran Eric, Maria Lind and Enrico Lunghi. (Catalogue)

The Prisoner’s Dilemma
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA. Curated by Leanne Mella. (Catalogue)

Archivo Sur
Futura, Prague, Czech Republic. Curated by Antonio Arévalo

Alternating Beats
RISD Art Museum, Providence, RI, USA. Curated by Zeljka Himbele

European Social Forum (ESF) Screening Program, Mälmo, Sweden. Programed by Michele Masucci and Jesper Nordahl

Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons, New York, NY. Curated by Carin Kuonic and Marisa Olson for The Vera List Center

The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA. Curated by Maria Lind. (Catalogue)

Wild Horses
Art Space Diffusion138, University of Grenoble, France. Curated by Nicolas Audureau

The Long Distance Runner
Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen. Organized by Production Unit

Auto Memorized
Centrum for fotografi, Stockholm, Sweden

Festival International d’Art Video de Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco

TROUBLEMAKERS
Magazzini del Salle- Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy. Curated by Marco Baravalle

Night School
New Museum, New York, NY. A project by Anton Vidokle

In The Private Eye
ISE Foundation, New York, NY. Curated by Yaelle Amir

2007
OPEN HOUSE WITH OPEN STUDIOS
IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden. Filtered by Cecilia Widenheim and Marti Manen. (Brochure)

INFINITU ET CONTINI
Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Denise Carvalho

Timeline: Human Speed and Technology Speed
Korea Cultural Service China, Hong Kong, Curated by Jeeyun Kim.(Brochure)

EXPOSURE
Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA. Curated by Patrick Grenier. (Brochure)

MAKING GOOD LUCK
Y- Gallery, Queens, NY. Curated by Larry Litt and Cecilia Jurado

PAWNSHOP
e-flux projects, New York, NY, USA

Atlante Latinoamericano
Centro de las Artes Conarte. En el Marco de el Forum Internacional de las Culturas, Monterrey, Mexico. Curated by Antonio Arevalo

Tollé…Toleránce (Screening)
Images Citoyennes, Festival International de la Vidéo, Liege, Belgium

Unmarked Categories (with HOMEWORK)
K2,Yzmir-Istanbul, Turkey. Organized by Elmas Deniz (Publication)

Quote Unquote
Nurture Art, Brooklyn, NY, USA. Curated by Yaelle Amir (Brochure)

CHALLENGERS!: art-e-conomy Selected Video Screening
Laboratorio Occupato Morion, Venice, Italy. Curated by Marko Stamenkovic

Symbiotic/Synergy: Selections from The Center for Book Arts Community
Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL, USA. Curated by Alex Campos

Carte Blanche á Heure Exquise! (Screening)
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany

in someone else’s skin
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA. Curated by Rebeca Noriega-Costas (Brochure)

The Karma of War (Screening)
Wang Center- Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA. Curated by Carla Machiavello

Oog-Eye
Foam_Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Recorridos y Video Proyecciones Durante ARCO
ArtBus, Madrid, Spain. Curated by Antonio Arevalo

System Error: War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy. Curated by Lorenzo Fusi and Naeem Mohaiemen (Catalogue)

2006
Estrecho Dudoso
TEOR/éTica, San José, Costa Rica. Curated by Virginia Pérez-Ratton and Tamara Díaz Bringas (Catalog)

OHNE BLICK
Musée de ElyséeLausanne, Switzerland

pa.per.ing
Art in General at Deutsche Bank, New York, NY, USA. Curated by Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy

Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris (Screening)
Centre Culturel La Clef, Paris, France

Estudio Abierto
Palacio de Correos, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Organized by Gobierno de La Ciudad de Buenos Aires (Catalogue)

10 Defining Experiments: cifo 2006 Grant Program Recipients
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (cifo), Miami, Florida, USA (Catalogue)

Manifesta 6 School (Cancelled)
Manifesta 6, Nicosia, Cyprus. Curated by Mai Abu El Dehab, Anton Vidokle and Florian Waldvogel

Prevailing Climate (Screening)
Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York. Curated by Rachel Gugelberger and Jeffrey Walkowiak

3 Biennale Adriatica di Arti Nuove, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy. Curated by Antonio Arévalo (Catalogue)

Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program Exhibition  
Chelsea Museum, New York

El Museo’s 4th Bienal: The (S) Files
Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Curated by Deborah Cullen and Miki Garcia with Marysol Nieves (Catalogue)

4ème Festival International du Cinéma Iranien en Exil (Screening)
Art en Exil, Paris, France

When Artists Say We
Artists Space, New York. Organized by Andrea Geyer and Christian Rattemeyer

Bzzzz
Fundación C4rto Nivel Arte Contemporaneo, Bogotá, Colombia. Curated by Jaime Cerón. (Catalogue)

Russia: Significant Other
ICA at the Anna Akhmatova Museum, St Petersburg, Russia. Curated by Olga Kopenkina (Brochure)

Surveillance
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ. Curated by Rocio Aranda Alvarado (Brochure)

Moving Time
Gallery Korea, Korean Cultural Service, New York, USA, Curated by Hwang Yu Jin, Jeeyun Kim, Inhee Iris Moon (Brochure)

Featured Artist Projects
The Center for Book Arts, New York

2005
El Salón de la Justicia
Galería Santa Fé, Bogotá, Colombia

Co-dependent (with Julieta Aranda)
College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University, Miami, Fl, USA. Curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud

New Vectors, Southern Panorama
15th International Electronic Art Festival Videobrasil, Sesc Pompeia, Sao Paulo, Brazil (Catalog)

BEOGRAD NEKAD I SAD
Prodajna galerija “Beograd”, Belgrad, Serbia. Curated by Marko Stamenkovic

El Museo’s 4th Bienal: The (S) Files
El Museo, New York, USA. Curated by Deborah Cullen and Miki Garcia with Marysol Nieves (Catalog)

Enemy Image
Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY, USA. Curated by Elena Sorokina

Se acabó el rollo? La fotografia en Colombia de 1950 a 2000
Museo Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia. Curated by Eduardo Serrano (Publication)

Selections from ‘Dancing Bear’ the Collection of W.M. Hunt
Arles: Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photo 2005, Arles, France

The Generals (with Julieta Aranda, K8 Hardy and Gareth James)
Art in General, New York, USA. Invited by Sofia Hernández (Publication)

Digital Cotton
Savannah Gallery at the Savannah College of Art, Savannah, GA, USA. Curated by Matthew Mascotte

2004
The Book as Object and Performance
Gigantic ArtSpace, New York, USA. Curated by Sara Reisman (Catalogue)

LMCC’s Workspace 120 Broadway Open Studios
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, USA

The Freedom Salon
Deitch Projects, New York, USA. Curated by Christina Kukielski and Apsara Di Quinzio

2 Biennale Adriatica di Arti Nuove, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy. Curated by Antonio Arévalo (Catalog)

Free Roaming: Video Madness (Screening)
El Museo, New York, USA. Curated by Euridice Arratia

Produciendo Realidad
Associazione Culturale Prometeo di Lucca, Lucca, Italy. Curated by Marco Scotini (Catalog)

Urbes Interiores
Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia. Curated by José Roca (Catalog)

Outdoor Intervention
PS122 Gallery, New York, USA

Establishing Shot
Artists Space, New York, USA. Curated by Christian Rattemeyer (Catalog)

2003
Salón Regional de Artistas de Bogotá
Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá, Colombia (Catalogue)

XII Art Biennial of Cerveira
Forum Cultural, Cerveira, Portugal (Catalog)

Visiones, Fotología Photography Festival
Universidad de Salamanca, Bogotá, Colombia. Curated by Clemencia Poveda (Brochure)

Translatability
Berliner Kunstproject, Berlin, Germany. Curated by David Adamo and Gordana Benzanov

Agitate: Negotiating the Photographic Process
SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA, USA. Curated by Dore Bowen and Chuck Mobley (Publication)

No Money No Honey
Area (Contenitore d’Arte Contemporanea), Palermo,Italy. Curated by Antonio Arévalo

 [B L A N K]: In Pursuit of An American History
Staller Center for the Arts, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY. Curated by Stephanie Dinkins and Keith Miller

2002-2000
Mundos Creados: Constructed Photography from the Wider Caribbean
Noorderlicht Photofestival, Fries Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands. Curated by Wim Melis (Catalog) (2002)

Fresh: New Photography
Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art, New York, USA (2002)

Latin-American Photography from New York to Santiago de Chile
Fotografia, Primo Festival Internazionale di Roma, IILA, Rome, Italy. Curated by Antonio Arévalo (Catalog)(2001)

Tecnica Mista
La Corte Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy. Curated by Patrizia Landi (Brochure)(2000)

[show] Monographic Publications & Books

The Future Lasts Forever (with Runo Lagomarsino) (Book, 224p. Edition of 500)
Published by Gävle Konstcentrum and Iaspis, Sweden, 2011

BROKEN ENGLISH (Tabloid, 48 pages, co-edited with Julieta Aranda)
Published by Performa 11, New York, USA, 2011

Petite Mort: Recollections of a Queer Public (with Josh Lubin-Levy) (Book, 160p. Edition of 500)
Published by Forever & Today, Inc., 2011

We Who Feel Differently (Book, 96p., Edition of 500)
Published by Ctrl+Z Publishing, Norway, 2011

A Timeline of Queer Immigration (with Camilo Godoy) (Newsprint poster, edition of 1000)
Published by the Museum of Art and Design, New York, October 2011
Second edition published by New Museum, New York, May 2011
Third edition published by CICLO ROSA, Bogotá, September 2011 

We Who Feel Differently (Catalog, Edition of 500)
Published by The Other Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2010

La Buena Vida/The Good Life (Book, 136p., Edition of 500)
Published by Fundación Alzate Avendaño, Bogotá, Colombia, 2009

Brief History of Leftist Guerrillas in Latin America (Newsprint poster, edition of 1000).
Originally published for exhibition at MoMA/PS1, New York in 2009

La Buena Vida/The Good Life (Catalog, 85p., On demand)
Published by Art in General, New York,USA, 2008

The Immigrant Files: Democracy is Not Dead; It Just Smells Funny (Book, 185p., Edition of 500)
Published by Konsthall C, Stockholm, Sweden, 2009

What is Democracy To You? (Poster, Edition of 2000)
Originally published for exhibition at ICA, Philadelphia, 2008

Brief History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America Since 1946 (Poster, 4 editions of 2000 up to date).
Originally published for exhibition at Jersey City Museum, NJ, US, 2005

Arts & LEISURE (Tabloid, 28 pages, co-edited with The Generals)
Published by Art in General and e-flux, New York, USA, 2005

Close (Book, 76 pages, Edition of 700)
Published in 2000 by Deskubre, Rome, Italy, 2000

[show] Bibliography

2013
Feiss, Ellen
Gender Talents: A Special Address

Frieze Blog, March 4, 2013

Feiss, Ellen
Absolute Democracy

Frieze Magazine, Winter 2012-2013

Mayer, Mariano
Extranjero
Arte al Dia, February, 2013 

Motta, Carlos, Guest Editor
(im)practical (im)possibilities
e-flux journal # 44, April Issue

Motta, Carlos
Deviations to Love
ATLANTICA, Journal of Art and Thought # 53

Ostrowska, Ania
Gender Charmers

the f word, Contemporary UK  Feminism, February 24, 2013 

Sierra, Sonia
Frontera y libertad, temas en los muros de la SAPS
El Universal, April 9, 2013 (Mexico)

2012
Konsten att flytta ett berg
Aftonbladet, January 16, 2012

Amir, Yaelle
Required Reading (Catalogue)
Center for Book Arts 

Berrío, Juana
On Queering Dominant Discourses: An Interview with Carlos Motta
Six Degrees, New Museum’s Blog, September 7, 2012

Bogre, Michelle
Activism: Practice and Process in Photography as Activism: Images for Social Change
Focal Press, 2012

Cruz, Araceli
Carlos Motta, On “We Who Feel Differently” and Obama’s Gay Marriage Stance
Village Voice, June 5, 2012

Clements, Alexis
Can We Queer the (Art) World, and Why Should We?
Hyperallergic, May 9, 2012

Diaz, Silvina
Sentir de una manera diferente…
Pie Derecho, May 2012 

Durant, Marc Alice
Carlos Motta
Saint Lucy, September 2012 

Erikson, Alex
Centering the Fringe
Next Magazine, April 27, 2012 

Finkelstein, Avram
We Who Feel Differently
criticalmob.com, May 10, 2012 

Forero Parra, Michael Andrés
Carlos Motta: entre el arte y el museo
Premio Nacional de Crítica y Ensayo (Corto): Arte Contemporáneo en Colombia, 2012 

Kartofel, Graciela
Carlos Motta at Y Gallery
Artnexus No. 84, Volume 11, 2012

Kogler, Stefanie
Mediation and the Role of Archives in Contemporary Art from Latin America
University of Essex, School of Philosophy and Art History, MA Curating Latin American Art, September 2012

López Sorzano, Liliana
Interrogando la diferencia
El Espectador, Mayo 20, 2012 

Nakano, Sarah
Queer Eyes on “We Who Feel Differently” Exhibit
velvetparkmedia.com, May 23, 2012 

Petersson, Frans Josef 
Konsten att flytta ett berg
Aftonbladet, January 16, 2012 

3ra Trienal Poli/gráfica de San Juan: El Panal/The Hive (Catalogue)
Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 2012

Zaya, Octavio
We Who Feel Differently, The New Museum, New York
Arte al Dia, September 2012

2011
Arevalo, Antonio
No se está trabajando con banderas sino con poéticas de lo personal
ArtiShock, June 2011

Ardila, Oscar
Zeit- Genössische Kunst im Öffentlichen Raum in Kolumbien
Kunststadt Stadtkunst, April 2011, Number 58

Artecontexto
Without Reality There is No Utopia, June 6, 2011

Biesenbach, Klaus
Erdkunde
Monopol Magazine, Janurary 2011

Bosco Díaz-Urmeneta, Juan
Descripción de la mentira
El País.com, Junio 20, 2011

burrough, xtine (Ed.)
NetWORKS: Case Studies in Web Art and Design
Routldege, 2011

Bourland, Ian
Critics’ Picks, Found in Translation
Artforum.com, March 2011

Conrad, Ryan
Thinking Differently: Carlos Motta on public sex, collective memory, and queer activism
2Bmag online, October 18, 2011 

de ll a 21: Sobre la constitución política del presente. Déficit (vs excedente)
De 11 a 21, March-June 2011, Number 1, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo

Danbolt, Matthias
We Who Feel Differently
trickster.net, May 31, 2011

de la Vega Hurtado, Margarita
Cineastas Colombianos en los Estados Unidos
December 2011 

di Quinzio, Apsara (Ed.)
The Air We Breathe
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2011 

La Tertulia Trangrede
El País. 8 de Agosto, 2011

Âs Artes, Ciudadãos!
Museu de Arte Contempoânea de Serralves, 2011

Fisher, Cora
Found in Translation
The Brooklyn Rail, March 2011

Gelder, Van Hilde
Aesthetic Justice
Le Magazine Jeu de Paume. 30 Mai, 2011

Gluzman, Yelena & Yankelevich, Matvei
Emergency Index—2011 Documenting Performance Annually
Ugly Duckling Press, 2011  

Grate, Rachel
We Who Feel Differently: Artist Carlos Motta proposes a change in perspective
The Student Life, Published by Pomona College, September 2011 

Hou, Hanru with Johnson, Mary Ellyn
Paradigm Shifts
San Francisco Art Institute, 2011

Haraldseth, Geir
Ten questions: Carlos Motta
Kunstikritikk Nordic Edition, kunstkrittikk.se, May 18, 2011

Hebert, Niels
Bananskal och drink pa golvet
Arbetarbladet, November 19, 2011

Kindstrand, Gunilla
Osäker framtid
Gefle Dagblad, November 19, 2011 

Public Sex in New York City
OUT TRAVELER, October 20, 2011 

Rangel, Gabriela (Ed.)
arteBA: Bicentenarios después de la invención
arteBA Fundación, 2011

Symons, Stéphane
Aesthetic Justice
lemagazine.jeudepaume.org

The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious
Thames & Hudson and Aperture, 2011

Ullebø, Kjetil
Med kunstnerblikk pa skeive Norge
Fredag, Kultur & Folk, May 20, 2011

Zeithammer, Sabina
Carlos Motta, Wiener Festwochen
derStandard.at, June 9, 2011

2010
Amdam, Peter

Arkivets spøkelser
Kunstkritikk, September 9, 2010

Cahill, Zachary
The Creative Act
Artforum.com, December 20, 2010

Días de Auditorio
ADN Cultura, June 26, 2010

Donovan, Thom
Melanie Crean: How To Do Things With Words
BomBlog, November 30, 2010

Exhibition Brochure: Biennale Cuvée 2010, at World Selection of Contemporary Art
OK Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria 2010

Exhibition Catalogue: smART at the Miami Dade College
Miami Dade College, 2010

Herrera, Adriana
Panorama del Arte Emergente Latinoamericano
Arte Al Día, June-August 2010, Issue 131

Hoyo, Andrés
El teatro colombiano invade a Berlín
Eltiempo.com, April 13, 2010

Ithaca College Names Winners of Environmental Film Festival
IthacaIndy.com, March 10, 2010

Kampen om arkivet- Utstilling, The Creative Act
Aftenposten, Kultur, September 6, 2010

Libertad y Desorden
Black Box Berlin, March 23, 2010

La Paglia, Federica
Se Non Qui, Dove?
Cura Magazine, October-December 2010, Issue 06

López, Liliana
Artistas colombianos hacen presencia en Berlín
Elespectador.com, April 23, 2010

Marmeleira, José
Exposição- Somos todos cidadãos do mundo em Serralves
ípsilon, November 17, 2010

Marshall, Piper
Avenue of the Americas
Artforum.com, September 13, 2010

Meierhenrich, Doris
Freiheit und Unordnung: Theater aus Kolumbien in HAU
Berliner Zeitung, April 26, 2010

Morales, Lorenzo
Experimento de Justicia Narrativa en Seis Actos
impre.com, March 21, 2010

A Conversation Between Carlos Motta and Gabriela Rangel
Henie Onstad Art Centre Exhibition Catalogue, 2010

Exhibition Catalogue for “The Politics of Art”
National Museum of Contemporary Arts, Athens, 2010

Νερομάνα
Worlds Together- An hour with artist Carlos Motta
Fountain Head, Communicative Experimentation, June 27, 2010

Sarmiento, Jorge
¿El Libreto Teatral Como Discurso Artístico Del Arte Contemporáneo?
esferapública.org, September 18, 2010

Schulz, Ole
Wo die Gewalt zeitlos ist- Kritische kolumbianische Theatermacher versammeln sich im HAU
TANZ, April 2010

Schulz, Ole
Kein Fest Ohne Feind
Die Tageszeitung, April 22, 2010

Spreng, Eberhard
Antirhetorick einer mörderischen Wirklichkeit
Deutschlandradio Kultur, Dradio.de, April 26, 2010

Teicke, Friedhelm
Festival: Libertad y Desorden Freiheit und Unordnung
Zitty, April/May 2010

Teicke, Friedhelm
Gewalt und Leidenschaft
14 Tage Bühne, April/May 2010

Pintor colombiano reconcilia a Latinoamérica reordenado el sueño de Bolívar
Terra Argentina, October 23, 2010 

Trezzi, Nicola
Avenue of the Americas at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
FlashArtOnline.com, July 13, 2010

Weiner, Andrew Stefan
The Shapes I Remember from Maps, Tracking New Geographies
X-TRA, Volume 12, Number 2

Wildermann, Patrick
O Land voll Blut und Wunden- Passionsspiele: Politisches Theater aus Kolumbien- ein Festival am Berliner HAU.
Der Tagesspiegel, Kultur, April 24, 2010

Wildermann, Patrick
Die dreckigen Helilgen
Der Tagesspiegel, March 25, 2010

Zerpa, Marth Escalona
Gran retrospectiva de Frida Kahlo, el músico Ruben Rada y arte joven colombiano en Berlín
Analítica.com, May 5, 2010

2009
Exhibition Catalogue: 5×5 Castelló‘09

EACC, Castelló, July 24- September 27, 2009

6th Annual New Prints Review
Art on Paper, November/December 2009, Vol 14, No. 2

Allerholm, Milou
Carlos Motta på Konstahall C, Stockholm
DN.se, February 19, 2009

Amado, Miguel
Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding at Parsons Anna-Maria and Stephen Keller Gallery
Artforum.com, January 24, 2009

Bellet, Harry and Dagen, Phillippe
Biennale de Lyon, Petites choses, grande réussite
Le Monde,  September 16, 2009

Cole, Lori
Critics’ Picks: Things Fall Apart at the Winkleman Gallery
Artforum.com, January 26, 2009

Durant, Mark Alice
Notes on Photography and Monumentality
Aperture, Fall 2009

Exhibition Catalogue: Feedforward- El ángel de la Historia/ The Angel of History 
Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, 2009

Exhibition Catalogue: 28 Grafica Bienale/ Biennial of Graphic Arts
Mednarodni Graficni Likovni Center/ International Centre of Graphic Arts, 2009

Exhibition Catalogue: Xe Biennale de Lyon, Le Spectacle du Quotidien/ The Spectacle of the Everyday
Les Presses du Reél, 2009

Exhibition Catalogue: Incheon Women Artists’ Beinnale, Tuning Exhibition
Incheon Women Artists’ Beinnale Organizing Committee, 2009

Flores, Tatiana
Preemptive Resistances: Critical Pointers in Latin American Art
ArtNexus, June/August 2009, Issue 7

Incerti, Roberto
La Buena Vida/ The Good Life – Fabbrica Europa, Stazione Leopolda
La Repubblica, May 5, 2009

Iyer, Gayathri
The End. And…at Frederico Séve Gallery/Latincollector
newyorkartbeat.com, August 4, 2009

Lindgren, Peter
Mörk bild av den svenska modellen/ Konsthall C
aftonbladet.se, February 20, 2009

Listing of La Buena Vida/ The Good Life at Stazione Leopolda
Fabbrica Europa, May 5-May 23, 2009

Manen, Martí
Carlos Motta, los archivos del immigrante, at  Konsthall C
Exposiciones Europa

McQuaid, Cate
Vidoes, then and now, tell a story, at the RISD Museum
Boston.com, Janurary 4, 2009

Motta, Carlos
Brigada Ramona Parra
A Prior, Issue 03, 2009

Motta, Carlos
Allora and Calzadilla (Interview)
Bomb, Number 109, Fall 2009

Ospina, Lucas
Historia de dos Artistas
Elespectador.com, April 17, 2009

Peña, Carolina
La Buena Vida: Una Percepción Latinoamericana de Democracia
Acceso Directo, Portada, Edition 40

Peña, Pompillio
La fuerza de Carlos Motta en la Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño
elespectador.com, March 26, 2009

Pope-Chappell, Maya
Dissecting The Good Life, at Smack Mellon Gallery
nycitynewsservice.com, March 23, 2009

Spotlight on Carlos Motta at P.S. 1 MoMA
Summer 2009, P.S.1 Summer 2009 Newspaper

Carlos Motta, Demokrati på riktigt/Konsthall C
svd.se, Feruary 20, 2009

Carlos Motta, Undersöker den svenska demokratin/Konsthall C
kulturstan.se, January 28, 2009

Younger Than Jesus/ Artist Director/ New Museum
Phaidon, 2009

2008
Jones, Caitlin

In The Private Eye at ISE Cultural Foundation
Rhizome, February 2008

Bernasconi, Roberta
VENEZIA TUTTO S.A.L.E.
Exibart.com, February 2008

Zellen, Jody
Carlos Motta
Art Papers, January 2008

Blagojovic, B.
Upcoming Events, “Parsons Fine Arts Lecture Series: Carlos Motta”
The Zine, October 14, 2008

Blagojovic, B.
Democracy in America at the Park Avenue Armory
The Zine, Events, News/Upcoming, September 22, 2008

Bryant, Eric
The Indecisive Image
Art News, March 2008

Buil, Belaxis
Carlos Motta, Capturing the Voice of the Masses
Art Voices, Creative Art Network, 2008

Cotter, Holland
With Politics in Air, a Freedom Free-for-All Comes to Town
The New York Times, September 23, 2008

Carvalho, Denise
The Good Life at the Institute of Contemporary Art
ArtNexus, No.116 September-November 2008, pg 156

Douglas, Sarah
New York Museum Shows to Restore Your Faith 
Art Info, November 3, 2008

Exhibition Catalogue: Soft Manipulation- Who is Afraid of the New Now?
Casino Luxembourg, 2008

Exhibition Catalogue: The Greenroom, Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, 2008

Estévez, Mayra
UIO-BOG, Estudios Sonoros Desde la Región Andina
Trama, 2008

Halpern, Ashlea
Exhibition listing of “Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding” at Parsons Anna-Maria and Stephen Keller Gallery
Time Out New York, Own this city, October 16- October 22, 2008

Holmes, Pernilla
Blast from the Past- Artists around the globe are turning Socialist Realism on its head, layering the once-potent tool of propaganda with irony and nostalgia
Art News, January 2008

Kushner, Marilyn S.
The Future Must Be Sweet- Lower East Side Printshop Celebrates 40 Years
Lower East Side Printshop Inc., 2008

Mella, Leanne
Exhibition Catalogue: The Prisioner’s Dilemma
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, 2008

Moreno, S.
Parsons Show Examines Democracy as Brand
I.D. Magazine, October 28, 2008

Motta, Carlos
Relations in Real Time: A Conversation with Maria Lind
Sjónauki Art Magazine, Number 3, 2008

Motta, Carlos
mapa zerø, 2008 2DA Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan América Latina y el Caribe. Número Cero, Issue 1

Motta, Carlos
The Good Life
Art In General, New Commissions Program 2008

Ozuna, Tony
“Straight Shooters” of Archivo Sur: Art Between Identity and the Mask, at Futura
The Prague Post, November 19, 2008

Roalf, Peggy
Art at a Cultural Crossroads
Design Arts, October 16, 2008

Smith, Roberta
Exhibition listing of “Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding” at Parsons Anna-Maria and Stephen Keller Gallery.
The New York Times, Arts and Leisure, October 10, 2008

New York goes democrazy
Flash Art, November 1, 2008

Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding 
Art Slant New York, Exhibitions, October 2008

Soft Manipulatin- Who is afraid of the new now? at Casino Luxembourg 
ArtFama, March 2009

Stamenkovic, Marko
Interview with Carlos Motta, “Victims’ Dignity”
labforculture.org, January 23, 2008

Thompson, Nato
A Guide to Democracy in America
Creative Time Books, 2008

Velasco, David
The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art at CCS Bard/Hessel Museum
Artforum.com, September 2008

Vriens, Matthias
Contributors, “Top Tip”
Elle UK, February 2008

Wilson, Beth E.
The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art, “Lucid Dreaming” at CCS Bard/Hessel Museum
Chronogram, November 2008

Zellen, Jody
Carlos Motta
Art Papers, January/February 2008

2007
Amir, Yaelle

Carlos Motta: The Leningrad Trilogy, Winkleman Gallery
whitehot, Oct. 2007

Hernández, Sofía
Carlos Motta: Consistently Aware
Arte Al Día Internacional, May 2007

Motta, Carlos
Means of Engagement: A review of Oliver Herring’s Show
Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts, Fall 2007

2006
Bordón, Juan Manuel

Carta Abierta a la Vanguardia Artística en el Correo Central
Clarin, Cultura, November 11, 2006

Clinton, Margaret Liu
Distortion, Disruption & Dispersion: Reconfigured Retellings
Kevin Bruk Gallery, Exhibition Brochure Essay, June 2006

Carlos Motta: Reciclador de Imagenes
Conección Colombia, Abril 6, 2006

Cotter, Holland
Whitney Independent Study Program
New York Times, May 12, 2006

Costa, Marcela
Balelatína, The Art of Latin America on the Banks of the Rhine
Arte al Día, No 115, September 2006

Fajardo-Hill,Cecilia
10 Experimentos Determinantes
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Exhibition Catalog, 2006

Genocchio, Benjamin
Black and White But Not That Simple: Carlos Motta Confronts Latin American Politics
New York Times, April 30, 2006

Genocchio, Benjamin
Is It the N.S.A., Or, an M.F.A?
New York Times, February 12, 2006

Herrera, Adriana
La incertidumbre en el arte contemporáneo
El Nuevo Herald, Oct. 15, 2006

Motta, Carlos
Venas Abiertas?
Exit Express, 2006

Motta, Carlos
Lesson Plan: Unlearn
NYFA Current, Dec, 2006

Cultura: Hablan los Artistas
Cambios, No. 685, August 14-20, 2006

Kilston, Lyra
The Front Page: Artists and Photojournalism
Artlies, 2006

Suarez De Jesus, Carlos
Ella’s Gift: Cifo is an oasis in a desert of concrete rot
Miami New Times, October, 2006

McKee, Yates
Carlos Motta’s Hemispheric Counter-Pedagogy
Real Art Ways, Exhibition Brochure Essay, May 2006

Perez, Dinorah
Carlos Motta en Kevin Bruk Gallery
Arte al Dia, Dec 2006

Projekt: The People Speak v. Saul Albert og Mikey
Kunst, Art Guide, September-October 2006

Rexer, Lyle
Bill Hunt’s Photographs
Art on Paper, January 2006

Turner, Eliza
Video, defined: Two shows focus on the history of video arts
The Miami Herald, Nov 5, 2006

2005
Cotter, Holland

Latino Art, and Beyond Category
New York Times, September 2, 2005

Cullen Deborah
The (S) Files
El Museo, Exhibition Catalog Essay, 2005

Henry, Clare
The (S) Files
ARTnews, December, 2005

Howard, Christopher
El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files/The Selected Files
The Brooklyn Rail, November 2005

Kopenkina, Olga
Russia Significant Other
ICA, Exhibition Brochure Essay, St. Petersburg, Russia, February 2006

Micchelli, Thomas
The Book as Object and Performance
The Brooklyn Rail, January 2005

Powhida, William
Enemy Image
The Brooklyn Rail, October 2005

Serrano, Eduardo
Se acabo el rollo? La fotografia en Colombia de 1950 a 2000
Editorial Planeta, 2005

2004
Ellis, David

New Home for WTC Art Studios
Downtown Express, July 15, 2004

Farrel, Jennifer
Establishing Shot
Exit Express, May 2004

Hudson, Suzanne
Establishing Shot
Artforum, September 2004

Rattemeyer, Christian
Establishing Shot
Artists Space, Exhibition Catalogue Essay, April 2004

Roca, José
Urbes Interiores: Carlos Motta, Enterrar y Callar
Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Exhibition Catalog Essay, June 2004

Schwendener, Martha
Establishing Shot
Time Out New York, April 15, 2004

Stillman, Nick
Establishing Shot
Artforum.com, April 30, 2004

2003
Baker, Kenneth

Artists Leave the Camera Out of the Picture
SF Chronicle, June 7, 2003

Bowen, Doren
Photography In The Mix: Flora-Fauna-Photo
Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts, Spring/Summer 2003

Nuovi Spazi, nasce a Aréa a Palermo
Exibart.com, January 2003

Flynt, Robert
Interview with Carlos Motta
Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts, CD-ROM, Spring/Summer 2003

Translatability
New York Arts Magazine, August 2003

Nicita, Paola
No Money, No Honey
Exibart.com, February 12, 2003

Comienza Fotología
Periodico El Tiempo,August 6, 2003

25 Artistas en el Salón Nacional
Periodico El Tiempo, August 25, 2003

2002
Arévalo, Antonio

Latin-American Photography from New York to Santiago de Chile
IILA, Exhibition Catalogue Essay, May 2002

Bastante, Maria Cristina
Latin-American Photography from New York to Santiago de Chile
Exibart.com, June 14, 2002

Ciolini, Vittoria
Identita Culturali: Toscana Fotografia
La Corte Arte Contemporanea, Exhibition Catalog Essay, October 2002

Da non perdere: Carlos Motta, Pesca Milagrosa
CityFirenze, November 5, 2002

Mundos Creados
CultFrame, September 2002

Door, Arno
Revolutie
De Volkskrant, September 12, 2002

Guarnieri, Beatrice
Pesca Milagrosa
Exibart.com, November 7, 2002

L’altro é il mio obbietivo torna Toscana fotografia
La Repubblica, November 2002

La ‘Pesca Miracolosa’ dei guerriglieri colombiani
L’unita, November 8, 2002

Melis, Wim
Carlos Motta: ‘Pesca Milagrosa’
Mundos Creados: Constructed Photography from the Wider Caribbean,” Noorderlicht Photofestival, Exhibition Catalog Essay, 2002

Reieneweld, Chris
Waarachtig beeld
Financieel Dagblad, September 28, 2002, Groningen, The Neatherlands

Pietersma, lland
Ik will niet aan geweld wennen
Dagblad van het Noorden, September 2002, Groningen, The Neatherlands

Van, Ek S.
Experimentale Fotografie
Friesch Dagblad, September 2002, Groningen, The Neatherlands

2001
Vásquez, Mauricio and de Greiff, Ilse

Interview with Carlos Motta
Choque y Fusión,99.1 Radio Joven, Colombia, November 2001

2000
Landi, Patrizia

Tecnica Mista
La Corte Arte Contemporanea, Exhibition Catalog Essay, May 2000

Frailey, Stephen
Introduction for Close,
Published by Deskubre, Rome Italy, 2000

Tocancipa Luz Stella
Goce Visual
Revista Cromos, November 16, 2000

Umbrico, Penelope
Critical Essay for Close
Deskubre, Rome Italy, 2000

[show] Institutional Collections

Bronx Museum, New York, NY, USA

Cisneros Fontanals Foundation, Miami, Fl, USA

Deutsche Bank, New York, NY,  USA

Fundación Cisneros, Caracas, Venezuela/New York, USA

Fundación RAC (Rosón Arte Contemporáneo), Pontevedra, Spain 

Museu Fundação Serralves, Porto, Portugal

Museum of Latin American Art (Mola), Long Beach, CA, USA

National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens, Greece

Timeline, Konstfack’s Videotek, Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden

Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, USA

[show] Lectures, Panels & Artist Presentations

2013
Aesthetics of Engagement (Panel Discussion with Mariam Ghani, Murtaza Vali and Ann Mesner)
Pratt University, New York, May 9, 2013

Youth (Panel Discussion with Naomi Hirabayashi, Barry McGee, Carlos Motta, and Ellin O’Leary and Dennis Schol)
IDEAS CITY Conference, New York, May 2, 2013

Carlos Motta — (Artist Presentation) 
Paul Branch Lecture Series, CalArts, Los Angeles, April 25, 2013

Godfull: Shape Shifting God as Queer (Symposium co-organizer with Jared Gilbert)
The Institute for Art, Religion and Social Justice, Union Theological Seminary, New York, April 12, 2013

La forma de la libertad (Panel Discussion with Susana Vargas, Alonso Hernandez, Oscar Garcia and Xabier Lizarraga)
Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City, April 9, 2013

Gender Talents: A Special Address (Symposium organizer)
TATE Modern, London, February 2, 2013

2012
Conflict and the Rebel City (Panel Discussion with Miguel Amado, Chelsea Haines and Sreshta Rit Premnath)
Dorsky Gallery—Curatorial Projects, Long Island City, Queens, October 21, 2012

Carlos Motta, We Who Feel Differently (Lecture and Screening)
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, October 11, 2012

Feeling Differently (Round Table with Sianne Ngai, Nomy Lamm & Raegan Truax)
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, October 10, 2012 

Show and Tell: Carlos Motta in Conversation with Larry Rinder (Talk)
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, October 8, 2012

Absolute Democracy (Symposium co-organizer with Oliver Ressler)
Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria, September 26, 2012

Carlos Motta: Algunos apuntes sobre las políticas del afecto queer (Lecture and Screening)
Lugar a dudas, Cali, Colombia, August 9, 2012

Carlos Motta, We Who Feel Differently (Lecture and Screening)
Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, July 17, 2012

Digital Art & Democracy: People, Places, Participation (Symposium—Artist Presentation)
University of California, Santa Cruz, June 1, 2012 

We Who Feel Differently: Thursday Night Events— (Organizer of public programs in the context of New Museum solo exhibition)
New Museum, New York, May 31 – September 6, 2012

We Who Feel Differently: A Symposium (Co-organizer with Raegan Truax)
New Museum, New York, May 4-5, 2012

Carlos Motta (Artist Presentation)
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, April 17, 2012 

Carlos Motta (Artist Presentation)
Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, March 29, 2012

Carlos Motta (Artist Presentation)
Escuela de Artes Plásticas (EAP), San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 12, 2012

SITAC X: The Future: The Long Count Begins Again (Symposium)
Patronato de arte contemporáneo, Mexico City, Feb. 9, 10 and 11, 2012

2011
Writing as Practice: Peripheral Continuity (Symposium— Artist Presentation with Andrea Geyer)
International Center of Photography, New York, December 17, 2011 

Theologies of Liberation (Artist Talk with Jared Gilbert)
Y Gallery, New York, December 15, 2011 

The Walls That Divide Us (Artist Talk with Leor Grady)
Apexart, New York, December 8, 2011 

The Future Lasts Forever (Book Presentation with Migue López and Lisa Rosendahl)
Gävle Konstcentrum, Sweden, November 19, 2011

Broken English (Panel Discussion with Julieta Aranda, Defne Ayas, Adam Kleinman and Naeem Mohaiemen)
Performa Hub, Performa 11, New York, November 13, 2011 

A New Discovery: Queer Immigration in Perspective (Panel Discussion)
Museum of Art and Design, New York, October 15, 2011

Live Out Loud (Panel Discussion)
Pratt University, Brooklyn, October 11

The Gay Generation Gap (Panel Discussion)
Dixon Place, New York, October 2, 2011 

We Who Feel Differently (Artist Presentation)
Pomona College Museum of Art, Clermont, CA, September 26, 2011

Diversidad Sexual, Activismo y Arte en Cali (Panel Discussion)
Espacio de Arte Contemporaneo, Museo La Tertulia, Cali, August 11, 2011

Artist Residencies and Conflict Areas (Symposium)
Goethe-Institut, New York, June 25, 2011

Aesthetic Justice (Artist Presentation with Niels Van Tomme)
Cabinet, New York, June 14, 2011

We Who Feel Differently (Panel Discussion)
Torpedo Books, Oslo, Norway, May 20, 2011

We Who Feel Differently (Panel Discussion)
Gallery USF, Bergen, Norway, May 19, 2011

Aesthetic Justice (Seminar)
Provisions Libraby and Lambent Foundation, New York, May 14, 2011

Queerocracy (Symposium)
The New School University, New York, April 17, 2011

Sexuality and the State in Latin America (Panel with Noelle Stout)
Columbia University, New York, April 13, 2011

2010
Carlos Motta (Artist Presentation)
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Nov. 4, 2010

Carlos Motta (Artist Presentation)
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, Oct. 12, 2010

Carlos Motta (Artist Presentation)
Hunter College, New York, NY, Sept.29, 2010

La imagen emancipada (Panel Discussion)
ARTEBA’10, Buenos Aires, June 26, 2010

Ask Los Artistas  (Panel Discussion)
VOLTA NY, New York, March 6, 2010

Carlos Motta (Artist Presentation)
University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), Santa Cruz, CA, Feb.26, 2010

Geography of Trans-teritories (Panel Discussion)
San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), San Francisco, CA, Feb.24, 2010

Carlos Motta (Artist in Residency & Artist Presentation)
Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT, January 29- Feb 7, 2010

2009
Carlos Motta (Artist Presentation)
Medienwerkstatt, Vienna, Austria, Nov. 30, 2009

Feedforward: The Angel of History (Symposium)
Laboral, Gijon, Spain, Oct. 23-24, 2009

Carlos Motta (Artist Presentation)
Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen, Norway, Oct. 15, 2009

Carlos Motta (Artist Presentation)
California College of the Arts Curatorial Practice Program, San Francisco,   Oct. 9, 2009

Carlos Motta (Artist Presentation)
SF Camerawork with Galeria La Raza, San Francisco, Oct. 8, 2009

¡Presente! Daniel Alarcón and Carlos Motta: Next-Generation Latin American Art and Literature (Panel Discussion)
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, Oct. 10, 2009

Carlos Motta (Artist Presentation)
Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb, Croatia, Sept. 4, 2009

Carlos Motta (Artist Presentation)
Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College, New York, June 26, 2009

Atti Democratici (Panel Discussion)
Casa della Creativita, Florence, Italy, May 6, 2009

Symposium on Integration, April 4, 2009
Konsthall C in collaboration with Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm

The Good Life (Workshop)
El Parqueadero, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, March 14-15, 2009

Carlos Motta (Artist Presentation)
RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI, February 18, 2009

2008
The Shape of Things to Come – Artists as Public Intellectuals (Panel Discussion)
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA, December 4, 2008

What is Real? Photography and the Politics of Truth (Symposium)
International Center of Photography, Dec 12-13, 2008

Carlos Motta (Artist Presentation)
Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, November 13, 2008

Carlos Motta (Artist Presentation)
Parsons Fine Arts Lecture Series, New York, NY, October 15, 2008

Carlos Motta + Ann Farnsworth-Alvear (Artist Presentation)
ICA, Philadelphia, PA, February 27, 2008

2007 
Vita Activa: Political Engagement through the Arts (Artist Presentation)
SODAart at Villa Arson, Nice, France, October 2007

On the edge of the abyss, one step forward! A conversation between Carlos Motta and Juan Pedro Fabra
wip:konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden, October 2007

Carlos Motta (Artist Presentation)
Konstfak, Stockholm, Sweden, October 2007

2006
Art/Net/Work (Artist Presentation, Panel Discussion)
New Media Department, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, October 2006

Town Meeting (Artist Presentation)
Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, October 15, 2005

La Conceptualizacion de La Imagen (Teaching, One-Week Workshop)
El Centro de La Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico, August 2005

The Future of Photography (Panel Organizer and Moderator)
Parsons The New School of Design, part of SPE Conference 2004, New York

Legitimizing The Other: Art and National Identity in the Age of  Globalization (Artist Presentation)
New York University, October 9, 2004, New York

Visiting Artist
School of Visual Arts, New York, April 2004

Establishing Shot (Panel Discussion)
Artists Space, March 2004, New York, USA

Carlos Motta (Artist Presentation)
SF Camerawork, May 2003, San Francisco, CA, USA

Slide Fest (Artist Presentation)
ICP Education Program, September 2002, New York , USA

[show] Professional Affiliations

Adjunct Faculty, MFA & BFA Photography Departments
Parsons The New School of Design, New York

Adjunct Faculty, BFA Photography Department
The School of Visual Arts, New York

Adjunct Faculty, MFA Photography Department
Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson

Visiting Faculty, MFA
Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT

Adjunct Faculty, General Studies Program
International Center of Photography, New York