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	CARLOS MOTTA Born in Bogotá, Colombia, 1978 Lives and works in New York, NY EDUCATION Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, USA, 2005/6 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 GRANTS, RESIDENCIES & AWARDS 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 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, 2005/6 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, USA, 2005/6 Workspace Grant for Emerging Artists, 2005 Center for Book Arts, New York Workspace Program Residency, 2004 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, USA Fellowship, 2001/2/3 Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, New York, USA Rhodes Family Award for Exceptional Achievement in Photo, 2001 The School of Visual Arts, New York 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 SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2011 Carlos Motta: The Good Life and Six Acts Wiener FestWochen, Vienna, Austria Carlos Motta: We Who Feel Differently Ctrl+Z Publishing and Gallery USF, Bergen, Norway 2010 Carlos Motta: Six Acts: An Experiment in Narrative Justice Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, El Parqueadero, Bogotá Carlos Motta: The Good Life and Six Acts 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, PA, 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 (June), Basel, Switzerland Kevin Bruk Gallery (October), Miami, Fl, USA (Catalog) Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT (Catalog) 2004-2002 Untitled # 2 from 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) GROUP EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS 2011 Found in Translation Guggenheim Museum, New York. Curated by Nat Trotma Sin realidad no hay utopía Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain. Curated by Alicia Murría, Mariano Navarro and Juan Antonio Álvarez Patria o Libertad! Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, The Netherlands. Curated by Paco Barragán 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 Boundaries: Selections from the Molaa Permanent Collection Molaa, Long Beach, CA. Stuttgart Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany 2010 To the Arts Citizens! Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal Curated by Oscar Faria and João Fernandes Second World Congress of Free Artists Aarhus Kunstbygning, Aarhus, Denmark. Organized by CAMEL Notes on Memories IG Boldende Kunst, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Sophie Goltz smART Miami Dade College, Freedom Tower, Miami. Curated by Sonia Becce 27th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany The Politics of Art National Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece, Athens How To Do Things With Words Aronson Galleries, The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons The New School for Design, New York. Curated by Melanie Crean The Creative Act Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway Curated by Tone Hansen 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 The Mobile Archive Stacion-Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina, Kosova The Art of War CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA Avenue of the America's LMCC Lent Space, New York Curated by Adam Kleinman 39th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), The Netherlands Geography of Trans-territories Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco Curated by Hou Hanru Biennale Cuvee 10 OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz 2009 Le spectacle du quotidien X Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France Curated by Hou Hanru Matrix: The Unstable Reality 28 Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubijana, Slovenia Conversation Pieces CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA Curated by Sean Donaher and Mariam Ghani 5x5Castelló Espai d'art contemporani de Castelló (EACC), Castellón, Spain 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 The 21st Cen., The Feminine Century, and the Century of Diversity and Hope International Incheon Women Artists' Biennale, Incheon, Korea 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 The Prisoner's Dilemma Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA Curated by Leanne Mella 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, USA Curated by Carin Kuonic and Marisa Olson for The Vera List Center The Greenroom CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA Curated by Maria Lind Convergence Center, Democracy in America Creative Time at Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY, USA Curated by Nato Thompson Wild Horses Art Space Diffusion138, University of Grenoble, France Curated by Nicolas Audureau Auto Memorized Centrum for fotografi, Stockholm, Sweden Festival International d'Art Video de Casablanca Casablanca, Morocco UNMASKED: A Marathon of Artist's Film and Videos Contesting Systems of Rule New Museum, New York, NY Co-organized by Carlos Motta and Elise Youn 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 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 EXPOSURE Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA Curated by Patrick Grenier MAKING GOOD LUCK Y- Gallery, Queens, NY, USA Curated by Larry Litt and Cecilia Jurado PAWNSHOP e-flux, 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 (Catalog) 2006 Estrecho Dudoso TEOR/éTica, San José, Costa Rica Curated by Virginia Pérez-Ratton and Tamara Díaz Bringas (Catalog) OHNE BLICK Musée de Elysée, Lausanne, 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 (Catalog) 10 Defining Experiments: cifo 2006 Grant Program Recipients Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (cifo), Miami, Florida, USA (Catalog) 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 (Catalog) Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program Exhibition Chelsea Museum, New York, USA 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 (Catalog) 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 Fundacion C4rto Nivel Arte Contemporaneo, Bogota, Colombia Curated by Jaime Cerón Russia: Significant Other ICA at the Anna Akhmatova Museum, St Petersburg, Russia Curated by Olga Kopenkina (Brochure) Surveillance Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ, USA 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, USA 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 (Catalog) 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 (Catalog) 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 (Catalog) 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) PUBLICATIONS La Buena Vida/The Good Life (Book, 136p., Edition of 500) Published by Fundación Alzate Avendaño, Bogotá, Colombia, 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 in 2008 for exhibition at ICA, Philadelphia, USA Brief History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America Since 1946 (Poster, 4 editions of 2000 up to date),Originally published in 2005 for exhibition at Jersey City Museum, NJ, USA Arts & LEISURE, (Tabloid, 28 pages, co-edited with The Generals) Published in 2005 by Art in General and e-flux, New York, USA Close (Artist Monograph, 76 pages) Published in 2000 by Deskubre, Rome, Italy BIBLIOGRAPHY 2008-2010 NEEDS TO BE UPDATED PLEASE CHECK LATER Jones, Caitlin Review of "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 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 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 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 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, Dic 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, Henry 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 Book, published by Editorial Planeta, 2005/6 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 Catalog Essay, April 2004 Roca, José Urbes Interiores: Carlos Motta, Enterrar y Callar Alliance Française, 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 Catalog 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, Published by Deskubre, Rome Italy, 2000 INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS Cisneros Fontanals Foundation (Cifo), Miami, USA Deutsche Bank, New York, USA Fundación Cisneros, Caracas/New York Museum of Latin American Art(Mola), Long Beach, CA, USA National Museum of Contemporary Art(EMST), Athens, Greece Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, USA Timeline, Konstfacks Videotek, Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden LECTURES/PANELS/PRESENTATIONS Artist Residencies and Conflict Areas (Synposium) 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 (Synposium) 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 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) ARTEBA'10, Buenos Aires, June 26, 2010 Ask Los Artistas (Panel) 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) San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), San Francisco, CA, Feb.24, 2010 Carlos Motta (Artist in Residency & Presentation) Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT, January 29- Feb 7, 2010 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) 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) Casa della Creativita, Florence, Italy, May 6, 2009 Carlos Motta (Artist Presentation) Royal University College of Fine Arts (KKH), Stockholm, April 7, 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 The Shape of Things to Come - Artists as Public Intellectuals (Panel) Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA, December 4, 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 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 Artist Presentation, Konstfak (Invited by Andrea Creutz) Konstfak, Stockholm, Sweden, October 2007 Art/Net/Work (Artist Presentation, Panel) 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 (Panelist) New York University, October 9, 2004, New York Visiting Artist, School of Visual Arts, New York, April 2004 Establishing Shot (Panelist) Artists Space, March 2004, New York, USA Presentation, SF Camerawork, May 2003, San Francisco, CA, USA Slide Fest (Presentation) ICP Education Program, September 2002, New York , USA BIO Carlos Motta is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work draws from political history in an attempt to create counter narratives that recognize the inclusion of suppressed histories, communities, identities and ideologies. Motta's work has been presented in solo exhibitions at MoMA/PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; and Museo de Arte del Banco de la Republica, Bogotá amongst others. His upcoming and past group exhibitions include:To the Arts, Citizens!, Serralves Museum, Porto; The Politics of Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens; Geography of Trans-territories, San Francisco Art Institute; X Biennale de Lyon; Biennale Cuvée, OK Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz; The Greenroom, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson; Soft Manipulation, Casino Luxembourg; and Democracy in America, Creative Time, New York. Carlos Motta was named a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow in 2008. Download Resume (PDF) Download Bio (PDF) back to TOP