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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
Teaching Faculty, MFA &
BFA Photography Departments
Parsons The New School
of Design, New York, USA
Teaching Faculty, General
Studies Program
International Center
of Photography, New York, USA
SOLO
EXHIBITIONS
2010
Carlos
Motta: The Good Life and Six Acts
Hebbel
am Ufer (HAU), Berlin, Germany
2009
La
Buena Vida/The
Good Life
Fundación
Alzate Avendaño, Bogotá, Colombia
Smack
Mellon,
New
York, USA
Festival
Fabbrica Europa, Firenze, Italia
Brief
History
PS1/MoMA,
Long Island City, Queens, NY
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
2010
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
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