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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
  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
  Editor
  artwurl.org, New York, USA

  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
  2009-2008
  
The Immigrant Files: Democracy Is Not Dead, It Just Smells Funny
  
Konsthall C,
Stockholm, Sweden


  The Good Life
  
Art in General,
New York, USA
 
  
The People...
  Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa
  KZNSA Gallery,
Durban, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa


  
The Good Life
  ICA: Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA 

  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)

  SOA: Black & White Tales
  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
  2008
  Soft Manipulation, or Who is Afraid of The New Now?

  Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  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 and Hito Steyerl