CARLOS MOTTA (Bogotá, Colombia, 1978) lives and works in New York, USA. He is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York (2005/06) and was named a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow in 2008. 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.
Motta's work has been presented internationally in venues such as The Guggenheim Museum, New York; 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; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, and New Museum, New York.
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.
EDUCATION
2005/06 Programa de Estudos Independentes do Whitney Museum, Nova Iorque, E.U.A. | Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, USA
2003 Mestrado em Artes Plásticas, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, Nova Iorque, E.U.A. | Master of Fine Arts, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, New York, USA
2001 Licenciatura em Artes Plásticas - Fotografia, The School of Visual Arts, Nova Iorque, E.U.A. | Bachelor of Fine Arts, Photography, The School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES & GRANTS
2019
Project Grant, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, New York, USA
2018
Visiting Scholar, Department of Performance Studies, New York University (NYU), New York
2017
The Vilcek Foundation Prize for Creative Promise, New York, USA
2015 Discovery Award, LOOP, Barcelona, Spain
2014
Main Prize, Future Generation Art Prize, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
2013
Hoteles Catalonia Award, LOOP Art Fair, Barcelona, Spain
Beca de circulación nacional e internacional para artistas y agentes de las artes visuales, Ministerio de Cultura, Colombia
Artist in residence, Union Theological Seminar, New York, USA
2012
Makers Muse Award, Kindle Project, Santa Fe
Visual Arts Grant, Creative Capital, New York
2010
Individual Artist Grant, New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), New York, USA
Jury Prize, Map Digital Space, Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF), Ithaca, USA
2009
Artist Residency, Flaggfabrikken, Bergen, Norway
2008
Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, USA
New Commission, Art in General, New York, USA
Studio Residency, Smack Mellon, New York, USA
Special Editions Residency, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, USA
Finishing Funds, Experimental Television Center, New York, USA
2007
Grant, Art Matters Foundation, New York, USA
Artist Residency, International Artists Studio Program in Sweden (IASPIS), Stockholm, Sweden
Swing Space Program, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, USA
DaNY Arts Grant (with HOMEWORK), Danish Arts Council, Aarhus, Denmark
2006
Subvention Grant, Cisneros Fontanals Foundation (CIFO), Miami, USA
Next Exhibition Award, Real Art Ways, Hartford, USA
2005
Fellowship, Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, USA
Workspace Grant for Emerging Artists, Center for Book Arts, New York, USA
2004
Workspace Program Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, USA
2001
Fellowship, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, New York, USA
Rhodes Family Award for Exceptional Achievement in Photo, The School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Adjunct Faculty, MFA & BFA Photography Departments, Parsons The New School of Design, Nova Iorque, E.U.A. | New York, USA
Adjunct Faculty, BFA Photography Department, The School of Visual Arts, Nova Iorque, E.U.A. | New York, USA
Adjunct Faculty, MFA Photography Department, Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, E.U.A. | USA
Visiting Faculty, MFA, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, E.U.A. | USA
Adjunct Faculty, General Studies Program, International Center of Photography, Nova Iorque, E.U.A. | New York, USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2020
Carlos Motta, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC). Curated by Rachel Nelson
Carlos Motta, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA)
2019
Dialogues: David Wojnarowicz and Carlos Motta, P.P.O.W Gallery at ARCO, Madrid
Conatus, P.P.O.W Gallery, New York
Carlos Motta, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo
2018
Deseos, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil
Galeria Avenida da India, Lisbon, Portugal
Mor Charpentier Galerie, Paris, France
2017
The SPIT! Manifesto (with SPIT! (Carlos Motta, John Arthur Peetz, Carlos Mario Romero), Frieze Projects, London, UK
The Crossing, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lágrimas, Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional - Claustro de San Agustín, Bogotá, Colombia
Carlos Motta, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (MAMM), Colombia
Desviaciones, Centro Cultural Gabriel García Márquez / Colombian Embassy in Madrid, Spain
2016
Requiem, MALBA - Museo de arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Histories for the Future, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, U.S.A
Beloved Martina..., Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
Deviations, PPOW Gallery, New York, USA
Desires, Hordaland Kunssenter, Bergen, Norway
Instituto de Visión, Bogotá, Colombia
2015
Patriots, Citizens, Lovers..., Pinchuk ArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
For Democracy There Must Be Love, Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden
Carlos Motta: Désirs, Mor.Charpentier Galerie, Paris, France
2014Nefandus, El Túnel Arte Alternativo, Cuenca, Equador
Carlos Motta, Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden
2013La Visión de los Vencidos, La Central, Bogotá, Colombia
Gender Talents, The Tanks, Tate Modern, London, UK
La forma de la liberdad, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City, Mexico
Nefandus, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal
2012Museum as Hub: Carlos Motta: We Who Feel Differently, New Museum, New York, USA
Carlos Motta, PINTA, Y-Gallery, New York, USA
2011Deus Pobre: Modern Sermons of Communal Lament, Y Gallery, New York
The Future Lasts Forever (com/with Runo Lagomarsino), Gävle Konstcentrum, Sweden
Broken English, Performa 11 (com/with Julieta Aranda), New York, USA
A New Discover: 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, USA
Normativo (with LTTR), Espacio de Arte Contemporaneo, Museo de La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia
We Who Feel Differently, Visningsrommet USF, Bergen, Norway
The Good Life and Six Acts: An Experiment in Narrative Justice, Wiener FestWochen, Vienna, Austria
2010Six Acts: An Experiment in Narrative Justice, Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, El Parqueadero, Bogotá, Colombia
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
2009Brief History, MoMA/PS1, Long Island City, NY, USA
La Buena Vida/The Good Life, Fundación Alzate Avendaño, Bogotá, Colombia; Smack Mellon, New York, USA; Festival Fabbrica Europa, Florence, Italy
The Immigrant Files: Democracy Is Not Dead, It Just Smells Funny, Konsthall C, Stockholm, Sweden; Baltic Art Center (BAC), Visby, Sweden
2008La 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
2007Leningrad Trilogy, Winkleman Gallery, New York, USA
The Good Life (Installation Sketch # 3) and Other Works in Progress, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, USA
2006The Good Life (Installation Sketch # 1), rum46, Aarhus, Denmark
SOA: Black & White Tales, Kevin Bruk Gallery at bâleLatina, Basel, Switzerland; Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, USA (cat.);
Real Art Ways, Hartford, USA (cat.)
2004Bury them and keep quiet, Alliance Française, Bogotá, Colombia (cat.)
Ese Algo que Somos, Alonso Garcés Galería, Bogotá, Colombia
The Missing Series, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, USA
2002Pesca Milagrosa, La Corte Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy
GROUP EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS 2019
Soft Power, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SF MoMA). Curated by Eungie Joo
Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections, Independent Curators International (ICI), Touring 2019-2023. Curated by David Ayala-Alfonso
United by AIDS—An Exhibition about Loss, Remembrance, Activism, and Art in Response to HIV/AIDS, Migros Museum, Zürich. Curated by Raphael Gygax
When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art, The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston. Curated by Ruth Erickson and Eva Respini, with Ellen Tani
BOFFO Fire Island Performance Festival 2019 (with SPIT!). Curated by Liūtas Tauras Pšibilskis
BOTH/AND, The Box, New York. Curated by Rebecca Celli and Eden Deering
The Present Is Not Enough, Hebbel am Ufer (HAU), Berlin. Curated by Ricardo Carmona
IN-VISIBLE REALNESS: In Berlin 50 Jahre nach Stonewall, PS120, Berlin. Curated by Ben Livne Weitzman and Justin Polera
Listening as Practice, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, India. Curated by Juana Awad and Zeenat Nagree
Home is a Foreign Place. Recent Acquisitions in Context, Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET), New York. Curated by Brinda Kumar
About Face: Stonewall, Revolt, and the New Queer, Wrightwood 659, Chicago. Curated by Jonathan Katz
Under Construction. Relatos desde Latinoamérica en la Colección CIFO, Fundación Fugaz, Lima
La naturaleza de las cosas: Humboldt, idas y venidas, Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional, Bogotá. Curated by Halim Badawi
Rivers Flow Out of My Eyes, tagenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam. Curated by Madelon van Schie
Pasado tiempo futuro: Arte en Colombia en el siglo XXI, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (MAMM), Medellín
Transamerica/n: Gender, Identity, Appearance Today, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio. Curated by Jackie Edwards, Bianca Alvarez, and René Paul Barilleaux
Entrecruce latinoamericano—Travestismo cultural, Galeria Isabel Aninat, Santiago
De-colombianity Now! Videocañonazos del Post-conflicto. Vol 3. Colombian videoart on Post-Conflict & Utopia, Panorama Colombia, the Colombian Film Festival of Berlin. Curated by Julián Santana
Amazonías, Matadero, Madrid. Curated by Grenda Landolt and Sharon Lerner
Portadores de Sentido–Arte contemporáneo en la Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Museo Amparo, Puebla. Curated by Sofía Hernández Chong-Cuy
A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas, Mandeville Gallery at Union College, Schenectady, New York. Curated by Pilar Tomkins Rivas
2018
Soft Power, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SF MoMA). Curated by Eungie Joo
Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections, Independent Curators International (ICI), Touring 2019-2023. Curated by David Ayala-Alfonso
United by AIDS—An Exhibition about Loss, Remembrance, Activism, and Art in Response to HIV/AIDS, Migros Museum, Zürich. Curated by Raphael Gygax
When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art, The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston. Curated by Ruth Erickson and Eva Respini, with Ellen Tani
BOFFO Fire Island Performance Festival 2019 (with SPIT!). Curated by Liūtas Tauras Pšibilskis
BOTH/AND, The Box, New York. Curated by Rebecca Celli and Eden Deering
The Present Is Not Enough, Hebbel am Ufer (HAU), Berlin. Curated by Ricardo Carmona
IN-VISIBLE REALNESS: In Berlin 50 Jahre nach Stonewall, PS120, Berlin. Curated by Ben Livne Weitzman and Justin Polera
Listening as Practice, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, India. Curated by Juana Awad and Zeenat Nagree
Home is a Foreign Place. Recent Acquisitions in Context, Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET), New York. Curated by Brinda Kumar
About Face: Stonewall, Revolt, and the New Queer, Wrightwood 659, Chicago. Curated by Jonathan Katz
Under Construction. Relatos desde Latinoamérica en la Colección CIFO, Fundación Fugaz, Lima
La naturaleza de las cosas: Humboldt, idas y venidas, Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional, Bogotá. Curated by Halim Badawi
Rivers Flow Out of My Eyes, tagenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam. Curated by Madelon van Schie
Pasado tiempo futuro: Arte en Colombia en el siglo XXI, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (MAMM), Medellín
Transamerica/n: Gender, Identity, Appearance Today, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio. Curated by Jackie Edwards, Bianca Alvarez, and René Paul Barilleaux
Entrecruce latinoamericano—Travestismo cultural, Galeria Isabel Aninat, Santiago
De-colombianity Now! Videocañonazos del Post-conflicto. Vol 3. Colombian videoart on Post-Conflict & Utopia, Panorama Colombia, the Colombian Film Festival of Berlin. Curated by Julián Santana
Amazonías, Matadero, Madrid. Curated by Grenda Landolt and Sharon Lerner
Portadores de Sentido–Arte contemporáneo en la Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Museo Amparo, Puebla. Curated by Sofía Hernández Chong-Cuy
A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas, Mandeville Gallery at Union College, Schenectady, New York. Curated by Pilar Tomkins Rivas
2017
Exquisite Corpse: Moving Image in Latin American and Asian Art, Mana Wyndham, Miami. Organized by Asia Society Museum, Mana Contemporary, and Smack Mellon, New York
The Words We Won’t Say: Four Contemporary Artists from Colombia: An Initiative of Thibault Poutrel, Mana Wynwood, Miami. Curated by Catherine Petitgas
Queer Tropics, Pelican Bomb Gallery X, New Orleans
Working for the Future Past, Seoul Museum of Art Seosomun Building. Curated by Jin Kwon
Council Presents: The Against Nature Journal, Contour Biennale 8, Mechelen
Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia, Mexico
Sex, Lies, and Videotapes, POMADA 7 Queer Festival, Warsaw, Poland
Histórias da sexualidade, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP). Curated by Camila Bechelany, Pablo León de la Barra, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, and Adriano Pedrosa
Tracing Trajectories: Selections from the Hoggard/Wagner Collection, Trestle Projects, Brooklyn. Curated by Jesse Bandler Firestone
Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA: Video Art in Latin America, LAXART, Los Angeles. Curated by Glenn Phillips and Elena Shtromberg
Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA: Guatemala from 33,000 km: Contemporary Art from 1960—Present, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara. Curated by Miki Garcia and Emiliano Valdes
Selections from the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo: Incerteza Viva. Museo de Arte Moderno (MAMBO), Bogotá. Curated by Jochen Volz with Gabi Ngcobo, Júlia Rebouças, Lars Bang Larsen, and Sofía Olascoaga
Over the Rainbow, Praz-Delavallade Gallery, Los Angeles
Visual Notes for an Upside-Down World, P.P.O.W Gallery, New York. Curated by Jack McGrath
Os corpos são as obras, Despina, Rio de Janeiro. Curated by Guilherme Altmayer and Pablo León de la Barra
Fragile State, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev. Curated by Björn Geldhof
After the Fact. Propaganda 2001-2017. Lenbachhaus, Munich. Curated by Stephanie Weber
Dixit: rro. ArteBA, Buenos Aires. Curated by Sarah Demeuse and Javier Villa
89 Noches: Descolonizando la sexualidad y la oscuridad. Museo de Antioquia, Medellín. Curated by Stephanie Noach and Carolina Chacón
2 Chiangjiang International Biennale of Photography and Video Art. Curated by Bisi Silva and Wang Qingsong
We’re Happy Here in the Happy House. Proyecto Amil, Lima. Curated by Joel Yoss
CANIBALIA (Redux), Hangar, Lisbon. Curated by Julia Morandeira
Universo holograma, Museo La Tertulia, Cali. Curated by Lina López and François Bucher
A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas. Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park, California. Curated by Pilar Tomkins Rivas
Revisiones: Obras contemporáneas en la colección del MALI, Museo de Arte de Lima
2016Labor Relations, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, Poland
Incerteza Viva, 32 Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil
The Revolution Will Not Be Grey, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA
Change is Around the Corner, Galeria Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Dissonance, Harold Williams Auditorium, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
The 11th Xposed International Queer Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
‘O GAFA FA'ASIPA (Queer Genealogies), Gertrude Contemporary, Emerging Curators' Program, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, Australia
BORDERS, BARRIERS, WALLS, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Melbourne, Australia
ConTexto: Palabra, escritura y narración en el arte contemporáneo, Museo Universidad de Antioquia (MUUA), Medellín, Colombia
Lembre-se de lembrar, Carbono Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil
(SIGNAL), Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Do Ask, Do Tell: Male Homoerotic Art from Latin America (1970s-2016), Henrique Faria Fine Arts, New York, USA
The Anthropophagic Banquet (Screening), Instituto das Artes, University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
<Barthes, mon amour> (
www.barthesmonamour.com), La ONG, Buenos Aires, Argentina
As Long As It Takes: Short, 45th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2015Resistance Performed, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
Unerasable Memories, MACRO - Museo de Arte Contemporána de Vigo, Spain
Göteborg International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Sweden
The 10th Xposed International Queer Film Festival, Berlin Ornament (Two-person show), Simon Preston Gallery, New York, USA
Wave & Particle, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
FOKUS 2015 Video Art Festival, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark
Rip It!, Theater Freiburg & Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany
2014Collection IX. ARCO Collecion, CA2M - Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
Festival de Cine Ciclo Rosa, Cinemateca Distrital, Bogotá; Centro Colombo Americano, Medellín, Colombia
IBAFF-Festival Internacional de Cine de Murcia, Spain
Festival Internacional de Cine Asterisco, Buenos Aires, Argentina
European Short Films Competition, New Horizons International Film Festival, Wroclaw, Poland
Sinopale 5-International Sinnop Biennial, Turkey
Realidades en Conflicto, Espacio Artnexus, Estudios Las Nieves, Bogotá, Colombia
Port, Galerij Verbeeck Van Dyck. Antwerp Queer Arts Festival, Antwerp, Belgium
By Invitation Only, Instant HERLEV Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
Después de lo anterior, Galería Santa Fe, Bogotá, Colombia
The Unwritten, Marres House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Burning Down the House, 10th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
Evakuieren (with Camilo Godoy), Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany
Inventer le possible, Vidéothèque éphémère 2, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Salón de Belleza in Utopian Pulse - Flares in the Darkroom, Secession, Viena, Vienna, Austria
Future Generation Art Prize, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
5 Years, 6 Works, 7 Artists, LOOP Awards 2010-2014, Fuso: Anual de Video Arte Internacional de Lisboa, Portugal
La noche del apagón, MACBA - Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
Unerasable Memories: A Historic Look at the Videobrasil Collection, Sesc Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil
Apocyphal Colony. Images of Coloniality in Spain, MUSAC - Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León, Spain
Bellos Jueves, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Under the Same Sun: Art form Latin America Today, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
I see in the sea nothing expect the sea, CCNY - The Camera Club of New York, New York, USA
Transvisible, 19 Bienal de Arte Paiz, Guatemala
Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
#1: Cartagena, The First International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
QP5- Lo queer y lo cotidiano, ARTE ACTUAL - FLACSO, Quito, Equador
7.000.000, Espai d'art contemporani de Castelló, Spain
Micro-acciones de emergencia # 3, ADN Platform, Barcelona, Spain
2013Ritual of queer rituals (with AA Bronson, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Global aCtIVISm, ZKM, Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
The Temptation of AA Bronson, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Erinnerungsfelder / Campos de memoria, Galerie Ratskeller, Berlin, Germany
Disobedience Archive, Castello di Rivoli Musuem of Contemporary Art, Rivoli, Italy
Fractured Spaces, Flaherty NYC Film Festival, New York, USA
Ideas y Presupuestos, jugada a 3 bandas, Galeria Liebre, Madrid, Spain
Intersections, Museum of Latin American Art (Molaa),Long Beach, CA, USA
Without Reality There is No Utopia, YBCA Galleries, Yerba Buena Contemporary Art, São Francisco, San Francisco, USA
Extranjero, Distrito 4, Madrid, Spain
Charming for the Revolution: A Congress for Gender Talents and Wildness, The Tanks, Tate Modern, London, UK
2012Battleground States, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, USA
From Below, As A Neighbour, Drugo More, Rijeka, Croatia
Ciclo rosa 2012, Cinemateca Distrital y Galería Santa Fé, Bogotá, Colombia
Required Reading: Printed Material As Agent of Intervention, Center for Book Arts, New York, USA
Contested Territories, Dorsky Gallery-Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, Queens, NY, USA
Salvajes, Traneudstillingen Exhibition Space, Hellerup, Denmark
Latin America: Between Identity and Mask, Art Stays International Festival of Contemporary Art, Ptuj, Slovenia
Absolute Democracy, <rotor> association for contemporary art, Graz, Austria
III Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan, Puerto Rico
Ñew York - Latin American and Spanish Artists in New York, AMA - Art Museum of Americas, Washington, USA
2011Found in Translation, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
The Walls That Divide Us, Apex Art, New York, USA
The Air We Breathe, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Modo de empleo 3: Desobedecer a toda costa, video y manifestaciones, Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection, George Eastman House International Museum of
Photography and Film, Rochester, New York, USA
Sin realidad no hay utopía, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain
InSite: Art + Commemoration, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (Online), New York, USA
Patria o Libertad!, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, The Netherlands; Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
Multiple, Limited, Unique Center for Book Arts, New York, USA
Drawn to Disaster, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, USA
Motion of a Nation, VM21 Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Aesthetic Justice, The Lambent Foundation, New York, USA
Boundaries: Selections from the Molaa Permanent Collection, Molaa, Long Beach, CA, USA
Stuttgart Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
2010To the Arts Citizens!, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Notes on Memories, IG Bildende kunst, Vienna, Austria
smart, Miami Dade College at The Freedom Tower, Miami, USA
Second World Congress of Free Artists, Aarhus Kunstbygning, Denmark
27th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany
How To Do Things With Words, Parsons School of Design, New York, USA
The Politics of Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece, Athens
The Creative Act, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
Dwelling-in-Travel, Art Today Association - Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Kabul, Jenin, Tehran..., MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, USA
2nd "Qui Vive?" Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moskow Museum of Modern Art, Russia
The Mobile Archive, Stacion-Center for Contemporary Art, Pristina, Kosovo
The Art of War, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Avenue of the America's, LMCC Lent Space, New York, USA
39th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Geography of Trans-territories, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, USA
Biennale Cuvee 10, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
2009Le spectacle du quotidien, X Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, França | France
Matrix: The Unstable Reality, 28 Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubijana, Slovenia
Conversation Pieces, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, USA
5x5Castelló, Espai d'art contemporani de Castelló (EACC), Castellón, Spain
Turn on, Tune in, Drop out, Beijing 798 Biennale 2009, China
Feedforward- The Angel of History, LABoral Art Center, Gijón, Spain
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, X Initiative, New York, USA
Special Editions, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, USA
Turn On, Slag Gallery, New York, USA
Biennale Democrazia, Torino, Italy
t.error, Hungarian Cultural Institute, New York, USA
Things Fall Apart, Winkleman Gallery, New York, USA
2008Soft Manipulation, or Who is Afraid of The New Now?, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Stiftelsen 314, Bergen, Norway
The Prisoner's Dilemma, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA
Archivo Sur, Futura, Prague, Czech Republic
Alternating Beats, RISD Art Museum, Providence, USA
European Social Forum (ESF) Screening Program, Mälmo, Sweden
Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons, New York, USA.
The Greenroom, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA
Wild Horses, Art Space Diffusion138, University of Grenoble, France
The Long Distance Runner, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark
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
Night School, New Museum, New York, USA
In The Private Eye, ISE Foundation, New York, USA
2007OPEN HOUSE WITH OPEN STUDIOS, IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden
INFINITU ET CONTINI, Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Timeline: Human Speed and Technology Speed, Korea Cultural Service China, Hong Kong
EXPOSURE, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, USA
MAKING GOOD LUCK. Y- Gallery, Queens, NY, USA
PAWNSHOP, e-flux projects, New York, USA
Atlante Latinoamericano, Centro de las Artes Conarte. En el Marco de el Forum Internacional de las Culturas, Monterrey, Mexico
Tollé...Toleránce, Images Citoyennes, Festival International de la Vidéo, Liège, Belgium
Unmarked Categories (with HOMEWORK), K2,Yzmir-Istanbul, Turkey (cat.)
Quote Unquote, Nurture Art, Brooklyn, USA
CHALLENGERS!: art-e-conomy Selected Video Screening, Laboratorio Occupato Morion, Venice, Italy
Symbiotic/Synergy: Selections from The Center for Book Arts Community, Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, USA
Carte Blanche á Heure Exquise!, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
in someone else's skin, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA (cat.)
The Karma of War, Wang Center- Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA
Oog-Eye, Foam_Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Recorridos y Video Proyecciones Durante ARCO, ArtBus, Madrid, Spain
System Error: War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy (cat.)
2006Estrecho Dudoso, TEOR/éTica, San José, Costa Rica (cat.)
OHNE BLICK, Musée de Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
pa.per.ing, Art in General at Deutsche Bank, New York, USA
Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris, Centre Culturel La Clef, Paris, France
Estudio Abierto, Palacio de Correos, Buenos Aires, Argentina (cat.)
10 Defining Experiments: cifo 2006 Grant Program Recipients, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (cifo), Miami, Florida, USA (cat.)
Manifesta 6 School (Cancelada/Cancelled), Manifesta 6, Nicosia, Cyprus
Prevailing Climate (Screening), Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, USA
3 Biennale Adriatica di Arti Nuove, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy (cat.)
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 (cat.)
4ème Festival International du Cinéma Iranien en Exil, Art en Exil, Paris, France
When Artists Say We, Artists Space, New York, USA
Bzzzz, Fundacion C4rto Nivel Arte Contemporaneo, Bogota, Colombia
Russia: Significant Other, ICA at the Anna Akhmatova Museum, St Petersburg, Russia (cat.)
Surveillance, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, USA (cat.)
Moving Time, Gallery Korea, Korean Cultural Service, New York, USA (cat.)
Featured Artist Projects, The Center for Book Arts, New York, USA
2005El Salón de la Justicia, Galería Santa Fé, Bogotá, Colombia
Co-dependent (with Julieta Aranda), College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University, Miami, USA
New Vectors, Southern Panorama/15th International Electronic Art Festival Videobrasil, Sesc Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil (cat.)
BEOGRAD NEKAD I SAD, Prodajna galerija "Beograd", Belgrad, Serbia
El Museo's 4th Bienal: The (S) Files, El Museo, New York, USA (cat.)
Enemy Image, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Se acabó el rollo? La fotografia en Colombia de 1950 a 2000, Museo Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia (cat.)
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 e/and Gareth James), Art in General, New York, USA (cat.)
Digital Cotton, Savannah Gallery at the Savannah College of Art, Savannah, GA, USA
2004The Book as Object and Performance, Gigantic ArtSpace, New York, USA (cat.)
LMCC's Workspace 120 Broadway Open Studios, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, USA
The Freedom Salon, Deitch Projects, New York, USA
2 Biennale Adriatica di Arti Nuove, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy (cat.)
Free Roaming: Video Madness (Screening), El Museo, New York, USA
Produciendo Realidad, Associazione Culturale Prometeo di Lucca, Italy (cat.)
Urbes Interiores, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia (cat.)
Outdoor Intervention, PS122 Gallery, New York, USA
Establishing Shot, Artists Space, New York, USA (cat.)
2003Salón Regional de Artistas de Bogotá, Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá, Colombia (cat.)
XII Art Biennial of Cerveira, Forum Cultural, Cerveira, Portugal (cat.)
Visiones, Fotología Photography Festival, Universidad de Salamanca, Bogotá, Colombia (cat.)
Translatability, Berliner Kunstproject, Berlin, Germany
Agitate: Negotiating the Photographic Process, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, USA (cat.)
No Money No Honey, Area (Contenitore d'Arte Contemporanea), Palermo, Italy
[B L A N K]: In Pursuit of An American History, Staller Center for the Arts, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA
2002-2000Mundos Creados: Constructed Photography from the Wider Caribbean, Noorderlicht Photofestival, Fries Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands (cat.)
Fresh: New Photography, Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art, New York, USA
2001Latin-American Photography from New York to Santiago de Chile, Fotografia, Primo Festival Internazionale di Roma, IILA, Rome, Italy (cat.)
2000Tecnica Mista, La Corte Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy (cat.)
INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONSBronx Museum, New York
Cisneros Fontanals Foundation, Miami
Colección Dieresis, Guadalajara
Deutsche Bank, New York
Faena Art, Buenos Aires / Miami
Fundación ARCO, Madrid
Fundación Cisneros, Caracas / New York
Fundación RAC (Rosón Arte Contemporáneo), Pontevedra
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Lab’ Bel, Paris
LARA Foundation, Singapore
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET), New York
MALBA—Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires
Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Barcelona (MACBA)
Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (MAMM)
Museo de Arte, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI)
Museu Fundação Serralves, Porto
Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens
Nc-arte, Bogotá
Pérez Art Museum (PAMM), Miami
PinchukArtCentre, Kiev
Proyecto AMIL, Lima
The Art Institute of Chicago
Timeline, Konstfack’s Videotek, Konstfack, Stockholm
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah
Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw