2001 BFA, The School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES & GRANTS2019
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
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2022 Carlos Motta, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO)
Carlos Motta, Wexner Art Center, Columbus
2020
Carlos Motta: We The Enemy, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), California, USA
Carlos Motta: We Got Each Other's Back, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, USA
Carlos Motta: Billboard from "50 State Initiative", Judd Foundation, Nova Iorque, in collaboration with For Freedoms
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
2021
And If I Devoted My Life To One of Its Feathers?, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna.
Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarity in the 1980s, Tufts University Art Galleries, Boston, USA
Off the Record, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
In Kinship, The 8th Floor/ The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, New York, USA
STOA169: The Artist Column Hall in Polling, Polling, Germany.
Ires y venires: Diálogos en torno a la colección de Arte del Banco de la República, Casa Republicana de la Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Bogotá
Pantalla abierta. Obras de la colección MACBA, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), ES
Shoreline Movements, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei Biennial, Curated by Erika Balsom and Grégory Castéra (Council)
2020
ALL THE LOVE, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, Macedonia
The Crack Begins Within: 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Curated by María Berrios, Renata Cervetto, Lisette Legnado, and Agustín Pérez Rubio
The Time Complex: Yerevan Biennial 2021. Curated by Lorenzo Fusi
Viaje hacia la luz, Aninat Galería, Santiago, Chile
De Voz a Voz, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO)
In Plain Sight, National Intervention on July 4th throughout the U.S. Organized by Cassils and Rafa Esparza
NOT OVER, Visual AIDS, New York (Online during Covid-19)
Art at a Time Like This, artatatimelikethis.com (Online during Covid-19)
Hell is a Place on Earth, Heaven is a Place in Your Head, P.P.O.W Gallery, New York (Online during Covid-19)
As Soon As If It Was Not, LOOP—Barcelona (Online during Covid-19). Curated by Pedro Torres
Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA; The College of Wooster Art Museum Wooster, OH, USA; Telfair Museums, Jepson Center Savannah, GA, USA
sex workers’ pop-up, New York City
When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis; Iris and Gerald B. Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford University
We We First Arrived…, The Corner at Whitman-Walker, Washington D.C., EUA
2019
Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, and Resistance
Arnolfini, London, UK
Tan pronto como si no fuera: selección de videos de Loop Barcelona, Centro Nacional de Arte Contemporaneo, Cerrillos, Chile
+50, Contempo, Paris, France
Una presentación sobre la insuficiencia de las imágenes, La Cueva, Mexico City
Soft Power, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SF MoMA), San Francisco, USA
From the Margins, Gallery 102, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, Washington D.C., USA
2nd Anren Biennale: A Confrontation of Ideals, Curated by Hé Guiyan and Siebe Tettero
6 Festival de Cine Radical, Cinemateca Boliviana, La Paz.
United by AIDS—An Exhibition about Loss, Remembrance, Activism and Art in Response to HIV/AIDS, Migros Museum, Zürich, Swizterland
When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
RIOT—Antwerp Queer Arts Festival (with SPIT!)
BOFFO Fire Island Performance Festival (with SPIT!)
The Present Is Not Enough, Hebel am Ufer (HAU), Berlin, Germany
IN-VISIBLE REALNESS: In Berlin 50 Jahre nach Stonewall, PS120, Berlin, Germany
as it rises into the air: listening in practice, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, India
Home is a Foreign Place. Recent Acquisitions in Context, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and the New Queer, Wrightwood 659, Chicago, USA
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
Rivers Flow Out of My Eyes, tagenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam
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, TX, USA
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, Germany
Amazonías, Matadero, Madrid, Spain
Portadores de Sentido–Arte contemporáneo en la Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Museo Amparo, Puebla
A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas, Mandeville Gallery at Union College, Schenectady, New York, USA
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 COLLECTIONS
Bronx Museum, New York, NY, USA
Cisneros Fontanals Foundation, Miami, Fl, USA
Colección Dieresis, Guadalajara, Mexico
Deutsche Bank, New York, NY, USA
Faena Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina/Miami, FL, USA
Fundación ARCO, Madrid, Spain
Fundación Cisneros, Caracas, Venezuela/New York, USA
Fundación RAC (Rosón Arte Contemporáneo), Pontevedra, Spain
Guggenheim Museum, New York
KADIST, Paris and San Francisco
Lab’ Bel, Paris, France
LARA Foundation, Singapore
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires —MALBA, Argentina
Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Barcelona (MACBA), Spain
Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Colombia
Museo de Arte, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), Peru
Museu Fundação Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Museum of Latin American Art (Mola), Long Beach, CA, USA
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens, Greece
Nc-arte, Bogotá, Colombia
Pérez Art Museum (PAMM), Miami, USA
PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
Proyecto AMIL, Lima, Peru
The Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Timeline, Konstfack’s Videotek, Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, USA
Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, Poland
SELECTED MONOGRAPHYS AND BOOKSCarlos Motta (tittle TBD) (Monograph), SKIRA, Italy, 2019
Nosotros que sentimos diferente (With Cristina Motta) (Artist Book), Siglo del Hombre, Colombia, 2012
The Future Lasts Forever (with Runo Lagomarsino) (224p. Ed. 500), Gävle Konstcentrum and Iaspis, Sweden, 2011
BROKEN ENGLISH (48 pp., co-edited with Julieta Aranda), Performa 11, New York, USA, 2011
Petite Mort: Recollections of a Queer Public (with Josh Lubin-Levy) (160p. ed. 500), Forever & Today, Inc., 2011
We Who Feel Differently (96p., Ed. 500), Ctrl+Z Publishing, Norway, 2011
We Who Feel Differently (, Ed. 500), The Other Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2010
La Buena Vida/The Good Life (136p., Ed. 500), Fundación Alzate Avendaño, Bogotá, Colombia, 2009
La Buena Vida/The Good Life (85p., On demand), Art in General, New York,USA, 2008
The Immigrant Files: Democracy is Not Dead; It Just Smells Funny (185p., Ed. 500), Konsthall C, Stockholm, Sweden, 2009
What is Democracy To You? (Ed. 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, (28 pages, co-edited with The Generals), 2005 by Art in General and e-flux, New York, USA
Close (76 pp.), 2000, Deskubre, Rome, Italy
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY2018 Goldberg, RoseLee: Performance Now!, Thames and Hudson
Moreno, Nadia: Formas de libertad: Carlos Motta at MAMM, Medellín, Terremoto, Jan. 25
Motta, Carlos: TOP 10, Artforum, January
Devun Leah and Tortorici Zeb: Interview with Maya Mikdashi and Carlos Motta, TSQ, November
2017 Frieze Magazine: Critic’s Guide Amsterdam: “The Crossing”, Stedelijk Museum, Nov. 24
Colucci, Emily, I Could Live With You in Another World: Entering the Upside Down World at PPOW Gallery, filthy dreams, August 1, 2017
Heiserman, Katie, Visual Notes on an Upside-Down World at P.P.O.W, MUSEE, VANGUARD OF PHOTOGRAPHY CULTURE, July 12, 2017
Guzmán, Laura, La Bienal de Sao Paulo llega al Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, El Tiempo, July 31, 2017
Love, Heather, Histories Back Rooms: Carlos Motta Interviewed by Heather Love, Public Culture, Volume 29, Number 1, January 2017
Pedro, Leila, Topsy-Turvy Art for a World Turned on Its Head, Hyperallergic, July 21, 2017
Con el talento no es suficiente: hay que estudiar, Periódico Arteria, July 30, 2017
Carlos Motta: Mucho más que “Desviaciones”, Semana, February 18, 2017
Sheets, Hillary, Gender-Fluid Artists Come Out of the Grey Zone, New York Times, September 15, 2017
Stromberg, Matt, Artists Decolonize the History of the Americas at the Vincent Prize Art Museum, Hyperallergic, April 19,
2016 Colucci, Emily, X-Ray of Civilization: Beyond Biopolitics in Carlos Motta’s “Deviations”, filthy dreams, May 8, 2016
Getsy, David J., Histories for the Future:Visionary Identification in the Work of Carlos Motta, Brochure, PPOW Gallery, New York
Kogler, Stefanie, The art Practice of Carlos Motta and the archive as a tool for re-enactment and communication, World Art, March 2016
Luna, Claire, Carlos Motta, Arte al Dia, January 2016
Masushio, Taro, Critics’ Picks: Carlos Motta, Artforum, May 6, 2016
Motta, Carlos, Activism, Visuality, and the Needs of Queer Youth, Journal for Visual Culture, April 2016
Silver, Erin, Beloved…, Brochure, Mercer Union, Toronto
Small, Zachary, Art that Slows Down How We Assess Gender, Hyperallergic, April 4, 2016
Tyc, Cat, Carlos Motta, Bomb Magazine, May 6, 2016
2015 Berardini, Andrew, Carlos Motta, Suppression and Pre-Columbian Blowjobs, Art Review, January 2015
Janeksela, Jacklyn, Gender Talents is Making You Rethink Everything You Thought You Knew About Gender, culturedesigners.com, March 26, 2015
Obregón, Catalina, El arte pecador de Carlos Motta, Revista Diners, February 2015
Olsson, Nils, En mångfald av röster, Kunstkritikk, February 6, 2015
Piñero, Alvaro, ‘gender talents’ es la prueba de que el género está sobrevalorado, i-D, March 25, 2015
Rana, Matthew, Carlos Motta, Röda Sten Konsthall, Frieze Magazine, April 2015
Schoiswohl, Maria, Insider New York: Carlos Motta, Insiderei.com, March 19, 2015
Sutton, Benjamin, In An Artist’s Video Project, Getting to Know Trans and Intersex Activists, Hyperallergic, March 24, 2015
Svensk, Fredrik, Sex i kolonin, Aftonbladet, February 23, 2015
Teplitzky, Alex, Performing Gender, The Lab, Creative Capital Blog, March 11, 2015
Zaya, Octavio, Carlos Motta: Letter to My Father. Memórias Inapagáives, Associacâo Cultural Videobrasil
Berardini, Andrew, Carlos Motta, Suppression and Pre-Columbian Blowjobs, Art Review, January 2015
Obregón, Catalina, El arte pecador de Carlos Motta, Revista Diners, February 2015
Olsson, Nils, En mångfald av roster, Kunstkritikk, February 6,
2014 ARCO’14: El crítico como galerista, ABC Cultural, February 19, 2014
Barbancho, Juan-Ramón, El cuerpo queer, la construcción de la memoria, http://ramona.org.ar, Marzo 2014
Hontoria, Javier, Nuevos escenarios en los Solo Projects , El Cultural (Spain) — Especial ARCO, February 21, 2014
Las diversidades sociales y sexuales aún son incómodas, HOY (Ecuador), February 23, 2014
León de la Barra, Pablo, Dispatch: Mexico, blogs.guggenheim.org/map/dispatch-mexico, February 26, 2014
León de la Barra, Pablo, Dispatch: Colombia, http://blogs.guggenheim.org/map/dispatch-columbia, April 2, 2014
López Jijón, Ana María, “El cuerpo es un espacio de resistencia donde la identidad se ejerce como performance”, radiococoa.com/index.php?url=entrevistas-2/el-cuerpo-es-un-espacio-de-resistencia-donde-la-identidad-se-ejerce-como-performance
Molina, Oscar, Lo queer en sí es colonial, HOY (Ecuador), February 19, 2014
Moscoso, Manuela, Entrevista con Carlos Motta, Catalogue for “7.000.000″, Espai d’art contemporani de Castelló, 2014
Ortíz, Diego, Retratos de aquellas otras historias, El Comercio (Ecuador), February 20, 2014
Ostrander, Tobias, My Highlights from ARCOmadrid,ART SY, February 26, 2014
Rodríguez Dalvard, Dominique , Bienal Internacional de Arte de Cartagena (BIACI), Revista Diners, Marzo 11, 2014
Vera, Cristhian, Teoría queer y memoria, GATOPARDO Número 22 (Ecuador), 2014
2013 BETTENCOURT, Sandra, A Arte Nefanda de Carlos Motta, Janela Urbana, August 8, 2013
CARBONE, Christopher, We Created This: The Value of Mentorship for Queer Artists In the Age of Assimilation, Master of Arts Thesis, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, 2013
COTRONE, Rocco, Dalla politica Usa ai trans riprendo la mia Colombia, Corriere Della Sera, January 25, 2013
D’ARCY, David, What The Experimental Films at TIFF Tell Us About the Future of Film, Indiewire, September 16, 2013
Feiss, Ellen, Gender Talents: A Special Address, Frieze Blog, March 4, 2013
Absolute Democracy, Frieze Magazine, Winter 2012-2013
Marucci, Luciano, L’Arte dei Paesi Emergenti, Juliet # 163, 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)
2012Konsten 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
CRUZ, Araceli, Carlos Motta, On "We Who Feel Differently" and Obama's Gay Marriage Stance, Village Voice, June 5
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
2011AREVALO, 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, 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, NetWORKS: Case Studies in Web Art and Design, Routldege, 2011
BOURLAND, Ian, Critics' Picks, Found in Translation, ArtForum, March 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
LA TERTULIA TRANGREDE, El País. 8 de Agosto, 2011
Exhibition Catalogue, 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, 20111
HARALDSETH, Geir, Ten questions: Carlos Motta, Kunstikritikk Nordic Edition, kunstkrittikk.se, May 18, 2011
RANGEL, Gabriela, arteBA: Bicentenarios después de la invención, arteBA Fundación, 2011
DI QUINZIO, Apsara, The Air We Breath, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 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
2010AMDAM, Peter, Arkivets spøkelser, Kunstkritikk, September 9, 2010
CAHILL, Zachary, The Creative Act, Artforum, 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
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
KUNSTSENTER, Henie Onstad, 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, 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
MOTTA, Carlos, A Conversation Between Carlos Motta and Gabriela Rangel, Henie Onstad Art Centre Exhibition Catalogue, 2010
MOTTA, Carlos, Exhibition Catalogue for "The Politics of Art", National Museum of Contemporary Arts, Athens, 2010
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
SCHULZ, Ole, Wo die Gewalt zeitlos ist- Kritische kolumbianische Theatermacher versammeln sich im HAU, TANZ, April
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
TREZZI, Nicola, 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
20095x5 Castelló‘09 Exhibition Catalogue, Castelló, July 24- September 27, 2009
6th Annual New Prints Review, Art on Paper, November/December 2009, Vol 14, No. 2
ALLERHOLM, Milou, Review of "Carlos Motta på Konstahall C, Stockholm", DN.se, February 19, 2009
AMADO, Miguel, Review of "Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding" at Parsons Anna-Maria and Stephen Keller Gallery
Artforum, January 24, 2009
BELLET, Harry and Dagen, Phillippe, Petites choses, grande réussite, Le Monde, Biennale de Lyon, September 16, 2009
COLE, Lori, Critics' Picks,Things Fall Apart at the Winkleman Gallery, Artforum, 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, LA Boral 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, Review of "La Buena Vida/ The Good Life" at Fabbrica Europa, Stazione Leopolda, La Repubblica
IYER, Gayathri, Review of "The End. And..." at Frederico Séve Gallery/latincollector, newyorkartbeat.com, August 4, 2009
LINDGREN, Peter, Review of "Mörk bild av den svenska modellen" at 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, Videos, 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, Review and Interview with Allora and Calzadilla, 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, at Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño, elesptador.com, March 26, 2009
POPE-Chappell, Maya, Dissecting the Good Life, at Smack Mellon Gallery, nycitynewsservice.com, March 23, 2009
P.S.1 Summer 2009 Newspaper, Spotlight on Carlos Motta at P.S. 1 MoMA, Summer 2009, P.S. 1 MoMA
Review of "Carlos Motta, Demokrati på riktigt" at Konsthall C, svd.se, Feruary 20, 2009
Review of "Carlos Motta, Undersöker den svenska demokratin" at Konsthall C, kulturstan.se, January 28, 2009
Younger Than Jesus/ Artist Director/ New Museum, Phaidon, 2009
2008JONES, 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
BLAGOJOVIC, B., Upcoming Events, "Parsons Fine Arts Lecture Series: Carlos Motta", The Zine, October 14, 2008
BLAGOJOVIC, B., Review of "Democracy in America" at the Park Avenue Armory, The Zine, Events, News/Upcoming
BRYANT, Eric, "The Indecisive Image", Art News, March 2008
BUIL, Belaxis, Carlos Motta, Capturing the Voice of the Masses, Creative Art Network, 2008
COTTER, Holland, Review of Democracy in America, "With Politics in Air, a Freedom Free-for-All Comes to Town" at the Park Avenue Armory, The New York Times, September 23, 2008
CARVALHO, Denise, Review of "The Good Life" at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Art Nexus, No.116 September-November 2008, pg 156
DOUGLAS, Sarah, Review of Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding, "New York Museum Shows to Restore Your Faith" at Parsons Anna-Maria and Stephen Keller Gallery, 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 Museum 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, The Prisioner's Dilemma, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, 2008
MORENO, S.. Review of Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding, "Parsons Show Examines Democracy as Brand" at Parsons Anna-Maria and Stephen Keller Gallery, 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, Exhibition review , "Straight Shooters" of Archivo Sur: Art Between Identity and the Mask, at Futura, The Prague Post, November 19, 2008
Edited by Nato Thompson, Creative Time, A Guide to Democracy in America, Creative Time Books, 2008
ROALF, Peggy, Review of Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding, "Art at a Cultural Crossroads" at Parsons Anna-Maria
and Stephen Keller Gallery, 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
Review of Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding, "New York goes democrazy" at Parsons Anna-Maria and
Stephen Keller Gallery, Flash Art, November 1, 2008
Review of Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding at Parsons Anna-Maria and Stephen Keller Gallery, Art Slant New York, Exhibitions, October 2008
Review of "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
VELASCO, David, Review of "The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art" at CCS Bard/Hessel Museum, Artforum, September 2008
VRIENS, Matthias, Contributors, "Top Tip", Elle UK, February 2008
WILSON, Beth E., Review of The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art, "Lucid Dreaming" at CCS Bard/Hessel Museum, Chronogram, November 2008
ZELLEN, Jody, Review of "Carlos Motta, New York", Art Papers, January/February 2008
2007AMIR, 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
2006BORDÓN, 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 Imágenes, 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
MOTTA, Carlos, 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, Dic 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
2005COTTER, 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
2004ELLIS, 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
STILLMAN, Nick. Establishing Shot, Artforum.com, April 30
2003BAKER, 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
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
2002ARÉVALO, Antonio, Latin-American Photography from New York to Santiago de Chile, IILA, Exhibition Catalog Essay
BASTANTE, Maria Cristina, Latin-American Photography from New York to Santiago de Chile, Exibart.com, June 14
CIOLINI, Vittoria, Identita Culturali: Toscana Fotografia, La Corte Arte Contemporanea, Exhibition Catalog Essay, October
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
2001VÁSQUEZ, Mauricio and de Greiff,Ilse, Interview with Carlos Motta, Choque y Fusión,99.1 Radio Joven, Colombia
2000LANDI, 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