CARLOS MOTTA (1978, em Bogotá, Colômbia) vive e trabalha em Nova Iorque, E.U.A.. Licenciou-se no Whitney Independent Study Program, Nova Iorque (2005/06) e ganhou uma bolsa do Guggenheim Foundation em 2008. Faz parte dos quadros da faculdade na Parsons The New School of Deseign, The School of Visual Arts, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts da Brad College, Internacional Center of Photography e The Vermont College of Fine Arts.
O seu trabalho esteve presente em diversas exposições internacionais, tais como: The Guggenheim Museum, Nova Iorque; MoMA/PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Nova Iorque; Institute of Contemporary Art, Filadélfia; Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá; Museu Serralves, Porto; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Atenas; CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson; San Francisco Art Institute, São Francisco; Hebbel am Ufer, Berlim; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, São Francisco, e New Museum, Nova Iorque.
Carlos Motta é um artista multidisciplinar cujo trabalho se baseia em história política numa tentativa de criar narrativas contraditórias que reconheçam a inclusão de histórias, comunidade e identidades reprimidas.
FORMAÇÃO
2005 Programa de Estudos Independentes do Whitney Museum of American Art (WISP), Nova Iorque, EUA
2003 Mestrado em Artes Plásticas, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, Nova Iorque, EUA
2001 Licenciatura em Artes Plásticas - Fotografia, The School of Visual Arts, Nova Iorque, EUA
PRÉMIOS, RESIDÊNCIAS E BOLSAS
2019
Project Grant, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Nova Iorque, EUA
2018
Visiting Scholar, Department of Performance Studies, New York University (NYU), Nova Iorque, EUA
2017
The Vilcek Foundation Prize for Creative Promise, Nova Iorque, EUA
2015
Discovery Award, LOOP, Barcelona, Espanha
2014
Main prize, Future Generation Art Prize, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ucrânia
2013
Hoteles Catalonia Award, LOOP Art Fair, Barcelona, Espanha
Beca de circulación nacional e internacional para artistas y agentes de las artes visuales, Ministerio de Cultura, Colômbia
Artist in residence, Union Theological Seminar, Nova Iorque, EUA
2012
Makers Muse Award, Kindle Project, Santa Fe, EUA
Visual Arts Grant, Creative Capital, Nova Iorque, EUA
2010
Individual Artist Grant, New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), Nova Iorque, EUA
Jury Prize, Map Digital Space, Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF), Ithaca, USA
2009
Artist Residency, Flaggfabrikken, Bergen, Noruega
2008
Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Nova Iorque, EUA
New Commission, Art in General, Nova Iorque, EUA
Studio Residency, Smack Mellon, Nova Iorque, EUA
Special Editions Residency, Lower East Side Printshop, Nova Iorque, EUA
Finishing Funds, Experimental Television Center, Nova Iorque, EUA
2007
Grant, Art Matters Foundation, Nova Iorque, EUA
Artist Residency, International Artists Studio Program in Sweden (IASPIS), Estocolomo, Suécia
Swing Space Program, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Nova Iorque, EUA
DaNY Arts Grant (with HOMEWORK), Danish Arts Council, Aarhus, Dinamarca
2006
Subvention Grant, Cisneros Fontanals Foundation (CIFO), Miami, USA
Next Exhibition Award, Real Art Ways, Hartford, USA
2005
Fellowship, Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, Nova Iorque, EUA
Workspace Grant for Emerging Artists, Center for Book Arts, Nova Iorque, EUA
2004
Workspace Program Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Nova Iorque, EUA
2001
Fellowship, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, Nova Iorque, EUA
Rhodes Family Award for Exceptional Achievement in Photo, The School of Visual Arts, Nova Iorque, EUA
EXPOSIÇÕES INDIVIDUAIS (selecção)
2020
Carlos Motta, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), California, EUA
Carlos Motta, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, EUA
2019
Dialogues: David Wojnarowicz and Carlos Motta, P.P.O.W Gallery at ARCO, Madrid, Espanha
Conatus, P.P.O.W Gallery, Nova Iorque, EUA
Carlos Motta, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brasil
2018
Deseos, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brasil
Galeria Avenida da India, Lisboa, Portugal
Mor Charpentier Galerie, Paris, França
2017
The SPIT! Manifesto (with SPIT! (Carlos Motta, John Arthur Peetz, Carlos Mario Romero), Frieze Projects, Londres, Reino Unido
The Crossing, Stedelijk Museum, Amesterdão, Holanda
Lágrimas, Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional - Claustro de San Agustín, Bogotá, Colômbia
Carlos Motta, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (MAMM), Colòmbia
Desviaciones, Centro Cultural Gabriel García Márquez / Colombian Embassy in Madrid, Espanha
2016
Requiem, MALBA – Museo de arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Histories for the Future, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, EUA
Beloved Martina..., Mercer Union, Toronto, Canadá
Deviations, PPOW Gallery, Nova Iorque, EUA
Desires, Hordaland Kunssenter, Bergen, Noruega
Instituto de Visión, Bogotá, Colômbia
2015
Patriots, Citizens, Lovers…, Pinchuk ArtCentre, Kiev, Ucrânia
For Democracy There Must Be Love, Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg, Suécia
Carlos Motta: Désirs, Mor.Charpentier Galerie, Paris, Fraça
2014
Nefandus, El Túnel Arte Alternativo, Cuenca, Equador
Carlos Motta, Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg, Suécia
2013
La Visión de los Vencidos, La Central, Bogotá, Colômbia
Gender Talents, The Tanks, Tate Modern, Londres, Reino Unido
La forma de la liberdad, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Cidade do México, México
Nefandus, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisboa, Portugal
2012
Museum as Hub: Carlos Motta: We Who Feel Differently, New Museum, Nova Iorque, EUA
Carlos Motta, PINTA, Y-Gallery, Nova Iorque, EUA
2011
Deus Pobre: Modern Sermons of Communal Lament, Y Gallery, Nova Iorque, EUA
The Future Lasts Forever (com/with Runo Lagomarsino), Gävle Konstcentrum, Suécia
Broken English, Performa 11 (com/with Julieta Aranda), Nova Iorque, EUA
A New Discover: Queer Immigration in Perspective (with Queerocracy), Risk + Reward Series, Museum of Art and Design, Nova Iorque, EUA
Petite Mort: Recollections of a Queer Public (with Joshua Lubin-Levy) Forever & Today, Nova Iorque, EUA
Normativo (with LTTR), Espacio de Arte Contemporaneo, Museo de La Tertulia, Cali, Colômbia
We Who Feel Differently, Visningsrommet USF, Bergen, Noruega
The Good Life and Six Acts: An Experiment in Narrative Justice, Wiener FestWochen, Viena, Áustria
2010
Six Acts: An Experiment in Narrative Justice, Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, El Parqueadero, Bogotá, Colômbia
The Good Life and Six Acts: An Experiment in Narrative Justice, Hebbel am Ufer (HAU), Berlim, Alemanha
We Who Feel Differently, Other Gallery, Shanghai, China
2009
Brief History, MoMA/PS1, Long Island City, Nova Iorque, EUA
La Buena Vida/The Good Life, Fundación Alzate Avendaño, Bogotá, Colombia; Smack Mellon, New York, USA; Festival Fabbrica Europa, Florença, Itália
The Immigrant Files: Democracy Is Not Dead, It Just Smells Funny, Konsthall C, Stockholm, Sweden; Baltic Art Center (BAC), Visby, Suécia
2008
La Buena Vida/The Good Life, ICA: Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA; Art in General, Nova Iorque, EUA
The People..., Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa; KZNSA Gallery, Durban, Kwazulu Natal, África do Sul
2007
Leningrad Trilogy, Winkleman Gallery, Nova Iorque, EUA
The Good Life (Installation Sketch # 3) and Other Works in Progress, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Nova Iorque, EUA
2006
The Good Life (Installation Sketch # 1), rum46, Aarhus, Dinamarca
SOA: Black & White Tales, Kevin Bruk Gallery at bâleLatina, Basel, Switzerland; Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, USA (cat.); Real Art Ways, Hartford, USA (cat.)
2004
Bury them and keep quiet, Alliance Française, Bogotá, Colômbia (cat.)
Ese Algo que Somos, Alonso Garcés Galería, Bogotá, Colômbia
The Missing Series, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, EUA
2002
Pesca Milagrosa, La Corte Arte Contemporanea, Florença, Itália
EXPOSIÇÕES COLECTIVAS E PROJECTOS
2020
Hell is a Place on Hearth, Heaven is a Place in Your Head, exposição online, P.P.O.W.
2019
Soft Power, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SF MoMA)
Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections, Independent Curators International (ICI), Touring 2019-2023
United by AIDS—An Exhibition about Loss, Remembrance, Activism, and Art in Response to HIV/AIDS, Migros Museum, Zurique, Suíça
When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art, The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, EUA
BOFFO Fire Island Performance Festival 2019 (with SPIT!)
BOTH/AND, The Box, Nova Iorque, EUA
The Present Is Not Enough, Hebbel am Ufer (HAU), Berlim, Alemanha
IN-VISIBLE REALNESS: In Berlin 50 Jahre nach Stonewall, PS120, Berlim, Alemanha
Listening as Practice, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, India
Home is a Foreign Place. Recent Acquisitions in Context, Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET), Nova Iorque, EUA
About Face: Stonewall, Revolt, and the New Queer, Wrightwood 659, Chicago, EUA
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, Amesterdão, Holanda
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
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, Berlim, Alemanha
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, Nova Iorque, EUA
2018
Soft Power, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SF MoMA)
Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections, Independent Curators International (ICI), Touring 2019-2023
United by AIDS—An Exhibition about Loss, Remembrance, Activism, and Art in Response to HIV/AIDS, Migros Museum, Zurique, Suíça
When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art, The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, EUA
BOFFO Fire Island Performance Festival 2019 (with SPIT!)
BOTH/AND, The Box, Nova Iorque, EUA
The Present Is Not Enough, Hebbel am Ufer (HAU), Berlim, Alemanha
IN-VISIBLE REALNESS: In Berlin 50 Jahre nach Stonewall, PS120, Berlim, Alemanha
Listening as Practice, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, India
Home is a Foreign Place. Recent Acquisitions in Context, Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET), Nova Iorque, EUA
About Face: Stonewall, Revolt, and the New Queer, Wrightwood 659, Chicago, EUA
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, Amesterdão, Holanda
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
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, Berlim, Alemanha
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
A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas, Mandeville Gallery at Union College, Schenectady, Nova Iorque, EUA
2017
Exquisite Corpse: Moving Image in Latin American and Asian Art, Mana Wyndham, Miami. Organized by Asia Society Museum, Mana Contemporary, and Smack Mellon, Nova Iorque, EUA
The Words We Won’t Say: Four Contemporary Artists from Colombia: An Initiative of Thibault Poutrel, Mana Wynwood, Miami, EUA
Queer Tropics, Pelican Bomb Gallery X, Nova Orleães, EUA
Working for the Future Past, Seoul Museum of Art Seosomun Building
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, Varsóvia, Polónia
Histórias da sexualidade, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP)
Tracing Trajectories: Selections from the Hoggard/Wagner Collection, Trestle Projects, Brooklyn, Nova Iorque, EUA
Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA: Video Art in Latin America, LAXART, Los Angeles, EUA
Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA: Guatemala from 33,000 km: Contemporary Art from 1960—Present, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, EUA
Selections from the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo: Incerteza Viva. Museo de Arte Moderno (MAMBO), Bogotá
Over the Rainbow, Praz-Delavallade Gallery, Los Angeles, EUA
Visual Notes for an Upside-Down World, P.P.O.W Gallery, Nova Iorque, EUA
Os corpos são as obras, Despina, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Fragile State, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ucrânia
After the Fact. Propaganda 2001-2017. Lenbachhaus, Munique, Alemanha
Dixit: rro. ArteBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
89 Noches: Descolonizando la sexualidad y la oscuridad. Museo de Antioquia, Medellín
2 Chiangjiang International Biennale of Photography and Video Art
We’re Happy Here in the Happy House. Proyecto Amil, Lima
CANIBALIA (Redux), Hangar, Lisboa, Portugal
Universo holograma, Museo La Tertulia, Cali
A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas. Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park, California, EUA
Revisiones: Obras contemporáneas en la colección del MALI, Museo de Arte de Lima
2016
Labor Relations, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Polónia
Incerteza Viva, 32nd Biennial of São Paulo, Brasil
The Revolution Will Not Be Grey, Aspen art Museum, EUA
Change Is Around the Corner, Galeria Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Brasil
Dissonance, Harold Williams Auditorium, J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, EUA
The 11th Xposed International Queer Film Festival, Berlim, Alemanha
O GAFA FA'ASIPA (Queer Genealogies), Gertrude Contemporary, Emerging Curators' Program, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, Austrália
BORDERS, BARRIERS, WALLS, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Melbourne, Austrália
ConTexto:Palabra, escritura y narración en el arte contemporáneo, Museo Universidad de Atíoquia, Medellin, Colômbia
Lembre-se de lembrar, Carbono Galeria, São Paulo, Brasil
(SIGNAL), Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, Nova Iorque, EUA
Do Ask, Do Tell:Male Homoerotic Art from Latin America (1970s-2016), Henrique Faria Fine Arts, Nova Iorque, EUA
The Anthropophagic Banquet (Screening), Instituto das Artes, University of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
<Bartes, mon amour>, La ONG, Buenos Aires, Argentina
As Long As It Takes: Short, 45th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Roterdão, Holanda
2014
Collection IX, ARCO Colleción, CA2M - Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Espanha
Festival de Cine Ciclo Rosa, Cinemateca Distrital, Bogotá; Centro Colombo Americano, Medellin, Colômbia
IBAFF-Festival Internacional de Cine de Murcia, Espanha
Festival Internacional de Cine Asterisco, Buenos Aires, Argentina
European Short Fils Competition, New Horizons International Film Festival, Wroclaw, Polónia
Sinopale 5-International Sinnop Bienial, Turquia
Realidades en Conflicto, Espacio Artnexus, Estudios Las Nieves, Bogotá, Colômbia
Port:Galerij Verbeeck Van Dyck. Antwerp Queer Arts Festival, Bélgica
By Invitation Only, Instant HERLEV Institute, Copenhaga, Dinamarca
Después de lo anterior, Galeria Santa Fe, Bogotá, Colômbia
The Unwritten, Marres House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, Holanda
Burning Down the House, 10th Gwangju Biennial, Coreia do Sul
Evakuieren (with Camilo Godoy), Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Alemanha
Inventer le possible, Vidéothèque éphémère 2, Jeu de Paume, Paris, França
Salón de Belleza in Utopian Pulse - Flares in the Darkroom, Secession, Viena, Áustria
Future Generation Art prize, PinchukartCentre, Kiev, Ucrânia
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, Espanha
Unerasable Memories: A Historic Look at the Videobrasil Collection, SESC Pompeia, São Paulo, Brasil
Apocyphal Colony,. Images of Coloniality in Spain, MUSAC-Museu de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Espanha
Bellos Jueves, Museu Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Under the Same Sun:Art from Latin America Today, Guggenheim Museum, Nova Iorque, EUA
I see in the sea nothing except the sea, CCNY - The Camera Club of New York, EUA
Transvisible, 19 Bienal de arte Paiz, Guatemala
Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films, International Film Festival of Rotterdam, Roterdão, Holanda
#1:Cartagena, The First International Biennial of Contemporary art of Cartagena de Indias, Colômbia
QP5- lo queer y lo cotidiano, RTE ACTUAL - FLACSO, Quito, Equador
7.000.000, Espai d'art contemporani de Castelló, Espanha
Micro-acciones de emergencia #3, ADN Platform, Barcelona, Espanha
2013
Ritual of Queer rituals (with AA Bronson), Wotte de Woth, Roterdão, Holanda
Global aCTIVISM, ZKM - Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Alemanha
The Tamptation of AA Bronson, Witte de With, Roterdão, Alemanha
Erinnerungsfelder / Campos de memoria, Galeria Ratskeller, Berlim, Alemanha
Disobedience Archive, Castello di rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Itália
Fractured Spaces, Flaherty NYC Film Festival, Nova Iorque, EUA
Ideas y Presupuestos, jugada a 3 bandas, Galeria Liebre, Madrid, Espanha
Intersections, Museum of Latin American Art (Molaa) Long beach, California, EUA
Without Reality There is No Utopia, YBCA Galleries, Yerba Buena Contemporary Art, San Francisco, EUA
Extranjero, Distrito 4, Madrid, Espanha
Charming for the Revolution:A Congress for Gender Talents and Wildness, The Tanks, Tate Modern, Londres, Reino Unido
2012
Battleground States, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, EUA
From Below, As A Neighbour, Drugo More, Rijeka, Croácia
Ciclo rosa 2012, Cinemateca Distrital y Galería Santa Fé, Bogotá, Colômbia
Required Reading: Printed Material As Agent of Intervention, Center for Book Arts, Nova Iorque, EUA
Contested Territories, Dorsky Gallery—Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, Queens, Nova Iorque, EUA
Salvajes, Traneudstillingen Exhibition Space, Hellerup, Dinamarca
Latin America: Between Identity and Mask, Art Stays International Festival of Contemporary Art, Ptuj, Eslovénia
Absolute Democracy, association for contemporary art, Graz, Áustria
III Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan, Porto Rico
Ñew York – Latin American and Spanish Artists in New York, AMA – Art Museum of Americas, Washington, EUA
2011
Found in Translation, Guggenheim Museum, Nova Iorque, EUA
The Walls That Divide Us, Apex Art, Nova Iorque, EUA
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, Cidade do México, México
The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection, George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, Nova Iorque, EUA
Sin realidad no hay utopía, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Espanha
InSite: Art + Commemoration, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (Online), Nova Iorque, EUA
Patria o Libertad!, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, The Netherlands; Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canadá
Multiple, Limited, Unique Center for Book Arts, Nova Iorque, EUA
Drawn to Disaster, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, EUA
Motion of a Nation, VM21 Arte Contemporanea, Roma, Itália
Aesthetic Justice, The Lambent Foundation,Nova Iorque, EUA
Boundaries: Selections from the Molaa Permanent Collection, Molaa, Long Beach, CA, EUA
Stuttgart Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Alemanha
2010
To the Arts Citizens!, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Notes on Memories, IG Bildende kunst, Vienna, Áustria
smart, Miami Dade College at The Freedom Tower, Miami, EUA
Second World Congress of Free Artists, Aarhus Kunstbygning, Dinamarca
27th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Dinamarca
How To Do Things With Words, Parsons School of Design, Nova Iorque, EUA
The Politics of Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Grécia, Atenas
The Creative Act, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Noruega
Dwelling-in-Travel, Art Today Association - Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv, Bulgária
Kabul, Jenin, Tehran..., MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, EUA
2nd “Qui Vive?” Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moskow Museum of Modern Art, Rússia
The Mobile Archive, Stacion-Center for Contemporary Art, Pristina, Kosovo
The Art of War, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, EUA
Avenue of the America's, LMCC Lent Space, Nova Iorque, EUA
39th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Roterdão, Holanda
Geography of Trans-territories, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, EUA
Biennale Cuvee 10, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Áustria
2009
Le spectacle du quotidien, X Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, França
Matrix: The Unstable Reality, 28 Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubijana, Eslovénia
Conversation Pieces, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, EUA
5x5Castelló, Espai d'art contemporani de Castelló (EACC), Castellón, Espanha
Turn on, Tune in, Drop out, Beijing 798 Biennale 2009, China
Feedforward- The Angel of History, LABoral Art Center, Gijón, Espanha
The 21st Cen., The Feminine Century, and the Century of Diversity and Hope, International Incheon Women Artists' Biennale, Incheon, Coreia
NO SOUL FOR SALE A Festival of Independents, X Initiative, Nova Iorque, EUA
Special Editions, Lower East Side Printshop, Nova Iorque, EUA
Turn On, Slag Gallery, Nova Iorque, EUA
Biennale Democrazia, Torino, Itália
t.error, Hungarian Cultural Institute, Nova Iorque, EUA
Things Fall Apart, Winkleman Gallery, Nova Iorque, EUA
2008
Soft Manipulation, or Who is Afraid of The New Now?, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Stiftelsen 314, Bergen, Noruega
The Prisoner's Dilemma, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, EUA
Archivo Sur, Futura, Prague, República Checa
Alternating Beats, RISD Art Museum, Providence, EUA
European Social Forum (ESF) Screening Program, Mälmo, Suécia
Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons, Nova Iorque, EUA
The Greenroom, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, EUA
Wild Horses, Art Space Diffusion138, University of Grenoble, França
The Long Distance Runner, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhaga, Dinamarca
Auto Memorized, Centrum for fotografi, Stockholm, Suécia
Festival International d'Art Video de Casablanca, Casablanca, Marrocos
TROUBLEMAKERS, Magazzini del Salle- Punta della Dogana, Venice, Itália
Night School, New Museum, Nova Iorque, EUA
In The Private Eye, ISE Foundation, Nova Iorque, EUA
2007
OPEN HOUSE WITH OPEN STUDIOS, IASPIS, Estocolmo, Suécia
INFINITU ET CONTINI, Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn, Nova Iorque, EUA
Timeline: Human Speed and Technology Speed, Korea Cultural Service China, Hong Kong
EXPOSURE, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, Nova Iorque, EUA
MAKING GOOD LUCK. Y- Gallery, Queens, Nova Iorque, EUA
PAWNSHOP, e-flux projects, Nova Iorque, EUA
Atlante Latinoamericano, Centro de las Artes Conarte. En el Marco de el Forum Internacional de las Culturas, Monterrey, México
Tollé...Toleránce, Images Citoyennes, Festival International de la Vidéo, Liège, Bélgica
Unmarked Categories (with HOMEWORK), K2,Yzmir-Istanbul, Turquia
Quote Unquote, Nurture Art, Brooklyn, Nova Iorque, EUA
CHALLENGERS!: art-e-conomy Selected Video Screening, Laboratorio Occupato Morion, Veneza, Itália
Symbiotic/Synergy: Selections from The Center for Book Arts Community, Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, EUA
Carte Blanche á Heure Exquise!, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Alemanha
in someone else’s skin, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, EUA (cat.)
he Karma of War, Wang Center- Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, EUA
Oog-Eye, Foam_Fotografiemuseum, Amesterdão, Holanda
Recorridos y Video Proyecciones Durante ARCO, ArtBus, Madrid, Espanha
System Error: War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Itália
2006
Estrecho Dudoso, TEOR/éTica, San José, Costa Rica
OHNE BLICK, Musée de Elysée, Lausanne, Suíça
pa.per.ing, Art in General at Deutsche Bank, Nova Iorque, EUA
Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris, Centre Culturel La Clef, Paris, França
Estudio Abierto, Palacio de Correos, Buenos Aires, Argentina
10 Defining Experiments: cifo 2006 Grant Program Recipients, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (cifo), Miami, Florida, EUA
Manifesta 6 School (Cancelada/Cancelled), Manifesta 6, Nicosia, Chipre
Prevailing Climate (Screening), Sara Meltzer Gallery, Nova Iorque, EUA
3 Biennale Adriatica di Arti Nuove, San Benedetto del Tronto, Itália
Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program Exhibition, Chelsea Museum, Nova Iorque, EUA
El Museo's 4th Bienal: The (S) Files, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Porto Rico
4ème Festival International du Cinéma Iranien en Exil, Art en Exil, Paris, França
When Artists Say We, Artists Space, Nova Iorque, EUA
Bzzzz, Fundacion C4rto Nivel Arte Contemporaneo, Bogota, Colômbia
Russia: Significant Other, ICA at the Anna Akhmatova Museum, St Petersburg, Rússia
Surveillance, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, EUA
Moving Time, Gallery Korea, Korean Cultural Service, Nova Iorque, EUA
Featured Artist Projects, The Center for Book Arts, Nova Iorque, EUA
2005
El Salón de la Justicia, Galería Santa Fé, Bogotá, Colômbia
Co-dependent (with Julieta Aranda), College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University, Miami, EUA
New Vectors, Southern Panorama/15th International Electronic Art Festival Videobrasil, Sesc Pompeia, São Paulo, Brasil
BEOGRAD NEKAD I SAD, Prodajna galerija "Beograd", Belgrado, Sérvia
El Museo's 4th Bienal: The (S) Files, El Museo, Nova Iorque, EUA
Enemy Image, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, Nova Iorque, EUA
Se acabó el rollo? La fotografia en Colombia de 1950 a 2000, Museo Nacional, Bogotá, Colômbia
Selections from 'Dancing Bear' the Collection of W.M. Hunt, Arles: Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photo 2005, Arles, França
The Generals (with Julieta Aranda, K8 Hardy e/and Gareth James), Art in General,Nova Iorque, EUA
Digital Cotton, Savannah Gallery at the Savannah College of Art, Savannah, GA, EUA
2004
The Book as Object and Performance, Gigantic ArtSpace, Nova Iorque, EUA
LMCC's Workspace 120 Broadway Open Studios, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Nova Iorque, EUA
The Freedom Salon, Deitch Projects, Nova Iorque, EUA
2 Biennale Adriatica di Arti Nuove, San Benedetto del Tronto, Itália
Free Roaming: Video Madness (Screening), El Museo, Nova Iorque, EUA
Produciendo Realidad, Associazione Culturale Prometeo di Lucca, Itália
Urbes Interiores, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colômbia
Outdoor Intervention, PS122 Gallery, Nova Iorque, EUA
Establishing Shot, Artists Space, Nova Iorque, EUA
2003
Salón Regional de Artistas de Bogotá, Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá, Colômbia
XII Art Biennial of Cerveira, Forum Cultural, Cerveira, Portugal
Visiones, Fotología Photography Festival, Universidad de Salamanca, Bogotá, Colômbia
Translatability, Berliner Kunstproject, Berlim, Alemanha
Agitate: Negotiating the Photographic Process, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, EUA
No Money No Honey, Area (Contenitore d'Arte Contemporanea), Palermo, Itália
[B L A N K]: In Pursuit of An American History, Staller Center for the Arts, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, EUA
2002-2000
Mundos Creados: Constructed Photography from the Wider Caribbean, Noorderlicht Photofestival, Fries Museum, Groningen, Holanda
Fresh: New Photography, Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art, Nova Iorque, EUA
2001
Latin-American Photography from New York to Santiago de Chile, Fotografia, Primo Festival Internazionale di Roma, IILA, Roma, Itália
2000
Tecnica Mista, La Corte Arte Contemporanea, Florença, Itália
COLECÇÕES PÚBLICAS
Bronx Museum, Nova Iorque, EUA
Cisneros Fontanals Foundation, Miami, EUA
Colección Dieresis, Guadalajara, México
Deutsche Bank, Nova Iorque, EUA
Faena Art, Buenos Aires / Miami, EUA
Fundación ARCO, Madrid, Espanha
Fundación Cisneros, Caracas / Nova Iorque
Fundación RAC (Rosón Arte Contemporáneo), Pontevedra
Guggenheim Museum, Nova Iorque, EUA
Lab’ Bel, Paris, França
LARA Foundation, Singapura
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, Nova Iorque, EUA
Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET), Nova Iorque, EUA
MALBA—Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colômbia
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Barcelona (MACBA), Espanha
Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (MAMM), Colômbia
Museo de Arte, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colômbia
Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), Perú
Museu Fundação Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach, EUA
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Nova Iorque, EUA
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Espanha
National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Atenas, Grécia
Nc-arte, Bogotá, Colômbia
Pérez Art Museum (PAMM), Miami, EUA
PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ucrânia
Proyecto AMIL, Lima, Perú
The Art Institute of Chicago, EUA
Timeline, Konstfack’s Videotek, Konstfack, Estocolmo, Suécia
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia
Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Breslávia, Polónia
PUBLICAÇÕES E LIVROS
Carlos Motta (tittle TBD) (Monograph), SKIRA, Itália, 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, Suécia, 2011
BROKEN ENGLISH (48 pp., co-edited with Julieta Aranda), Performa 11, Nova Iorque, EUA, 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, Noruega, 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, Nova Iorque, EUA, 2008
The Immigrant Files: Democracy is Not Dead; It Just Smells Funny (185p., Ed. 500), Konsthall C, Stockholm, Suécia, 2009
What is Democracy To You? (Ed. 2000), Originally published in 2008 for exhibition at ICA, Philadelphia, EUA
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, EUA
Arts & LEISURE, (28 pages, co-edited with The Generals), 2005 by Art in General and e-flux, Nova Iorque, EUA
Close (76 pp.), 2000, Deskubre, Roma, Itália
BIBLIOGRAFIA
2018
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)
2012
Konsten 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
2011
AREVALO, 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
2010
AMDAM, 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
2009
5x5 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
2008
JONES, Caitlin, Review of "In The Private Eye" at ISE Cultural Foundation, Rhizome, February 2008
BERNASCONI, Roberta, VENEZIA TUTTO S.A.L.E., Exibart.com, February 2008
ZELLEN, Jody, Carlos Motta, Art Papers, January 2008
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
2007
AMIR, Yaelle, Carlos Motta, The Leningrad Trilogy, Winkleman Gallery, whitehot, Oct. 2007
HERNÁNDEZ, Sofía, Carlos Motta: Consistently Aware, Arte Al Día Internacional, May 2007
MOTTA, Carlos, Means of Engagement: A review of Oliver Herring's Show, Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts
2006
BORDÓN, 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
2005
COTTER, Holland, Latino Art, and Beyond Category, New York Times, September 2, 2005
CULLEN Deborah, The (S) Files, El Museo, Exhibition Catalog Essay, 2005
HENRY, Clare, The (S) Files, ARTnews, December, 2005
HOWARD, Henry, El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files/The Selected Files, The Brooklyn Rail, November 2005
KOPENKINA, Olga, Russia Significant Other, ICA, Exhibition Brochure Essay, St. Petersburg, Russia, February 2006
MICCHELLI, Thomas, The Book as Object and Performance, The Brooklyn Rail, January 2005
POWHIDA, William, Enemy Image, The Brooklyn Rail, October 2005
SERRANO, Eduardo, Se acabo el rollo? La fotografia en Colombia de 1950 a 2000, Book, published by Editorial Planeta
2004
ELLIS, David, New Home for WTC Art Studios, Downtown Express, July 15, 2004
FARREL, Jennifer, Establishing Shot, Exit Express, May 2004
HUDSON, Suzanne, Establishing Shot, Artforum, September 2004
RATTEMEYER, Christian, Establishing Shot, Artists Space, Exhibition Catalog Essay, April 2004
ROCA, José, Urbes Interiores: Carlos Motta, Enterrar y Callar, Alliance Française, Exhibition Catalog Essay, June 2004
SCHWENDENER, Martha, Establishing Shot, Time Out New York, April 15
STILLMAN, Nick. Establishing Shot, Artforum.com, April 30
2003
BAKER, Kenneth, Artists Leave the Camera Out of the Picture, SF Chronicle, June 7, 2003
BOWEN, Doren, Photography In The Mix: Flora-Fauna-Photo, Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts
NUOVI Spazi, nasce a Aréa a Palermo, Exibart.com, January 2003
FLYNT, Robert, Interview with Carlos Motta, Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts, CD-ROM, Spring/Summer 2003
TRANSLATABILITY, New York Arts Magazine, August 2003
NICITA, Paola, No Money, No Honey, Exibart.com, February 12, 2003
Comienza Fotología, Periodico El Tiempo,August 6, 2003
25 Artistas en el Salón Nacional, Periodico El Tiempo, August 25, 2003
2002
ARÉVALO, Antonio, Latin-American Photography from New York to Santiago de Chile, IILA, Exhibition Catalog Essay
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
2001
VÁSQUEZ, Mauricio and de Greiff,Ilse, Interview with Carlos Motta, Choque y Fusión,99.1 Radio Joven, Colombia
2000
LANDI, Patrizia, Tecnica Mista, La Corte Arte Contemporanea, Exhibition Catalog Essay, May 2000
FRAILEY, Stephen, Introduction for Close, Published by Deskubre, Rome Italy, 2000
TOCANCIPA Luz Stella, Goce Visual, Revista Cromos, November 16, 2000
UMBRICO, Penelope, Critical Essay for Close, Published by Deskubre, Rome Italy, 2000