Carlos Motta

Carlos Motta is a Colombian born, New York based artist working primarily in photography, video and installation that engages political history by employing strategies used in documentary genres and sociology in order to interrogate governmental structures, to observe the repercussions of political events, and to suggest alternative ways in which to interpret those histories.

Motta's work has been individually presented at PS1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Konsthall C, Stockholm; Fundación Alzate Avendaño, Bogotá; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn; and Art in General, New York and included in group exhibitions such as the X Biennale de Lyon 2009; The Greenroom, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Soft Manipulation, Casino Luxemburg; 5x5 Castelló, Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castelló, Spain; System Error, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy; and Democracy in America, Creative Time, New York, amongst others.

Motta is a graduate of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, was named a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow in 2008, and received grants from the Art Matters Foundation (New York, 2007), the Cisneros Fontanals Foundation (Miami, 2008) and the New York State Council of the Arts (NYSCA) (New York 2010).

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