Carlos Motta

Carlos Motta's work has been presented internationally in venues such as Tate Modern, London; The New Museum, The Guggenheim Museum, and MoMA/PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá; Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson; San Francisco Art Institute; Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City; and many other public, private, and independent spaces throughout the world. A survey exhibition of his was presented at Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg in January 2015. His Nefandus Trilogy, three new short films on pre-Hispanic and colonial sexuality, had its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival; The First International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena; New Horizons International Film Festival, Wroclaw; Jeu de Paume, Paris; Marres: House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León; and Secession, Vienna. Motta won the Main Prize—Future Generation Art Prize of the PinchukArtCentre in Kiev (2014). He is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program (2006), was named a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow (2008), and received grants from Art Matters (2008), NYSCA (2010), Creative Capital Foundation and the Kindle Project (2012). He is on the faculty at Parsons The New School of Design and The School of Visual Arts.