Carlos Motta

Carlos Motta was born in 1978 in Colombia, and currently lives and works in New York City. Motta is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work draws upon political history in an attempt to create counter narratives that recognize the inclusion of suppressed histories, communities, and identities. He is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program (2005/2006), received his BFA in Photography (2001) from The School of Visual Arts, New York City, and his MFA (2003) from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, New York City. Motta is part of the faculty at Parsons The New School of Design and the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. In 2017 Motta won The Vilcek Foundation’s Prize for Creative Promise and in 2014 the Main Prize—Future Generation Art Prize of the PinchukArtCentre.

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 Serralves, Porto; MACBA, Barcelona; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson; San Francisco Art Institute; Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin; Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City; and many other public, private and independent spaces throughout the world.