An Artist Talk with Carlos Motta

Artist Carlos Motta speaks about recent projects, which span sculpture, video, performance, social practice and publication. Motta’s work directs attention to the politics of gender and sexuality, from the pre-Columbian to the transnational present, “in an attempt to create counter narratives that recognize suppressed histories, communities, and identities.”

Raised in Bogotá, Colombia and based in New York City, Motta has presented work 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; 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. In 2017 his solo exhibitions include Stedelijk Art Museum, Amsterdam, Frieze Projects London, Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional at Claustro de San Agustín, Bogotá, and a career survey at Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (MAMM). In 2016 his solo exhibitions included: Histories of the Future, Pérez Art Museum (PAMM), Miami; REQUIEM, MALBA—Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires; Beloved Martina, Mercer Union, Toronto; Deviations, PPOW Gallery, New York; and the performance Mondo Invertito at Tenuta dello Scompiglio, Vorno. Motta also participated in Incerteza Viva: 32nd Bienal de São Paulo in 2016. Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg presented a survey exhibition of Carlos Motta’s work in 2015.

This talk is co-sponsored by the Department of Performance Studies and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.  

Seating is limited and first-come, first-serve.