Is It Morning For You Yet? ▪ 58th Carnegie International

Carlos Motta

Carlos Motta (b. 1978, Bogotá; lives in New York, NY) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice documents the social conditions and political struggles of sexual, gender, and ethnic minority communities, challenging normative discourses through visibility and self-representation. His upcoming solo exhibitions include the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (2022) and Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO) (2023). He participated in the 11th Berlin Biennale (2020) and Art of the Real, Film at Lincoln Center (2021). His work is in the permanent collection of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Guggenheim Museum. Motta received a Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Project Grant (2019), won the PinchukArtCentre’s Future Generation Art Prize (2014) and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2008). He is an associate professor of Interdisciplinary Practice, Fine Arts, at Pratt Institute, in Brooklyn.

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