Carlos Motta’s (b. 1978, Colombia) multi-disciplinary art practice documents the social conditions and political struggles of sexual, gender, and ethnic minority communities in order to challenge normative discourses through acts of self-representation. As a historian of untold narratives, Motta is committed to in-depth research on the struggles of post-colonial subjects and societies. His work manifests in a variety of mediums including video, installation, sculpture, drawing, web-based projects, performance, and symposia. 

His work has been the subject of survey exhibitions at Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO) (2023); Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, (2022); Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (MAMM) (2017); and Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg (2015). In 2025, he will have a mid-career survey show at Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA). In 2024 Motta will participate in the Disobedience Archive in Foreigners Everywhere, 60th Venice Biennale. He has participated in major groups exhibitions such as Signals, MoMA, New York (2023); 58th Carnegie International (2022); 11th Berlin Biennale (2020); 32nd Bienal de São Paulo (2016); Göteborg Biennial (2015); X Gwangju Biennale (2014); and X Lyon Biennale (2010). His films have been screened at Oberhausen Festival (2023); Anthology Film Archives (2022); Film at Lincoln Center (2021); Rotterdam Film Festival (2016, 2010); Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (2016); and Toronto International Film Festival (2013). Motta has received grants from Creative Time R&D Fellowship (2023); Penn Mellon Foundation (2022); Rockefeller Brothers Fund (2019); Guggenheim Fellowship (2008); Art Matters (2008); NYSCA (2010); and Creative Capital (2012). He won the Vilcek Foundation’s Prize for Creative Promise (2017) and the PinchukArtCentre’s Future Generation Art Prize (2014). His work is in the collections of the MET, MoMA, and Guggenheim museums, NY; among many others. Motta is Associate Professor at Pratt Institute’s Fine Arts Department.