Carlos Motta and Ana María Reyes in Conversation

Carlos Motta (b. 1978, Bogotá, Colombia) is a multidisciplinary artist who documents the social conditions and political struggles of sexual, gender, and ethnic minority communities, challenging societal norms and values through visibility and self-representation. He has upcoming solo exhibitions at Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO) and P·P·O·W in New York (2023). His work is included in the 58th Carnegie International (2022) and the permanent collections of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Guggenheim Museum. Motta participated in Film at Lincoln Center’s Art of the Real (2021) and the 11th Berlin Biennale (2020). He was awarded PinchukArtCentre’s Future Generation Art Prize (2014) and a Guggenheim fellowship (2008). He is an associate professor of Interdisciplinary Practice in Fine Arts at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Learn more on the artist’s website.

Ana María Reyes is an associate professor in the Department of History of Art & Architecture at Boston University. She is also an affiliated researcher at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. Her book The Politics of Taste: Beatriz González and Cold War Aesthetics (Duke University Press, 2019) was awarded the Association for Latin American Art’s Arvey Foundation Book Award in 2021. Learn more about Reyes on Boston University’s website.