Carlos Betancourt
San Juan, PR, 1966
San Juan, PR, 1966
Studied from 1983 to 1985 at Miami-Dade Community College in Florida, United States. He entered the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, where he obtains an Associate's Degree in Science and Design (1987). In 2005, was co-founder, in Maimi, Florida, of 801 Projects. He has been recipient of awards and grants, among which the Florida Department of State Millennium Cultural Recognition Award, National Endowment for the Arts Grant and Miami Beach Arts Council Grant, stand out. He has exhibited in solo and group shows in the United States, Puerto Rico and Spain, among others, as well as in art fairs such as Art Basel and Arco. In addition, he has been recipient of several commissions to create art works for various Art in Public Places Programs from public and private institutions. His work can be found in collections such as, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, Miami Art Museum, San Antonio Museum of Art in Texas, Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico and the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno in the Canary Islands, Spain, among others. He has been influenced by the artworks of sensationalist, conceptualist and neo primitive artists, although his work defies specific categorization. His work alludes to issues of memory and beauty, layering and juxtaposing information based on his own experiences, Pop-Culture and extensive travels.
Art shall be liberated of the polemics of reason and perhaps appreciated under the realm of its secrets.
My artworks explore issues of memory. By means of re-examination, I attempt to recycle the past and deliver it as a relevant, cohesive present. Fussing together nature, objects and re-collections, my artworks attempt to challenge the nature of nostalgia as well as narrative, questioning the limits of chronology in art.
Carlos Betancourt
1983-1985
1985-1987
2018-2019
2017
2015-2016
2012-2013
2011
2009
2008-2006
2005-2003
2002
2001
2000-1994
2019
2017-2018
2015-2016
2013-2014
2012-2011
2010
2009
2007-2008
2006-2005
2004-2002
2001-1999
1998-1990
2018
2010
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Rewind…rewind… Video Arte Puertorriqueño, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, p.53.
Chase, Iris. South Beach Faces and facades, p.116/117.
Herman, Sarah. Diálogos Iberoamericanos. España: Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia, pp. 49- 59.
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Blanco, Richard. City of a Hundred Fires. Estados Unidos: University of Pittsburg Press.
Blanco, Richard. Directions to the Beach of the Dead. Estados Unidos: University of Pittsburg Press.
“Carlos Betancourt: Recent Photographic Work”. Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida, Estados Unidos.
“Fracturism”, Arte Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires. 1994.
Abracadabra, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Jan/Feb. 2007.
Aesthetic and Values, Green Gallery, Florida, Estados Unidos.
ARCO 03, “De Cuerpos y Almas. Pornograifas-3” Editorial ARCO / IFEMA, Madrid, España.
ARCO 03, J. Johnson Gallery Pavilion , Madrid, España.
Art Bank Recent Acquisitions, Art in Public Places Trust, pp.12-13.
Barragan, Paco. No Lo Llames Performance, Don’t Call It Performance, Museo del Barrio, Nueva York, Estados Unidos y Fundación Salamanca, Museo Reina Sofía, España.
Cabinet of Wonder, Carlos Betancourt, Venice Projects Fort Lauderdale Art Museum, Florida, Estados Unidos.
Carlos Betancourt: En la Arena Sabrosa”, Coral Gables, Florida, Estados Unidos, 1995.
Chicago Contemporary and Classic, p. 115.
Context/Contexto: Santo Domingo. Santo Domingo, República Dominciana, 2003.
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Interconexiones: Lecturas Curatoriales de la Colección del MAPR, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
M&M Proyectos. Puerto Rico 02: En Ruta,.Editorial Cromart, S. L. Madrid, España.
Miami Tierra Caliente: Exposiciones Paralelas,” Genaro, Centro Cultural Ecuatoriano Oswaldo Guayasamín, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana.
MOLAA Auction catalog, Museum of Latin American Art, California, Estados Unidos, p. 28.
Mysterious Object: Portraits of Joan Quinn, Santa Ana College Gallery, Santa Ana, California, Estados Unidos.
Pasiones: Margarita Serapión & John Belk Collection, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico.
Photographic Encounters: Humanity in Nature, Graciela Iturbibe for Ruiz-Healy, San Antonio, Texas.
Political Winter Redux, Molloy College Art Gallery, Long Island, Nueva York, Estados Unidos.
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https://www.carlosbetancourt.com/
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