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.

In 2025, he will have a mid-career survey exhibition at Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), curated by Agustín Pérez Rubio and Maria Berrios. In 2024, he will have a the solo exhibition Gravidade (Gravity) at Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, and will participate in Disobedience Archive, a project by Marco Scotini, La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Adriano Pedrosa; and in the group exhibitions Scientia Sexualis during Pacific Standard Time at ICA LA, and El Dorado (Myths of Gold) at Americas Society, New York. Motta will also stage a new performance at El Espacio 23, Miami during ArtBasel week in December.