Visual Artist, educator, curator - Santiago, Chile / New York, USA.
BIO
Catalina is a multidisciplinary Visual Artist, educator, and independent curator, working in the intersections of geographic identities, collective memories, and hybrid systems of collaboration and participation through existing technologies.
After earning a BFA and a degree in Visual Arts Education, she developed her career in Santiago, showing her work in solo and group exhibitions, teaching Visual Arts and Film, and creating and directing art spaces such as Oficina Barroca Gallery, and CANCHA Santiago Residency Program. She participated in art residencies, at Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan 2012; Taller 7, Medellin, Colombia, 2013; and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, US, 2015. Following these experiences, in 2016 she moved to the US to pursue an MFA at Rutgers University from where she graduated in 2018. After that, she was a member at NEW INC, The New Museum Incubator Program NY, a resident at NARS Foundation NY, a fellow at The Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program, NY, Collider Art Residency, Contemporary Calgary, CA, and Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NY. She participated in solo and group exhibitions in the US and abroad, being the most recent “Luma” at Cue Art Foundation, NY, USA.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute and NYU Steinhard.
Represented by Lydian Stater, NY.
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, US.
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EDUCATION
2018 MFA, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, NJ, USA.
2007 Bachelor Visual Arts Education, Universidad Gabriela Mistral, Santiago, Chile.
2001 BFA, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
1998 Scholarship for Art studies exchange program at Boston College. Boston, MA, USA.
AWARDS
2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Emergency Grants, NY.
2018 Nominee, Dedalus Foundation, USA
2008 SPACES TO LIVE AND DIE, First Prize Artes y Letras, El Mercurio, V Visual Arts Contest,
National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile.
RESIDENCIES
2020 Contemporary Calgary, Collider Art Residency, CA.
2019 Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program, NY, US.
2019 NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY, US.
2019 NEW INC, The New Museum Incubator Program, NY, USA.
2015 Skowhegan, School of painting and sculpture, ME, USA.
2014 Taller 7, Medellín, Colombia.
2012 Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 LUMA, Cue Art Foundation, NY
2023 THE SENSITIVE PROJECT, Lydian Stater, NY, USA.
2019 RECORDING BOOTH, This Thing is Red, Gallery Cubed, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
2012 SUGINAMY SKY, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan.
2012 REMIX, Oficina Barroca Gallery, Santiago, Chile.
2008 SPACES TO LIVE AND DIE, National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile.
2005 UNIQUE REPETITION, Centro Cultural de España, Santiago, Chile.
2005 URGENT, Corporación Cultural de Las Condes, Santiago, Chile.
2004 ON FOOT, Cal y Canto Subway station, Santiago, Chile.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 EJERCICIOS DE INMERSION, Galería Macchinna, Santiago, Chile
2022 THE SENSITIVE PROJECT, Jinan International Biennale, China
2022 TEMPORARY SOLUTIONS THAT STAY FOREVER, The Clemente, NY.
2022 REROUTING, Contemporary Calgary, CA
2021 TLPS, Lydian Stater, Brooklyn, NY.
2021 CUERPOS, QUIMERAS, Miranda Bosch Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2021 MORE THAN HUMAN, Santo Domingo, Chile.
2021 SOBRE/MESA, The Clemente, NY.
2020 THE EXTRAORDINARY, Hunter East Harlem Gallery, NY.
2019 LISHUI Photo Festival, Lishui, China.
2019 BEHIND THE SEEN, Nars Foundation, NY.
2019 DIGITAL HUMANISMS, OnCanal, NY.
2019 JAUJA, Brooklyn Army Terminal, NY.
2018 GRAN COLOMBIA, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, NJ, USA.
2018 LEAP CENTURY, Abrons Art Center, NY, USA
2018 MERCURY STREET, Mason Gross School of the Arts, NJ, USA.
2017 VICKI AND I, Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, USA.
2017 ALMA Cohort and Kara Walker, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, NJ, USA.
2016 TIMBRE, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, NJ, USA.
2015 LUCK THAI 199, Oficina Barroca, Contemporary Art Fair ArteBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2014 LUCK THAI 199, Oficina Barroca, Contemporary Art Fair CH.ACO 14, Santiago, Chile.
2013 ALL FOR 990, Oficina Barroca, Contemporary Art Fair CHACO 13, Santiago, Chile.
2013 LIMIT AND TERRITORY: Private space, Sala de Carga, Santiago, Chile.
2012 FLUJOGRAM, Tuca/Labbé, Oficina Barroca Gallery, Santiago, Chile.
2011 TUTORIAS BLOC, BLOC, Santiago, Chile.
2008 CICLIC, Urban Intervention, Curicó Train Station, Curicó, Chile.
2006 KIND OF SPACES, Quinta Normal Subway station, Santiago, Chile.
2005 DEPOSIT HERE, Galería Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile.
2004 ASIADENTRO, National Library, Santiago, Chile.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
New York University Steinhardt, NY, USA.
2024 Adjunct Professor, Department of Art and Art Professions: Art Praxis BFA
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2021-2024 Adjunct Assistant Professor Foundation Dept: Light, Color and Design Lab/Studio and Time and Movement.
Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, NJ, US.
2016-2023 Adjunct Professor, Visual Thinking: Color Theory and 2D, 3D, 4D Fundamentals.
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, NJ, US.
2016-2018 Art Together: Sunday’s Family Art Workshops. (Ages 2 up)
2017 Drawing Club. (Ages 10 to 14)
2017 Summer Camp Art Adventures. (Ages 6 to 14)
Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile.
2011-2016 Adjunct Professor, Contemporary Latin American Film.
SIP Non-Profit Educational Foundation (Sociedad de Instruccion Primaria), Santiago, Chile.
2010-2011 Program Supervisor, Curriculum Developer, Lower to High School, Visual Arts Department.
2007-2011 Visual Arts Teacher, High School, Visual Arts Department.
San Nicolas de Mira School, Santiago, Chile
2000-2001 Visual Arts Teacher, Lower to High School, Visual Arts Department.
SELECTED PRESS / ARTICLES
2024, "Luma", Artishock.
2024, "Luma", eflux.
2023, “The Sensitive Project”, Artefuse.
2022, “Rerouting”, Preview.
2022, “Rerouting”, Calgary Herald.
2022, “Rerouting”, Curiocity.
2020, “The Extraordinary”, New York Times.
2020, “The Extraordinary”, Hyperallergic.
SELECTED ARTIST TALKS / INTERVIEWS
2024 This will pass: Artist Panel, Latinx Project, NYU.
2021 Interview, “Conversaciones Futuro en Red”, Pensar en Red, Santiago, Chile.
2021 Interview, “Arranging Tangerines Podcast, Episode 4, Part 1-2”, Lydian Stater, NY.
2019 Artist Talk, New Inc, New Museum Incubator, NY, USA.
2012 Artist Talk, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan.
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2022 Ouroboros, April 15, May 15, Stand4 Gallery, Brooklyn , NY.
2019-2020 Co-founder and co-director CABO Residency Space, Santiago, Chile.
2014-2015 Co-founder and co-director Cancha_Santiago Residency Program, Santiago, Chile.
Located in a historic house in downtown Santiago, CANCHA_Santiago was an experimental space that motivated the development of multidisciplinary research projects related to the city, its history, and most current issues. It hosted 26 artists in residence, 8 group exhibitions and 6 public lectures.
2012-2016 Co-founder and co-director Oficina Barroca Gallery, Santiago, Chile.
Its exhibition projects use as basic strategy the occupation of pre-existent spaces to favor the art production of contemporary Chilean artists.
It featured the work of 21 artists, had 17 exhibitions on its gallery space and 3 exhibitions in Art Fairs in Chile and Argentina.
LANGUAGES
Spanish (native) - English