Carlos García Montero (Lima, 1978) collaborated giving lectures, clinics and advising artists at New York Foundation for the Arts and Residency Unlimited (NYC). Some recognitions include Grants from the Fulbright commission, The International Institute for Education (IIE), LASPAU (Harvard University) and the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI).
He was jury of the Peruvian Pavilion for the Venice Biennial, 2019, and 2021 and of the National Contemporary Art Award given by CCU in Santiago de Chile, 2015. From 2013 to 2017, he was director at Y Gallery NY. During that time in NYC he co-curated Y Gallery´s program, the performance week, and several personal curatorial projects.
Some recent curated exhibitions include Carcaza by Nuria Cano & Maria Abaddon, at Juan Pardo Heeren Gallery ICPNA, Lima; Los Días y las Horas by Christian Luza at IK Projects, Lima, December, 2019; Overlay by Ignacio Alvaro at Centro Cultural Peruano Británico, Lima, January, 2019; Girando Sobre Lo Que Se Encuentra Entre Nosotros at Universidad de las Artes Guayaquil, October, 2019; Atavíos de Reynaldo Luza at Instituto Cultural Peruano Norte Americano, Arequipa, August 2018; Narrativas Múltiples by Moico Yáker at The School of Visual Arts Corriente Alterna, Lima, 2018; Death Drive at Y Gallery, NYC, April, 2017; Generation Y at Y Gallery, Lima, July 2017, among other exhibitions.
His curatorial work and research explores the expansion of artistic disciplines in the contemporary art field. His most recent projects explore gender politics, more ways to activate the gallery space with time based art, and the study of recent Latin-American visual art history. An important part of the focus of the work is in the search for new and different materials, time based art, sound and performance and their relationship with building artistic communities.He obtained an MA in History and Theory of Contemporary Art from San Francisco Art Institute where he was the Fulbright Fellow for the Art History Department at SFAI.
Carlos García Montero is the Exhibition & Academic Director at The School of Visual Arts Corriente Alterna.
Carlos by Spencer Kohn / Videograph, 2014
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Carlos García Montero Protzel & Alicates by Carolina Kecskemethy at Casa Prado.