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      • Gesture on Felt (painting & performance) 2011
      • The Verb That Fills Up Space 2010
      • First International Contemporary Art Biennale 2008
      • Signs On My Mother 2005
      • Venice Biennial #50 - 2003
      • The Contented Root Of My Shadow 2003
      • Signs after 9/11 - 2002
      • Of Transparencies And Spaces 2001
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Artist Profile: Rossella Matamoros
Biography




Based and Born:

Work:


Studied:
1983
1993-2014


Scholarships:
1987
1988
2000
2021
2022

Some Awards:
2023
2021
2020
2010
2008
1998 & 2003
1992
1991
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Some public collections: 


Costa Rica

Drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, mixed media, set design, performance, lighting design, furniture design, dramaturgy of dress & video performance.


Licenciature = MA in Fine Arts. University of Costa Rica.
Master in Fine Arts. George Washington University. Washington DC. USA
Workshops with: Luis Camnitzer (Italy) 1995, Martha Wilson, NY (Osaka) 2010. Rachel Rosenthal (Los Angeles) 2010, Pablo Helguera (NYC) 2012, Geo Britto (NYC) 2013 and Coco Fusco (Massachusetts) 2014.


French Government. École des Beaux Arts y École des Arts Décoratives, France.
Fulbright. George Washington University, Washington DC
Japan Foundation. Kyoto Seika University, Japan
Reseach Residency Kársitca, Cuenca, ArtHouse Madrid, Spain

American Embassy in CR, USA Government


Selected for Un Aguacero Festival of Performance, Nadie Nunca Nada No Gallery, Madrid, Spain

 Residency Art House Madrid & KarstiKa, Cuenca Spain
Francisco Amiguetti, Costa Rica
PROARTES, Costa Rica 
First Price Biennial Chapingo, Mexico
"Aquileo J. Echeverría", Costa Rica
National Council of Hispanic Women, Washington DC
David Lloyd Krueger, GWU, Washington, DC



National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian, Washington DC
Museum Abstract Art, Antonio Pérez Foundation, Cuenca, Spain
Inter- American Development Bank, Washington DC
Museum La Neomudejar, Madrid, Spain
Fundación Obra Pía de los Pizarro
Costa Rican Embassy, Washington DC.
Telefónica del Peru, Lima, Peru
Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Costa Rica
Museums of the Central Bank, San Jose, Costa Rica
Museum of Costa Rican Art, Costa Rica
National Museum of Costa Rica
Kyoto Seyka University, Japan
Ars Aporia, Japan
LAFISE Bank, Costa Rica

Pormerica Bank,CR

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