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Rossella Matamoros Jimenez
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      • Self Portraits Of Whom 2011
      • 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
      • Behind Screens / Japan 2000
      • About the Other, The Being And The Scene 1998
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Curriculum Vitae

Studies

1983

1988-1992

 1999-2000

 1987-1988


Awards & Grants
2010

2008

2002

 1999 – 2000

1998

1988 – 1992

1987-1988

 1998 y 2003

2002

1991 & 1992

1990


Seminars in order of importance for the artist

1999–2000

 2010

2014


1995 

  2000 

2014

 2012

2013


2013


2014 

 2014

 

 

MA in Fine Arts. University of Costa Rica.

Master in Fine Arts. George Washington University. USA. 

Research in Japanese performing arts. Kyoto Seika University. Japan.

Certification in etching and drawing. École des Beaux Arts and École des Arts and Décoratives. Paris, France.


 PROARTES. Price by the Ministry of Cultural Affairs. Costa Rica.

1st Price in Painting. First Biennial of Contemporary Art. Chapingo, México.

Statement of Appreciation as an Artist. National Council of Hispanic Women. USA. 

Japan Foundation Scholarship. Kyoto Seika University. Japan.

1st y 3rd Price. First Sports Biennial. Costa Rica. 

Fulbright Scholarship. George Washington University. USA. 

French Government Scholarship. École des Beaux Arts y École des Arts Décoratives. Paris, France. 

National Price “Aquileo J. Echeverría”. Costa Rica. 

Nominated as best video of the year: “Signs”. Film and Video Annual Contest. Costa Rica. 

Selected as “Invited Artist”. Arlington Public School System. Virginia, USA.

“Lloyd Krieger” in printmaking. George Washington University. USA.  






Japan Foundation Scholarship. Kyoto Seyka University. Japan.

DbD Experience. Workshop with Rachel Rosenthal. California, USA.

For the Record: Making and Documenting Performance Arts. Workshop with Coco Fusco. FAWC in Provincetown. Massachusetts, USA. 

Photo-Printmaking. Estudio Luis Camnitzer. Valdotavo, Italia.  

Symposium of Latin American Theater. San Cayetano Monastery. House of the Theater. México.

Open Engagemenet Conference: Life/Work. Queens Museum. USA.

Creative Time Summit: Art, Place & Dislocation in the 21st Century City. NYC, USA.

Creative Time Summit: Confronting Inequity. NYC, USA. 2012. Art at Large: Art Making in the Long View. MoMA. NYC, USA.

Fourth Biennial Conference: Expanding Perspectives in American Art. Smithsonian Latino Center. Washington DC, USA. 

Theater of the Opressed. Workshop with Gio Britto. MoMA. NYC, USA. 

Contemporary Art Forum: The Curative Object. MoMa. NYC, USA.



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