Curriculum
Lugar de nacimiento: Caracas,Venezuela, 1964
EDUCACIÓN
1995 MA in Studio Art with a concentration in Photography and Art Theory, New
York University/International Center of Photography NY, USA
1988 BA in Art History, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela
EXPOSICIONES INDIVIDUALES Y DUPLA
2019 Senescere, curated by Luis Ángel Duque†, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia (MacZul), Maracaibo, Venezuela
Transferences 2.0, Hollywood Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, Fl
Artist Open Miami, with Nina Surel, Collective 62, Miami
2018 mutatis mutandis (stage 1), Available Space, Miami
Amalia Caputo & Pepe López, Interlocution/Contexts, In Focus, curated by Cecilia
Fajardo-Hill, Cha.Co, Santiago, Chile
2017 Instacorrespondences, Amalia Caputo & Marina Font, ongoing collaboration
(Instagram and exhibition-based project) 6th Installment: [email protected], Miami
2015 Instacorrespondences 5th installment: La Plataforma Gallery, Barcelona, Spain,
2014 Instacorrespondences 4th installment: Florida Gulf Coast University Art Galleries,
Ft. Myers, Florida
Instacorrespondences 3rd installment: Dácil Galería de Arte, Buenos Aires Instacorrespondences 2nd installment: 6th St. Container, Miami, Florida,
2013 Instacorrespondences 1st installment: 924 Project, South Florida Art Center, Miami Beach, October-November 2013
2012 Correspondences, Amalia Caputo & Marina Font, 924 Projects, South Florida Art Center, Miami Beach
Transferencias, curated by Lorena González, Centro Cultural La Caja Chacao, Caracas, Venezuela
Obra reciente, Beatriz Gil Galería, Caracas, Venezuela
El beso, Art @ Work, Miami, Florida
2010 Tableaux, Dot FiftyOne Gallery, Project Room, Miami, Florida
2006 Fe, cuerpo y artificio, curated by Costanza de Rogatis, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela.
Traveled to Museo de Arte Acarigua-Araure, Venezuela, November 2007
2003 Masculinefeminine, Oolong Alternative Space, Barcelona, Spain
2000 Cobijo, Convent de Sant Agustí, 10a Primavera Fotográfica, Barcelona, Spain
1995 Somatic, 80 Washington Sq. East Gallery, NYC, USA.
SELECCIÓN DE EXPOSICIONES COLECTIVAS
2020 Espacio Interior, curated by Anilú Gómez, Amerant Bank, Coral Gables
(upcoming February)
Headspace, Amalia Caputo, Janice Sloane, Eugenia Vargas and Michelle Weinberg,
La Plataforma, Barcelona (upcoming March)
2019 For Now: Contemporary Venezuelan Art of the Miami Diaspora, curated by
Adriana Meneses and Yuni Villalonga, Coral Gables Museum of Art, Coral Gables, Fl
MISO-Senses.Synesthesia, curated by Mali Parkerson for Miami Symphony Orchestra, The Moore Building, Miami, Fl
Artist Open, Collective 62, Miami
Artists Draw Their Studios, curated by Michelle Weinberg, Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, Fl
Art & Fashion Pop-Up at The Citadel, curated by Bernadette Despujols, Museum of Sustainability, Miami
RCS 51-76 (Rocking Chair Sessions), curated by BaBa Collective, The Annex/Spinello Gallery, Miami
Boss Lady, when female artists run the show, curated by Sarah Michelle Rupert and Michelle Weinberg, Girls Club Collection, Ft. Lauderdale
2018 Unnatural Nature, Hartvest Project, Pinecrest Gardens, Miami
Open Studio, Available Space, Miami
Still Lives, Amalia Caputo, Bernadette Despujols, Tamara Despujols, Hayward Gallery at Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami
Femmes et révoltes dans la création contemporaine du Venezuela, curated by Rolando J.Carmona, Théâtre municipal Berthelot, Montreuil
Caracas Reset / Cracking Videoart,curated by Erika Ordosgoittia, Theâtre La Colonie, Paris
Cuerpo, Medio, Poder, Video arte y performance, curated by Erika Ordosgoittia and Rolando J Carmona, Cinemateca Distrital de Bogotá
2017 En vision:picturing the self, curated by Nalini Elías, Museum of Latin American Art (Molaa), Los Angeles
Güelcome, ToBe Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Bitches, Witches and Shots, TBD Independent, Miami Rèsistance, ToBe Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2016 Pink Noise: Flexing the Frequency, curated by Sarah Michelle Rupert, Girls Club Collection, Ft. Lauderdale
Flip Out: artists’ sketchbooks at the Girls Club Collection, Ft. Lauderdale Colectiva de verano, Beatriz Gil Galería, Caracas
Obra Abierta/Ejes de Libertad, curated by Lorena González, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia (MacZul), Maracaibo, Venezuela
Álter-ego. Lecturas del retrato, curated by Tahía Rivero, Museo de Arte
Contemporáneo del Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela
2015 Fantastical Vizcaya, curated by Gina Wouters for the Contemporary Art Projects
at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami
+1+1, Made/LabSpace, Satellite Art Fair, Ocean Terrace Hotel, Miami Beach Miami 9 topics (co-curator), The Girls Club Collection, Ft. Lauderdale and OCinema Miami
Summer Show, Beatriz Gil Galería, Caracas
1st International Performance Biennial of Caracas, curated by Carlos Salazar Lermont and Erika Ordosgoitti, Centro Cultural El Hatillo, Caracas Page.Print.Post> Make a book, curated by Juana Meneses and Leila Leder Kremer, Miami Dade Public Library, Main Library, Miami
Miami 30 years on the road, curated by Edward Duval-Carrier, South Florida Art Center, Miami Beach
Portable Editions, Miami Zine fair, O Miami Poetry Festival, Miami
Obra abierta: Ejes de Libertad, curated by Lorena Gonzalez, Centro de Arte El Hatillo, Caracas
BeLonging, Caputo, Frorup & Mason, curated by John Loscuito, Florida Gulf
Coast University Museum, Ft. Myers, Florida
2014 Venezuela-Ukraine, curated by Tony Vázquez Black Square Gallery, Miami
Instacorrespondencias, Amalia Caputo& Marina Font, 3a Installment, Dacil Art Galería, Buenos Aires
Nothing Familiar, curated by Guillermo Espinosa, South Florida Art Center, Miami Beach
Abracadabra, curated by Jane Hart, Hollywood Art and Culture Center,
Hollywood, Florida
2013 Alter Ego, Lecturas del retrato, curated by Tahía Rivero, Colección Mercantil,
Fundación Mercantil, Caracas
In the name of honor, curated by Jenny Christenson, Sarah Charlton Foundation/Christies, One Mayfair, London
2012 Memories of the Oikos: The House Re-presented, curated by Adriana Herrera y Willy Castellanos, Centro Cultural Español, Miami
Women ́s Perspectives, Dina Mitrani Gallery, Miami
Works by Emilia Azcárate, Amalia Caputo, Eugenio Espinoza Glexis Novoa and Jorge Pedro Nunez. Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation at ONE Sotheby's International Realty, Miami Beach
2011 Collective show, Artepuy Gallery, Scope Miami, Miami Beach Art Basel, Miami Amalia Caputo, Pepe López, Cipriano Martínez and Cecilia Paredes, Pinta Latin American Art Fair, New York
Unresolved Circumstances, Video Art from Latin América, curated by Idurre Alonso and Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Museum of Latin American Art (Molaa), Long Beach, California
Collective show, curated by Lorena González for Galería Artepuy, FIA Caracas, After Process, Pip Brandt, Amalia Caputo, Patricia Figueroa, Dinorah Rodríguez de Jesús and Odalis Valdivieso, curated by Denise Delgado, Miami Beach Regional Public Library, Miami Beach
2010 Inside-Out, Photography After Form: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, curated by Simon Baker and Tanya Barson, Tate Modern, CIFO, Miami
BANG! II Barcelona Art Mooving Festival, Punt Multimédia, Barcelona
NW MIAMI 2010- as part of the collective Talking Heads Transmitters- THT, curated by René Morales and Peter Boswell, Miami Art Museum, Miami Dentro y estando fuera, Galería Artepuy, FIA Caracas
2009 Dialogues: Chapters of Latin American Art in the MOLAA Permanent Collection, curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California
Imperfect Archives, curated by Angela Valella, 801 Space, Miami
Ocupa, works by Amalia Caputo, Odalis Valdivieso, and Eugenia Vargas Pereira, Farside Gallery, Miami
USA Dwell, summer group show, Douz and Mille, Washington D.C. Photoshopping and more: MOLAA Collects Photo-Based Art, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California
2008 Morsel, Blink Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
Survival of the Fittest, Art Rouge Gallery, Miami
2007 Photo Buenos Aires, Kunsthaus Santa Fe Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina Auction Exhibition 07, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California
ArtDC, Kunsthaus Miami, Booth 238, Washington DC
The Model at Hand, Art Center South Florida, Miami Beach
2006 Aqua Art Fair, curated by Jane Hart, Lemonsky Projects + editions, Art Basel Miami Beach
In the loop, Douz & Mille at DIVA, Digital and Video Art Fair, New York Perfect Timing, Ela-Asia, Art Taipei, Douz and Mille, Taipei, Taiwan Arteaméricas Art Fair, Kunsthaus Miami Contemporary Art Space, Coconut Grove Convention Center, Miami
Witnesses... works of Florencio Gelabert, Nelson Gutierrez, Amalia Caputo,
Ronald Moran & Guido Albi Marini, Kunsthaus Miami, Miami
2005 4X Fotografías de Luis Brito, Amalia Caputo, Jorge Parra y Antolin Sánchez,
Spazio Zero, Caracas
Scope London, Douz & Mille, St.Martins Lane, London, UK III Salon Exxonmobil, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas Ephemeral Trends III, Arteaméricas Art Fair, Miami
Big Chill, Space + Douz & Mille, Washington DC
2004 Miami Sites 04, Lummus Park, curated by William Kedell and Brook Dorsch for Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami
Extremities, Amalia Caputo & Eugenio Espinoza, Douz & Mille, Potomac, MD 63rd Arturo Michelena Biennial, Ateneo de Valencia, Venezuela
Photo NY Fair, Grappa Contemporary Art, New York
VIII Bienal Internacional de Cuenca, Central Bank Museum, Cuenca, Ecuador, curated by Maria Elena Ramos representing Venezuela along Alexander Apóstol and Juan Araujo, Cuenca, Ecuador
2003 Tunnel Vision, Daniel Azoulay Gallery, Miami
Foto Septiembre, Festival de la luz, Ateneo de Caracas- Embassade du France, Caracas
2002 Fragmento y Universo, curated by María Elena Ramos, Centro Cultural Corp Banca, Caracas
No hay línea, Grappa Studio of Art, curated by Sandra Colmenares, Miami 2001 59th Arturo Michelena Biennial, Ateneo de Valencia, Venezuela
Four Venezuelan Photographers from Abroad, Angela Bonadies, Amalia Caputo, Marianna Collet & Marisela LaGrave, Art al Rec Gallery (Now Alicia Ventura Gallery) Barcelona
2000 Habitar, Fundación Itaca/Fundación EAPN, Poble Espanyol, Barcelona
12 Artistas del Michelena, Galleries of the Industrial Banc Foundation, Caracas
1999 New Art, Art al Rec Gallery, Barcelona Sants Hotel, Spain
IV Christian Dior Biennial of Visual Arts, curated by Luis Angel Duque, Centro Cultural Corp Banca, Caracas
57th Arturo Michelena Biennial, Ateneo de Valencia, Venezuela
1998 56th Arturo Michelena Biennial, Ateneo de Valencia, Venezuela
A selection of the V Biennial of Guayana, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas,
1997 V Biennial of Arte of Guayana, curated by Ruth Auerbach Museo Jesús Soto, Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela
III Salon Pirelli, curated by Luis Ángel Duque and Mariluz Cárdenas, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas Sofía Imber, Caracas
Tallers Oberts, Centre Cìvic Pati Llimona, Performance and Installation in collaboration with Claudia Costa, Barcelona
Anatomies of the Soul, Espai 13, curated by Ferran Barenblit, Joan Miró
Foundation, Barcelona
1996 The furor of change, curated by Kathleen McQueen, Pulse Art Gallery, New York 1995 II Salon Pirelli, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas Sofía Imber, curated
by María Luz Cárdenas and Luis Angel Duque, Caracas
Cross-Section. New York SoHo Biennial, 473 Broadway, NYC, USA, curated by Mark Hungerbüeler, New York
1994 Sangre de mi Sangre, Centro de la Imagen, curated by Patricia Mendoza, México Self-Identity and Portraiture, curated by Laurie de Chiara, Rosemberg Gallery, NYU, New York
III National Salon of Young Photographers, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas Sofía Imber, Caracas
1990 National Biennial of Young Photographers, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas Sofía Imber, Caracas
PUBLIC AND ONLINE PROJECTS
2017 9Topics Triad, Instagram based open call to the public, made in collaboration with Marina Font, to foster the photographic notion of the self through social media, Arthill Gallery, London
2015 9 Topics Girls Club Instagram based open call to the public, made in collaboration with Marina Font, to foster the photographic notion of the self through social media,with final exhibition at The Girls Club Collection and O Cinema, Miami
2013 1st Slideluck Miami, curated by Odalis Valdivieso, Gramps, Miami
2011 Talking Head Transmitters 88.3 MHz FM | Radio collective
CIFO | THT Conversations and Interviews at Wynwood Art Fair, Miami, October
2011 O Miami Poetry Festival | University of Wynwood, Installation and transmission
from the New World Symphony Orchestra building, April 2011
2010 Talking Head Transmitters 88.3 MHz FM | Radio collective
Miami Art Museum Radio Installation and transmission, New Works, 2010 Emergency Radio Battery | Transmission from Miami Beach Botanical Gardens, collaboration with Gustavo Matamoros and guests.
2004 Miami Art Sites, curated by William Kedell y Brook Dorsch, Lummus Park, Miami Arte por el Sí, Mural in Chacao, Caracas made by several artists on the occasion of the Referendum in Venezuela
CURATORIAL
2019 Michelle Weinberg, Janice Sloane, Eugenia Vargas and Amalia Caputo, La Plataforma, Barcelona ( Upcoming March 2020)
2017 Tamara Despujols, Irreverence Unveiled, TBD Independent, Miami
Lía Bermúdez, Akalia, Art Nouveau Gallery, Miami
9 Topics, II iteration, co-curated with Marina Font, Art Hill Gallery, London
2016 Luis Brito, 1945-2015 In Memoriam, Dina Mitrani Gallery
Bernadette Despujols, Guilt, Pleasures and other uncomfortable matters, Platabanda Art Space, Miami
2015 9 Topics, I iteration, co-curated with Marina Font, The Girls Club Collection, Ft. Lauderdale
2014 Paúl Amundarain, Urban Skins and other Cityscapes, Art Nouveau Gallery, Miami 2013 Whiskey and Rye, collective show, The Nightclub, Miami
Correspondences, co-curated with Marina Font, Art Center South Florida, Miami Beach
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2019 Resident Artist, Deering Estate, Miami, Fl (Current)
Resident Artist, Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, Fl (Current)
2017 Guest Resident Artist, South Florida Art Center(Now Oolite Arts), Miami Beach 2015 Vizcaya Museum and Gardens Resident Artist, Miami
2006 Juried Resident Artist, South Florida Art Center, Miami Beach
2004 Premio Juan Lovera, 62o Salón Arturo Michelena, Valencia, Venezuela
2003 Grant for editorial project, CONAC - Consejo Nacional de la Cultura, Venezuela 1999 Premio Braulio Salazar, 57th Salón Arturo Michelena, Valencia, Venezuela
1998 Premio Henrique Avril, 56o Salón Arturo Michelena, Valencia, Venezuela
1995 Scholarship Crea for the arts, Polar Fundación, Caracas, Venezuela
1992 Fundayacucho /LASPAU scholarship for MA at NYU/ ICP, USA
SELECTED LECTURES & WORKSHOPS
2019 Women artists-visible, HArtvest Art Space, PInecrest Gardens
2018 Photography and Contemporary Art HArtvest Art Space, PInecrest Gardens
A Room of One’s Own, Women in Photography part II, HArtvest Art Space
PInecrest Gardens, Miami
2017 Mental Maps, psychology and photography, a conversation between Marina Font and Amalia Caputo, Dina Mitrani Gallery, Miami
2015 Instagram and new languages in photography, La Plataforma Gallery, Barcelona
Round table conference at NALAC, Miami 2015, Miami Dade College Cyanotypes, along with Marina Font at Girls Club Collection, Ft. Lauderdale Photo book stories, along with Marina Font at Girls Club Collection, Ft. Lauderdale
2014 A Room of One’s Own. Women in photography, Lecture at Dina Mitrani Gallery, Miami
2013 The visual diary in the age of Instagram, 2-day workshop, The Girls Club Collection, Ft. Lauderdale
2012 Photography and Contemporary Art, Dot FiftyOne Gallery and 2B Foundation, Miami
The body and other miracles, Dina Mitrani Gallery, Miami Thinking about Photography, Dina Mitrani Gallery, Miami
SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Museum of Latin American Art – Molaa, Long Beach, CA Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas
Ateneo de Valencia, Valencia, Venezuela
Colección Fundación Banco Mercantil, Caracas
Mrs. Alejandra Ellenberg Collection, Barcelona Dr. Samuel Wagner Collection, Miami
Mrs. Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas
Museo de Arte Acarigua-Araure, Caracas Arturo and Liza Mosquera Collection, Miami Mr. Manuel de Santarén, Boston, MA
Dr. Serge Benayoun, Montreal
Mr. Juan Carlos Maldonado Collection, Miami
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Transferences 2.0, by Katherine Chacón, Art Nexus # 115
Paradojas en torno a la fotografía y la construcción de archivos visuales como estrategias para paliar el exilio. Cruces de camino con “El exilio como patria” de María Zambrano, Fall Semester, Winter Break, https://www.fallsemester.org/2019
Art and Life with Amalia Caputo, Miami Voyage Magazine, 2019 http://voyagemia.com/interview/art-life-amalia-caputo/
Amalia Caputo, Goethe Institute Venezuela, Online Magazine, 2018 https://www.goethe.de/ins/ve/es/kul/sup/voc/21215840.html
RCS vol.56| Amalia Caputo, by Maria Barbist and Elysa Di Battista, BaBa Collective, online project Player FM, 2018 https://soundcloud.com/rockingchairsessions/rcs-vol-56-amalia-caputo
Marina Font and Amalia Caputo: Instacorrespondences, by Aline Smithson, Lenscratch, Online Journal, 2015 http://lenscratch.com/2015/07/photolucida-marina-font/
BeLonging, Caputo, Frorup, Mason, ArtSWFL.com Digital newspaper, Ft Myers, Florida, 2015
Amalia Caputo y Marina Font: Correspondencias, Artist book published by Portable Editions, 2014, Edition of 50 hand intervened
Amalia Caputo y Marina Font: Correspondencia Instantáneas, by Janet Batet, April 26th, 2014, El Nuevo Herald, Miami
Amalia Caputo, El obturador, by Grisel Arveláez, Literary Paper, El Nacional Newspaper, August 18, 2013
Amalia Caputo, El cuerpo, by Carmen Victoria Méndez, in La Individual del Lunes, El Nacional Newspaper, April 22, 2013
Cuerpo y Arte by Ricardo Andrade, Revista Locatel, Caracas, February 2013 Amalia Caputo: Gesto e imagen by Inés Yanes, Revista Hábitat plus, Caracas,
February, 2013
Transferencias, Tráfico Visual, Caracas, March, 2013
Transferencias, by Beatriz Sogbe, Arte al día, February 2013
Transferencias by Amalia Caputo, Lisa Blackmore, Art Nexus Magazine,#89, 2013
Transferencias, by Alessandra Caputo Jaffe, Catalog essay for Transferencias solo exhibition, La caja, 2012
A room with a View, by Amalia Caputo, e-flux projects (online), 2011
Amalia Caputo, la valentía de sus imágenes incómodas, by Adriana Herrera, Palante
Magazine, July 2011
Fotografía en Cifo: la cercanía entre lo evidente y lo vedado, by Adriana Herrera, El Nuevo Herald, March 06, 2011
Inside Out, Photography After Form: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection. Catalog essay for the exhibition by Simon Baker and Tanya Barson, December 2010.
Amalia Caputo and Jose Luis Landet by Janet Batet, Art Nexus Magazine # 78, September, 2010
Jose Luis Landet y Amalia Caputo, diálogos a puerta abierta entre el artista y el arte by Adriana Herrera, --El Nuevo Herald, Miami, January 20, 2010
Tres habitaciones propias llenas de ficción en Farside by Adriana Herrera, Artes & Letras, El Nuevo Herald, Miami, September 13, 2009
Amalia Caputo by Sonia Casanova, Art Nexus, #65, June-September, Miami Florida, USA 2007
Fé, cuerpo y Artificio by Costanza di Rogatis. Catalog essay for solo exhibition, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas November 2006
Amalia Caputo. El cuerpo del cuerpo by Xiomara Moreno, Revista Veintiuno, Caracas, Venezuela, June-July 2005
62 Salón Arturo Michelena by Freddy Carreño, Arte Al Dia Newespaper, Caracas, Venezuela, December 2004
Three Venezuelans at the VIII Cuenca Biennial by Maria Elena Ramos, Venezuelanalitica.com, June 2004
The body's memory, the city's transfiguration, the reflection of art about itself by María Elena Ramos in Arte al Dia Newspaper, Caracas, Venezuela, June 2004
Catalog for the V Biennial of Guayana, by Ruth Auerbach (Catalog essay),Jesus Soto Museum, Guayana City, Venezuela, Published May 2004
Catalog for the VIII International Cuenca , essay by Maria Elena Ramos, VIII Biennial, Cuenca, Ecuador. April 2004
21 Venezuelan Photographers by Adriana Gibbs, Estampas Magazine, El Universal Newspaper, Caracas, Venezuela, February 2004
Tunnel Vision: A Contemporary Odyssey by Lilia Fontana, Arte al Día Magazine # 101, Miami Florida, USA, February 2004
Parody, bodies and movie. About the recent work of Angela Bonadies, Amalia Caputo and Lisbeth Salas. By Carlos E. Palacios. Extracámara magazine # 22, 2003
21 Venezuelan Women Photographers by Maria Teresa Boulton, Editorial Arte, Caracas Venezuela, 2003
Fragment & Universe by Sonia Casanova, Art Nexus # 48 April-June Miami Florida, USA. 2003
Fragment and Universe by María Elena Ramos, Venezuelanalitica.com, February 2003 Aesthetics of the Fragmentary by María Elena Ramos, Verbigracia at El Universal
Newspaper, October 26th, Caracas, Venezuela, 2002
Amalia Caputo studies the human body through photography by Marie Claire Uberqoi ,El Mundo Newspaper, , Barcelona Spain, January 11, 2001
Constructivism and erotism in the Michelena, Literary Body, El Nacional Newspaper by Ricardo Bello, January 4th, Caracas Venezuela, 2000
Scandalous Good Art by Ruben Witzoski, El Nacional Newspaper, Cultural Pages, October 25th Caracas Venezuela, 1998
Deconstructivism: a path tor re-starting by Sandra Pinardi, Extracámara Magazine # 3 April-June, Caracas, Venezuela 1995
Amalia Caputo by Sonia Casanova, Estilo Magazine, 6th year # 25, Caracas Venezuela 1995
