Artists
Karlo Andrei Ibarra
Karlo Andrei Ibarra graduated from the San Juan School of Visual Arts in 2005. For over 15 years he works with the concept of “repair” in his artistic practice. It allows him to investigate the dialectic between destruction and repair, in which repair is understood as a way of cultural resistance as well as a means for a society or a subject to reappropriate their history and identity. On the other hand, he’s interested in investigating aspects about our historical and colonial framework that affects in the past that we were in the present that we are and in the future that we will be. He employ a wide variety of media that refer to conceptual art and mass media while addressing issues of social, political, cultural and geographic boundaries. His practice relies on social and political cognitions gathered from personal investigations, which draw correlations between individual and national identities and make larger observations respective to a global community. He has participated in the 3rd Bucharest Biennial (2008), in the last two editions of the San Juan Polygraphic Triennial, Latin America and the Caribbean (2009) and (2012), in the 2nd International Biennial of Young Art in Moscow, at the Biennial of the Americas entitled The Nature of Things, held in Denver, both in (2010) and in the Novo Museo Tropical exhibition, at Teorética Fundación in San José, Costa Rica, curated by Pablo León de la Barra. Ibarra has also been awarded the First Prize in the 6th edition of the Digital Art Contest of Central America and the Caribbean, Inquieta Imagen, at the Museum of Art and Design in San José, Costa Rica and with the People Choice Award at the video festival, Optic Nerve, organized by the North Miami Museum of Contemporary Art in 2011.
He has been selected to be part of Phaidon’s new book, entitled Art Cities of the Future: Contemporary Avant Gardes. He has exhibited at Pacific Standard Time, under the title of Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art from the Caribbean Archipelago curated by Tatiana Flores at MOLAA in 2017 and in the Video Art in Latin America exhibition, in Laxart curated by Glen Philips at the Getty Institute . He has exhibited in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Canada, Spain, Romania, Norway, Holland, Sweden, the Czech Republic, China, Taiwan, and cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Denver and New York.
COLLECTIONS
– Stamp Gallery, University of Maryland
– Colección Kells
– Colección Lázaro
– Colección Civit
– Centro Wifredo Lam
– Fundación Otazú
– Boghossian Foundation
– Museo Tamayo, México City.
– Museum of Latinamerican Art, Long Beach, California
– Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico
– Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica.
– Museo de la Universidad del Turabo, Gurabo, Puerto Rico.
– Ella Cisneros Fontanals Collection, Miami, Florida.
– Santa Fe Museum of Art, Santa Fe, Argentina.
SOLO SHOWS
2023
– El cóndor pesa, Vigil Gonzales, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2022
– Fractured Atlas, Vigil Gonzales, Cusco, Peru
2020
– History of a loop, Embajada, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2019
– Cumulatives Failures, Solo Project, Arte Santander
– Doble Vara, Casa Quien, Santo Domingo, Dominican Repu
2018
– Comulative Failures, ATM Contemporary, Gijón, Asturias
2016
– A veces sueño que cae un meteorito sobre mi país y lo construye, Proyecto Local, San Juan, PR
2014
– Forma x forma, forman, conforman, Galería Roberto Paradise, San Juan, PR
– Ensayo para una isla estrella, Nuevo Museo Energía de Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires
– Genealogía del Ritmo, Diablo Rosso, Casco Antiguo, Panama city
2013
– SincretISMOs, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo de San José, Costa Rica
2012
– La suerte está echada (The Die is Cast), Area: Place for Projects, Caguas, Puerto Rico
2011
– Hasta la victoria miente, Rica Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2009
– Souvenir Stories: Beyond the Paradise, (Solo Project), Photo Miami, Miami, USA
2007
– Each city can be another, Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico
– Walking towards the sun, Storehousegroup, San Juan, Puerto Rico
GROUPS SHOWS
2023
– Converge 45, Portland Biennial, curated by Christian Viveros Faune, Portland Oregon
– Juan Francisco Elso: Por America, Phoenix Art Museum, curated by Olga Viso
– Juan Francisco Elso: Por America, North Miami Contemporary Art Museum, Miami
2022
– Juan Francisco Elso: Por América, Museo del Barrio, NY, curated by Olga Viso
2021
– Constant Storm: Art From Puerto Rico and Diaspora, USF Contemporary Art Museum, curated by Noel Smith and christian Viveros Faune
– Habitantes, Memoria, espacio, identidad, Muse de Arte de Bayamón
– Mesotrópicos, Contemporary Art Museum of Panamá, curated by Adán Vallecillo
– Sabor y Control, Vantage Art Projects, curated by Ivan Sikic
– Entre Formas, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, curated by Abdiel Segarra
2019
– Sub-versiones, Km0.2, San Juan
– Ultra_Contaminados: Arte Provocativo sobre realidades paralelas, Muse de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá.
– III Bienal de la Habana, Pabellón Cuba
– Salón Acme #7, México City
– IK Projects, Material Art Fair, México City
– Relational Undercurrents: : Contemporary Art of Caribbean
– Archipielago, curated by Tatiana Flores, Portland Museum of Art,
2018
– Untitled Miami, Ana Mas Projects, Miami Beach
– ArtBO, ATM Contemporary, Bogotá Colombia.
– Justo x Bueno, Central de Abastos, Bogotá
– Sub Tropical, Sagrada Mercancia, Santiago de Chile.
– El Bastión, Ana Mas Projects, San Juan.
– Relational Undercurrent: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipielago, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University curated by Tatiana Flores
– Isla Imaginaria, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn , NY curated by Natalia Viera Salgado
– ArtLima, Instituto de Visión, ArtLima, Perú
– Contra fuerza, sección Plataforma, ArtLima, Perú
– Dolores, Dolores Street, Mexico City.
– Terremoto Latino, Estudio de Marlon de Azambuja, Madrid
– We! A world community, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Mueum, Berlin, curated by nowhowcollective
2017
– Untitled Art Fair, Km 0.2 y Carne.
– Context Art Fair, Rofa Projects, Miami, USA
– Relational Undercurrent: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipielago, Museum of Latinamerican Art, California curated by Tatiana Flores
– Video Art in Latin America, Laxart, Los Angeles, California, curated by Glen Philips and Elena Strotemberg
– ChaCo, Km0.2, Santiago de Chile
– Rotative Repository of Latin American Video Art: Single Channel, curated by Rocio Aranda- Alvarado and Omar Lopez Chahoud.
2016
– 2nda Gran Bienal Tropical, Kiosko, la Comay, Loiza, curada por Pablo Leon de La Barra
– Toda Percepcion es una Interpretacion: You are part of it, Cisneros Fontanals Art, Miami.
– 118 Years of Colonilalism: A series of events, SVA, New York, curaed by Natalia Viera
– Patria o Libertad! Matucana 100, Santiago de Chile, curada por Paco Barragan.
– Disonacias, Getty Museum, Los Angeles , California.
– Lembre-se de lembrar, Carbono Galería, curada por Alexia Tala.
– Feria Arco Madrid, Roberto Paradise, Madrid.
– Material Art Fair, Roberto Paradise, Mexico City.
2015
– Influences, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art. Curada por Rodolfo Andaúr.
– Frescos: Ciudadanos de ninguna parte, Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, curada por Celina Nogueras Cuevas.
– Cero Normal, Instituto de visión, Bogotá, Colombia, curada por Magdalena Arellano.
– IV Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, curado por Gerardo Mosquera, Alexia Tala, y Vanesa Hernadez.
– Proyecto Bandera Comunitaria, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico.
– Calibán, National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts, Chicago, USA.
2014
– Calibán, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, curado por Marina Reyes-Franco.
– Subasta Internacional de Arte, Valorarte, San José, Costa Rica.
– Segundo Premio, Teor/Etica Fundación, San José, Costa Rica, curada por Ramon Zafrani.
– El dia en que nos hicimos contemporáneos, (Exhibición 20 Aniversario) Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo de San José, Costa Rica, curado por Rosina Cazali.
– ArteBa, Trailer Park Projects, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
– INDEX, Festival Internacional de Performance, Museo de Arte Moderno de República Dominicana.
– Influjos, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santiago de Chile, curado por Rodolfo Andaúr.
– We are so very Miami, Diablo Rosso, Panama City.
– Tropicaleo: Una provocación caribeña, Espacio 20 – 20, Santurce, Puerto Rico.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2020 Betancourt Latorre Foundation: Visual Artist Relief Fund Covid -19 West Collection Relief Grant NALAC Micro Grant: Actos de Confianza
2019 Cerf+ Plus Grant
2018 Nominated Fundación Casa Prize, Art Lima, Perú
2011 [First Prize] 6th Central American Video Art and Digital Art Competition INQUIETA IMAGEN, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design of San José, San José, Costa Rica.
2011 People Choice Award, Video Art Festival, Optic Nerve XIII Video Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art of North Miami, Miami, USA.
2010 MUCEVI, Selected in the First Virtual Museum of Central American Video Art, San José, Costa Rica.
2009 Mention of honor, 2nd Young Art Competition, Oriental Group Bank, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2006 Lexus Production Grant for Artists, Community Foundation of Puerto Rico, Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico 2004 Travel Grant to ARCO, Madrid, Spain.
2002 First Painting Prize, Art Museum of Puerto Rico.
Karlo Andrei Ibarra graduated from the San Juan School of Visual Arts in 2005. For over 15 years he works with the concept of “repair” in his artistic practice. It allows him to investigate the dialectic between destruction and repair, in which repair is understood as a way of cultural resistance as well as a means for a society or a subject to reappropriate their history and identity. On the other hand, he’s interested in investigating aspects about our historical and colonial framework that affects in the past that we were in the present that we are and in the future that we will be. He employ a wide variety of media that refer to conceptual art and mass media while addressing issues of social, political, cultural and geographic boundaries. His practice relies on social and political cognitions gathered from personal investigations, which draw correlations between individual and national identities and make larger observations respective to a global community. He has participated in the 3rd Bucharest Biennial (2008), in the last two editions of the San Juan Polygraphic Triennial, Latin America and the Caribbean (2009) and (2012), in the 2nd International Biennial of Young Art in Moscow, at the Biennial of the Americas entitled The Nature of Things, held in Denver, both in (2010) and in the Novo Museo Tropical exhibition, at Teorética Fundación in San José, Costa Rica, curated by Pablo León de la Barra. Ibarra has also been awarded the First Prize in the 6th edition of the Digital Art Contest of Central America and the Caribbean, Inquieta Imagen, at the Museum of Art and Design in San José, Costa Rica and with the People Choice Award at the video festival, Optic Nerve, organized by the North Miami Museum of Contemporary Art in 2011.
He has been selected to be part of Phaidon’s new book, entitled Art Cities of the Future: Contemporary Avant Gardes. He has exhibited at Pacific Standard Time, under the title of Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art from the Caribbean Archipelago curated by Tatiana Flores at MOLAA in 2017 and in the Video Art in Latin America exhibition, in Laxart curated by Glen Philips at the Getty Institute . He has exhibited in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Canada, Spain, Romania, Norway, Holland, Sweden, the Czech Republic, China, Taiwan, and cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Denver and New York.
COLLECTIONS
– Stamp Gallery, University of Maryland
– Colección Kells
– Colección Lázaro
– Colección Civit
– Centro Wifredo Lam
– Fundación Otazú
– Boghossian Foundation
– Museo Tamayo, México City.
– Museum of Latinamerican Art, Long Beach, California
– Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico
– Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica.
– Museo de la Universidad del Turabo, Gurabo, Puerto Rico.
– Ella Cisneros Fontanals Collection, Miami, Florida.
– Santa Fe Museum of Art, Santa Fe, Argentina.
SOLO SHOWS
2023
– El cóndor pesa, Vigil Gonzales, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2022
– Fractured Atlas, Vigil Gonzales, Cusco, Peru
2020
– History of a loop, Embajada, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2019
– Cumulatives Failures, Solo Project, Arte Santander
– Doble Vara, Casa Quien, Santo Domingo, Dominican Repu
2018
– Comulative Failures, ATM Contemporary, Gijón, Asturias
2016
– A veces sueño que cae un meteorito sobre mi país y lo construye, Proyecto Local, San Juan, PR
2014
– Forma x forma, forman, conforman, Galería Roberto Paradise, San Juan, PR
– Ensayo para una isla estrella, Nuevo Museo Energía de Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires
– Genealogía del Ritmo, Diablo Rosso, Casco Antiguo, Panama city
2013
– SincretISMOs, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo de San José, Costa Rica
2012
– La suerte está echada (The Die is Cast), Area: Place for Projects, Caguas, Puerto Rico
2011
– Hasta la victoria miente, Rica Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2009
– Souvenir Stories: Beyond the Paradise, (Solo Project), Photo Miami, Miami, USA
2007
– Each city can be another, Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico
– Walking towards the sun, Storehousegroup, San Juan, Puerto Rico
GROUPS SHOWS
2023
– Converge 45, Portland Biennial, curated by Christian Viveros Faune, Portland Oregon
– Juan Francisco Elso: Por America, Phoenix Art Museum, curated by Olga Viso
– Juan Francisco Elso: Por America, North Miami Contemporary Art Museum, Miami
2022
– Juan Francisco Elso: Por América, Museo del Barrio, NY, curated by Olga Viso
2021
– Constant Storm: Art From Puerto Rico and Diaspora, USF Contemporary Art Museum, curated by Noel Smith and christian Viveros Faune
– Habitantes, Memoria, espacio, identidad, Muse de Arte de Bayamón
– Mesotrópicos, Contemporary Art Museum of Panamá, curated by Adán Vallecillo
– Sabor y Control, Vantage Art Projects, curated by Ivan Sikic
– Entre Formas, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, curated by Abdiel Segarra
2019
– Sub-versiones, Km0.2, San Juan
– Ultra_Contaminados: Arte Provocativo sobre realidades paralelas, Muse de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá.
– III Bienal de la Habana, Pabellón Cuba
– Salón Acme #7, México City
– IK Projects, Material Art Fair, México City
– Relational Undercurrents: : Contemporary Art of Caribbean
– Archipielago, curated by Tatiana Flores, Portland Museum of Art,
2018
– Untitled Miami, Ana Mas Projects, Miami Beach
– ArtBO, ATM Contemporary, Bogotá Colombia.
– Justo x Bueno, Central de Abastos, Bogotá
– Sub Tropical, Sagrada Mercancia, Santiago de Chile.
– El Bastión, Ana Mas Projects, San Juan.
– Relational Undercurrent: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipielago, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University curated by Tatiana Flores
– Isla Imaginaria, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn , NY curated by Natalia Viera Salgado
– ArtLima, Instituto de Visión, ArtLima, Perú
– Contra fuerza, sección Plataforma, ArtLima, Perú
– Dolores, Dolores Street, Mexico City.
– Terremoto Latino, Estudio de Marlon de Azambuja, Madrid
– We! A world community, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Mueum, Berlin, curated by nowhowcollective
2017
– Untitled Art Fair, Km 0.2 y Carne.
– Context Art Fair, Rofa Projects, Miami, USA
– Relational Undercurrent: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipielago, Museum of Latinamerican Art, California curated by Tatiana Flores
– Video Art in Latin America, Laxart, Los Angeles, California, curated by Glen Philips and Elena Strotemberg
– ChaCo, Km0.2, Santiago de Chile
– Rotative Repository of Latin American Video Art: Single Channel, curated by Rocio Aranda- Alvarado and Omar Lopez Chahoud.
2016
– 2nda Gran Bienal Tropical, Kiosko, la Comay, Loiza, curada por Pablo Leon de La Barra
– Toda Percepcion es una Interpretacion: You are part of it, Cisneros Fontanals Art, Miami.
– 118 Years of Colonilalism: A series of events, SVA, New York, curaed by Natalia Viera
– Patria o Libertad! Matucana 100, Santiago de Chile, curada por Paco Barragan.
– Disonacias, Getty Museum, Los Angeles , California.
– Lembre-se de lembrar, Carbono Galería, curada por Alexia Tala.
– Feria Arco Madrid, Roberto Paradise, Madrid.
– Material Art Fair, Roberto Paradise, Mexico City.
2015
– Influences, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art. Curada por Rodolfo Andaúr.
– Frescos: Ciudadanos de ninguna parte, Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, curada por Celina Nogueras Cuevas.
– Cero Normal, Instituto de visión, Bogotá, Colombia, curada por Magdalena Arellano.
– IV Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, curado por Gerardo Mosquera, Alexia Tala, y Vanesa Hernadez.
– Proyecto Bandera Comunitaria, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico.
– Calibán, National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts, Chicago, USA.
2014
– Calibán, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, curado por Marina Reyes-Franco.
– Subasta Internacional de Arte, Valorarte, San José, Costa Rica.
– Segundo Premio, Teor/Etica Fundación, San José, Costa Rica, curada por Ramon Zafrani.
– El dia en que nos hicimos contemporáneos, (Exhibición 20 Aniversario) Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo de San José, Costa Rica, curado por Rosina Cazali.
– ArteBa, Trailer Park Projects, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
– INDEX, Festival Internacional de Performance, Museo de Arte Moderno de República Dominicana.
– Influjos, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santiago de Chile, curado por Rodolfo Andaúr.
– We are so very Miami, Diablo Rosso, Panama City.
– Tropicaleo: Una provocación caribeña, Espacio 20 – 20, Santurce, Puerto Rico.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2020 Betancourt Latorre Foundation: Visual Artist Relief Fund Covid -19 West Collection Relief Grant NALAC Micro Grant: Actos de Confianza
2019 Cerf+ Plus Grant
2018 Nominated Fundación Casa Prize, Art Lima, Perú
2011 [First Prize] 6th Central American Video Art and Digital Art Competition INQUIETA IMAGEN, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design of San José, San José, Costa Rica.
2011 People Choice Award, Video Art Festival, Optic Nerve XIII Video Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art of North Miami, Miami, USA.
2010 MUCEVI, Selected in the First Virtual Museum of Central American Video Art, San José, Costa Rica.
2009 Mention of honor, 2nd Young Art Competition, Oriental Group Bank, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2006 Lexus Production Grant for Artists, Community Foundation of Puerto Rico, Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico 2004 Travel Grant to ARCO, Madrid, Spain.
2002 First Painting Prize, Art Museum of Puerto Rico.
