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Carlos Betancourt: The Persistence Of Objects 2026
full exhibition essay -
One Is Two And Two Are Many More, by Gean Moreno (2025)
essay for exhibition catalog -
Imperfect Utopia by Carlos Betancourt (2025)
A Brief History on the studio in Miami Beach during the 1980's and 90's -
Locust Project on Carlos Betancourt (2025)
by Lori Metz -
Miami's Art Boom, book by Elisa Turner (2025)
essay on the artist and other references -
Carlos Betancourt: A Collector of Memories, exhibition essay (2023)
Tere Iturralde -
Making Miami: The Miami School, book essay (2023)
Q and A, Carlos Betancourt with Katerina Llanes -
The Miami School, interview by Katerina Yanes (2023)
Essay for the book Making Miami (unedited Q and A) -
SouthXeast Contemporary Art Triennial, exhibition catalog essay (2023)
Véronique Côté -
WEIRD Miami for Bas Fisher Invitational. (2021)
Carlos Betancourt Revelations From El Portal And Beyond -
Intimate Spirit, exhibit essay
Leslie Goldwasser (2020) -
After Laughter Comes Tears, by Words By Iiii Published By Primary Projects (2019)
essay from catalog -
Imprinted, solo exhibition introduction (2017)
Michele MeyersThe Southeast Museum of Photography presents a special exhibition of the work of Carlos Betancourt titled 'IMPRINTED.' Open for viewing on October 17th and running through December 2nd at the... -
Imprinted, exhibition essay (2017)
Southeast Museum of Photography, essay by James Pearson, curator. -
Arno Minkkinen and Carlos Betancourt at Southeast Museum of Photography (2017)
by James Pearson -
The Pelican Passage, art intervention interview (2016)
Claire TanconsNovemeber 11, 2016 CT: Your work is suffused by Latin American and Caribbean traditions yet Pelican Passage is your first work taking on the large-scale performance dimension of the processional... -
Testigo de la Belleza, solo exhibition essay (2016)
Lilliana Ramos Collazo'We cry because [pictures] are beautiful… Some can be so beautiful that they ambush unsuspecting viewers, provoking floods of emotion. At one point, I even thought of calling this book... -
Tide by Side, end of year exhibit summary (2016)
Claire Tancons -
BEYOND PINK FLAMINGOS, book and exhibit essay (2016)
Erica AndoBEYOND PINK FLAMINGOS AND ART FAIRS: A BRIEF HISTORY By Erica Ando History in South Florida, the saying goes, starts when you get off the plane. So it might be... -
Imperfect Utopia, monograph book introduction (2015)
Petra MasonArtist Carlos Betancourt not only demonstrates an intelligent and exuberant use of post-modern artistic language, but he is very valuable yeast in the culture of the Caribbean and his home... -
Remarks on Style, monograph book essay (2015)
Robert Farris Thompson3 May 2015 New Haven I trace two tendencies in the recent artworks of Carlos Betancourt, overall coloration making a composition completely white or completely purple, and a tendency towards... -
Memory as Truth, monograph book foreword (2015)
Richard BlancoBeauty is truth, truth beauty that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. Those are the closing lines from Ode on a Grecian Urn... -
Book Presentation, Q and A (2015)
Paul LasterPL: I initially saw your work in shows at Robert Miller Gallery in New York in the early 2000s. Tell me a little about your solo exhibit there. Few artists... -
Imperfect Utopia, monogram book acknowledgment page (2015)
Skira RizzoliACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book is dedicated to Alberto Latorre, mi gran amor. Thank you for sharing your insight, patience, and talents; collaborating with you is the most beautiful love. Gracias a... -
Huffington Post essay (2015)
Maria BritoThe Unchanged Reality of Carlos Betancourt December 21, 2015 Carlos Betancourt is one of those artists who I felt I had known all my life. Even though we truly connected... -
Re-Collections, retrospective musuem exhibit teaching guide (2015)
Cheryl HartupI Idea for consideration / Broad question How might you connect with your origins, using your body as the site for this encounter? II Problem In the aftermath of the... -
Vesica Piscis, exhibition theory for museum tour (2015)
Jochi Melero -
IMPERFECT UTOPIA, monograph book synopsis (2015)
Skira RizzoliCARLOS BETANCOURT SYNOPSIS FOR THE BOOK IMPERFECT UTOPIA Mixed-media artist Carlos Betancourt and his influential studio, Imperfect Utopia, helped to launch the Miami art scene in the 1980’s. Betancourt’s oeuvreis... -
Re-Collections, museum retrospective essay (2015)
Cheryl HartupCarlos Betancourt: Re-Collections Rock, waterfall, and wind, and a figure crouching still--all these of one mind.1 Cheryl Hartup “Human beings and objects are indeed bound together in a collusion in... -
CARLOS BETANCOURT (2014)
Johnny TsokosObserving Carlos’ art could be similar to stepping into them head first — I almost said heart first — where you find yrself thinking: “Am I dreaming these images or... -
Interview (2014)
JOHNNY TSOKOSINTERVIEW BELOW: Observing Carlos’ art could be similar to stepping into them head first — I almost said heart first — where you find yrself thinking: “Am I dreaming these... -
Ornament and Obsession (2013)
Mariangela CapuzzoOrnament and Obsession: The Fascinating World of Carlos Betancourt by Mariangela Capuzzo (Venice Projects exhibition catalog) Many contemporary artists use their own experiences as a platform to develop their artistic... -
SHopping Car Atomic Venice Projects (2013)
MArco VerengoSHOPPING CART ATOMIC By MARCO BERENGO (Venice Projects, gallery director) As soon as I saw Shopping Cart Atomic by Carlos Betancourt, a supermarket carriage overflowing with incongruous objects covered with... -
ANTROPOLOGY ATOMIC (2012)
Wesley GrisonAnthropology Atomic: Carlos Betancourt by Wesley Grissom from arbus magazine For Carlos Betancourt, examining & experiencing culture is essential to stimulating creativity. Throughout his career, the artist's flamboyant oeuvre has... -
The Art as an offering the body as an Altar (2009)
Janet BatetCarlos Betancourt: The Art as an offering; the body as an altar By Janet Batet (Arte Al Dia essay) Carlos Betancourt’s oeuvre is an explosion of sensations: lush, radiant, eccentric,... -
CARLOS BETANCOURT and LOUBOUTINS (2009)
Matilda AndersonThis story begins with a hot pink pair of Christian Louboutins so jaw dropping that my friend couldn’t help but call them “major” (major should be pronounced with a Posh... -
The slick territorial pissings of Carlos Betancourt (2006)
Pedro VelezThe Slick Territorial Pissings of Carlos Betancourt Brazen bodies with black charcoal, ink, leaf, poetry, and otherwise ordinary earthly materials are a few of the tools Carlos Betancourt uses in... -
The Eye in the Sky (2006)
ROBERT FARRIS THOMPSONThe Eye of the Sky is Open: The Art of Carlos Betancourt. The Yoruba of Nigeria have an idiom for good weather: the eye of the sky is open. This... -
Robert Farris Thompson on the recent art of Carlos Betancourt (2004)
Start with his body. A recent self-presentation involves painting his face blue and his body warm red in “Apito y Cenizas with Letter to Alberto” [plate 1]. Blue glitter and... -
Of A Wondering Spirit (2003-4)
Antonio ZayaWhen I set out to make a selection of the most recent photographs of Carlos Betancourt to be exhibited in the Spinola Palace at Teguise (Lanzarote), which unexpectedly coincided with... -
Canaria 7 (2003)
Federico UtreraARTE CONTEMPORANEO PRIVADO Federico Utrera Cada día que pasa queda más en evidencia que las múltiples y variadas maneras de exponer arte se reducen en esencia a dos: museos, centros... -
CONTEXT From Miami to Santo Domingo (2002-03)
Antonio ZayaI Led by the Dominican artist Charo Oquet, in October, several of her Miami colleagues and she herself engaged in a day-long dialog with the colonial city of Santo Domingo,... -
Carlos Betancourt Recent Photographic Work (2002)
Denise M. GersonCARLOS BETANCOURT: RECENT PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK by Denise M. Gerson Associate Director of Curaturial Affairs, Lowe Art Museum University of Miami 'A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more... -
CARLOS BETANCOURT: ESCRITO SOBRE SU PROPIA PIEL (2002)
Antonio ZayaSi el cuerpo se identifica (1) cada vez mas como el ultimo lugar posible a partir del cual el individuo de nuestro tiempo puede fijar una identidad significante, y ello... -
Timba the Medicine (2001-02)
ROBERT FERRIS THOMPSONTimba the Medicine: The Art of Carlos Betancourt: by Robert Farris Thompson Carlos Betancourt comes from the sea of the Creoles, the Caribbean, cradle of mambo, timba, and merengue, cradle... -
CARIBE (2002)
Debora RuthIn an age where visual media has a direct, and stressful correlation with our world, I am convinced of witnessing two extraordinary artists determined to energize your mind. A narrative... -
Miami Beach Artist's "Splintered Vision" at Core of Fracturism (1994)
essay and art review by Elisa Turner for The Miami Herald http://carlosbetancourt-web-g6.artlogic.net/usr/library/documents/main/miami-art-boom3.pdf
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