CV

 

SOLO EXHIBITS, selections:

 

 2020-2026

 

• The Persistence of Objects, Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans, La. Apr 18 - May 30th 2026

• The Miami Reef Star: Star Compass,  Blue Lab Preservation, site specific installation collaboration with architect Alberto Latorre, curated by Ximena Caminos. Careyes, Miami Beach, Florida. Dec 2024. Nice, France. June 2025

• El Milagro de tus Ojos, Careyes Foundation, Careyes, Mexico.  Dec 2023 - May 2024
• The Future Eternal, No Vacancy grant exhibition, site specific video art projection, The Betsy Orb, Miami Beach, Florida. Dec 2023
• Milagros!  Cultural Affairs Council grant exhibition, site specific sculptural work, in collaboration with architect Alberto Latorre, Miami Beach, Florida. Dec 2021- Jan 2022
• Intimate Spirit: collages and other recent artworks, The Gallery at the Betsy, Miami Beach, Florida. Nov 2020 - Jan 2021
• Into the Everglades, site specific installation, Bas-Fisher Invitational in collaboration with Bridge Initiative, Miami. Nov 2021
• NFTICKET, video art project, exhibit and auction, curated by Ximena Caminos, Eiffel Tower, Paris. Mar 2022

• Projecciones Vitales, video art from the artist collection, artist studio, Miami, Florida. Nov 2022
• What Lies Beneath, site specific installation, Faena Art, Miami. Dec 2020

 

 2010-2019

 

• Process Ritual Future Eternal, Marfa Anónimo edition, Marfa, Texas. Oct - Nov 2019
• On the Edge, The Hopeful Forest, (East Hotel), curated by Ximena Caminos, Miami. Dec 2019 - Jan 2020

• Process Ritual Future Eternal, Primary Projects, Miami, Florida.  Nov 2018 -Jan 2019

• Imprinted, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida. Oct - Dec 2017

• Re-Collections Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, curated by Cheryl Hartup, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Nov - Apr 2016
• Carlos Betancourt, J Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida Mar - May 2015

• Cabinet of Wonders, Venice Projects, Venice, Italy. Aug - Oct 2012
• El Portal Atomic, J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Feb - Apr 2012

• Portrait of a Garden, Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, La. Feb - Mar 2011
• Archaic Substance, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas. Nov - Feb 2012 
• Shooting the Life Fantastic, Heather James Gallery, Palm Springs, CA. Jan - May 2011

 

2000-2009

 

• Carlos Betancourt Re-Collections, Molloy College Art Gallery Long Island, NY. Apr - Aug 2009
• Re-Collections II: Journey into Infinity, J Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida. May - Jun 2009
• Lapidus Infinitus, DLFA, Miami, Florida. Dec 2009 - Feb 2010

• The Cut-Out Army, La Comunidad, Miami, Florida. Dec. 2006
• The Hand of the Eye, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, Florida. Dec. 2005 - Feb 2006
• Untitled 1000, site specific installation, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida. Dec 2005 - Apr 2006
• The Enchanted Island, Remy Toledo Gallery, NY. Mar - Apr 2006 

• About the Archaic Substance, Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, La. May 2005
• En la Arena Sabrosa II, OMNI-Art, Miami, Florida. Dec 2005
• Carlos Betancourt: Recent Works, Galeria L’Algepsar, Castellon, Spain. Nov 2004 - Jan 2005 
• Interventions in Wynwood, Robert Miller Gallery Miami Basel Week, Miami, Florida. Nov – 2003 – Jan 2004
• Realm of Secrets, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, Texas. Sep - Oct 2003

• Archaic Substance, Palacio de Espinola, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain. Sep - Dec 2002
• Carlos Betancourt, Robert Miller Gallery, New York. Jan - Feb 2002
• Interventions in Nature, J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida. Feb - Mar 2002
• Recent Photographic Works, Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida. Aug - Sep 2002

• Carlos Betancourt: Outdoor Photography Project, site specific installation, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida. Jan - Mar 2001
• The Sounds, Symbols Project, The American Foundation for the Arts, Miami Beach Cultural Arts Council and Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs, Miami Beach. Florida. Mar 2000

 

 1990-1999

 

• Carlos Betancourt: Archaic Substance, Galeria Casa Colon, Miami Beach, Florida. Dec 1999 - Jan 2000
• Images of a Heaven: New Works by Carlos Betancourt, St. Thomas University Atrium Gallery, Miami, Florida. Oct - Dec 1996
• En La Arena Sabrosa, Meza Fine Art, Coral Gables, Florida. Aug - Sep 1995
• Fracturism, Imperfect Utopia Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida. Jun 11 - Oct 1994
• Syncretic Silkscreens: Cuba Cola, Imperfect Utopia, Miami Beach, Florida. Mar - May 1994
• Carlos Betancourt:  Assemblages, Coral Snake Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida. Feb - Mar 1991
• Assemblages from the Netherlands Hotel, Imperfect Utopia, Miami Beach, Florida. Dec 1991

 

GROUP EXHIBITS, selections

 

2020-2026

 

• This is not a Toy, Orlando Museum of Art, Florida. Dec 12, 2025- May 3, 2026
•  We Hold These Truths: We Walk There Grounds, curated by Véronique Côté, Florida Atlantic Univeristy Galleries, Boca Raton, Florida.  Jan 22 - Mar 29, 2026
• Beyond the Rainbow: A Collective Act, works from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, curated by Laura Dvorkin and Maynard Monrow, West Palm Beach, Florida.  Dec 2025 - May 2026
• One Is Tow and Two Are Many More, curated by Gean Moreno, Oolite Arts, Miami, Florida. Catalog avaialble. Nov 19, 2025 - Jan 18, 2026
• We AmeRícans, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY. Nov 7, 2025 - Jan 3, 2026
• La Vida Es Sueño, curated by Angela Valella and Carlos Betancourt in collaboration with Alberto Latorre and Danilo De Latorre, for The Nightclub, an alternative exhibition program. Miami, Florida. Nov 2, 2025
• Thru the Lens: Photgraphic Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, curated by Billie Milam Weisman, Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles.  Jul 21 - Oct 25, 2025
• Simetría Doméstica, Dimensions Variable Gallery, artst book project,  Miami, Florida. Aug 14 - Dec 14, 2025
• Demain L'Ocean? (Tomorrow the Ocean?), curated by Elodie Antonie, Salle d'Exposition du Quai Antine 1er, Monaco, organize by Directin des Affaires Culturelles de Monaco. Jul 4 - Sep 7, 2025
• Whitewater. Black Gallery, Mykonos, Greece, Jul 2024
• Simetría Doméstica, Artist Book Presentation, Bass Museum of Art and Dot Fiftyone Gallery, Jun and Aug 2024

• Ten from Florida, Orlando Museum of Art, Florida. Dec 2023 - Mar 2024

• Do You Want To Know What We Did  This Summer, Wishlist Vol. 2, Black Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium. Sep 2024 
• Making Miami, Knight Foundation and Jayaram, Miami, Florida. Dec 2023
• Biscayne, curated by Kate Fleming, The Kampong Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida. Sep - Dec 23
• Florida Room No. 2: Biscayne Bay, KDR 305 Gallery, Miami, Florida. Jul - Sep. 2023

• It Was Always About You...Oolite Arts, curated by Laura Guerrero and Dennis Scholl, Miami Beach, Florida. Jul – Sep 2023
• SouthXeast: Contemporary Southeastern Art Exhibition, group exhibit, curated by Véronique Côté, Florida Atlantic University, Florida. Jan - Mar 2023
• (Miami based artists) Center for Visual Communication, Wynwood, Florida. Nov 2022 - Mar 2023.

• Holy Water, group exhibit, Eric Firestone gallery, East Hampton, NY. Jul - Sep 2022
• Skin in the Game, group exhibit, curated by Zoe Lukov, Chicago, Illinois. Apr - May 2022 
• Skin in the Game, group exhibit, curated by Zoe Lukov, Miami Beach, Florida. Nov - Dec 2021

 

2010-2019

 

• Transamerica/n: Gender, Identity, Appearance Today (in tandem with Andy Warhol’s portraits) Mc Nay Art Museum, San Antonio Texas. Jun 2019 – Jan 2020

• Recent Acquisitions, Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida. Mar 2019
• Dancing Goddesses, Dio Horia Contemporary Art Platform, curated by Marina Vranopoulaki, Mykonos, Greece. May – Jul 2018
• The Florida Prize in Contemporary Art, Orlando Museum of Art, Florida. Jun – Aug 2018 
• Warhol Museum auction exhibit, Brant Foundation, NY N. Nov. 2018
• Anónimo Colectivo, Museo Tamayo, curated by Alejandra Martinez, Mexico. Nov 2018
• The Motion of Movements, Primary Projects, Miami, Florida. May 2017
• Golden Pond Wishes, Delano Hotel Pool, site-specific sponsored commission for Douglas Elliman Art Basel Miami Beach official sponsors, Florida. Dec 2017

• Joan Quinn Captured, The Brand Art Center, Glendale, California. Sep 2016 - Jan 2017

• Baroque to Bling! The collection of Donna MacMillan, Palm Springs Art Museum, California. Mar - Oct 2016
• Tide By Side, Faena Art, Claire Tacons-curator, Miami Beach, Florida. Nov 2016
• (Exhibition title), San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas. Oct 2016
• Versus, Pepe Mar Presents, in collaboration with Warhol Foundation grant, Miami, Florida. Sep – Oct 2016
• Acria Auction, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. Apr 2016
• Joan Quinn Captured, Fresno Art Museum, Nevada. Mar 2016
• 100 + Degrees on the Shade: A brief history, Miami, Florida. Nov 2015- Jan 2016
• Interconexiones, Artworks from the Permanent Collection, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. Apr - Dec 2016

• Gold, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY. Jul - Oct 2015
• Gold, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida. Sep 2014 - Jan 2015
• Thirty Years on the Road, Art Center South Florida, Miami Beach, Florida. Nov 2014 - Feb 2015
• Aesthetics & Values, Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida. Mar - May 2014
• Sputnik 2, Boyd Satellite Gallery, New Orleans, Luisiana. Aug – Sep 2014
• Image Search, PAMM, (Miami Art Museum) Miami, Florida. Dec 2013 - Jul 2014
• La Florida, Cummer Museum, Jacksonville, Florida. Feb - May 2013
• (Exhibition title), Mc Nay Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas. Mar 2013
• Celestial Gardens, site-specific permanent installation, Reflections Celebrity Cruise Ship. 2013
• Artworks from the Permanent Collection, San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas. Feb -Oct 2012
• Mysterious Object: Portraits of Joan Quinn, Santa Ana College Gallery, Santa Ana, California. 2012

• Shooting the Life Fantastic, Heather James Gallery, Palm Springs, California. Jan - Dec 2011
• Pasiones:  Margarita Serapion & John Belk Collection,Ponce Museum of Art, Puerto Rico. (date?)
• Identity, Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, La. Feb – Mar 2011
• Artworks from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale. Jun – Oct 2010
• Recent Acquisitions, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico. Jan – Dec 2010
• MAM Ball, Cake Atomicos, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida. Dec. 2011
• Smash and Grab, Locust Projects, Miami, Florida. (date?)
• Signos Vitales, Nuevas Adquisiciones del Mac, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Puerto Rico. (date?)
• Historia Nacional de Fotografia, Instituto de Cultura de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico. (date?)
• Alumni Exhibit, South Florida Art Center, Miami Beach, Florida. Jan – Dec 2010
• Unframed, ACRIA, curated by Vic Muniz, NYC, NY. (date?)
• Portraits from the Permanent Collections, Smithsonian National Gallery, Washington DC. (date?)

• Good and Plenty, South Florida Art Center, Miami Beach, Florida. 2010
• The Gallery Group, Ruiz Healy Art, San Antonio, Texas. 2010

 

2000-2009

 

• Photographic Encounter: Humanity and Nature, The City of San Antonio International Center, San Antonio, Texas. Sep 2009
• Into the Mix, Buschlen Mowatt Galleries, Vancouver, Canada. Jun - Sep 2009
• Third Biennial Photography, Norton Museum, Palm Beach, Florida. May 2009
• Photography in the 20^thCentury, Lowe Museum of Art, Coral Gables, Florida. (date?)  
• New Gallery Artists, Jack the Pelican Present, Brooklyn, NY. Dec 2007 – Jan 2008 
• Group Exhibit, Walter Otero Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Oct 2008 – Jan 2009
• Miami the Edge of a Nation, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, California. Jan – Feb 2009

• Photoshopping:  MOOLA Collects, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California. (date?)
• Political Winter Redux , Molloy College Art Gallery, Long Island, New York. Jan – Dec 2008  
• Contemporary ArtAuction, Sotheby’s, NYC, NY. 2008
• Group Exhibit, Heather James Gallery, Desert Palm, California. 2008
• Unbroken Ties, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Jun – Oct 2008
• People and Places, Selection from the Allen Thomas photography Collection, SECCA, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Salem, North Carolina. Mar – Jun 2008
• Gen X: Post-Baby-boomers and the New South, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama
• Miami Accent, Heriard-Chimino Gallery, New Orleans, La. (date?)
• Isolated Memories (and the Last Supper), DLFA, Miami, Florida. Dec 2007- Feb 2008
• New Digital Age, South Florida Art Center, Miami Beach, Florida. (date?)  
• Miami Contemporary Exhibit, Freedom Tower MDC Gallery, curated by Gean Moreno,  Miami, Florida. Nov 2007- Jan 2008 
• Aesthetics and Value, Frost Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida. Mar -Apr 2007
• City Limits: Re-Collections and The Hedge, Installation, DLFA, Miami, Florida. Dec 2007
• Colectiva de Fotografia Latinoamericana, Arte Consult Aleman y Grimberg, Ciudad de Panama, Panama. Oct - Dec 2007

• No Country is an Island, Raritan Valley Community College,Sumei Art Center, Newark, NJ. (date?)
• Quadrennial of Dusseldorf, Dusselforf, Germany. 2007
• Au Courant, National Gallery of the Cayman Islands, Grand Cayman, B. W. I. (date?)
• Retratos: 2000 Years of Latin American Portraits, San Antonio Museum of Art. Organized by the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; and El Museo del Barrio; San Antonio, Texas. 2007
• Go Figure! Lowe Art Museum of Art, Coral Gables, Florida. Feb - Dec 2005 
• What’s New, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Coral Gables, Florida. (date?)

• The Rubin Museum of Art, The Flag Project, NY, NY
• (Group Exhibit), Robert Miller Gallery, NY, NY. Jun – Jul 2005 
• Otros Lares, Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain. (date?)
• American Dream, The Ignatian Center for the Arts, Miami, Florida. Mar - May 2004
• Gallery Artists, Walter Otero Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Feb 2004
• Essesncies 8, Universitat da Valencia, Spain. 2004
• Nepotism, Fort Lauderdale Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. 2004
• Don’t Call it Performance, No Lo llames Performance, Museo del Barrio, NY, NY. Oct - Nov 2014
• (Photography exhibit), Robert Miller Gallery, NY, NY. Oct 2004
• Assassins of the Mirror:  The Body and the Writing, Walter Otero Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico. 2004
• Turning Pages: Celebrating South Florida Artists Made Books, curated by Barbara Young, Centre Gallery, Miami, Florida. Oct - Dec 2003
• Inside and Out: Contemporary Sculpture, Video and Installations Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida. Dec 2002 - Mar 2003

• Miami: Visions of Now, J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida.
• City Limits, DLFA, curated by Jose Diaz, Miami, Florida. 2004
• De Cuerpos y Almas, Galeria Carmen De la Guerra, Madrid, Spain. 2004
• Proyecto Menu, Trans-EAT Art Space, Miami, Florida and Barcelona, Spain. 2004
• Miami Artist Series, Museum of Science, curated by Robert Chambers, Coconut Grove, Florida. Oct – Dec 2003
• Florida Focus, Golf Coast Museum of Art, Florida. Sep - Nov 2003
• (Group Exhibit), Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain. Feb - Mar 2003
• Museo Galeria Banco Santander, San Juan, Puerto Rico (date?)
• PR '02 :  En Ruta, outdoor intervention, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Oct 2002.
• Amigos: Carlos Betancourt, Johan Creten, Robert Miller Gallery pop up Miami, Florida. Dec 2002
• Contemporary Cuban Photography: A Panoramic View, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Sep 2002 - Jan 2003  
• Contexto, outdoor intervention, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. 2003  
• Neutral Zone, Art Basel Special Event - outdoor intervention, Miami, Florida. Dec 2003
• IV Bienal del Caribe, Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Nov 2001 - Feb 2002
• Mash IV, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida. 2001
• Miami Tierra Caliente, Centro Cultural Osvaldo Guayasamín, Zona Colonial, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Nov 2001 - Feb 2002

 

1997-1999

 

• Re-Connect, Art Center South Florida, Miami Beach, Florida. 1999
• 25 Powerful Artists in 25 Days New Gallery, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida. 1999 

• Departing Perspectives, Espiritu Santo Bank, curated by Fred Snitzer, Miami, Florida. Nov 1997
•  Mash IV, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida. 1997
• 61st National Competition of American Painting, The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida. (date/)
• Group Exhibit, Galeria Casa Colon, Merida, Mexico. 1997

• Lucky 13, South Florida Art Center, Miami Beach, Florida. 1996
• Art Against Aids VII, Coral Gables, Florida. 1995
• Miami Right Now, Gallery on One, Sarasota, Florida. (date?)
• Sheets, Helen Cevern Gallery, Miami Beach Florida and NY, NY. Feb – Mar 1993
• Five Latin American Artists, HB Starr Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida. (date?)
• Fracturism, Arte BA, Buenos Aires, Argentina. (date?)
•  Who’s Who, South Florida Art Center, Miami Beach, Florida. (date?)
• In Color, Lohman and Busse Gallery, Dortmund, Germany
• Summer Exhibit, Ambrosino Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida. (date?)
• Feria del Mueble, Stefano Carniato curator, Milano, Italy. (date?)
• Miami Artist Series, Coral Snake Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida. 1992
• The Summer Show, Hyperspace Gallery, curated by Victor Fariñas, Miami Beach, Florida. Jul – Aug 1990. 

 

ART FAIRS:

 

• Art Basel Miami Beach, Florida.
• Art Miami, Florida.
• Art Chicago, Illinois.
• Zona MACO, Mexico.
• Arco, Madrid, Spain.
• Arte Bologna, Italy.
• Circa, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• Art Platform -Los Angeles, California.
• Photo Paris, Paris, France.
• Scope NY, NY.
• Art Dallas, Texas.
• Art Dubai -United Arab Emirates.

 

AWARDS, selections:

 

• No Vacancy grant award and  People Choice award City of Miami Beach, Dec. 2023
• CIty of Miami Beach Cultural Affairs grant for Aspen Conference, 2023

• Bas-Fisher Invitational grant, 2021
• Florida Prize in Contemporary Art Choice Award, 2018
• Bridge Initiative and Waterproof grant, 2020
• National Endowment for the Arts Grant, in collaboration with Florida International University Art Museum
• Miami Beach Cultural Affairs grant
• Art Walks Grant, City of Delray, Florida
• Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, Honorable Recipient
• Florida Department of State Millennium Cultural Recognition Award
• Stars of Design, Visual Arts, 2010
• Dade County Cultural Affairs New Forms Grant
• City of Miami Beach Arts Council Grant
• The American Foundation for the Arts Grant
• Chivas Regal Order of Distinction Visual Arts Award 
• The Digital Age: New Media Art Competition Award, Art Center South Florida
• Miami Dade Community College Hall of Fame 

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS, selections:

 

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY
• The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
• New Orleans Museum of Art, Lousiana
• The Frost Museum at Florida International University, Miami, Florida
• PAMM Perez Art Musuem Miami, Florida 
• McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
• Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
• Ponce Museum of Art, Ponce, Puerto Rico
• Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, West Palm Beach, Florida
• Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida
• University of Texas, Texas
• Art in Embassies Program, United States
• Essencies Collecio Olor Visual Ernesto Ventos, Barcelona, Spain
• Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
• Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida
• Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California ( promised gift, private collector)
• Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Gran Canaria, Spain
• San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
• Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
• Gulf Coast Museum, Largo, Florida; Museum of Latin American Art Long Beach, Ca
• MOLAA, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California
• Miami-Dade Community Foundation, Miami, Florida
• Recent Acquisitions: Art Bank Collection, Miami, Florida
• Museo de Arte, Puerto Rico

 

PUBLIC ART, COMMISSIONS selections:

• La Vida Es Sueño, 2025, (performance), commisioned by The Nighclub. Miami, Florida
• Miami's Art Boom by Elisa Turner, commisioned cover artwrok, (University Press of Florida). Artwork: Re-Collections VIII (Rojo), 2009
• Too Much is Never Enought, 2025-2026 (documentary on architect Morris Lapidus) - featured visual artist, currently in production,  International.
• Naked Ambition, 2024 (Netflix documentary on artist Bunny Yeager) - featured visual artist. International
• Wallpaper and Mural designs commissions, 2024 to present. For Casamonte Surfaces. International.
• The Reef Star, 2025. Site specific installation  curated by Francesca Thyssen Bomemisza and XImena Caminos. Nice, France.
• The Miami Reef Star, 2024 to present. Part of the ReefStar project,  Site specific installation, curated by Ximena Caminos. Miami Beach, Florida
• The Future Eternal, 2023. No Vacancy grant, City of Miami Beach, site specific video art projection, The Betsy Orb, Miami Beach, Florida. 

• Arts Resilient 305 and Aspen Institute 2024, Art Project grant, Miami Dade Department of Cultural Affairs
• Milagros, 2022, City of Miami Beach, collaboration with Alberto Latorre, project manager Brandi Reddick 

• Re-Collections and The Future Eternal, 2023, Rhythm Foundation and Miami Beach Arts Council Grant

• Remembering Surorunder Isalnds, 2019  - documentary on Christo & Jeanne-Claude (Perez Art Museum Miami / PBS) - featured artist interview 
• Splendor in the Shelter, 2016, Miami-Dade Art in Public Places Trust, project manager Carolina Alfonso
• Forever-Glades, 2014, Miami-Dade Art in Public Places Trust, collaboration with Alberto Latorre, project manager Patricia Romeu
• Atomic Cakes, 2011, PAMM Perez Art Museum Miami, project director Tom Collins
• Still Zoo, 2008, Miami-Dade Art in Public Places Trust, collaboration with Alberto Latorre, (Homestead, Florida), project manager Patricia Romeu
• About the Temporal and Universal Substance, 2005-2009, Miami-Dade Art in Public Places Trust, (Miami International Airport), project manager Alberto Latorre, Sam Delgado and Patricia Romeu
• Sound Symbols Project, 2000, City of Miami Beach and Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs, project manager Alberto Latorre, David Whitman and Michael Springs

 

PRIVATE ART COMMISSIONS selections:

 

• Weird Miami, Revelations from El Portal and Beyond, 2021-22 Bas Fisher Invitational commission, Miami, Florida
• Re-Collections, La Mesa (video art intervention and commissioned site specific artwork), Lofty, Miami, Florida, May, 2022
• Miami Contemporary Visions from a Tropical Jungleland, 2022, (art book cover commission), Alessandro Sarno, Stephano Carniato, 
• NFTICKET, (video art project, exhibit and auction) curated by Ximena Caminos, Eiffel Tower, Paris, Mar.  2022
• Golden Pond Wishes (site specific intervention), private residence; Miami, Florida. Dec.2022

• Golden Pond Wishes, 2017, Douglas Elliman, site specific commission, Art Basel official sponsor, Delano Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida
• The Pelican Passage, Tide by Side, 2016, Faena Art, site specific commission, Faena Forum and Art Basel Miami Beach week opening, Miami Beach, Florida
• Verano Eterno, 2017, Bass Museum of Art, art object commission for museum shop, Miami Beach, Florida
• Re-Collections San Antonio, 2021 The Cellars at Pearl, San Antonio Texas, “”, large scale site specific artwork
• Appropriations del Mar y Amor, 2014, Larios on the Beach, large scale site-specific suspended sculpture
• Appropriations from el Rio, 2013, as Time Goes By, Seasalt and Pepper, large scale site-specific sculpture
• Cake Atomic Murano, 2012, GLASSTRESS, Venice Projects, Berengo Studio; Murano glass sculpture, Venice and Murano, Italy

• Let them Feel Pink! 2012, Absolut Vodka, “Site-specific sculpture, Miami, Florida

• City of a Hundred Fire, 2004, University of Pittsburg Press, artwork for book cover, USA and International
• Re-Collections, Neiman Marcus, limited edition scarf from original artworks, San Antonio, Texas
• Celestial Gardens, 2012, Celebrity Cruises Ship - Reflections of The Seas, site-specific wall and ceiling murals, sculptural elements and sound, installed in Pappemberg, Germany 
• Re-Collections and Lapidus Infinitus, 2009, Barneys NY; limited edition swimwear from original artworks, Miami, Florida and NY
• Vejigante, Vieques, 2010, Celebrity Cruises Ship – Equinox: site specific photographic artwork International
• The Cut-Out Army, 2006, La Comunidad for Art Basel, site-specific installation, Miami, Florida
• Trabajadores Magicos, Starwood, St Regis; limited edition print, Miami, Florida
• Daca Bagua Sagamore Hotel, 2001, site specific large-scale outdoor photographic artwork, Miami Beach, Florida
• Untitled 1000 with Souvenir, 2005, Bass Museum of Art; site-specific large-scale outdoor photographic artwork
• Untitled, after September, 2003, International Press, Tigertail Productions; A South Florida Poetry Annual, artwork for book cover, Miami, Florida
• Re-Collections, 2007, BBH of London; site specific installation, Doral, Florida
• A Flock of Seagulls, 2009, Royal Caribbean - Oasis Ship; site-specific large-scale sculpture, installed in Turku, Finland
• Spiral Hand, National Museum Association; Bass Museum of Art, limited edition artwork reproduction  on t-shirts, Miami, Florida
• Magic Trees, 2009, Royal Caribbean - Oasis of the Seas; 1.5ton bronze trees sculpture, installed in Turku, Finland
• Las Practicas de la Carne, 2004, Self Portrait with letter to Aracoel, artwork for book cover, International
• Magic Garden, 2008, Celebrity Cruise Ship – Solstice; site-specific large-scale sculpture, installed in Fort Lauderdale, Florida 
• Enchanted Trees,2010, Royal Caribbean - Allure of the Seas; 3 ton bronze trees sculpture, installed in Turku, Finland. 

  

 EDUCATION:

 

• 1983-85 Miami-Dade Community College
• 1985-87 Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Associate in Science, Design

 

AFFILIATIONS:

 

• Betancourt-Latorre Foundation, founder
• The Reefline
• Miami Marine Stadium Advisory Board Member
• Faena Arts
• Co-founder of 801 Projects
• Sponsor of Artlurker’s Miami (Art) Writer’s Price
• Path of the Panther

 

LECTURES, TALKS, selections:

(to be incorporated)

 

For bibliography and additional information, please contact cbpelican@icloud.com or visit www.carlosbetancourt.com.