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BIO

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Born in Santa Inés Ahuatempan, Puebla, Mexico, in 1984, Ulises Matamoros Ascención is an artist, teacher, and independent curator of exhibitions. He holds a degree in Design and Plastic Arts from the Escuela Libre de Diseño y Artes, Puebla, Mexico (2004-2009), and a Certificate in Critical Theory from the 17 Instituto de Estudios Críticos, Mexico City (2013-2014). He also completed the seminar “Cine de realidad” taught by Víctor Gaviria at the High Cinematographic Studies program of ESCINE, Mexico City (2018), funded by the BBVA Foundation.

He is a recipient of the Program for the Promotion of Cultural Projects and Co-investments 2023-2024 from FONCA, Mexico. He has also received support from the Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo’s Sponsorship Program for Publications in 2022 and the Sponsorship Program for Artistic Research in 2020. Ulises was awarded the Artistic Production Support Fund by UNAM-MUAC-SOMA in 2020-2021 and received an honorable mention in the William Bullock Award for Critical Museology in 2020, granted by the USC Fisher Museum of Art, the MUAC Patronage, and Palabra de Clío. He was a beneficiary of the BBVA-Carrillo Gil Art Museum Program (2018-2020); a fellow of the “Young Creators” program of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) in 2018-2019; and a recipient of the Program of Stimulus to Artistic Creation and Development of the State of Puebla (PECDA) in both its 2019 and 2021 editions.

Ulises has participated in more than 50 exhibitions, both group and solo, across Latin America, the United States, and Europe. Notable exhibitions include “Stepping Softly on the Earth: (Un)Spoken Territories” at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (Newcastle, England); “Pulso: Art of the Americas” at UICA Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts / The Fed Galleries at Kendall College of Art and Design (Michigan, USA); “Latin American Cartographies” at the Palais des Beaux-Arts (BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium); “Reconsidering the Monument” at the Palacio Quintanar in Segovia (Segovia, Spain); “The Copy of the Copy of the Copy” at the Museo Antropológico y de Arte Contemporáneo (MAAC, Guayaquil, Ecuador); “Parasitage: Black Noises” at the Carrillo Gil Art Museum (Mexico City, Mexico); and “Creation in Motion” at the Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso (Mexico City, Mexico).

He has been invited to give talks, seminars, and lectures at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (Newcastle, England); SOMA Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico); Carrillo Gil Art Museum (Mexico City, Mexico); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain); UDLAP (Puebla, Mexico); Museo Amparo (Puebla, Mexico); Capilla del Arte (Puebla, Mexico); and the 17 Instituto de Estudios Críticos (Mexico City, Mexico).
 

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