Catalina Tuca (b. Santiago, Chile) is a multidisciplinary Visual Artist, educator, and independent curator, working in the intersections of geographic identities, collective memories, and hybrid systems of collaboration and participation through existing technologies.
After earning a BFA and a degree in Visual Arts Education, she developed her career in Santiago, showing her work in solo and group exhibitions, teaching Visual Arts and Film, and creating and directing art spaces such as Oficina Barroca Gallery, and CANCHA Santiago Residency Program, Santiago, Chile. She participated in art residencies, at Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan 2012; Taller 7, Medellin, Colombia, 2013; and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, US, 2015. Following these experiences, in 2016 she moved to the US to pursue an MFA at Rutgers University from where she graduated in 2018. After that, she was a member at NEW INC, The New Museum Incubator Program NY, a resident at NARS Foundation NY, a fellow at The Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program, NY, Collider Art Residency, Contemporary Calgary, CA, and Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NY,. She participated in solo and group exhibitions in the US and abroad, being the most recents “Rerouting” at Contemporary Calgary, CA and “Temporary solutions that stay forever “ at The Clemente, NY, USA. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at Rutgers University and Pratt Institute. Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, US.
The Sensitive Project, Still image from video animation, Single Channel Video, 2020-Ongoing
Emotion of Orsolya Gal (Rumania) interpreted by Ian Hill (USA), teia.art
The Sensitive Project, Sculpture: 3D Print, 6x6x7 inches, 2021
Emotion of Ryan Doherty (Canada) 3D model by Camila Norambuena (Chile)
The Sensitive Project, Still image from video animation, Single Channel Video, 2020-Ongoing
Emotion of Andrés Briceño (Chile), interpreted by Luna Laffx (Chile), teia.art
The Sensitive Project, Sculpture: 3D Print, 4x4x8 inches, 2021
Emotion of Vishal (India) 3D model by Jett Strauss (USA)
The Sensitive Project at Rerouting, Contemporary Calgary, CA, 2022.
EDUCATION
2018 MFA, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, NJ, USA.
2015 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, USA.
2007 Bachelor in Visual Arts Education, Universidad Gabriela Mistral, Santiago, Chile.
2001 BFA, Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
1998 Scholarship Visual Art Studies Exchange Program, Boston College. Boston, MA, USA.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 The Sensitive Project, Lydian Stater, NYC
2019 Recording Booth, Gallery Cubed, Brooklyn Saratoga Public Library, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
2012 Suginamy Sky, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan.
2012 Remix, Oficina Barroca Gallery, Santiago, Chile.
2008 Spaces to Live and Die, National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile.
2005 Unique Repetition, Centro Cultural de España, Santiago, Chile.
2005 Urgent, Corporación Cultural de Las Condes, Santiago, Chile.
2004 On Foot, Cal y Canto Subway Station, Santiago, Chile.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Temporary Solutions That Stay Forever, The Clemente Center, NY, NY
Rerouting, Contemporary Calgary, CA.
2021
TLPS, Lydian Stater, NY, USA.
Sobre/Mesa, The Clemente, LES, NY, USA.
More Than Human, Virtual Exhibition, Santo Domingo, Chile.
2020
The Extraordinary, Hunter East Harlem Gallery, NY, USA.
2019
Lishui Photo Festival, Lishui, CHINA.
Behind the Seen, NARS Foundation, NY, USA.
Digital Humanisms, OnCanal, NY, USA.
Jauja, Brooklyn Army Terminal, NY, USA.
2018
Gran Columbia, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, NJ, USA.
Leap Century, Abrons Art Center, NY, USA.
Mercury Street, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, NJ, USA.
Vicki and I, Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, USA.
ALMA Cohort and Kara Walker, Zimmerli Art Museum, NJ, USA.
2016
Timbre, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, NJ, USA.
2015
Fulgores Ordinarios, Contemporary Art Fair ArteBA, FONDART 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2014
Mapocho, Oficina Barroca Gallery, Contemporary Art Fair CH.ACO 14, Santiago, Chile.
2013
All for 990, Oficina Barroca Gallery, Contemporary Art Fair CHACO 13, Santiago, Chile.
Limit and Territory, Sala de Carga Gallery, Santiago, Chile.
2012
Flujograma, Oficina Barroca Gallery, Santiago, Chile.
2006
Especies de Espacios, Estación Metro Quinta Normal, Metro de Santiago, Chile.
2005
Deposit Here, Galeria Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile.
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Emergency Grant, USA.
2020 Collider Art Residency, Contemporary Calgary, CA.
2019 The Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program, NY, USA.
2019 NARS Foundation, NY, USA.
2019 NEW INC. The New Museum Incubator Program, NY, USA.
2018 Nomination Dedalus Foundation Fellowship, USA.
2015 Skowhegan, School of Painting and Sculpture, ME, USA.
2014 Taller 7, Medellín, Colombia.
2012 Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan.
2008 SPACES TO LIVE AND DIE, First Prize El Mercurio V Visual Arts Contest, National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile.
PRESS/INTERVIEWS
Hyperallergic, 2020
New York Times, 2020
Arranging Tangerines Episode 3 - A Conversation with Catalina Tuca
Arranging Tangerines Episode 4 - A Conversation with Catalina Tuca
WEBSITE: www.atalinatuca.com