Catalina Tuca is a multidisciplinary visual artist, educator, and independent curator born in Santiago, Chile. Her work explores geographic identity, collective memory, and collaborative and participatory systems through existing technologies. She developed her early career in Santiago, where she exhibited, taught Visual Arts and Film, and founded and directed projects including Oficina Barroca Gallery and the CANCHA Santiago Residency Program. Tuca has participated in residencies in Japan, Colombia, Canada, and the United States, including Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, NARS Foundation, NEW INC, and Contemporary Calgary. She earned her MFA from Rutgers University in 2018 and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
LUMA (still), Digital Video, 9:52 minutes, 2024
The Sensitive Project, Still image from video animation, Single Channel Video, 2020-Ongoing
Emotion of Orsolya Gal (Romania) interpreted by Ian Hill (USA),
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The Sensitive Project, Sculpture: 3D Print, 6 x 6 x 7 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),
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The Sensitive Project, Sculpture: 3D Print, 4 x 4 x 8 inches, 2021
Emotion of Vishal (India), 3D model by Jett Strauss (USA)
The Sensitive Project at Rerouting, Contemporary Calgary, Canada, 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
2024
LUMA, CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY
2023
The Sensitive Project, Lydian Stater, New York, NY
2019
Recording Booth, Gallery Cubed, Brooklyn Saratoga Public Library, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Suginamy Sky, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
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
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, New York, NY
Rerouting, Contemporary Calgary, Canada
2021
TLPS, Lydian Stater, New York, NY
Sobre/Mesa, The Clemente, New York, NY
More Than Human, Virtual Exhibition, Santo Domingo, Chile
2020
The Extraordinary, Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York, NY
2019
Lishui Photo Festival, Lishui, China
Behind the Seen, NARS Foundation, New York, NY
Digital Humanisms, OnCanal, New York, NY
Jauja, Brooklyn Army Terminal, New York, NY
2018
Gran Columbia, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, NJ
Leap Century, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
Mercury Street, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, NJ
Vicki and I, Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, WI
ALMA Cohort and Kara Walker, Zimmerli Art Museum, NJ
2016
Timbre, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, NJ
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, Canada
2019 The Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program, New York, NY
2019 NARS Foundation, New York, NY
2019 NEW INC, The New Museum Incubator Program, New York, NY
2018 Nomination, Dedalus Foundation Fellowship, USA
2015 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
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
Curiocity, 2022
Hyperallergic, 2020
New York Times, 2020
Arranging Tangerines Episode 3 - A Conversation with Catalina Tuca Part 1
Arranging Tangerines Episode 4 - A Conversation with Catalina Tuca Part 2
WEBSITE: www.catalinatuca.com