Carlos Betancourt | |
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Born | 1966 San Juan, Puerto Rico |
Known for | photography, painting, installation art, performance art |
Website | https://www.carlosbetancourt.com/ |
Carlos Betancourt (born 1966) is a Puerto Rican artist. [1] A multimedia artist based in Miami, [2] he was an influential artist in that city following his arrival in the region of Wynwood in the 1980s. [3] [4]
Born of Cuban immigrants in San Juan, Betancourt came to America with his family in 1981 when he was 15, settling in Miami. [5] [6] Despite an early pursuit of architecture, he decided to pursue design, working in photography, painting, sculpture, installation, and performance art, among others. [7] He opened a studio and storefront named "Imperfect Utopia" in South Beach which in the 1990s was visited by a number of celebrities. [8] In 1995, he was named by People magazine one of its 50 most beautiful people in the world. [9] By 2002, his works were exhibiting internationally, with a solo exhibition at the Casa Museo Palacio Spínola in the Canary Islands. [10] In 2015, his work was collected in a coffee table book named after his art studio, published by Italian publisher Rizzoli Libri. With a foreword by Richard Blanco, the book explores the first 25 years of Betancourt's career. [4] That same year, in November, he mounted a solo exhibition at the Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art. [4] [11] In 2018, he received a Florida Prize from the Orlando Museum of Art. [12] His work is part of the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery of the United States. [13]
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