Carolina Charry Quintero
Cali, Colombia
EDUCATION
2015. MFA in Film and Video. California Institute of the Arts. Valencia, CA, USA.
2010. BA Philosophy, Universidad del Valle. Cali, Colombia.
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2025. MECAS International Film Markt Lab. Canary Islands.
2024. ESTELAB. VI Co-production Laboratory. Latin America and Europe.
2024. Ópera Prima Lab. FICCI 63 (Cartagena International Film Festival)
2023. Publishing Grant Award for the book “Mamut”, hybrid genre, fiction and poetry. Colombia Ministry of Cultures.
2017. Creative Grant for Emerging Artists. Colombia Ministry of Culture.
2017. Jury Honorary Mention for Best Experimental Film (Blua). Slamdance Film Festival.
2017. Best Experimental Film Aaward. Indie Grits Film Festival.
2015. Jack Okie Foundation Grant.
2014. Michelle Lund/Calarts Earthfire Residency Grant.
2012. CalArts Student Grant.
2012. Colfuturo and Proimágenes Grant.
2010. Highest award for Thesis Essay. Universidad del Valle.
SCREENINGS AND EXHIBITIONS
2024. New York Latin American Art Triennial. Book Presentation. “Mamut”.
2024. BRING TO MIND. Ecology, humans, and otherness. Curated by Rankin Renwik
2023. The Cinema of Multi-Species Encounters. Curated by Kim Knowels.
Carsey-Wolf Center. UC Santa Barbara. USA.
2023. The Cinema of Multi-Species Encounters. Curated by Kim Knowels. UC Irvine. USA.
2022. Después (After). Artecámara section in ARTBO. Bogotá.
2021. The attack of the present to the rest of times. La Tertulia Museum. Cali.
2020. Women making noise. Curadoras: Anna Kipervaser. Streamed online.
2019. 21 Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris. Paris, October 2019.
2019. Cinetoro Experimental Film Festival. Toro. Colombia. November, 2019.
2018. Fracto. Experimental Film Encounter. Berlín.
2018. Savia Solaris. Solo exhibition. La Tertulia Museum. Cali.
2017. Contemporary Experiments on Film. Museum of Contemporary Art Rio de Janeiro.
2017. Mutatis Mutandis. Curator: Juan Mejía. Cámara de Comercio, Bogotá.
2017. Slamdance Film Festival. U.S.A (Honorary Mention for Best experimental film)
2017. Indie Grits Film Festival. U.S.A (Best Experimental Film Award)
2017. Ismo, Ismo, Ismo. Experimental Cinema in Latin America. Latin American Experimental Cinema
Restrospective. Pacific Standard Time. REDCAT. Los Ángeles.
2017. Black Box HumaNature. Edinburgh International Film Festival. UK
2017. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. U.S.A
2017. The Mini Micro Cinema. U.S.A
2017. Chicago Underground Film Festival. U.S.A
2017. Ann Arbor International Film Festival. U.S.A
2017. Oído Pueblo. Ritmo y Economía en Cali. Curator: Ericka Florez. La Tertulia Museum. Cali.
2017. The ocean traverses every mirror. La Vitrina. Lugar a dudas. Cali.
2016. Calarts Film and Video Showcase. REDCAT. U.S.A
2016. The ocean traverses every miror. San Martinez Road,Valverde, California.
2015. San Diego Underground Film Festival. San Diego, California.
PERFORMANCES
2022. With an arm of fire I enter the ocean. Performance based on the book of poetry “Dos tres un” (Two three one). Sound- performance involving reading, sound, silence, and musical instruments. In collaboration with percussionist Kate
Ortega and pianist Santiago Melo. Cali International Book Fair.
2022. A non hesitant octopus. Sound-words-musical instruments performance.
In collaboration with jazz pianist Holman Álvarez. Casa Tomada Book Shop. Bogotá.
TALKS / LECTURES / WORKSHOPS
2024. Guest speaker. Talks with Artists who write. Episode 24: Carolina Charry Quintero. El Rayón Podcast.
2024. Guest speaker. Talk with Carolina Charry on the Podcast Series: Between Species (Entrespecies).
Icesi University and El Espectador Journal.
2024. Guest artist. Expanded Reading Workshop focused on Clarice Lispector’s “The Stream of Life”.
Lugar a dudas. Space for Contemporary Art. Eight weeks duration. Cali, Colombia.
2024. Book presentation and talk. Mamut. International Literature Festival Oiga, Mire, Lea. Cali, Colombia.
2024. Book presentation and talk. Mamut. FILBO. Bogotá International Book Fair.
2024. Workshop Facilitator: “Rhapsody 1: Unemployment, desire, poetry”. Permanent workshop held at my house.
2023. Guest artist. Writing Workshop: The unstralatable song. Lugar a dudas. Space for Contemporary Art. Cali.
2023. Guest lecturer. Experimental Poetry Workshop. Oiga, Mira, Lea, Literature Festival. Cali.
2023. Workshop teacher: “Writing inside the laberynth. Experimental Writing based on a short story by J.L.Borges.
Icesi University.
2021. Researcher and curator:
IMAGES AND BODIES. Seeing (and hearing) the live videos of the social uprising in Colombia.
This event was part of the academic agenda of the XIII International Film Festival of Cali.
2021. Guest lecturer.”Image” Module in the Cinema Critique Laboraty BLOW UP. Museum La Tertulia. Cali.
2021. Guest Speaker: “Writing is being born”. A conversation about Clarice Lispector’s The Stream of Life.
Radio Podcast Literary Pandemia. Icesi University.
2020. Guest Speaker: “Cinema and poetry”. Roldanillo Museum and CineToro Film Festival.
2020. Workshop Facilitator. “The house as the world”. Workshop for highschool teachers on how to use the house
as a poetic and creative environment throughout the pandemic. Museum La Tertulia Outreach.
2019. Speaker:”To film the mother” talk at Cinema and Psyquiatry Colloquium. Colombian Society of Psyquiatry. Cali.
2019. Workshop. “Wild light” talk and workshop in the programVespertine Philosophy. Deutch School. Cali.
2018. Workshop. “Light as experience”. Creative Lab as part of Program C. Museo La Tertulia.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Adjunct Professor at Icesi University in the MA in Creative Writing Program. 2024
Adjunct Professor at Cali Fine Arts Institute (Instituto Departamental de Bellas Artes) Cali, Colombia 2018-to present.
Adjunct Professor at at Icesi University (2011- 2012) y (2018-to present)
Adjunct Professor at Universidad de los Andes. Colombia. Bogotá. 2020-2021
Adjunct Professsor Javeriana University. Humanities Department. 2011
PUBLICATIONS
“Mamut”. (Mammoth) Hybrid genre in between poetry and fiction. Sic Semper Ediciones. Cali. 2023.
“dos, tres, un”. (two three one) Book of poems. Matera Libros, Bogotá, 2022.
“Cuatro relatos”. (Four Short Stories) Revista Matera No. Colores, Bogotá, 2022
“Los en vivo: estar vivos y ser vistos”. (Live videos: being alive and being seen in the context of the national uprising in Colombia). Cerosetenta Uniandes. Mayo 27, 2021.
“La estatua-quo”. (The Statue-quo) Cerosetenta Uniandes. August 2, 2021.
“Los en vivo: estar vivos y ser vistos” (“Live videos: being alive and being seen”) on the book Voces en primera línea. Ediciones El Silencio, 2021.
“La estatua-quo” in the book ¿Por qué estalló Colombia? (Why did Colombia uprised?) Editorial Controversia. 2021
“Un payaso me dice por qué no llorar”. (A clown tells me why not to cry). Visaje Magazine. Issue: Imagen Política. 2021
“Casa y cocodrilo”, “Amenaza”, “Ventana”. Poems. Revista Matera. No. 17. “Tenemos Casa”. Bogotá, 2017.