Betsy Hotel, 1440 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach FL, 33139
Hours of Exhibition:
November 16, 2023, 6-10pm
November 30, 2023, 6-10pm
December 4 – 10, 2023, 6-10pm
Carlos Betancourt (b. 1966 in San Juan, Puerto Rico; lives and works in Miami, FL) is a multidisciplinary artist exploring issues of memory, dwelling in issues of nature, the environment and matters of beauty, identity, and communication. Through re-examination, he recycles and reinterprets the past by delivering it in a fresh and new relevant context.
Betancourt ‘s artwork is part of public collections such as the Smithsonian’ National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas, New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana, Palm Springs Arts Museum, California, Bass Museum of Art, Florida, Perez Art Museum Miami, Florida, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico. He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including the Florida Department of State Millennium Cultural Recognition Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, Bas-Fisher Invitational Grant, the Florida Prize on Contemporary Art People Choice Award, and the Miami Beach Arts Council Grant. He has worked as a curator, furniture designer, and has collaborated in architectural and site-specific private and public commissions with architect Alberto Latorre.
https://www.carlosbetancourt.com/
Photo credit: Zaire Aranguren