San José, Costa Rica
Rossella Matamoros
Contemporary artist working across installation, performance, painting, and video.
Art that holds social questions in space
Drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, mixed media, set design, performance, lighting design, dramaturgy of dress, and video performance.
Selected work
2024 · Installation & performance
Absence / Creativity
Exhibition on adolescent mental health, anxiety, and hope.
2020 · Research & exhibition
How Do We See Ourselves in the Mirror?
Inquiry into institutions and civic mirroring.
2019 · Installation & painting
Have You Heard? Have You Felt It?
Teenage motherhood and family stories.
2018 · Installation & mural
The Border / Immigrants
Migration narratives from Central America and beyond.
Rossella Matamoros Jiménez
Rossella Matamoros Jiménez is a Costa Rican contemporary artist based in San José. Her practice spans drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, mixed media, performance, set design, and video.
Recent projects engage adolescent mental health, civic institutions, migration, and Indigenous women's histories through installation, workshops, and performance in museums and public contexts in Costa Rica and abroad.
“I discovered that Rossella Matamoros is an artist of the night that is constantly rising to the light of day.”
Exhibitions
- 2025Performance CONVERGENCES. March 2025 Inaugural Class. Art Research Institute of the University of Costa Rica.
- 2025Performance TEENAGE PREGNANCY. August 2025 Simposium. Art Research Institute of the University of Costa Rica.
- 2024"Development?" (About femicides) AGUACERO Festival MAV (Women in visual arts) & Nadie, nunca, nada, no Gallery, Madrid Spain.
- 2024Installation on teenagers anxiety & depression. Calderón Guardia Museum.
Press
- SemanarioUniversidad — Installation on teenagers anxiety & depression. Calderón Guardia Museum.2024
- LaNación — Installation on teenagers anxiety & depression. Calderón Guardia Museum.2023
- LaRepública — Exhibition & performances "Translucid Seeds". Contemporary art & archeology. (About Indigenous Costa Rican Women yesterday & today) Itinerant exhibition through several places in Costa Rica & abroad. National Museum of2022
- CRHoy — Installation & performances Have You Heard? Have You Felt It? About pregnant teenagers at social risk. Costa Rica.2022
Studio
San José, Costa Rica