Rossella Matamoros · Contemporary artist · Costa Rica
Art that holds social questions in space
Contemporary artist working across installation, performance, painting, set design and long workshop processes with young people and communities.San José, Costa Rica · En español
Lines of inquiry
Six threads through 35 years of work
Recent project · 2025
Coincidamos! / Let's Agree!
A performance about water and our shared responsibility for it. The audience holds a cord around a large painted cloth covered with water symbols of ancient cultures.
On 5 November 2026: the collective performance Comunidad / Cohesión / Esperanza at the University of Costa Rica (Plaza del 50 Aniversario, School of General Studies, 10:45 a.m.), following Ojalá que a estas palabras no se las lleve el viento (Segovia, Spain, May 2026).
Also in 2025: the performances Convergences and Teenage Pregnancy at the Art Research Institute of the University of Costa Rica. Before that, Absence / Creativity (2024). All exhibitions
“I discovered that Rossella Matamoros is an artist of the night that is constantly rising to the light of day.”
The artist
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.
Exhibitions
2025 · Performance COINCIDAMOS! / LET'S AGREE! About water and our shared responsibility for it.
All exhibitionsSocial practice
Workshops with adolescents, teenage mothers, immigrants and communities in Costa Rica, Honduras, Japan and the United States since 1990.
Workshops