Biography

Education (In order of importance to the artist)

1. 1983

   Licenciatura in Fine Arts

   University of Costa Rica

2. 1988-1992

   Master in Fine Arts

   George Washington University. USA

3. 1999-2000

   Research in Japanese performing arts

   Kyoto Seika University. Japan

4. 1987-1988

   Certification in etching and drawing

   École des Beaux Arts and École des Arts and Décoratives. Paris, France

Awards and Grants

1. 2021

   Artist Residency on Climate Change

   "Next Seasson"

2. 2020

   National Prize Francisco Amiguetti

3. 2010

   PROARTES

   Prize by the Ministry of Cultural Affairs. Costa Rica

4. 2008

   1st Prize in Painting

   First Biennial of Contemporary Art. Chapingo, México

5. 1998 y 2003

   National Prize “Aquileo J

   Echeverría.” Costa Rica

6. 1999 – 2000

   Japan Foundation Scholarship

   Kyoto Seika University. Japan

7. 2002

   Nominated as best video of the year: “Signs.” Film and Video Annual Contest

   Costa Rica

8. 1998

   1st y 3rd Prize

   First Sports Biennial. Costa Rica

9. 1988 – 1992

   Fulbright Scholarship

   George Washington University. USA

10. 1987–1988

    French Government Scholarship

    École des Beaux Arts y École des Arts Décoratives. Paris, France

11. 1992

    Statement of Appreciation as an Artist

    National Council of Hispanic Women. USA

12. 1992

    Selected as “Invited Artist.” Arlington Public School System Virginia, USA

    1991 and

13. 1990

    Lloyd Krieger

    in printmaking. George Washington University. USA

Seminars

1. 1999-2000

   Japan Foundation Scholarship

   Kyoto Seika University. Japan

2. 2010

   DbD Experience

   Workshop with Rachel Rosenthal. California, USA

3. 1995

   Photo-Printmaking workshop

   Estudio Luis Camnitzer. Valdotavo, Italy

4. 2014

   For the Record: Making and Documenting Performance Arts

   Workshop with Coco Fusco. FAWC, Provincetown. Massachusetts, USA

5. 2000

   Dramaturgy of Dress

   Workshop with Cordelia Dvörak. Casa del Teatro. Mexico

6. 2014

   Open Engagemenet Conference: Life/Work

   Queens Museum USA

7. 2013

   Creative Time Summit: Art, Place & Dislocation in the 21st Century City

   NYC, USA

8. 2012

   Creative Time Summit: Confronting Inequity

   NYC, USA

9. 2013

   Art at Large: Art Making in the Long View

   MoMA. NYC, USA

10. 2013

    Fourth Biennial Conference: Expanding Perspectives in American Art

    Smithsonian Latino Center. Washington DC, USA

11. 2013

    Theater of the Opressed

    Workshop with Gio Britto. MoMA. NYC, USA

12. 2014

    Contemporary Art Forum: The Curative Object

    MoMA. USA

13. 2000

    Symposium of Latin American Theater

    San Cayetano Monastery. House of the Theater. México

14. 2013

    Thought and Curatorial Practice I and II workshops

    Teorética. Costa Rica

15. 2014

    Workshop of Curatorship in Sound Art and Audiovisual Art

    CCE. Costa Rica

16. 2010

    Theater Direction

    Workshop with Iven of Odin Teatret. Costa Rica

17. 1997

    Theater

    Workshop with Hector Mendoza. Costa Rica

18. 2000

    Butoh Dance

    workshop. Kyoto. Japan

Most Important Individual and Collective Exhibits

1. 2021

   The Embrace (Long beforethe death of the lats tree... a forest has already desapeared)

   "Next Seasson". Museum of Contemporary Art & Design . Costa Rica

2. 2020

   "How do we look ourselves in the mirror? Do we defend institutionalidad? Museum of Contemporary Art & Design . Costa Rica. National Prize Francisco Amiguetti

3. 2019

   "Have you heard? Have you fekt it? Museo Calderón Guardia

   Costa Rica

4. 2018

   "The Border: Immigrants

   Children's Museum. Costa Rica

5. 2017

   Translucid Seeds

   exhibition of contemporary art & archeology. About Indigenous Costa Rican women yesterday & today. National Museum of Costa Rica in its 130th anniversary

6. 2017

   National Salon 2017

   Museum of Costa Rican Art. San José

7. 2015

   Reflexions

   Series of paintings & drawings "The Border". About the Syrian migrants & refugees 2015. San José Costa Rica

8. 2014

   Vulnerable/Load

   Itinerant Installation. Ciudadanas en movimiento. La conquista del sufragio 1888–1953. CIICLA XX Aniv.+Museo. University of Costa Rica

9. 2013

   People

   and “Three Dots.” Paint on felt. Escalas . Group show. National Art Festival 2013. Design Artes Villa Colón. Costa Rica

“Heart,” “Someone I Saw,” and “Evidences.” Books on paper and fabric. Libro Arte. Group show. Curator: Rolando Castellón.

1. 2012

   Alternativa Gallery

   Costa Rica

2. 2011

   In Red

   Paint and collage on fabric. Subasta Marte. Group show. El Salvador

3. 2011

   Self-Portraits: Of Whom?

   Installation and performance. University Veritas. Costa Rica

4. 2011

   Heart

   Drawings, paintings, and performance. Omar Dengo Foundation. Costa Rica

5. 2010

   Reflect-Action

   Book and art exhibit. Symposium by ARS Aporia. Ithoen Gallery. Osaka, Japan

“The Verb that Fills the Space.” Installation-scenography and performances. Touring project. Museum of Contemporary Art and

1. 2010

   Design, PROARTES and National Museum Costa Rica

"Gesture on Felt". Paintings, drawings and performances ( “Kyrie Eleison” and “About Connection and Time.”) Alternativa Gallery.

1. 2010-2011

   Costa Rica

“Encounter” and “Couple.” Drawing on paper and paint. VI Euro-American Art Exhibition 2010 . Group show. Campeche. Mexico.

1. 2009

   Convergences

   Workshop and installation at Juvenile Correctional Zurquí. Museum of Contemporary Art and Design. Costa Rica

2. 2009

   Fluidity

   Exhibit and performances. National Theatre. Costa Rica

3. 2008

   Earth inside - Earth outside

   Paint and collage on fabric. International Contemporary Art Biennial of Chapingo . Group show. Mexico

4. 2007

   Rock

   Drawing of acrylic and collage on paper. Image of Spain . Group shows (Spain, Taiwan and Argentina)

5. 2006

   Paths, encounters…rites

   Installation and performance. National Theater. Costa Rica. (Celebration of San José: Ibero American Capital of Culture)

“Signsonmymother.” Series of sculptures, drawings and performances. Touring project. San Ramón Museum and University Veritas.

1. 2006

   Costa Rica

2. 2003

   Blooming Rock

   Installation. Dreams and Conflicts . Group show. Participation at 50th Edition of the Venice Biennial. Italy

3. 2003

   The Contented Root of My Shadow

   Installation and performances. Museum of Costa Rican Art. Costa Rica

4. 2002

   Signs

   Installation, videos, and performance. After 9/11, USA. Enrique Echandi Gallery. Costa Rica

5. 2002

   My Great-grandparents

   Acrylic on fabric. 40 Costa Rican Artists . Group show. Museum of Children. Costa Rica

6. 2001

   Of Transparencies and Spaces

   Books, paintings, installation. Costa Rican-North American Institute. Costa Rica

7. 2000

   Behind-Screens

   Installation, books, and performances. Sowaka Gallery. Kyoto, Japan

8. 2000

   About Abuse

   Estandarte Biennial . Group show. Tijuana. Mexico

9. 1998

   About the other, the being and the scene

   Installation and performances. National Gallery of Contemporary Arte. Museum of Costa Rican Art. Costa Rica

10. 1998

    Series of 20 teatrinos

    About Hope. UNICEF and University of Costa Rica. Costa Rica

11. 1997

    Various titles

    Drawings, books, and paintings. Sobre lo Gestual. Monumental installation and performance. Peruvian-North American Institute. Historical Center. Lima, Peru

Various titles . Drawings, books, and paintings. Books and drawings by Rossella Matamoros . Corriente Alterna. Peru.

“My Aunts.” Acrylic on paper. Drawings. Group exhibit. Museum of the Central Bank. Costa Rica.

Various titles . Drawings, books, paintings, and performance. About the drawing and gesture. Peruvian-North American Institute.

1. 1997

   Lima, Peru

“Characters.” Drawings. Drawing Biennal . Group show. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

“Friendship.” Photo printmaking. Luis Camnitzer students . Group show. Palazzo Cordatti. Barga, Italy.

“Dances.” Acrylic on paper. Permanent Collection . Group show. Museum of Contemporary Art and Design. Costa Rica.

1. 1994

   Various titles

   Drawings and paintings. Fine Arts Board of Trustees Gallery. Guatemala

2. 1993

   Various titles

   Drawings and paintings. Cultural House. Coyoacán. Mexico

3. 1992

   Four Monumental Paintings

   Acrylic on canvas. Eight paths to a journey. Group show. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. USA

4. 1992

   Various titles

   Paintings and drawings. Rossella Matamoros, Five Years in Washington, DC. Inter-American Development Bank Gallery. Washington DC., USA

5. 1991

   Day and Night

   and “Mounsters.” Etching on metal. Paintings 91. Group show. Arlington Arts Center. Curator: Susana Torruela. (Museo del Barrio in NY). Virginia, USA

6. 1991

   The Aurelianos

   Mono copy. Contemporary Costa Rican Art . Group show. International Monetary Fund. Washington DC., USA

7. 1990

   Various titles

   Drawings and etchings. García Monge Gallery. National Theater. Costa Rica

8. 1988

   Various titles

   Drawings. Dessins by Rossella Matamoros. George Bernanos Gallery. Paris, France

Performances and Set Design

"The Embrace (Long before the death of the lats tree... a forest has already desapeared)". "Next Seasson". Museum of Contemporary Art & Design . 2021. Costa Rica.

"How do we look ourselves in the mirror? Do we defend institutionalidad? 4 performances: In the same boat?, What do you feel?, How did I get here & Line of life? . Museum of Contemporary Art & Design . 2020. Costa Rica. National Prize Francisco Amiguetti.

"Have you heard? Have you fekt it?" 10 with the public, performances Museo Calderón Guardia. 2019. Costa Rica.

"The Border: Immigrants". "The Beast". Children's Museum 2018. Costa Rica.

1. 2017

   Participant at the Venice Biennial 57th, group performances: Jelili Atiku's & Anna Halprin's. Italy

Participant at the National Salon 2017 at Museum of Costa Rican Art. July - 2017 with the performance ' 'Under the Clear Blue Sky"

1. 2017

   Participant at ITINERANT Festival 2017 with the performance Clear Blue at Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, NY

2. 2017

   Series of performances in different sites "Green Uterus", "Transluced Seeds", "Ancestral Roots" & "Linked to Eve" among others, part of the exhibition "TRANSLUCID SEEDS" at National Museum of Costa Rica (130th anniversary of the Museum)

3. 2015

   Participant at ITINERANT Festival 2015 with the performance Heart at Queens Museum, NY

4. 2014

   Invited artist: “Brooklyn Bred 2: The Parable Conference by Pablo Helguera” , BAM Fisher Theater, Brooklyn, EUA

5. 2014

   Burying Entanglements

   FAWC in Provincetown a t workshop with Coco Fusco. Massachusetts, USA

6. 2014

   Burdensome Layers

   University of Costa Rica. Woman that liberates herself taking off layer of clothes during her life

7. 2014

   Rio

   by Carlito Carvalhosa. Group. MoMA. USA. Group performance where the text by Lygia Clark ( My Sweet River ) is read at MoMA

8. 2013

   ARTFLOW

   San José, Costa Rica. Wall and floor graffiti in public

Invited artist: “Academy of the Night Revelers” by Pablo Helguera. Group. EXIT ART. NYC, USA. 2012. Group performance inspired

1. 2012

   by the XVI Century Academy of the Night Revelers in Valencia, Spain

Set design (play). “Fuente Ovejuna” by Lope de Vega. Variedades Theater. Costa Rica. Mobil set design made out of recyclable materials.

1. 2012

   Costa Rica my Beloved Country

   Valoarte. Costa Rica. 2012. Civism and values of the contemporary Costa Rican

2. 2011

   Costa Rica my Beloved Country

   Club Unión, Costa Rica. Civility and values of the contemporary Costa Rican

3. 2011

   Himmelweg

   Installation for a theater play of J. Mayorga. Casa del Cuño. Costa Rica. About the concentration camps of the Holocaust

4. 2011

   Kyrie Eleison

   Alternativa Gallery. Costa Rica. Introspection

5. 2011

   From the Center

   Opening of La Antigua Aduana. Museum of Costa Rican Art. Costa Rica

6. 2011

   Self-Portraits: Of Whom?

   Performance with teenagers. University Veritas. Costa Rica. Reflection about the social process of the teenager

7. 2011

   Heart

   Performance. Omar Dengo Foundation. Costa Rica. Connection between heartbeat and creativity

8. 2010

   My Life in Three Minutes

   Rachel Rosenthal. DbD. workshop. Los Angeles, CA, USA. Description of my life in three minutes

“The Verb that Fills the Space.” Direction, scenic conception and performances: graphic, dance, and music. Museum of

1. 2010

   Contemporary Art and Design, San Agustín Festival, Las Esferas Festival en Palmar Sur

   Costa Rica

2. 2010

   Passages

   Valuarte Project. La Antigua Aduana. Costa Rica. Psicologycal stages of abuse

3. 2010

   About Connection and Time

   Alternativa Gallery. Costa Rica. About existence and revelation

“Fluidity.” Performance, scenic conception, and direction. National Theater. Costa Rica. About the developing a path in life.

1. 2009

   Techno-Urban-Expression

   Graphics performance, dance, and music. Institute of Technology. Costa Rica. Signs and symbols of contemporary society

2. 2009

   Graphic Improvisation

   Valuarte Project. Children Museum Costa Rica. Drawings on floor and walls

“From the Center” and “Blue Rock.” Graphic improvisation. International Contemporary Art Biennial of Chapingo, Mexico.

1. 2008

   Monumental drawings on a 250 square meters space

“Paths, Encounters…Rites.” Scenic conception and, direction. National Theater. Costa Rica. Rites of passage.

1. 2006

   Signsonmymother

   Scenic conception, and direction. University Veritas. Costa Rica. Woman that ties and unties herself up

2. 2003

   The Contented Root of My Shadow

   Scenic conception, direction and, performance. Museum of Costa Rican Art. In the primitive cave where I was born

3. 2002

   Signs

   About 9/11, USA. Enrique Echandi Gallery, Costa Rica. The collapse of the Twin Towers and the following attacks in Afghanistan

“They Did Not Understand, We Did Not Understand…Are We Going to Understand?” 40 Costa Rican Artists . Children

1. 2002

   Museum Costa Rica

   After 9/11 and the human behavior

2. 2002

   Improvisation OEA

   Drawing and dance. Organization of American States. Washington DC., USA. Drawings on dyed canvas and dance in public

3. 2002

   Of Transparencies and Spaces

   Costa Rican-North American Institute. Costa Rica

4. 2001

   The Leaf of Air

   Set design and dramaturgy of dress. Play by Joaquín Gutiérrez. Vargas Calvo Theater. Costa Rica. Minimalist style in black and green

5. 2001

   Improvisation NMWA

   Drawings, dance, and classical music. National Museum of Women in the Arts. USA

Improvisation of drawing and theater. 10th Latin American Theater Symposium in San Cayetano Monastery. House of Theater,

1. 2001

   Mexico Theater workshop with prof

   João Das Neves and use of recycled materials

“Aperture.” Scenic conception, dramaturgy and direction (dress). Festival of Young Choreographers. National Theater. Costa Rica.

1. 2000

   Inner dialogue of a woman

2. 1998

   The Other, the Being and the Scene

   Scenic action, improvisation, drawing, dance and, music. National Gallery of Contemporary Art. Museum of Costa Rican Art. Series of improvisations to develop images and promote creativity

“About the Gesture.” Drawing and dance performance. Peruvian-North American Institute. Lima, Peru. Contemporary dance group

1. 1997

   that intersperses movements based on graphic improvisation in public

2. 1997

   The Rites of Spring

   Set Design. Igor Stravinsky. National Dance Company. National Theater. Costa Rica. Set design made out of large canvases and acrylic paint

“On Gesture and Drawing.” Drawing and dance improvisation.Peruvian-North American Institute. Lima, Peru. Set design made

1. 1997

   out of large canvases and acrylic paint

2. 1996

   AIDS

   Drawing and dance. Club Union, Costa Rica. Drawings on kraft paper in public

Workshops imparted by the artist

1. 2014

   Trauma and Recovery

   Immigrant Movement International (IMI). Queens. USA

2. 2014

   Trauma and Recovery

   San Ramón Museum. Costa Rica

3. 2011

   Installation for social high risk adolescents

   Casa Alianza and Museo Identidad Nacional. Tegucigalpa, Honduras

4. 2010

   Installation “The Verb that Fills the Space.” Museum of Contemporary Art and Design

   Costa Rica

5. 2010

   Book Share (Making books with everybody's images)

   Outenin Temple. Osaka, Japón

6. 2009

   Convergences

   Correctional Center Zurquí. Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design. Costa Rica

7. 1998

   Expo for social high risk adolescent

   National Gallery. Museum of Costa Rican Art. Costa Rica

8. 1998

   Expos about Hope

   Different areas of San José. Costa Rica

9. 1989 – 1993

   Drawing

   Corriente Alterna. Lima, Peru

10. 1990 – 1993

    Spanish docent

    National Gallery of Art. USA

11. 1990

    Docent

    Hirshorn Museum Washington, DC., USA

12. 1991 – 1992

    Intern

    National Museum of American History. Smithsonian Institution. Washington, DC., USA

13. 1992

    Latin American Art professor

    Georgetown University. USA

14. 1990-1991

    Hispanic immigrant children and adolescents

    Public School System Arlington. Virginia, USA