José Carlos Martinat Mendonza

Lima, Peru, 1974.
Lives and works in Lima, Peru.

Peruvian artist with an international trajectory, whose practice articulates photography, sound, video, installation, and digital technologies as critical tools for investigating space, politics, and perception. His education, initiated in the 1990s, is grounded in solid training in photography and unfolds through studies in contemporary methodologies, experimental art, and interactive systems, with formative experiences at the Centro Cultural de España and Media LAB Fundación Telefónica. This educational path underpins a rigorous practice in which technique and concept operate inseparably, guiding a body of work attentive to social transformations and the dispositifs that shape contemporary experience.

His work has been presented in major museums, biennials, and galleries across Latin America, Europe, and the United States, including contexts such as the Venice Biennale, Havana Biennial, Mercosur Biennial, Cuenca Biennial, and the Shanghai Biennale. Exhibitions at institutions such as MoMA, Tate Modern, and the Pérez Art Museum highlight a practice that investigates power relations, memory, territory, and systems of control. Included in significant international collections such as the Guggenheim, MoMA, Tate, and MALI, his trajectory is defined by conceptual consistency, formal experimentation, and a critical dialogue with public and institutional space.

Lima, Peru, 1974. Lives and works in Lima, Peru.

Education

2005 Diseño de Generadores de audio, Media LAB Fundación Telefónica, Lima, Peru

2004 Taller de manejo del software interactivo Max, Media LAB Fundación Telefónica, Lima, Peru

2001 Taller de arte experimental – Daniel Canogar, Centro Cultural de España, Lima, Peru

1999 Metodología de nueva tendencias de arte Contemporáneo – Pedro Ortuño Mengual, Centro Cultural de España, Lima, Peru

1998 Fotografía profesional, Instituto Antonio Gaudí, Lima, Peru

1996 Taller de sistema de zonas, Instituto Antonio Gaudí, Lima, Peru

1995 Fotografía Pinhole, Instituto Antonio Gaudí, Lima, Peru

1995 Diseño Grafico, Instituto Peruano de Publicidad, Lima, Peru

1994 Fotografía, Kodak Latinoamericana, Lima, Peru

Solo Exhibitions

2025 Sueno Bolivariano : Preludio I, Galeria Formato Comodo, Madrid, Spain

2025 Esencia: Materica, N.A.S.A.L., Cidade do México, México

2024 Esencia artefacto, Revolver Galeria, Nova York, Estados Unidos

2021 Marc Straus New York, NY, USA

2019 Distractor #4, Espacio Fundacion Telefonica, Lima, Peru

2018 American Echo Chamber, Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, USA

2017 lo que sucede aquí, no se queda aquí, Carmen Araujo Arte, Caracas, Venezuela

2017 Infografía del Aprendizaje, (with José Luis Martinat), Galeria Patricia Ready, Santiago, Chile; Revolver Galería, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2017 Art Brussels, Galeria Steve Turner, Brussels, Belgian

2015 Como explicar lo inexplicable, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City, Mexico

2015 Ambiente de Estéreo Realidad #2, site-specific commision for the project SITU curated by Bruno de Almeida, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil

2015 Cabinet, ArteBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2015 JOSE LUIS / JOSE CARLOS MARTINAT – Proyecto en colaboración Galería Lucía de la Puente & Revólver Galeria, Revolver Galeria, Lima, Peru

2014 Pista 1, Revolver Galeria, Lima, Peru

2013 Ambiente de Estereo Realidad #4, Gervasuti Foundation, Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy

2013 Ejercícios Superficiales sobre Dispositivos de Deleite, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil

2012 Galeria Baginski, Lisboa, Portugal

2010 Ejercicios de adición y sustracción para diversion, Revolver Galeria, Lima, Peru

2010 Monumentos vandalizables, MALI – Lima art museum, Peru

2010 Exercícios Superficiais para Galeria, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil

2010 Ejercicios para galleria; Liprandi gallery, Argentina.

2000 Casa, intervention of domestic space; Peru.

Group Exhibitions

2025 Ensayos sobre la felicidad, Bogotá Internacional Art and City Biennial, Bogota, Colombia

2024 Act of Faith, Nasal gallery, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico

2024 Ride the Lighting, Revolver gallery, Lima.

2024 Track oblivion, Mayoral Gallery, Barcelona, España

2024 Radicalment Singulars, Radicalment Diferents, Galeria Mayoral, Barcelona, Spain

2023 Desire is a Spiral, Revolver gallery, New York, EE. UU

2023 In Search of the invisible, Revolver gallery, New York, EE. UU

2022 High Priestess, Revolver gallery, Lima, Peru.

2022 That little thing that counts, Nosco gallery, Brussels, Belgium.

2022 Leme NFT collection, Leme gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

2021 Le Contraddizioni della Fragilità, Eduardo Secci Gallery, Florence, Italy

2021 Janelas para dentro, Leme gallery + Central Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brasil.

2021 Imaginarios contemporaneos Vol I y Vol II, Mali Museum, Lima, Peru.

2020 Marieloisa1003 / Martinat + Sassi, Edifício Marieloisa, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

2020 Arte Em Campo: Uma ocupação de Arte no Estádio do Pacaembu, Pacaembu Stadium, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

2020 Non Space, Revolver Gallery, Lima, Peru.

2019 We Promise to Never Wake up with Jose Luis Martinat. Nosco Gallery, Marsella, France.

2019 Time for change, El espacio 23, Miami, EE.UU.

2019 Distractor #4, Fundacion Telefonica, Lima, Peru.

2019 Cronicas Migrantes: Historias comunes entre Peru y Venezuela. Museo de arte Contemporaneo del Peru.

2019 Soy La Casa que Ladra, Madrid, Spain.

2019 En orden de Aparición (curated by Estrella de Diego and Luiz Pérez-Oramas), Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, Spain

2017 In Box: New Acquisitions, Moma, New York

2017 Utlima parada : coleccion Hocschild. Sala Alcala 31. Madrid

2017 Force, Strength, Power (curated by Miguel Mesquita), Galeria Baginski, Lisbon, Portugal

2017 Monumentos, Anti-Monumentos y Nueva Escultura Pública (curated by Pablo León de la Barra), Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan, Mexico

2017 Próxima Parada. Artistas Peruanos en la colección Hochschild (curated by Octavio Zaya), Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid, Spain

2017 Infografia del Aprendizaje, Patricia Ready, Santiago de Chile.

2017 Older tha Santan, Galeria German Gruger Espantoso. Lima Peru

2017 Extaction, Galeria Nosco, Marsella, France.

2017 Change of matter, Lamb gallery, London, UK

2017 Rumicolqa : El despertar de una cantera, museo de la Nacion, Lima, Peru.

2016 IMPERMANENCIA. Mutable Art in a Materialist Society, XIII Cuenca Biennial (curated by Dan Cameron and Cristián Gallegos), Cuenca, Equador

2016 Post No Bills: Public Walls as Studio and Source, Neuberger Museum of Art Purchase College, New York, USA

2016 Divagation, Curated by Meyken Barreto, Carlos Garcia-Montero, Cecilia Jurado and ghost writer, Y Gallery, New York, USA

2016 BASTA!, Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York), New York, USA

2016 Danger. Expansión y corte, curated by Jorge Villacorta, Colección Hochschild, UTEC – Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología, Lima Peru

2016 Lo Real Absoluto, Revolver Galeria, Lima, Peru

2015 10th Mercosul Biennial, New Messages from America, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2015 12th Havana Biennial, Between the Idea and the Experience, Havana, Cuba

2014 La fotografia despues de la fotografia: Hacia un horizonte de lo post-fotografico. Bienal de fotografia de Lima, Lima, Peru

2014 Permission to be global /Prácticas Globales: Latin American Art from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, EUA

2014 Pangaea: New Art From Africa and Latin America, Saatchi Gallery, London, England

2013 Suspicious Minds, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil

2013 Somos Libres, MATE, Lima, Peru

2013 City Centre – Diankou, Lima, Palermo, Gervasuti Foundation, Venice, Italy

2013 Project Space: Ruins in Reverse, Tate Modern, London, UK; Ruinas en Reversa, Museo de arte de Lima (MALI), Lima, Peru

2013 Silver, Revolver Galeria, Lima, Peru

2012 Modift, as needed, Knight exhibition series, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA

2012 The Collaborative: Moola – Museum of Latin American Art, Los Angeles, USA

2012 9th Shanghai Biennale, China

2012 EVA International, Biennial of Visual Art, Limerick City, Ireland

2011 MODIFY, AS NEEDED, KNIGHT EXHIBITION SERIES, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA

2011 DIFRACCIÓN, Arróniz Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico

2011 Colleción Contemporanea del Museo Arte de Lima, Estação Pinacoteca, São Paulo, Brazil

2011 Bruma, 20 Hoxton Square, London, England

2010 Restraint SESC Pinheiros, São Paulo, Brazil

2010 Monumentos vandalizables: abstracción de poder III, Mali, Lima, Peru

2009 Galeria Revolver, Lima, Peru

2009 Restraint (New Media Art Practices from Brazil and Peru), Maison de la culture Marie-Uguay and OBORO, Montréal, Canada

2009 7ª Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2009 2ª Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan: América Latina y el Caribe, San Juan, Porto Rico

2009 Misfeasance?, Museo de Arte Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, Mexico

2008 Emergentes, curated by José-Carlos Mariategui, Centro Fundacion Telefonica, Lima, Peru

2008 La Construcción de un Lugar Comum, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima, Peru

2007 Ambiente de Estereo Realidad 4, La Laboral, Madrid, Spain

2007 10°00 S / 76°00 W, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil

2007 Fotógrafos contemporáneos, Galería Lucia de la Puente, Lima, Peru

2007 Doppelganger: El doble de la Realidad, MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo, Vigo, Spain

2006 Constelaciones, Muestra de Arte Contemporáneo, Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru

2006 A imagen y semejanza, Museo de arte Contemporáneo de Arequipa, Arequipa, Peru

2006 Cambios Estructurales 1, Museo de la Universidad San Marcos, Lima, Peru

2005 Ambiente de Estereo Realidad 2, Festival de Video /Arte /Electrónico, Lima, Peru

2005 Vestigio Barroco, Centro Cultural de España, Lima, Peru

2004 Cubo blanco-Flexi time, Galería Luís Miro Quesada Garland, Lima, Peru

2004 Absolut Vodka Creation, Galería Lucia de la Puente, Lima, Peru

2004 Ambiente de Estereo Realidad 1, World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2004 Vía Satélite: fotografía y video arte contemporáneo del Perú – travelling exhibition, Centro Cultural de España, Lima, Peru

2003 Casa tomada, Galería Lucia de la Puente, Lima, Peru

2002 Impecable Soledad, Centro Cultural de España, Lima, Peru

2001 Co-razón, Centro Cultural de España, Lima, Peru

2001 Trans-apariencias, Centro Cultural de la Católica, Lima, Peru

2000 Casa, intervention in domestic space, Lima, Peru

1999 Nuevos fotógrafos Peruanos, Galería Luís Miro Quesada Garland, Lima, Peru

Awards

2016 Premio Julian Matadero, XIII Bienal de Cuenca.

2006 Adquisición: Inkarri: Ambiente de Estereo Realidad 2, Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru

2004 Vida 7.0 Arte y vida artificial, Fundación Telefónica de España, Spain

2004 Subvención, 21 World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2001 Premio del público y mención honrosa: 5º Concurso de Artes Plásticas de Telefónica del Peru

Collections

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

MAC USP – Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

MALI – Museo de Arte de Lima, Lima, Peru

MALBA – Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

MOMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Tate, London, UK

Pista 1, 2014

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