CARLOS SALAZAR-LERMONT
3040 West Belden Avenue 3F. Chicago, IL, 60647
+1 (773)8708350 csalazarlermont@gmail.com
carlossalazarlermont.com
Venezuelan mixed-media artist with a background in performance art and post-conceptualist strategies.
EDUCATION
2022 Master of Fine Arts, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts Washington University in Saint Louis. St Louis, MO 2019 Master of Arts in Arts Administration and Policy. School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, IL
2019 Master of Arts in Modern and Contemporary Art History. School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, IL
2012 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sculpture Major. Universidad Nacional Experimental de las Artes . Caracas, Venezuela
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022 Part-time Faculty, Washington University in St. Louis. St. Louis, MO (courses taught: Drone Photography)
2020-22 Teacher Assistant, Washington University in St. Louis. St. Louis. St. Louis, MO (courses taught: Drone Photography, Conceptual Methods in Drawing, Animated Worlds, Methods & Contexts)
2017-19 Writing Fellow, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, IL (courses taught: Studio and Vision, Why Make Art, Now? The Unstable Nucleus, Envisioning Info, Visualities, Modern & Contemporary Latin American Art, Art Language Concept)
2016-17 Teacher Assistant. (courses taught: World Cultures and Civilizations: Prehistory to the Nineteenth Century)
2016 Instructor, Performance Art Workshop. Escuela de Artes Plásticas Arturo Michelena. Valencia, Venezuela
2012-14 Part-time Faculty, Art History and Drawing. Centro de Diseño Digital, San Antonio, Venezuela
2004-15 Facilitator. Comic and Manga Drawing workshops for children and youth. Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Prensa
AWARDS, GRANTS, AND ACCOLADES
Cine Plus Performance Art International Fest. Galería Peras de Olmo. Buenos Aires, Argentina
2022 Unanimous Special Mention of the Jury (highest distinction awarded by this event)
Washington University in St. Louis
2020-2022 Danforth Scholarship
2022 John T. Milliken Foreign Travel Award (Declined)
2022 Community Partnership Award
2021 CityStudioSTL Award
2021 Production Grant Award
2020 CityStudioSTL Award
2020 Production Grant Award
School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, IL
2018 Graduating Student Leadership Award
2018 Student Leadership Award
2018 Enrichment Fund Grant
2017- 2018 Graduate Curatorial Fellowship
2016 - 2019 New Artist Society Scholarship
Salón Jóvenes con FIA. Caracas, Venezuela
2016 Nomination to Fundación Cisneros Special Prize Artist Residency Pivô
2014 Winner: Salón Jóvenes con FIA 2.0/3
2013 Honorable Mention, XVI Salón Jóvenes con FIA.
III Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Los Andes. Universidad de Los Andes. Mérida, Venezuela
2015 Honorific Mention for the Curatorial Project Desafío al Poder
Goethe Institut Colombia Bogotá, Colombia
2014 EXPERIMENTA SUR III Scholarship.
ART RESIDENCIES
2019 ACRE Residency. Wisconsin, USA.
2019 Rosekill. New York, USA.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Archivo Fotografía Urbana. Caracas, Venezuela
SOLO SHOWS
2019 Ecclesiastés 1:2. Chuquimarca Projects. Chicago, USA.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS (SELECTION)
2022 Cine Plus Performance Art Fest. Galería Peras de Olmo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2022 Miami New Media Festival 2022 XVII Edition. Arts Connection Foundation, Miami, FL / Centro de Bellas Artes Ateneo de Maracaibo, Venezuela/ Museo Norte de Santander, Cúcuta, Colombia / Galería Universitaria Braulio Salazar, Valencia, Venezuela / Bordes Galería, San Cristóbal, Venezuela
2022 The Backroom. Independent Curators International and Museo Tamayo. México City, México.
2022 Performance Art & Film. No Nation. Chicago, IL
2022 Faculty Exhibition. Des Lee Gallery. Washington University in St. Louis. St. Louis. St. Louis, MO
2022 9 Ways from Sunday. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. St. Louis, USA
2022 Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. Design Museum of Chicago. Chicago, USA
2022 Arte Latinx. University of Nebraska in Omaha. Gallery 1516. Omaha, USA
2021-2022 Curious. 5th Biannual Exhibition. Angad Art Hotel. St. Louis, USA
2021 Doscientos Treinta y... Espacio Proyecto Libertad. Mérida, Venezuela
2020 Out of this Room. DesLee Gallery. St. Louis, USA
2020 Parabola 2020. DesLee Gallery. St. Louis, USA
2019 Hacia Una Historia de la Mirada. El retrato en la colección del Archivo de la Fotografía Urbana. Sala Mendoza. Caracas, Venezuela.
2019 Inclusion. Facet Gallery. Atlanta, USA
2019 Bubbly Creek Performance Art Assembly. Dfbrl8r Performance Art Gallery. Chicago, USA
2018 Living Architecture. 6018 North. Chicago, USA
2018 Art Book Fair. MoMA PS1. New York, USA
2017 Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival. Dfbrl8r Performance Art Gallery. Chicago, USA
2017 Cuerpo/ Medio/ Poder. Cinemateca Distrital. Bogotá, Colombia
2016 Experiencias de la Carne. elgalpon.espacio. Lima and Trujillo, Perú
2016 Selfportrait.Ve. Third Space. Helsinki, Finland
2015 Salón Jóvenes con FIA. Centro de Arte Los Galpones. Caracas, Venezuela
2015 Soap Box Sessions. ]performance s p a c e[. London, United Kingdom
2015 Capsule. Performance Art Event. Rotterdam, Netherlands
2015 Experience #10. Electron.Breda, Netherlands
2015 Obra abierta: Ejes de Libertad. Centro de Arte El Hatillo. El Hatillo, Venezuela
2015 Video en Acción. Ateneo de Valencia. Valencia, Venezuela
2014 MU.tematica. Sala Sidor. Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela
2014 PAEkort #14. PAE. Rotterdam, Netherlands
2013 Video Arte En Acción. Alianza Francesa. Maracay, Valencia
2013 XVI Salón Jóvenes con FIA. Mención Honorífica. Caracas, Venezuela
2013 Fugaz: 2da Feria de Performance del Edo. Lara. IMCA. Barquisimeto,Venezuela
2013 Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival. Dfbrl8r Performance Art Gallery. Chicago, USA
2012 NADA QUE VER: Lecturas para radio de poemas visuales. Buenos Aires, Argentina
2012 Fugaz: 1era Feria de Performance del Edo. Lara. IMCA. Barquisimeto, Venezuela
2011 Mostra de Vídeo & Performance. Cine Galpao. São Paulo, Brasil
2011 Outras Poéticas. EscolaGuignard. Belo Horizonte, Brasil
2011 TRAMPOLIM_ plataforma de encontró com a arte da performance. Vitória. Brasil
2011 Arte Sonoro en Venezuela. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas. Caracas, Venezuela
2010 Galería Interferencial. Ciudad de México
2010 HORASperdidas. Macroplaza. Monterrey, México
2010 2o. Festival Iberoamericano de Arte Sonoro “Parlante”. Centro de Arte los Galpones. Caracas, Venezuela
2009 VIII Salón de arte digital. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia. Maracaibo, Venezuela
2009 Performar: Espacio de Convergencia. Playa de Haina, República Dominicana
2009 ID Performance 2009. Centro Cultural Chacao. Caracas, Venezuela
2009 Velada de Santa Lucía. Santa Lucía neighborhood. Maracaibo, Venezuela
2008 Muestra de poesía multimedia “El Bar del Tiempo”. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo. Caracas, Venezuela
2008 Encuentro Mundial de Arte Corporal. Caracas, Venezuela
2008 Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Mateo Manaure. Maturín, Venezuela
2007 Ciclo de performances NOMÁSDECINCO. Organización Nelson Garrido. Caracas, Venezuela
2007 ID Performance. Centro Cultural Chacao. Caracas, Venezuela
ARTIST LECTURES AND PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
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2022 9 Ways From Sunday. Sam fox School of Design & Art. Washington University in St. Louis. St. Louis. USA:
2020 Carlos Salazar-Lermont and Wil Ruggiero, moderated by Marina Resende Santos.Chuquimarca. Chicago, USA.
2021 Apostasía Apostólica. Organización Nelson Garrido. Caracas, Venezuela. 2016 Noches de Portafolios. Experiencias de La Carne, Centro Cultural España, Lima, Perú 2016 Cómo resucitar y no morir en el intento.Universidad Centro Occidental Lisandro Alvarado.Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
2013 Structure, Process, Time, Audience, moderated by Tricia Van Eck Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival 2013
2011 Situándome en el Contexto. Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. Sao Paulo, Brasil.
JURY SERVICE
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2022 Video Festival Hecho en Venezuela. Venezuela, USA, Mexico, Spain, Lithuania, Netherlands.
2022 Support for Artists and Creative Individuals- Multimedia Grant. Houston Arts Alliance, Houston, TX.
FEATURED PUBLICATIONS
____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Nine Ways From Sunday. St. Louis, MO: Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. Washington University in St. Louis, 2022
Emergency Index. An annual document of performance practice Vol. 6. Brooklyn: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017 Fondo Editorial
ONG, La ONG…Más allá de la Fotografía. La Cucaracha Ilustrada. Caracas, Venezuela: Fondo Editorial ONG, 2008
“Diana,” recorded 2008, track 5 on Ars Sonorus, Embajada de España en Venezuela, compact disc. 2008
“Fortunato Alegría”, Venezuela en Cómics No 2. 2003
Revista “Zuplemento” No.1. 2005