Cristina Matos-Albers

Cristina Matos-Albers (b.1982) is a photographer and visual artist from Caracas, Venezuela.

As an artist, she is interested in detail, structure and form, and her work frequently experiments with the fine line between registry and art. Cristina conceives light as a subject and not as means by which a photographer creates an image. She has photographed extensively across Europe and the Americas, and continues to participate in important art fairs and exhibitions internationally. Some of the most recent shows have been CONTACT Photography Festival (Toronto, Canada), Bitácora de Lugares Encontrados (Punta del Este, Uruguay), MeridaPHOTO (First Prize, Mérida & Caracas, Venezuela), IAFF-Iberoamerican ART FAIR (Seoul, S.Korea).

In 2004, after receiving her B.A. in journalism, Latin American literature and photography from Ohio Wesleyan University (OH, USA), she moved to New York City where she started working at ABC News. But it was during her stay in the city when she started photographing rigorously. Upon her return to her native Venezuela, she continued freelancing as a full time photographer, doing commissioned work for commercial clients and publishing, mostly fashion editorials, for local magazines. She also started teachin...

2004 - Ohio Wesleyan University. OH, USA. · B.A.
2001 - A.H. United World College, NM, USA. · I.B.

·selected shows·

2024
ESTE ARTE, feria internacional de arte. Black Gallery. Jose Ignacio, Uruguay

2023
Proyecto creadoras. Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela

PINTA BA PHOTO, feria internacional de fotografía. Buenos Aires, Argentina
PINTA PARC, feria de arte contemporáneo. LIMA, PERÚ
SUEÑO DE UNA NOCHE DE VERANO. Black Gallery. Garzón, Uruguay
ESTE ARTE, feria internacional de arte. Black Gallery. Jose Ignacio, Uruguay

2022
PINTA BA PHOTO, feria internacional de fotografía. Buenos Aires, Argentina

CICLO DE ARTE L’AUBERGE. Punta del Este, Uruguay
PINTA PARC, feria de arte contemporáneo. GBG Arts, Lima, Perú
CHROMA MORPHOSE. Virtual view rooms. ARTSY

2019
PÍXELES EN MONTEVIDEO. VAG Gallery. Montevideo, Uruguay.

2018
PÍXELES. Imago Art in Action, Miami, FL. USA.

2015
BITÁCORA DE LUGARES ENCONTRADOS, solo exhibit. Punta del Este. Uruguay.
MeridaPHOTO. Merida, Venezuela -First Prize.
SALÓN ESPACIO GAF. National Gallery of Art. Caracas, Venezuela

2014
CONTACT PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL. Estudio de Luz. Toronto, Canada.

2013
FIA13. INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR. Caracas, Venezuela.
SALÓN JÓVENES CON FIA13. Centro Cultural BOD-CorpBanca. Caracas, Venezuela.
LA OTRA MIRADA. Braulio Salazar Gallery. Valencia, Venezuela

2012
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