Valentina Alvarado Matos

Valentina Alvarado Matos is an artist whose practice focuses on the moving image traversed by a gaze that reflects on diaspora, landscape and gesture. Her pieces have been exhibited at Pesaro Film Festival, Viennale, International Film Festival Rotterdam, L'Alternativa, Oberhausen, Festival Punto de Vista, Ambulante, XCentric, SFCinemateque, S8 Mostra Cine Periférico, Loop Festival, Cinemateca Madrid, Filmoteca de Catalunya, Microscope Gallery, Los Angeles FIlm Forum - 2220 Arts, Conde Duque Madrid, Salzburger Kunstverein, Fabra i Coats, Arts Santa Mònica, among others. He has been artist in residence at Hangar, La Escocesa, Cultura. Resident - Museu Bellas Artes Castellón, Fora de Camp, The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto and Matadero Madrid.

Some of her films are part of the catalog of the distribution company Light Cone and the XCèntric Archive. Her work has been included in the book Remains-Tomorrow Themes in Contemporary Latin American Abstraction by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill.

In early 2024 she inaugurates in Barcelona with Carlos Vásquez Méndez el otro aquí, a solo exhibition at La Capella and totalmente rostro that works as a reverse of el otro aquí at La Virreina Centro de la Imagen.

She has taught at Master LAV, Eina Barcelona, Can Felipa Ars Visuals, Centre Cultural Albareda, La Universidad del Zulia, Universitat de Barcelona and EIC.