C a r l o s Z a p a t a
B i o g r a p h y
E x h i b i t i o n s
1963 Born in Colombia.
2000 " Virtual exhibition " C M T UK.
2001 " Virtual exhibition " C M T UK
2OO2 " Out Of The Box " The Air Gallery, London UK.
" Summer Show " Hitchcocks Gallery, Bath UK.
2003 " Summer Show " The Medici Gallery, London UK
" Automata " The Rufford Gallery, Nottinghamshire, UK
" Fur and Feathers " Falmouth Art Gallery Falmouth, Cornwall UK
" Automata " Royal Pump Rooms Art Gallery and Museum,Warwick, UK
" CMT Festival " The Oxo Gallery, London UK
2004 " CMT Exhibition " The Exploratorium Museum, San Francisco, USA
" Holy H 2 0 " The American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, USA
"Jeux D' Automates" Musee Des Automates, Nevilly-sur-seine, Paris France
" Queen's Wharf Exhibition" Sculpture out of the ashes, National Maritime Museum, Falmouth UK
" CMT Exhibition" The Oxo Gallery, London UK
2005 " Tree-mendous " Falmouth Art Gallery, Falmouth UK
" Mechanics Alive " Bury St. edmunds Art Gallery, Suffork, UK
" CMT Exhibition " The Oxo Gallery, London UK
2006 " Brunel 200 " Falmouth Art Gallery, Falmouth, UK
" Mechanical Magic " 20-21 Visual Arts Centre , Scunthorpe UK
" The End Of The Pier " Rufford Craft Centre. Nottinghamshire, UK
"Gadget, Gears and Whirligigs" Charles River Museum, Waltham MA. USA
2007 "A Piece of the Action" The Bridport Art Centre. Bridport UK
Kinetica Museum, London UK
"Summer Exhibition" Royal Academy of Arts London UK
"Magical Mechanical Machines" Shire Hall Gallery Stafford UK
"Made", Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK
M u s e u m C o l l e c t i o n s
The American Visionary Art Museum Baltimore USA
The Exploratorium Museum, San Francisco USA
The Arima Museum Kobe , Japan
Falmouth Art Gallery Falmouth, Cornwall UK
The Franklin Institute science Museum, Philadelphia USA
The Gumma Museum, Japan
Heyri Gallery, Paju Korea
R e s i d e n t s
2004 July-september Artist in residents,The Exploratorium Museum,San Francisco, USA
2005 May Artist in Residents, The Visionary Arts Museum, Baltimore USA
P u b l i c a t i o n s
Raw vision magazine, RV # 49 pg. 66
Raw vision magazine, RV # 50 pg. 88
The Times newspaper Times Newspaper (Monday 5th July 2004).
Carlos was born in Colombia in 1963. The Visual Arts have always captured his imagination and over many years he has been especially drawn to Folk and Tribal Arts from all over the world. Carlos is a self-taught artist and whilst struggling to survive in London he found his own ways of expressing himself through painting, drawing and making things. . In the late nineties he began making and selling his first automata, eventually enabling him to concentrate on creating new pieces full-time. Many of the ideas for his new works have evolved and been taken from his own personal life experience of living in a foreign country and in his home country where a civil war rages on relatively un noticed by the outside world. His vibrant work is colourful and full of emotion. With the help and encouragement of Cabaret Mechanical Theatre he has quickly gained international success. His work is in private collections and museums in several countries.
H O M E