Carlos Ortiz

Education

Columbia College Chicago.

Career

Carlos Javier Ortiz is a visual artist, he works with photography, experimental documentary films and text, projection projects and specializes in long-term documentaries that focus on urban life, gun violence, race, poverty and marginalized communities. Ortiz collaborates with his subjects by asking them to share their personal narratives and testimonials. His projects are collected and published and is exhibited internationally in galleries and museums.

His work is in collections including the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture New York, New York, the MoCP, The International Museum of Photography, Rochester, New York and The Library of Congress, District of Columbia, His work has appeared in: The Atlantic, The New York Times, Newsweek, Washington Post, Time Magazine, National Public Radio, The Guardian, and Stern Magazine.

He was a staff photographer for “Chicago In The Year 2000″, a yearlong project He lives between Chicago and Oakland, California. Oritz is an adjunct lecturer at University of California Berkley and is represented by Jenkins Johnson Gallery, (San Francisco/New York).

Ortiz is working on a cross-cultural youth violence project, which documents adolescents in Chicago, and Guatemala. In 2011 he received the Open Society Institute Audience Engagement Grant.

2009 Violent Realities, Gun Violence in the Americas Gage Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 2011 Too Young to Die Loyola University Chicago, School of Communication Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 2012 Migrant Workers Leica Gallery, Cologne, Germany 2014 David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 2015 We All We Got, Bronx Documentary Center 2012 50 States and the Poor, American Poverty Project Group Exhibition 2012 Occupy This Katzen Arts Center, American University Museum, Washington, District of Columbia 2013 Fields/Contre-Champs, Group Exhibition GwinZegal, France 2014 Guns Without Borders Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Master of Arts.

Achievements

• 2006 The Chicago Community Arts Assistance Grant 2009 Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights: Photography Award 2011 The Chicago Community Arts Assistance Grant 2011 Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Arts & Culture 2011 Open Society Foundation Audience Engagement Grant 2012 The California Endowment Fellowship 2013 Artist Fellowship Illinois Arts Council 2013 Pulitzer Center Grant 2015 BMRC Fellow The University of Chicago.