About Me November 13, 2007

Catherine Matos Olivo

Born: 1979

Puerto Rico

Graduated with a bachelors degree in Painting, Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico, Cumlaude. Currently, she is a graduated candidate in her master degree program with a concentration in New Media Arts, Transart Institute in association with Danube Universität Krems, Linz, Austria.

She has participated in residencies in New York and Austria and exhibitions in Puerto Rico and Europe. She has work for different art institutions of importance in Puerto Rico like: Taller de Fotoperiodismo, Programa de Comunidades Especiales and Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico.

Artist Statement

My interest at this moment is to investigate, preserve and reconstruct family and community history, memory and site specific spaces. I have been developing these themes in relation to the place I was raised, Levittown Lakes in the municipality of Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. The mediums used to document these subjects are through various means like: photography, video, drawings and recovered objects dug during excavations in the backyard of my family home.