Biography
Amalia Caputo holds a Bachelor in Art and Art History from the Universidad Central de Venezuela, where she graduated with honors in 1988. In 1995 she received a Master in Arts in Photography at New York University and the International Center of Photography.
Caputo has devoted to her career as a photo and video based artist, dealing with multiple subjects regarding mostly the body as the core of her work. In her most recent photo and video works, the use of the body has addressed the concerns of history, memory, cultural icons and reflections upon social issues, such as the relation between the obsessive and the compulsive, and in relation to the notion of beauty in our contemporary society.
Since 1989 Amalia Caputo has exhibited widely in museums and galleries in her native Caracas, also in Barcelona, Miami, London, Mexico, New York, Taipei, DC, to name a few.
In 2006 she showcased a solo exhibition “ Fe, Cuerpo y Artificio”, curated by Costanza De Rogatis, at the Museo Alejandro Otero in Caracas and Museo de Arte Acarigua Araure, in Venezuela. In 2010 had a solo exhibition “Tableaux” at Dot Fifty One Gallery, in Miami.
She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors. Her work is represented in various public and private collections including those of the Galeria de Arte Nacional in Caracas Venezuela, the Fundación Banco Mercantil Collection in Caracas, Museum of Latin American Art – Molaa, in LA, and the Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection and Arturo and Liza Mosquera in Miami, among others.
Lives and works in Miami, Florida, since August 2003.
