Lens-based artist and researcher from Bogota, Colombia. His work traverses the paths of documentary, fiction and fine art photography while exploring settings of human behavior and its emotional nexus with the land, capturing tensions between present and memory. His most frequent subject is how mankind and nature interact and coexist and how time alters the relations between the two. He is the co-founder of Antics Publications, and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
For commissions & research: mateoruizgonzalez@gmail.com For prints enquiries visit OD Gallery In social media Instagram
Full portoflio upon request
AWARDS & HONORS
Photolucida Critical Mass merit-based scholarship 2023
Belfast Photo Festival shortlisted 2023 Booooooom Photo Awards shortlisted 2023 Silver Eye Fellowship special mention 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship Program finalist 2022 Photo Collective Australia International Prize winner 2022 Verzasca Foto Festival finalist 2022 Open Doors Gallery Prize runner-up 2022 Aperture Portfolio Prize finalist 2022
Portrait of Humanity Prize by The BJP winner 2022
Palm Photo Prize shortlisted 2022
Passepartout Catalog Prize finalist 2022 Film Photo Award Visionary Project Award finalist 2022 Urbanautica Institute Award winner 2021 City Artist Crops by NYFA grantee 2021 Decade of Change by The BJP winner 2020
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Utah State University (USU), Arts & Design photobook collection
RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
Yaddo 2023 En Foco 2023 Eyes on Main Street 2021
SELECTED COMMISSIONS
Pulitzer Center, National Geographic
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & FEATURES
Booooooom Magazine, Pellicola Magazine, Palm Studios, GUP, The British Journal of Photography, Pulitzer Center, NBC Latino, WÜL Magazine, Float Magazine, Conceptual Projects, MPB, Nowhere Diary, Aint-bad, Urbanautica Institute, Antics Publications, Blow-Up Photo, VICE
Lens-based artist and researcher from Bogota, Colombia. His work traverses the paths of documentary, fiction and fine art photography while exploring settings of human behavior and its emotional nexus with the land, capturing tensions between present and memory. His most frequent subject is how mankind and nature interact and coexist and how time alters the relations between the two. He is the co-founder of Antics Publications, and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
For commissions & research: mateoruizgonzalez@gmail.com For prints enquiries visit OD Gallery In social media Instagram
Full portoflio upon request
AWARDS & HONORS
Photolucida Critical Mass merit-based scholarship 2023
Belfast Photo Festival shortlisted 2023 Booooooom Photo Awards shortlisted 2023 Silver Eye Fellowship special mention 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship Program finalist 2022 Photo Collective Australia International Prize winner 2022 Verzasca Foto Festival finalist 2022 Open Doors Gallery Prize runner-up 2022 Aperture Portfolio Prize finalist 2022
Portrait of Humanity Prize by The BJP winner 2022
Palm Photo Prize shortlisted 2022
Passepartout Catalog Prize finalist 2022 Film Photo Award Visionary Project Award finalist 2022 Urbanautica Institute Award winner 2021 City Artist Crops by NYFA grantee 2021 Decade of Change by The BJP winner 2020
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Utah State University (USU), Arts & Design photobook collection
RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
Yaddo 2023 En Foco 2023 Eyes on Main Street 2021
SELECTED COMMISSIONS
Pulitzer Center, National Geographic
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & FEATURES
Booooooom Magazine, Pellicola Magazine, Palm Studios, GUP, The British Journal of Photography, Pulitzer Center, NBC Latino, WÜL Magazine, Float Magazine, Conceptual Projects, MPB, Nowhere Diary, Aint-bad, Urbanautica Institute, Antics Publications, Blow-Up Photo, VICE