Carmen Amengual Read Bio Collapse
Carmen Amengual is an interdisciplinary artist, independent researcher, and filmmaker from Argentina now based in Los Angeles. Her work explores the emergence of collective imaginaries, identity formations, and conceptions of time and history that shape political imagination. She has presented her projects in various formats, both nationally and internationally, with exhibitions at Artist Space (New York), Human Resources and 2220 Art & Archives (Los Angeles), Table (Chicago), Biquini Wax EPS (Mexico City), and Museo Centenario (Buenos Aires). Her work has been featured in conferences such as “Film Undone: Elements for a Latent Cinema” (Silent Green / Kino Arsenal, Berlin) and “Film Act: Third Cinema and Its Legacies” (American University in Cairo) and in screenings across the United States and abroad. A Non-Coincidental Mirror at Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, co-presented with the Vera List Center, is her first solo institutional exhibition in the US. Amengual studied Comparative Literature at the University of Buenos Aires and holds an MFA in Visual Arts from California Institute of the Arts. She is a 2021–22 Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Studio Program fellow, a 2022–24 Vera List Center for Art and Politics Fellow, a 2023 and 2024 Graham Foundation grantee, and a 2024 Creative Capital awardee. A Non-Coincidental Mirror was supported by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts emergency grant.