Roberto Barbosa – Portfolio

Roberto Barbosa

Fragile (Memorial to the people who died after the collapse of a metro overpass due to government negligence in Mexico City on May 3, 2021.)

Photography

Inkjet print on aluminium 

10 x 10 x 3 cm (h × w × d)

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ROBERTO BARBOSA born 1990, Guadalajara, Mexico

Based in Frankfurt and Guadalajara, Roberto Barbosa works across sculpture, video, performance, drawing and photography. As a queer artist, his practice explores the relationships between body, architecture, identity and desire. His sculptural works and videos create intimate, staged spaces for performances involving his own body, bringing personal memory and cultural imagery into dialogue with social norms. Barbosa studied architecture at the Universidad de Guadalajara and the Universidad de Málaga, and at the Städelschule with Peter Trummer. Selected distinctions include: Tom of Finland Emerging Artist Competition (1st Prize); NARS Foundation, New York; Heima Residency, Iceland.

GRANTS

1st prize by the Tom of Finland Foundation (2026)

The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (EFA), New York City, USA

Residency Error, Mexico City, Mexico (2025)

Residency Virreina, Loma Serena, Oicatá, Colombia (2025)

Seminario de Producción Fotográfica (SPF), Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico (2025)

Parajes, Visionario de Artistas Emergentes, Ayuntamiento de Guadalajara, Museo Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, Mexico (2025)

Plataforma de Imágenes Contemporáneas (PICS), Centro de la Imagen, Ciudad de México, México (2025)

Latitudes: Clínica de proyectos fotográficos. Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico (2025)

Casa RARO, Barcelona, Spain (2024)

The New York Art Residency and Studios (NARS) Foundation, Brooklyn, NY, USA (2024)

Culture Moves Europe, European Commission and Goethe-Institut (2024)

HEIMA Residency, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland (2023)

DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Foreign Graduates (2019)