The New Museum Announces Camilo Godoy as the 2023–2024 Artist-in-Residence

The New Museum has announced Camilo Godoy as the selected artist for the Artist-in-Residence program for 2023-2024. This program aims to solidify the New Museum's role as a catalyst for dialogues between artists and the public. The program annually supports an artist or collective whose work focuses on performance, pedagogy, and participatory art. Throughout the residency year, the goal is for the awarded artist to create new participatory projects with the audience of the New Museum, enabling interdisciplinary spaces of interaction such as workshops, talks, dance, storytelling, animation, performances, and installations.
During the 2023-2024 residency, Camilo Godoy will explore movement as a means of experimenting with the representation of mourning and survival. Drawing inspiration for his works from a diverse visual universe ranging from ancient erotic art to colonial visual culture, pornography, and medicine. Camilo Godoy, originally from Bogotá, Colombia, has built an artistic production that delves into themes such as pleasure and pain, joy and grief, through photography, performance, pedagogy, and archival production. His work has been exhibited in New York at the Brooklyn Museum, Leslie-Lohman Museum, OF Chinatown, PROXYCO Gallery, as well as the Museo de Arte Moderno in Bogotá, the Moody Center in Houston, UNSW Galleries in Sydney, among other institutions.
Previous participants in the program include Jeffrey Gibson, Paul Ramírez Jonas, Simone Leigh, Shaun Leonardo, Kameelah Janan, Rasheed, Sable Elyse Smith, Chris E. Vargas, and Ilya Vidrin.