CARLOS JAVIER ORTIZ mobile 312-350-0028 email [email protected] portfolio www.carlosjavierortiz.com

SELECTED AWARDS | GRANTS 2018 Catch Light Fellow 2017 Studs Terkel Award 2016 Guggenheim Fellow, Film-Video, United States 2016 American Film Institute Best Cinematography, shorts category 2016 Crested Butte Film Festival We All We Got Best Documentary short 2015 Economic Hardship Reporting Project, United States 2015 BMRC Fellow University of , United States 2013 Pulitzer Center Grant, United States 2013 Artist Fellowship Arts Council, United States 2012 The Endowment Fellowship, United States 2011 Open Society Foundation Audience Engagement Grant, United States 2011 The Chicago Community Arts Assistance Grant, United States 2009 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award , United States

FILM FESTIVALS | EXHIBITION SCREENINGS 2017 “We All We Got” Art Basel , Black and Blue, Stadtkino Basel cinema, Basel, Switzerland “A Thousand Midnights” PBS Online Film Festival “We All We Got” Frontline Club | LSE Literary Festival, “We All We Got” South Side Home Movies, Chicago, IL 2016 “A Thousand Midnights” AFI FEST, (American Film Institute) , CA “A Thousand Midnights” New Orleans Film Festival “We All We Got” Tribeca Film Festival, , NY “We All We Got” PHI Centre, Montreal, Canada 2015 “We All We Got” LA International Film Fest, Los Angeles, CA “We All We Got” The Santa Fe International New Media Festival , NM 2015 “We All “We All We Got” St. Louis International Film Festival, MO

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS 2018 Permanent Collection Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago 2016 Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, IN 2015 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY 2014 Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, MA 2014 Permanent Collection Open Society Foundation, New York, NY 2013 International Museum of Photography Rochester, NY 2008 Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 2008 Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL 2004 Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, MI

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2017 “We All We Got” San Joaquin Delta College LH Horton Jr Gallery 2016 “A Thousand Midnights” Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts 2015 “We All We Got” Bronx Documentary Center 2014 “We All We Got” Weinberg/Newton Gallery, Chicago, IL

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2017 Black Chicago, Les Douches Gallery, Paris 2016 Welcome: Page by Page The Center for Photography at Woodstock 2015 Residual Lives, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL Katzen Museum “Facing Change And The FSA”, Washington, DC 2014 Guns Without Borders Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA 2013 Fields/Contre-Champs, Group Exhibition GwinZegal, France 2009 Violent Realities, Gun Violence in the Americas Gage Gallery, Chicago, IL

SELECTED RESIDENCIES | ARTIST TALKS 2016 Rayko Artist in Residence, , CA 2014 Latitude Chicago Artist in Residence Chicago, IL 2012 The Art Institute of Chicago, Artists Connect—Carlos Ortiz Connects with Roy DeCarava , Chicago, IL 2012 Chicago Ideas Week “Art: How It Moves” Chicago, IL 2011 Columbia University Dart Center, , PA

SELECT PUBLICATIONS 2017 New Yorker “Crossing the River No Name” 2016 New Yorker “A Thousand Midnights”: Chicago and the Legacy of the Great Migration Chicago Magazine Documentary Film Looks at the Legacy of the Great Migration 2015 New Yorker Magazine Chicago and the Legacy of the Great Migration NPR News “Surviving Tragedy: ‘It Brought Us Closer’” 2014 The Atlantic “The Case for Reparations” 2013 Chicago Magazine “ A visual interpretation of Aleksandar Hemon/ The Book of My Lives ” 2013 Ebony Magazine “ The boys ” 2010 Treating Kara With Stem Cells/Washington Post 2010 Inside and Out/ WBEZ Chicago Public Radio FACULTY POSITIONS | GUEST LECTURESHIPS 2018 University of Chicago Envisioning New Practices of Human Rights, The Pozen Family Center for Human Rights Residencies Project 2017 University of Chicago Center in Paris & Terra Foundation for American Art “The Black Metropolis, Between Past and Future: Race, Urban Planning, and Afro-American Culture in Chicago” University School of Public Health "Gun Violence: Stories Behind the Numbers." University of Chicago “What is an Artistic Practice of Human Rights” Artist Summit 201s UC Berkeley Extension Department of Art and Design Adjunct Lecturer 2013 Columbia College of Chicago Guest Lecturer Photography 2012 Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism Adjunct Lecturer Introduction to Photojournalism

SELECT INTERVIEWS 2017 Behind The Lens PBS “Humanity Today,” San Francisco Chronicle The Guardian “Black Chicago” chronicle of African-American life in the city – in pictures 2016 Filmmaker Magazine “Going Reverse Oedipal Outside the Margins” Remezcla Explores Chicago’s Gun Violence and Redemption in “We All We Got’ Culture Type! “The Year in Black Art” 2015 Time Magazine “Families Affected by Gun Violence” The Week “Shining a light on youth violence” 2014 American Photo “Interview: Carlos Javier Ortiz on ‘We All We Got” Slate “A Look at How Youth Violence Affects Communities in Philadelphia and Chicago” 2013 Photo District News “Too Young to Die,” by David Walker CBS Evening News “Photographer Looks at Chicago gun violence” Filmmaker

BOOKS + MONOGRAPHS 2015 “Facing Change Documenting America” Prestel 2014 “We All We Got” Red Hook Editions 2012 War is Only Half the Story, Volume V: Too Young to Die After Math Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2016 VII is an international photography & Filmmaker collective wholly owned and governed by its membership 2009 pres. Facing Change Documenting America Photography Collective: Photographer Filmmaker 2001 City 2000 (Chicago in the Year 2000), One of Staff Photographer Photographed 1998-2000 Chicago Defender Freelance Photographer