[2] Motta's practice challenges dominant ideas about sexuality and gender using a myriad of archival material, art historical references, and the body.
[5] Titled Carlos Motta: The Good Life, the large-scale documentary project, which began in 2005, explored the history and effects of US interventionist policies in Latin America.
[9] At The Tanks in 2013, Motta organized the symposium Gender Talents: A Special Address which included artists and activists like Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad, Giuseppe Campuzano, J. Jack Halberstam, Beatriz Preciado, Dean Spade, Wu Tsang & Safra Project, Del LaGrace Volcano and more.
[14] Titled When I Leave This World, the exhibition featured a 26-minute two-channel video installation that focused on the life and work of performance and body-modification artist Tiamat Legion Medusa.
[15] Motta's partner is the writer John Arthur Peetz, the Managing Editor of Movement Research, one of the world’s leading laboratories for dance and movement-based forms.