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A woman with short, dark brown hair looks directly at the camera with a small smile. She is wearing burgundy lipstick and a traditional woven dress from northern Mexico. Her arms are crossed loosely in front of her, showing a large snake tattoo wrapping around her right arm and a tattoo of three lines on her left forearm. The background is out of focus and shows an empty, wooden white hallway.

Photo by Ruben Diaz.

Artists

Carolina Caycedo

She/Ella

Artist

Los Angeles, California

“I was introduced to the Sphagnum peat moss by a group of amazing women in Karukinka, Tierra del Fuego. This little moss has erect terminal heads that resemble a starry shape. They can store large quantities of water and have been accumulating carbon over thousands of years, making them an invaluable carbon sink.”
Carolina Caycedo is a Colombian, London-born, multidisciplinary artist known for her performances, videos,  artist’s books, sculptures, and installations that examine environmental and social issues. Caycedo’s  work contributes to the construction of environmental historical memory as a fundamental element for non-repetition of violence against human and nonhuman entities. She is currently a nominee for the Artes Mundi 10 prize in Wales. Caycedo lives and works in Los Angeles.

Donor -This award was generously supported by the Mellon Foundation.

This artist page was last updated on: 07.12.2024

Visual Art

Reciprocal Sacrifice, 2022. Single-channel HD video. 12:40 minutes.

A large-scale drawing full of intricate detail and vibrant color that depicts a map of a river area with events and locations illustrated in larger-than-life scale, including factory buildings spewing smoke, roadways, farmers, and groups of people marching or posing together.

Tyne Catchment, 2022. Color pencil on paper, dimensions 71.6 × 137.8 inches. Commissioned by Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom.

Photo of a white-walled gallery hung with brightly-colored mobile sculptures woven from various materials. The installation contrasts wide, airy structures against more solid pieces such as hanging medallions and a long, hanging sculpture composed of glass and plastic bottles.

Installation view of Carolina Caycedo: Cosmotarrayas​, 2020. Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston.

Photo by Mel Taing; courtesy of the artist and ICA Boston.