Carolina Caycedo
She/Ella
[ID: 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.]
Portrait photo by Ruben Diaz.
Los Angeles, CA
2023 USA Fellow
This award was generously supported by the Mellon Foundation.
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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.
Installation view of Carolina Caycedo: Cosmotarrayas, 2020. Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. Photo courtesy of the artist and ICA Boston. Photo by Mel Taing.[ID: 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.]
Tyne Catchment, 2022. Color pencil on paper, dimensions 71.6 × 137.8 inches. Commissioned by Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom.[ID: 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.]