Carolina Caycedo
About the artist
Carolina Caycedo is a Colombian multidisciplinary artist living in L.A. Her works are not merely art objects but gateways into discussions about how we treat each other and the world around us.
Carolina Caycedo, photo by Ruben Diaz
As the Spring 2026 Arthur and Sheila Prensky Visiting Artist, Carolina Caycedo worked in-residence for one week - March 16-20, 2026 - alongside students in the Sam Fox School and printers at Island Press to produce a collaborative print project.
Carolina’s prints will be included in her solo exhibition at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum on the campus of Washington University, opening September 29, 2026.
Stay tuned for more info and images from Carolina’s project!
Carolina Caycedo (b. London, 1978) is a Colombian multidisciplinary artist living in Los Angeles. Her artist’s books, hanging sculptures, performances, films, immense satellite photo collages, and installations are not merely art objects but gateways into larger discussions about how we treat each other and the world around us. through her studio practice and fieldwork with communities impacted by large-scale energy infrastructure, she invites viewers to consider the unsustainable pace of growth under capitalism and how we might embrace resistance and solidarity.
Carolina Caycedo, In Yarrow We Trust, 2021. Inkjet print and color pencil on paper, frame 11 x 13.5 in. Photo by Ruben Diaz, courtesy of Commonwealth and Council.
Process and participation are central to Caycedo’s practice. She confronts the colonial gaze and contributes to the reconstruction of environmental and historical memory as a fundamental space for climate and social justice. Caycedo conjures common goods and collective bodies in what she refers to as geochoreographies to examine the environmental, economic, social, and spiritual impacts of extractivist industries, raising questions about the future of our shared resources, and gearing towards a fair transition. In 2023, Caycedo received a Soros Arts Fellowship, a United States Artists Fellowship, and an Anonymous Was a Woman Award. She was the 2023-24 Artist in Residence at the Getty Research Institute, and the 2024 UCLA Regents’ Professor in the Department of Design Media Arts at UCLA’s School of the Arts and Architecture. Her show “We Place Life at the Center” was at the Vincent Price Museum in Los Angeles in 2025.