Carmen Ribaudo

Carmen Ribaudo makes site-responsive artwork in collaboration with the St. Louis landscape shaped by infrastructure. She makes observational clay reliefs, sand animation, and graphite drawings to look closely at details in the urban periphery.

Ribaudo graduated from WashU’s MFA in Visual Art program in 2025 and was the 2025-26 Post-MFA Fellow. She is a lecturer in the foundations area in the Sam Fox School’s College of Art. Upon graduation, she was given the St. Louis Partnership Award. She co-organized and co-curated “Reverb” (2024), a curatorial project within a WWII-era concrete bunker at WashU’s Tyson Research Center. Ribaudo was project coordinator for Counterpublic 2023, where she managed the triennial’s public programming throughout the city. She has been a visiting artist at Augsberg University’s River Semester (2025), a participant of Trojan Horse Summar School in Finland (2024), a creative fellow at the Providence Public Library (2022), and a resident artist at Ellis-Beauregard in Rockland, Maine (2021). Ribaudo’s artwork has been shown in St. Louis, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Maine.