Carolina Caycedo, In Yarrow We Trust, 2021. Inkjet print and color pencil on paper, frame 11x13.5 in. Photo: Ruben Diaz, courtesy of Commonwealth and Council.
Carolina Caycedo: Arthur L. and Sheila Prensky Island Press Visiting Artist Lecture
Carolina Caycedo will deliver the Arthur L. and Sheila Prensky Island Press Visiting Artist Lecture as part of the Sam Fox School’s Public Lecture Series at WashU.
About Carolina Caycedo
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.
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. In March 2026, she is the Arthur L. and Sheila Prensky Island Press Visiting Artist in the Sam Fox School at WashU.
Work by Carolina Caycedo
Latex print on PVC free wallpaper. Dimensions variable. Installation view: Back to Earth at Serpentine North (22 June – 18 Sept). Photo: readsreads.info courtesy Serpentine.
Work by Carolina Caycedo
From the series, Mineral Intensive, 2022–present. Paper, colored pencil, walnut frame. 35” h x 35” w. Photo: Paul Salveson, courtesy Commonwealth and Council. Collection of Cantor Arts Center.
Work by Carolina Caycedo
Artisanal hand-dyed cast net, paracord, powder coated steel, lead weights, thread. 37" h x 37" w x ½" d. Photo: Paul Salveson, courtesy Commonwealth and Council
More Upcoming Lectures
Apr 15 at 5:30pm • Museum Lobby
Being and Becoming in Contemporary Chinese Art
This talk by Peggy Wang, associate professor of art history and Asian studies at Bowdoin College, addresses the conflicting pressures that artists in China confronted during the 1990s and early 2000s, including rapid urbanization and cultural globalization. Even as they navigated political constraints and deficits in resources, contemporary artists enacted productive strategies for making and exhibiting their art. This lecture foregrounds artists’ assertions of being and becoming, both as critical tactics for configuring identity and generative topics unto themselves. Wang will particularly examine how artists studied the vibrant dynamics of change through temporal, historical, and material dimensions in their art.
This lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Looking Back Toward the Future: Contemporary Photography from China, on view at the Kemper Art Museum from February 27 to July 27, 2026.
Part of the Sam Fox School Public Lecture Series