Caroline Caycedo: Arthur L. and Sheila Prensky Island Press Visiting Artist Lecture

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.