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
Nov 11 at 5:30pm • Kemper Art Museum
Roots and Rhizomes: Relational Networks in the Art of Carolina Caycedo
In 2022, Carolina Caycedo stewarded the planting of an indigenous shadbush tree in a community garden in New York City’s East Harlem (El Barrio). This living organism, whose metaphorical seeds grew from Caycedo’s ongoing “Genealogy of Struggle” series, inspires Susanna V. Temkin’s exploration of the artist’s work within larger relational networks. Expanding ecological and symbolic concepts associated with roots, seeds, and branches, Temkin considers connections within Caycedo’s practice and across broader art histories of the Americas. In particular, Temkin will address connections to other artists in Caycedo’s work, along with broader histories of protest, ecofeminism, solidarity, and resistance.
This talk is presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Carolina Caycedo: Growing Deep Roots”, as well as the forthcoming presentation of Confluencias at El Museo del Barrio, New York (originated at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo).
About the Speaker
Susanna V. Temkin is an art historian and the interim chief curator at El Museo del Barrio, where she has worked since 2018. Temkin earned her master’s and doctoral degrees from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where her research focused on modern art in the Americas, with a concentration on Cuba. At El Museo, her curatorial credits include the museum’s fiftieth anniversary exhibition, "Culture and the People" (2019), “La Trienal” (2020, 2024, and forthcoming 2027 edition), and the recent monograph of photographer Sophie Rivera (2026), among others. Prior to El Museo, she served as assistant curator at Americas Society in New York, as well as the research and archive specialist at the Cecilia de Torres Ltd., where she assisted in co-authoring the digital catalogue raisonné of artist Joaquín Torres-García. Temkin contributed essays to several exhibition catalogues and publications and is currently serving on the editorial board of the Journal of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture.