BIOGRAPHY
Carolina was born in 1974 in Bogotá, Colombia. She studied Fine Arts at Los Andes University and earned her degree in Architecture at the same university. Her work has featured in several collective exhibitions in Bogotá, Barcelona, Tokyo and New York. In 2014, she attended the workshop of the artist Alyssa Monks, Creating, Translating and Surpassing the Photo-Reference, at the New York Academy of Art, New York. She also attended the Casey Baugh’s oil workshop in Chicago, in August 2017. In 2021, her work Facemask was selected in Figurativas 21, a contest organized by the Museu Europeu d’Art Modern MEAM in Barcelona. Today, Facemask, is part of the MEAM permanent collection.
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Grupo and Solo Exhibitions
2023 Espacio Siete Siete
Solo Show
Bogotá, Colombia
2022 Zoombasta Museo Nacional de Colombia
Bogotá, Colombia
2021 Figurativas 21, MEAM
Facemask is now part of the MEAM collection
Barcelona, Spain
2021 Artexpo New York, Agora Gallery
New York, USA 2021
2021 Lefebre Substas(ArtPrice)
Bogotá, Colombia
2020 Zoombasta Museo Nacional
Bogotá, Colombia
2019 Lefebre Subastas(ArtPrice)
Bogotá, Colombia
2019 The Other Art Fair
Brooklyn, NY, USA
2019 Espacio Siete Siete
Solo Show
Bogotá, Colombia
2018 The Other Art Fair
Brooklyn, NY, USA
2017 ARCOT Colombian Artists in Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
2017 ARCOT Artistas Colombianos en Tokio
Bogotá, Colombia
2016 Barcú, Art fair
Bogotá, Colombia
2014 Group Exhibition, Promo-arte Gallery
Tokyo, Japan
2013 Group Exhibition, Promo-arte Gallery
Tokyo, Japan
2010 Group Auction, USA Embassy House
Bogotá, Colombia
Education
2017 Palette and Chisel Academy
Workshop Casey Baugh
Chicago, IL, USA
2014 New York Academy of Art
Workshop Translating and Surpassing the Photo-Reference Alyssa Monks
Nueva York, NY, USA
2007 Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Architecture Master, Bogotá, Colombia
2000 Universidad de los Andes Facultad de Arquitectura, Architecture, Bogotá, Colombia
1993 Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Artes Plásticas Bogotá, Colombia
STATEMENT
“Carolina’s work has always been related to her own life. It tells stories that have not been fully told, capturing past experience and future longings (which are always implicit in the image) in the physicality, the carnality, of the present moment. Her painting stems from the intimate observation of human skin, that place where personal history is imprinted and narrated in every stain, in every crease, in every wrinkle. We are what is seen on our skin, she seems to say, and that makes us susceptible to be read; it makes us, therefore, vulnerable. Her painting wants to explore that vulnerability, that risk we run before the gaze of others: her materials, oil and animal skin, speak to us of the sensual character of her exploration of the world. When Carolina inserts words in Braille language on the skin of her oil paintings, she asks us to meditate on the trace that emotions leave on the skin, and at the same time on touch as a form of knowledge: to touch the other is to understand. When she paints hands that communicate with sign language –for instance, in the series Historias de piel–, she wants to go beyond conventional communication. She asks us to see and understand and to participate in the creation of meaning; she asks us to interpret, to get involved, to attend to the other. Yes, that’s it: she asks us to see more attentively, to attend more intensely to the world of others.”
–Juan Gabriel Vásquez
