Carolina Caycedo (London, 1978) is a Colombian artist born in London and living in Los Angeles. Her murals, books, performances, films, photo-collages, hanging sculptures and installations are gateways into larger discussions about how we treat each other and the world around us. Engaging with issues of water and land stewardship, food sovereignty, and Fair Energy Transition, she inquires into ways of being on Earth that foster sustaining and caring relationships with the natural and built environments.

Research and participation are central to Caycedo’s work. Through her studio practice and spiritual fieldwork with communities impacted by extractivism, she invites viewers to consider the unsustainable pace of growth under capitalism and how we might embrace resistance and solidarity. Informed by rural practices, Native Peoples, and feminist epistemologies, Caycedo contributes to the reconstruction of environmental and historical memory as a fundamental space for climate and social justice.

Caycedo’s long term project, Be Dammed (2013–) focuses on the environmental, economic, social and spiritual damage caused by large-scale energy infrastructure. Seeking to foreground joy and abundance, her current project, Life at the Center (2021–), uplifts community led sciences and practices that are
actively working to repair and sustain life.

In 2025, Caycedo is the Artist in Residence at Para La Naturaleza, non-profit organization that works to protect and conserve the natural resources of Puerto Rico.

Caycedo received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. She has received numerous grants and awards, and has her recent solo museum exhibitions include: We Place Life at the Center at Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles (2024-2025) and the Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia, Bogota (2025), Spiral for Shared Dreams at MoMA NYC (2023-2024).