Biography & practice
Body, language,
and matter.
Marco Caridad (b. 1985, Maracaibo, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan-American interdisciplinary artist based between Miami and Vieques, Puerto Rico.
His practice brings together painting, video performance, assemblage, printmaking, and participation. Through books, textiles, found objects, and his own image, he explores how memory, migration, and words shape the ways we inhabit the body and relate to others.
His background in theater and design informs the movement between action, image, and object. Performances can continue as assemblages; a page can take on a bodily presence. In these shifts, a form may appear firm while depending on a delicate connection to hold it together.
His work has been presented in contexts including the Allentown Art Museum, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, and the Wolfsonian-FIU. He is the founder and director of Biolumina Artist Residency in Vieques. From 2022 to 2026, he served as Artistic Director of Miami International Fine Arts (MIFA).
Artist statement
“I am interested in what a material can hold and where it can give way. I work with the body, words, and objects to approach experiences of memory and belonging.”
In textiles, thread connects and creates tension, while allowing a form to fold or fall. My exploration of ceramics approaches that same tension: an appearance of solidity can hold the possibility of breaking. From my own bodily experience, a question about masculinity and the ways of inhabiting it sometimes emerges. I am interested in how a gesture can persist as it passes from action to object.
Selected curriculum vitae
PDF ↓Solo exhibitions
A Particularly Vicious Tongue, Mundo Arte Gallery, Miami. Curated by Fernando Fernández.
Sin Estereotipos, Centro de Bellas Artes de Maracaibo, Venezuela. Curated by Yi Chin Hsieh.
Sans Stereotypes, MIFA, Miami. Curated by Yi Chin Hsieh.
Screenings
Italia Media Art Festival, Rome. Official Selection.
Cyprus Art Week, Pissouri. Official Selection.
Open Signal, Luminaria Contemporary Arts Festival, San Antonio.
Miami New Media Festival, Miami. Official Selection.
Video Flux: Performance in Video Art, Miami Art Society.
Residencies & fellowships
El Patio de Mi Casa Foundation / LVACA, Allentown Art Museum. Residency and grant.
Knight Foundation Art + Research Center fellowships, ICA Miami.
Loop Art Critique Fellowship, MUD Foundation, Miami.
Miami Paper and Printing Museum. Residency.
Education
M.A. Design and Media Management, Miami International University of Art & Design.
B.A. Graphic Design, University of Zulia, Maracaibo.
Associate Degree in Fine Arts, Escuela de Artes Plásticas Neptalí Rincón, Maracaibo.
Institutional practice
Founder & Director, Biolumina Artist Residency, Vieques, Puerto Rico.
Former Artistic Director & Curator, Miami International Fine Arts (MIFA), Miami.