Marco Caridad
ARTIST BIO
Marco Caridad is a Venezuelan-American interdisciplinary artist based between Miami, Florida, and Vieques, Puerto Rico. His practice examines identity, migration, language, belonging, censorship, and the social structures that define and limit the body. Working across mixed media, assemblage, fiber, printmaking, video, installation, ceramics, and performance, he transforms personal experience, cultural memory, and found materials into materially layered works. Recurring elements include altered books, stitched surfaces, text, garments, and performative actions that question how identities are assigned, inherited, and resisted. Caridad holds an M.A. in Visual Arts from Miami International University of Art & Design and a B.A. in Graphic Design from Universidad del Zulia. His work has been presented in exhibitions, festivals, and screenings in the United States and internationally. Alongside his studio practice, he develops curatorial and community-based projects connecting contemporary art, education, and cultural exchange across Miami, Puerto Rico, and broader Caribbean contexts through collaborative and interdisciplinary platforms.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My practice investigates how identity is constructed, imposed, inherited, and resisted. As a Venezuelan-American artist living between Miami and Vieques, I approach migration, queerness, belonging, censorship, and cultural memory through the body and through the materials that surround it. I work across assemblage, fiber, printmaking, drawing, video, performance, ceramics, and installation, often combining altered books, stitched surfaces, garments, fragments of text, and found objects.
Language is both material and structure in my work. Words can classify, exclude, protect, wound, or become unstable when removed from their original context. I use repetition, erasure, sewing, burning, fragmentation, and physical transformation to challenge the authority of those labels. The body frequently appears indirectly, as trace, absence, clothing, gesture, or memory.
Rather than resolving identity into a fixed image, I create spaces where contradiction can remain visible. My work asks who has the power to define us, and what happens when those definitions are refused.
