About
Marco Caridad (Venezuela, 1985) is a Venezuelan-American interdisciplinary artist, curator, and artistic director based between Miami and Vieques, Puerto Rico. His work explores queerness, censorship, and collective memory through a hybrid practice that includes painting, video performance, assemblage, and printmaking. With a background in theater and design, Caridad creates poetic and ironic projects that often invite public participation and community reflection.
He is the founder of Biolumina, an artist residency program in Vieques, and serves as the Artistic Director of Miami International Fine Arts (MIFA). His projects—such as Project My Label—merge personal and political narratives, challenging imposed labels and engaging diverse communities across contexts. Caridad’s work has been presented at institutions such as the Wolfsonian Museum, Adrienne Arsht Center, and Allentown Art Museum. His practice expands beyond the studio into performance, curation, and cultural direction, building bridges between art, activism, and identity.
Artist Statement
My practice begins with the body—fragmented, marked, displaced.
I work across painting, video performance, assemblage, and printmaking to explore the ways in which identity is constructed, censored, remembered, and performed.
Guided by gestures, remnants, and recurring motifs—books, cords, masks, and fire—my work often confronts systems of control and erasure. I draw from personal history and collective memory, particularly the layered experiences of queerness, migration, and political violence. Each piece becomes an artifact of resistance, sometimes silent, sometimes loud.
I believe art is not just a form of expression, but a rehearsal for freedom. Whether through site-specific interventions, participatory installations, or poetic assemblages, my work invites others to witness, interrupt, and reimagine the labels we carry—chosen or imposed.
In all forms, my goal is to create spaces of presence—where the erased becomes visible, the muted becomes audible, and the intimate becomes political.
Selected Publications
Published 2024 | Essay by Katherine Chacón
This publication opens the door to Marco Caridad’s multidisciplinary universe. From assemblages of tied books to video performance stills, the catalog documents works that weave indigenous heritage, migration, and queer identity into a bold contemporary expressionism. With a curatorial essay by Katherine Chacón, the book offers collectors and artists a deep dive into Caridad’s experimental techniques in printmaking, textiles, and language-based art.
Published 2022 | Essay by Yi Chin Hsieh
This catalog accompanies Marco Caridad’s exploration of identity through abstraction. Featuring prints, soft sculptures, and installations, Sans Stereotypes reflects on queerness, gender, and vulnerability. The essay by curator Yi Chin Hsieh contextualizes the artist’s approach and his invitation to reconsider what it means to be “oneself” through vivid lines, color, and form.