About
Marco Caridad is a Venezuelan-American interdisciplinary artist and curator whose practice explores identity, belonging, and resilience through video performance, object creation, and painting. Rooted in migration, queerness, and poetic resistance, his work examines how memory and material gesture become languages of survival and connection.
Caridad’s pieces often blend humor, irony, and layered symbolism, transforming everyday materials into sites of reflection and dialogue. His participatory project Project My Label — exhibited at institutions such as the Allentown Art Museum and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts — invites communities to question the social labels that define or confine them. His video work A Hungry Artist continues to receive international recognition, with recent screenings at the Italy Media Art Festival and Open Signal: Video Art in Flux at the Luminaria Festival in San Antonio.
Beyond his studio practice, Caridad serves as Artistic Director of Miami International Fine Arts (MIFA), curating exhibitions and programs that foster collaboration among emerging and established artists. He is also the founder of Biolumina, an artist residency opening in Vieques, Puerto Rico in January 2026, dedicated to slow art-making, ecological awareness, and collective creativity.
Artist Statement
My work explores how identity, memory, and belonging are constructed and fractured through the forces that shape contemporary life — migration, language, and the body. I merge video performance, object creation, and painting to trace gestures of resilience, irony, and tenderness.
Each piece begins with material — fabric, clay, found objects, or text — as a witness to lived experience. These materials become voices: fragile, humorous, sometimes uncomfortable, but always human. Through them, I search for ways to transform personal narratives into shared spaces of recognition and empathy.
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.