About

Marco Caridad (b. 1985, Maracaibo, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan-American interdisciplinary artist based between Miami and Vieques, Puerto Rico. His work examines identity as a performed and constructed image shaped by systems of visibility, social labeling, and cultural memory.

Working across video performance, assemblage, printmaking, and participatory practice, Caridad investigates how bodies and narratives are read, misread, and reformatted. Using books, found materials, and his own image as a collective symbol, he explores mechanisms of inscription, authority, and belonging.

His work has been exhibited at institutions including the Allentown Art Museum, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, and the Wolfsonian-FIU. His video work A Hungry Artist has received international recognition with official selections at the Italia Media Art Festival (Rome), Cyprus Art Week, and the Miami New Media Festival.

Caridad is the Artistic Director of Miami International Fine Arts (MIFA) and the founder of Biolumina, an artist residency in Vieques, Puerto Rico.

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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

A Particularly Vicious Tongue

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.

Book cover - A Particularly Vicious Tongue by Marco Caridad

Sans Stereotypes

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.

Press

“Dedicated artist from Venezuela finds 'American Dream' in Miami”

“In his work, the multi‑disciplinary artist always mixes in paintings, sculptures and videos.”

The Miami Herald

“In his work, the multi‑disciplinary artist always mixes in paintings, sculptures and videos.”

Art Miami Magazine

About

Artist Statement

CRITICAL WRITING

Every label constructs a body.

Selected Publications

A Particularly Vicious Tongue

Sans Stereotypes

Press

“Dedicated artist from Venezuela finds 'American Dream' in Miami”

“In his work, the multi‑disciplinary artist always mixes in paintings, sculptures and videos.”

“In his work, the multi‑disciplinary artist always mixes in paintings, sculptures and videos.”

“In his work, the multi‑disciplinary artist always mixes in paintings, sculptures and videos.”

“In his work, the multi‑disciplinary artist always mixes in paintings, sculptures and videos.”

“In his work, the multi‑disciplinary artist always mixes in paintings, sculptures and videos.”

About

Artist Statement

CRITICAL WRITING

Every label constructs a body.

Selected Publications

A Particularly Vicious Tongue

Sans Stereotypes

Press

“Dedicated artist from Venezuela finds 'American Dream' in Miami”

“In his work, the multi‑disciplinary artist always mixes in paintings, sculptures and videos.”

“In his work, the multi‑disciplinary artist always mixes in paintings, sculptures and videos.”

“In his work, the multi‑disciplinary artist always mixes in paintings, sculptures and videos.”

“In his work, the multi‑disciplinary artist always mixes in paintings, sculptures and videos.”

“In his work, the multi‑disciplinary artist always mixes in paintings, sculptures and videos.”

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