The Mother Print

Marco Caridad (he/him/his) was born in Venezuela and lives and works in Miami. Caridad has exhibited throughout South Florida in places such as the Doral Contemporary Art Museum, Wolfsonian-FIU Museum, Historic Miami Post Office Museum, Miramar Cultural Center, Koubek Center, MIFA, and Centro Cultural Español, among other institutions in Puerto Rico and Venezuela. Caridad’s work has been featured in the books: Latin American Artists and Artists in the Top; he is also the co-author of “Syllabaries: Images and Words” and “Desarrolla Tu Creatividad con Ejercicios Teatrales.” Caridad holds an MFA from The Art Institutes, Miami International University of Art & Design, a BFA from The University of Zulia, Certifications of Fine Arts from the Neptalí Rincón, and Performing Arts from Centro de Bellas Artes de Maracaibo. Caridad has been an adjunct professor at Istituto Marangoni and the Catholic University Andres Bello. He is the co-founder and Vice president of The One Club For Creativity Miami, and an Art Director for Hard Rock International. ARTIST STATEMENT As an interdisciplinary artist, I challenge the temporal and physical expectations of artistic mediums through their direct interaction. By pairing techniques like performance with fabric, video with screen printing, and sewing with photography, I build a new dialogue across eras of time. I have yet to find a space within a society where my own multifaceted identity is at home. However, within my work, I give marginalized social groups a space to transcend misperceptions and painful histories. Like the mixing of mediums to invent new meanings, I am generating a new narrative as a spiritual, and romantic being that transcends the stereotypes of a gay man, husband, immigrant, or Latinx. Repetition and loose of gestural style take agency over ideals of perfection. These visual textures embrace my natural impulses as an act of rebellion to perform societal norms. By repeating visual themes and figures, like facing a fear, they represent overcoming and embracing my queerness.