Caycedo's work is included in several collections at major art museums including the
Whitney Museum of American Art and
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her work is also included in Defining Line, an
AR public art exhibition curated by
Nancy Baker Cahill and Debra Scacco.
To Drive Away Whiteness/Para alejar la blancura To Drive Away Whiteness/Para alejar la blancura (2017) was a multi-media sculpture shown at
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles as a part of 2018 “Made in L.A.” biennial. By 2014, 200,000 Colombian residents had been displaced under of the resource extraction projects along with the river, and privatization of the land, and Caycedo has been researched on the aftermath of the relocation to create this artwork. In 2019, she showed a performance piece,
Beyond Control at the
Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Colombia. The performance, choreographed in collaboration with Rebeca Hernandez, sought to visualize the relations between dams and how humans manage bodies of water. They were collected during her field research while she was at the
Magdalena River interviewing people affected by the privatization of waters and the building of dams. The fishing nets would be dyed and assembled with the various objects in her Los Angeles studio. She dyed them 3 specific colors: black, red, and brown. These colors are supposed to reference the coloration of toxic mudflow created by the failure of the building of the Fundão tailings dam at the Germano iron ore mine of the Samarco Mariana Mining Complex near
Minas Gerais, Brazil in 2015. The fishnets are also a symbol of the livelihoods displaced by dam building and water privatization.
Serpent River Book Serpent River Book (2017) is part of Caroline Caycedo's ongoing artistic project
Be Dammed (2010). Serpen River Book is a 72-page artist book combines Caycedo's illustrations and texts related to rivers with materials such as images, maps, poems, lyrics, and satellite photos, creating a collage reminiscent of the winding shape of a river. The content of the book is collected from Caycedo's work in communities in Colombia, Brazil, and Mexico affected by the industrialization and privatization of river systems. The book explores the impact of river privatization and industrialization on rivers and the surrounding communities.
How to obtain a British passport How to obtain a British passport (2003) is a video work based on both the real and fiction-based acting of Caycedo and her Colombian friend, performing a civil marriage ceremony.
Apariciones/Apparitions Apariciones/Apparitions is a video work that debuted at The
Huntington Library as part of the institution's contemporary arts initiative called "/five." The nine-and-a-half-minute video features ghost-like dancers inhabiting The Huntington's collection.
The Collapse of a Model The Collapse of a Model consists of two massive photomontages made of composite satellite imagery of three major dam sites. The piece suggests a hopeful nod toward the end of the capitalist model of resource extraction. == Exhibitions ==