CAROLINA CUEVA | Oolite arts | ACCH

The Art and Culture Center/Hollywood presents a solo exhibition by Miami-based artist Carolina Cueva, in partnership with Oolite Arts.

Carolina Cueva’s multi-media practice includes sculpture, 2D works, and performance, often referencing ancestry and her heritage through symbols of Andean cosmology. Cueva’s work is introspective – it is a reflection of the source, materialized, though sacred. Within that reflection, Cueva reveals her own relationship to colonization by way of personal narrative through a transcendental lens. Her indigenous roots inform her art and allow her to draw from lived experiences of displacement, hybridization, and wholeness. The work encourages healing and receptivity, evoking energies that create space to call back fragmented parts of one’s self.

This exhibition in Gallery 2 at the Center is the fourth of our Oolite Collaborations series with Oolite Arts based in Miami Beach. The exhibition brochure includes a text written by Risa Puleo, an art historian, independent curator, and doctoral candidate in Northwestern University’s art history program.

Carolina Cueva was born in Lima, Peru, and resides and works in Miami. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She is also one-half of the performance art duo Cuentos Retablados. She has been included in group exhibitions at Photo L.A., Los Angeles, CA (2017); Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA (2019); and Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL (2020). Selected performances include NADA Miami (2018); Doral Contemporary Art Museum (2019); and Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Miami (2020). Cueva was awarded a Wavemaker Grant for new works (2021), an Artist Access Grant (2021), and is currently an artist in residence at Oolite Arts.