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Born in Cali, Colombia, Carolina Aragón is an artist working in
the Boston metro area.
Carolina
obtained a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Savannah College of Art
and Design (2001), and a Master in Landscape Architecture from the
Harvard Design School (2004).
While practicing as a landscape
architect in Portland, Oregon, she began working on her paintings and
developing installations.
In 2007, she was commissioned by
Portland’s Regional Arts and Culture Council to produce an installation
titled A Portland Cloud.
In 2008, her installation, Flutter, was
part of the Figment 2008 Art Festival on Governor’s Island, New York.
In
2009 her piece Blue Stripes was selected for the
Northeast Prize Show, Juried by William Stover, Curator of Contemporary
Art, Museum of Fine Art, Boston.
Other outdoor installations include
Wind Waves for Governor’s Island, NY, Figment 2009
Festival; Flutter on the Greenway, Rose F. Kennedy
Greenway, October 2009.
Designed in collaboration with Gretchen
Schneider, Shallow Waters - Marea Baja, was exhibited in
Chelsea Square, Chelsea, MA in the summer of 2010.
Flocks, a one-mile long
installation for the City of Cambridge was exhibited in the Spring of 2011. The project was selected as the
winner of an ideas competition for a Public Art Commission with the City
of Cambridge for a public art project along Cambridge Street. Flocks educational outreach was sponsored by a grant from the Boston Foundation for Architecture and the support of the Boston Architectural College.
Currently on exhibit is Ether, a one-hundred foot screen of luminous bodies located in the future site of ConstellationCenter near Kendall Square in Cambridge.
In addition to her work
as an artist, Carolina is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning Department. Previously she was an Architecture professor at the Boston
Architectural College in Boston, MA.
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