About
Carlos Salazar-Lermont (b. Caracas, Venezuela, 1987) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans performance art, video, photography, installation, and print media. Central to his work is an exploration of performativity and socially engaged art, with a particular focus on the complexities of Post-colonial identity and cultural heritage in Latin America.
Salazar-Lermont holds an MFA in Visual Arts from Washington University in St. Louis (2022), where he received the prestigious Danforth Scholarship, and a Dual MA in Arts Administration & Policy and Modern and Contemporary Art History from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2019), supported by the New Artists Society Scholarship. He also earned a BFA in Sculpture from UNEARTE (2012) and a Technical High School degree in Fine Arts (2005).
His work has been exhibited in numerous international events, including Experiencias de la Carne (Lima and Trujillo, Peru), Soap Box Sessions (London), PAEkort #14 (Rotterdam, Netherlands), and Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival (Chicago, US). He has participated in several key performance art festivals in Venezuela, such as ID Performance, Encuentro de Arte Corporal, and Fugaz: Feria de Performance del Estado Lara, among others. In 2014, he founded P3 Plataforma Para Performance, an organization dedicated to promoting the creation, research, and education of Performance Art. The following year, he established the International Performance Art Biennial of Caracas, further cementing his role as a key figure in Latin American performance art.
Salazar-Lermont's work has earned him numerous awards, including the Graduate Curatorial Fellowship and Enrichment Fund Grant from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as the John T. Miliken Foreign Travel Award and Graduate Production Grants from Washington University. He has also been recognized for his curatorial work, including an Honorable Mention for curating Desafío al Poder during the International Contemporary Art Biennial of Los Andes (2013).
Currently, Salazar-Lermont lives and works between Chicago, Illinois, where he continues to engage with local and global artistic communities.