MANUELA CAICEDO

MFA in Painting, New York Academy of Art | 2024

BA in Visual Arts, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana | 2021

BA in Industrial Design, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana | 2017

Puro horizonte alrededor, Policroma Gallery, Medellin, Colombia | 2026

Chubb Fellows and Friends, New York Academy of Art, New York, USA | 2025

Chubb Fellows and Friends, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, USA | 2025

La mínima expresión, Policroma Gallery, Medellin, Colombia | 2025

Between Myth and Memory, 81 Leonard Gallery, New York, USA | 2025

Copyist Reception, Uris Center, The Metropolitan Museum, New York, USA | 2025

Power Dynamics, Powerhouse, New York | 2024

The Worlds We Make, Notre Dame University, Kylemore, Ireland | 2024

Manuela Caicedo (b. 1993, Bogotá, Colombia) is a New York-based artist. In 2022, she earned a degree in Visual Arts from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, where she received a Meritorious Thesis distinction for her first film, I Left Strawberries in My Pocket Until the Day the Suns Go Out. In 2024, she completed an MFA in Painting at the New York Academy of Art, supported by the Elizabeth Greenshields Grant and the Academy Scholar Award. That same year, she undertook a residency at the University of Notre Dame in Kylemore, Ireland, and was awarded the Chubb Fellowship—the highest honor granted by the New York Academy of Art to its alumni—culminating in the Chubb Fellows Show 2025 (New York).

In 2025, she presented Las Dragonas at ARTBO | Salas (Bogotá), participated in Mínima Expresión at Galería Policroma (Medellín), took part in Chubb Fellows and Friends at the Green Family Art Foundation (Dallas), and exhibited at Art Basel 2024 and 2025 (Miami) for the second consecutive year through the Chubb Fellowship. In December 2025, she participated in Between Myth and Memory at 81 Leonard (New York), and in February 2026 in Lenguajes de Papel at Galería El Museo (Bogotá, Colombia).

“I am interested in light in its metaphorical sense: the spectacle of fire and the miracle of the sun that makes the world visible to us every day. As a painter, I have taught my eyes how to look in order to represent light, and along the way I have realized that we are blind animals. It is not enough to open our eyes in order to see. Only a sharpened attention can reveal the wondrous aspect hidden behind each thing.” – Caicedo.