Bio
Teresita Carson (b. Mexico) is an artist working across disciplines, including moving image, new media, fiber, and installation. Taking an irreverent feminist approach to world and counter-archive building, she explores the abstract intersection between the historical, the speculative, indigenous cosmogonies, and magical peripheries. She lives and works primarily in the South Side. In 2018, she and her partner Mark Holt founded Intersect Art Space in Pilsen, a socially-engaged project where she offered free fiber classes for the community and support for artists making timed-based work. In 2022, she received an Artist Run Chicago Fund grant to fund Intersect’s efforts. Carson has taught at the University of Illinois Chicago, is a teaching artist at Hyde Park Art Center, Art on Sedgwick, and scheduled to start a Lecturer position at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago later this year. Recent venues presenting Carson’s work include Mana Contemporary, Sullivan Galleries, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA Museum), Hyde Park Art Center, Gallery 400 and the Cleve Carney Museum of Art. She has screened her experimental films internationally notably at the Slamdance Film Festival, the Chicago Underground Film Festival, Light Matter Film Festival, Festival Internacional de Cine con Medios Alternativos, Antimatter, Experiments in Cinema, and at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Carson has received grants from DCASE’s Individual Artists Program (IAP), and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. She resides in Chicago, Illinois in the land of the Three Fires Confederacy, Potawatomi, Odawa and Ojibwe Nations.
MFA Thesis Exhibition