Teresita Carson

Teresita Carson (b. Mexico) is an artist and educator working across disciplines, including moving image, new media, sound, sculpture, photography, printmedia, 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. Through weaving and its Indigenous histories, she activates the genre of science-fiction as a feminist strategy to mine for aspirational modalities and clues towards a decolonial path.

Her experimental films have screened at international film festivals and curated film exhibitions, including the Museum of Contemporary Art of San Diego. Recent venues presenting Carson’s work include Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA Museum), Hyde Park Art Center, Gallery 400 and the Cleve Carney Museum of Art. She is currently a 2023/2024 CPS Lives Artist in Residence. She holds a Bachelors in Fine Arts from SAIC and an MFA from the University of Illinois Chicago. She resides in Chicago, Illinois in the land of the Three Fires Confederacy, Potawatomi, Odawa and Ojibwe Nations.