Carol Priego is a visual conceptual artist, researcher, and educator whose practice explores borders, limits, and thresholds as sites of encounter between human and more-than-human worlds. Through research-driven and participatory methodologies, she investigates the role of images in shaping collective imaginaries and our relationships with territory, ecology, memory, and community.
Grounded in concepts of duality, balance, and interdependence, her work examines the structures that organize visibility, belonging, and coexistence. Through photography, installation, and experimental image-making, she develops relational situations that reveal and reimagine the connections linking bodies, landscapes, and social systems.
Her work has been shown internationally, including in New York, Spain, Tunisia, Indonesia, and Canada.
EXHIBITIONS
2026 Island Boundaries, group exhibition, Residency Unlimited, New York, USA
2026 Amares Azielos, group exhibition, Photoville Festival, New York, USA
2026 Pushing the Frame: Willful Transgressions, group exhibition, Westlab, New York, USA
2025 Amares Azielos, solo exhibition, Can Carol, Spain
2025 Roca Daurada, solo exhibition, Écart, Canada
2024 Entre Nous, solo exhibition, ElBirou Art Gallery, Tunisia
2024 Amares Azielos, solo exhibition, Centre Cultural La Model, Spain
2024 Amares Azielos, solo exhibition, Baumann Bar, Spain
2023 Amares Azielos, solo exhibition, OFF Panoràmic Festival, Spain
2023 Amares Azielos, solo exhibition, Àlbum Festival, Spain
2022 JAZMIN, group exhibition, ESCAC, Spain
2021 JAZMIN, group exhibition, QLECTIVA XX, El Corralito CCA, Spain
2018 Duduk di tepi, group exhibition, Taman Ismail Marzuki, Indonesia
FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES
2026 Fulbright Scholar in Visual Arts, United States. International Center of Photography · Getty Research Institute
2025 Écart – Centre Clark / Homesession, Canada. Artist residency
2024 ElBirou Art Gallery, Culture Moves Europe, Tunisia. Artist residency
2018 > 2019 Sala Beckett, LGBTI+ Theatre Creation Lab, Spain
2018 Indonesian Arts and Culture Scholarship (IACS), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia
AWARDS
2025 ADG Laus Aporta Silver Award, Amares Azielos
2022 Marta Pessarrodona Audiovisual Poetry Award
2020 Fujistas, still life
PUBLICATIONS
2025 Roca Daurada, photobook, self-published, Canada
2024 Amares Azielos, photobook, Barcelona, Spain
2022 JAZMÍN, photobook, self-published, Spain
CONFERENCES
2026 Artist Talk, Bronx Documentary Center, New York, USA
2026 “Anthropocene, Extractivism and Imaginaries: Conflicting Temporalities and Aesthetic Mediations in Mining Regions,” conference presented in French at the symposium Eschatological Imaginaries: Interdisciplinary Ap-proaches to Discourses of the End, organized by the Laboratoire d’Études et de Recherches Interdiscipli-naires et Comparées (LÉRIC), Faculty of Letters and Humanities of Sfax – University of Sfax, sponsored by the Centre de Recherches Internationales sur l’Imaginaire (CRI2i), in collaboration with the Laboratoire Pluridisciplinaire de Recherches sur l’Imaginaire (LAPRIL), Université Bordeaux Montaigne, 9–11 April 2026, Djerba, Tunisia
2025 Amares Azielos, Experimental Photo Festival, Spain
2025 Amares Azielos, Barcelona Pensa, Spain
PERFORMANCES
2019 Blablatrans, Sala Beckett & Porta4, Spain
2018 Taman Ismail Marzuki, Indonesia
MEDIATION & EDUCATION – SELECTED
2026 Intergenerational Photography Workshops, Mexican Coalition & Bronx Documentary Center, New York
2026 Education Days, Photoville Festival, New York
2026 Support for Experimental Labs, Counter Histories Fellowship, Magnum Foundation, New York
2024 La Villa Baizeau de Le Corbusier & Pierre Jeanneret: Crossed Narratives & Shared Imaginaries, La Boîte, Tunisia Amares Azielos, 2023 > 2024 Experimental Photography, Youth Detention Centre, Spain
2021 > 2023 Poetry Workshops, Terrassa School of Literature, Spain
2020 Family Workshops, MACBA, Spain
2019 Open Doors, Open Minds, Arts Work Camp, Youth Detention Centre, Spain
Additional experience in artistic mediation, education, participatory practices, and European cultural programmes in Spain, France, Italy, Indonesia, and the United Kingdom since 2014.
PRODUCTIONS
2022 > 2024 Film Post-Production, Spain
2017 > 2022 Regeneration, KA2 Capacity Building Erasmus+, Spain
2021 FOTOLIMO, Photography Festival, Spain / France
2021 MenorcaDocFest, Photography Festival, Spain
2020 Emotiva, Photography Festival, Spain
EDUCATION
MA Photographic retouching and digital post production
LABASAD
MA Creative photography and new formats ESCAC
MA Visual arts and education: a constructionist approach
Universitat de Barcelona
BA Political science and public administration
PHOTOGRAPHIC & MATERIAL PROCESSES
2026 Platinum-Palladium, Gum Bichromate, and Van Dyke Brown, International Center of Photography, New York
2023 > 2024 Photogravure, Manera Negra, Spain
2021 Wet Plate Collodion Negative, Albumen Printing, and Daguerreotype, La Babuch with Joaquín Paredes, France Preservation, 2021 Conservation and Digitization of Photographic Originals, IEFC, Spain
2020 > 2021 Creative Photography and Lighting, Fotoespai, Spain
2020 Mediation in Art Education, EART, Spain