Carolina González Valencia (b. Bogotá-Colombia)  

 

Carolina’s artistic practice lies at the intersection of personal, social, and political narratives. She weaves multiple media to create documents that challenge social and historical representations of migration, otherness, diaspora, and labor.

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She has worked on projects in Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Lebanon, and the United States. In 2026 Her first feature length film How to Clean a House in 10 Easy Steps was premiere at True/False documentary film festival, winning the True Life Award and The Kirby Walker Documentary Award at The San Francisco International Film, the film has also screened at Los Angeles Latino Film Festival.  In 2026 the film is doing its national and international festival run.  Carolina is the recipient of the Sundance Documentary Fund (2025), LEF Foundation production and post-production grants (2020-2023), and has participated in the Points North Fellowship (2025) and BAVC MediaMaker fellow (2021). 

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Carolina is a founding member of Picnic Collective- an interdisciplinary collaboration with artist Asha Tamarisa, where they foster community by collaborating with local artists to create artist publications and community events. Picnic Collective was funded by Ellis Beauregard project grant (2024) and Space Gallery Kindling Fund (2025). How to Move a Tree, their first publication, will be released in the fall of 2026. She received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation). Currently, Carolina is an associate professor in the department of Art and Visual Culture at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.