Portrait by Deema Alghunaim.
Caroline Coolidge is driven by investigations of the ephemeral. She traces her practice to the blur between painting and printmaking. Her works are remnants of unexpected applications of process and tools, and embody the unraveling that occurs with their creation. Through abstraction, Coolidge creates a sense of disorientation. She forms uncertain memories, reflects on the history of image-making, and investigates the breakdown of reality and stability, permeating the present.
Coolidge’s practice is based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Recent solo exhibitions include As Smoke Loses Itself in Air, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2025; Dismantling the Screen, Dolphin Gallery at St John's College, Oxford, England, 2024; and re/de/constructed language, Spoke Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 2022.
Coolidge has worked as a teaching assistant in the Art, Film, and Visual Studies department at Harvard University, has been a Curatorial Research Fellow at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, and has held residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts. She completed her undergraduate studies at Harvard University in 2022 and earned a Master of Fine Arts with distinction from the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, in 2024.
Contact: studio@carolinecoolidge.com