Caroline Yezer (she/her, b. 1969) is a visual artist based in Taos, New Mexico. Grounded in sculpture and painting, her work explores issues of sexuality, identity, social marginalization and feminist liberation. Caroline’s work is part of a longer term interest in oppression and resistance that stems from her previous career as a cultural anthropologist of post-dictatorship Peru and her experience as a gay woman living in an ever more homophobic and misogynistic society. She uses painting, ceramic sculpture and altered found objects to explore folk tales, religious and literary references to otherworldly women pushing back against sexism, dictatorship cultures and environmental destruction. Her references include Victorian novels, Baroque art, Judeo-Christian folklore, The Wiz and PeeWee’s Playhouse. She uses humor and pleasure to poke fun at, and thus help to undermine oppressive regimes. question received knowledge about their own selves and shared futures.

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​Caroline’s work appropriates repressed femme stereotypes such as cat-ladies and other witchy types that exist in the liminal space of the natural and human world. She is especially interested in the fear and disgust these femmes provoke in right wing kleptocrats. Her hope is that such anti-heroines may become points of progressive activism and new models of unapologetic feminist liberation.