Biography

Caroline Carlsmith is a New York City-based conservator of sculpture and time-based media art specializing in contemporary mixed media artworks, kinetic sculpture, and complex installation. She holds a BFA/BA in Studio Art and Visual Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; an MFA in Art Theory and Practice from Northwestern University; and an MA/MS in Art History and Conservation Science from the Conservation Center at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU.  She has worked and trained in conservation at the Whitney Museum of American Art; the archeological excavation at Selinunte in Sicily; the Moderna Museet in Stockholm; the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City; the Museum Ludwig in Cologne; the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin; the Julia Stoschek Foundation in Düsseldorf; Villa la Pietra in Florence; and New York Art Conservation in Brooklyn. She is a practicing artist, and has worked as an archivist for Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a collections manager for private collections, and an institutional development officer for Judd Foundation in New York City and Marfa, Texas.