About

Carisa Mitchell (USA) is a Chicago-based artist. She has a multidisciplinary art practice that uses language and image to look at our subjective inside the binary of self and other. Mitchell does this to pose questions of how we function in shared spaces that resemble our cultural inputs as she approaches the subject from language to image in a mixed-media practice, using screen-prints, banners, neon, photography, video, voice, and performance. Here she is interested in our inability to fully communicate and explain who we are while sometimes giving space to say nothing at all.

She does this by giving the audience space for self-reflection while using personal stories, pop-culture references such as Disneyland and Snapchat filters, witty humor, algorithmic text, text conversations, online questionnaires, spam emails, and online reviews.

Carisa Mitchell received her BFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and an MFA at HEAD (Haute Ecole d’Art et Design), Geneva, Switzerland. In 2017 she was the prize-winner of the Red Cross – Genève Art Prize with Collectif MNGH. In 2018, she was a prize-winner for New Heads Fondation BNP Paribas Art Awards (Switzerland). Her work has been presented at Art Genève (Geneva, Switzerland), Fri- Art (Fribourg, Switzerland), LOKAL-INT (Biel, Switzerland), LABO (Geneva, Switzerland), Wedge Projects (Chicago, IL ), Mana Contemporary (Chicago, IL), Western Pole (Chicago, IL), and Baby Blue Gallery (Chicago, IL). She has attended UNIDEE Cittadellarte, Fondazione Pistoletto in Biella, Italy, Summer Academy at Swiss Institute in Rome, Italy, and Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art.