Luisa Caldwell is a multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, drawing, and collage, creating work that ranges from small, intimate objects to architecturally scaled installations. Recent solo exhibitions include Infinite Butterfly at FiveMyles Plus Space 2021 in Brooklyn: Curtain Call & Folly in 2019 at Hancher Auditorium, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; A Cat in God’s Garden (Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, Fall 2018), which featured 210 pen-and-marker drawings of fantasy botanicals from her Tree of Life series, installed as two large wall panels, alongside six mixed-media sculptures composed of stacked books and readymade ceramics etched with her original imagery by sandblasting. In 2016, Caldwell presented Triple C at Long Island University’s Humanities Gallery in Brooklyn. The exhibition consisted of five wall-sized hanging panels made exclusively from collected candy wrappers. These colorful, beguiling tapestries depicted interpretive skyscapes.

Caldwell has been awarded multiple permanent public art commissions through the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art program, including three large-scale hanging globe and soccer ball sculptures for PS 244 in Flushing, Queens.

She also received a commission from NYC MTA Arts & Design for the East 180th Street subway station in the Bronx, where fifteen of her designs were translated into mosaic and art glass. For this project, Caldwell, in collaboration with the architectural firm Lee Harris Pomeroy, received four awards, including the prestigious Excelsior Award for Public Architecture from the American Institute of Architects New York State.

She has realized numerous temporary large-scale installations at prominent sites such as the Memorial Sloan Kettering Infusion Center in Brooklyn and the MSB Gallery at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York. Outdoor projects include Socrates Sculpture Park, Sculpture Key West, Franconia Sculpture Park in Minnesota, and Jackie Robinson Park in Harlem.

Group museum exhibitions include the Maison Henri IV House Museum in Saint-Valery-En-Caux, France, Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, NY, Boca Raton Museum of Art, MASS MoCA, and Pepperdine University, among others.

Caldwell is the recipient of two Jerome Foundation Grants and numerous full fellowships, including the Thomas Hunter Artist-in-Residence at Hunter College Ceramics and a CEC ArtsLink Fellowship supporting production and travel to Art Prospect in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2018, 2019, and 2021.

Her work has been reviewed by The New York Times, Art in America, ArtNews, The Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, and artcritical.com, among others, and is held in numerous private and public collections including Deutsche Bank, Memorial Sloan Kettering, and the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation.

Caldwell currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, and Bassano del Grappa, Italy.