Cara Despain, slow burn (Arizona Ghost Cemetery), 2016

Cara Despain is an artist working in film and video, sound, sculpture, photography and installation addressing issues of land use/ownership, climate change, visualizing the Anthropocene and the persistent problematic dimensions of frontierism and their impacts on eco- and social systems.

She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and currently lives in Miami, Florida and works between the two. She holds a BFA from the University of Utah (2006). She was selected for a 2021 Harpo Foundation Award, and in 2021 she completed her first permanent public art commission for the Underline with Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places. She was also a finalist for the Creative Capital award in 2021, and participated in a fieldwork mentorship program with Southeast Arts and Fieldscreen International which was supported by a grant from the Australian Government.

Her work is included in the Rubell Family and Scholl Collections, as well as the State of Utah, Salt Lake County, and Miami-Dade County and Miami International Airport art collections and was recently added to the New Mexico Statue University Art Museum permanent collection. Recent solo exhibitions include “Specter New Mexico” at the New Mexico State University Art Museum in Las Cruces, New Mexico (2023); “Specter” at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, Florida (2022).

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